Stanford Humanities Center
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Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts. The Center's fellowships, research workshops, and public events strengthen the intellectual and creative life of the university, foster innovative scholarship and teaching, and enrich our understanding of the human experience.
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| 1 | Closed CaptioningVideoClassical Cartography: Asia Minor, the Kieperts, and World War I | This topic exposes ironies and offers a cautionary tale: During World War I the standard maps of Asia Minor by Heinrich Kiepert and his son Richard become a mainstay for the British General Staff. However, serious flaws lurk in the Germans’ work, and alertness to them can curb our temptation to fault classical cartography for its arrested growth. | 4/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Antikythera Mechanism: A Shocking Discovery from Ancient Greece. | As part of an international team, Dr Tony Freeth has been a central figure in an extraordinary voyage of discovery: every new revelation has reinforced a sense of shock about this highly sophisticated ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine. It is one of the true wonders of the ancient world. | 1/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Great War And The Ancient World | Prof. Suzanne Marchand presents ‘The Great War and the Ancient World’. The First World War has been rightly called ‘the first modern war’—but Europeans came into it deeply and richly versed in the literature, history, imagery, and languages of the ancient world. This lecture treats the impact of the war on European classical ideals, imagery, and education, extending its inquiries into the interwar period. Relevant Links: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/eitner | 11/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoMedea's Swerving Flight through Art and Literature | The myth of Medea was not fixed or static, and in this lecture Prof. Taplin will show how Euripides made crucial innovations in his tragedy of 431 BCE. Then by scrutinizing vase-paintings, especially one first published in 1984, and papyrus fragments, especially one first published in 2006, he will reveal how her story was repeatedly varied and re-evaluated during the next 100 years in response to the challenge set by that sensational dramatization. | 4/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoItaly After Berlusconi | Rachel Donadio, European Culture Correspondent and former Rome Bureau Chief for the New York Times, discussed the impact of Berlusconi's rise and fall, and what's next for Italy and a Europe divided between technocrats and politicians. | 3/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Stanford Humanities Center: researching the human experience. | The Stanford Humanities Center sponsors advanced research into the historical, philosophical, literary, artistic, and cultural dimensions of the human experience. Humanities scholars explore the many ways in which people, from every period of history and from every corner of the globe, encounter and address the challenges of our world. Humanities research preserves the great accomplishments of the past, helps us understand the world we live in, and gives us tools to imagine the future. | 1/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoStegner Fellows on Writing | Recent Stanford Stegner fellows discuss the pleasures and pains of writing fiction at the Litquake literary festival. | 1/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoWho Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict | The last ten years, in particular, have been dominated by discussions of cultural property--either its destruction in zones of military conflict or its involvement in litigation and claims for repatriation. This lecture reviews recent developments in the art and antiquities market, the shifting acquisition policies in museums, and cultural heritage training programs for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 11/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoA Company of Authors: The World as We Imagine It | Stanford Humanities Center | 5/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoA Company of Authors: The World and Beyond as It Might Be | Stanford Humanities Center | 5/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoHistory, Memory, and the Novel | Stanford Humanities Center | 3/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Embodied Theater: Cognitive Science and Ancient Greek Drama | Department of Classics: Lorenz Eitner Lecture Series | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoWallace Stevens as an American Poet | Helen Vendler discusses Wallace Stevens, the poet. She dives into some of his work in order to show why he is one of the finest American poets to set ink to paper. (January 17, 2012) | 1/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Best Novels You Haven't Read | Literary scholars share their thoughts about the novel as a literary form during the 2011 Litquake Festival. (October 10, 2011) | 11/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoArt of Living: "A Life of Reason? Socrates v. Alcibiades" | Lani Anderson questions the characters Socrates claim in Plato's Symposium that we only desire what we lack. The excerpt is from a lecture from "The Art of Living." (September 29, 2010) | 11/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoArt of Living: "What One Should Learn from Artists" | Joshua Landy introduces his lecture on Friedrich Nietzche's The Gay Science from "The Art of Living," a first-year Introduction to Humanities course and examines the ways in which life can be transformed by art. (November 8, 2010) | 11/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoArt of Living: "The Narrative Construction of the Self" | Kenneth Taylor discusses the "Who Am I?" problem in the context of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon during a lecture from "The Art of Living." (November 17, 2010) | 11/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoIn Their Own Words: Edith Sheffer | Edith Sheffer discusses how she conducts research that examines social and cultural change in 20th century Germany. She examines the role that German citizens played in perpetuating the physical boundaries that separated them. (November 10, 2011) | 11/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoMistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor | Mary Beard, a well-renowned Classicist, discusses the difficulties of identifying old roman sculptures and what she believes this process tells us about ancient cultures. (September 29, 2011) | 10/28/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoA Company of Authors: "East and West" | A panel of Stanford authors present their recently published books. Their respective books are titled Wandering Soul, An Invisible Rope, Myth of the Great Satan/The Shah, and Why the West Rules-For Now. (April 23, 2011) | 6/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoHow the Right Brain Helped Me Make a Billion, Win a Basketball Game, and Land this Gig | Vivek Ranadive, Founder and CEO of TIBCO, has had incredible success in the business world and has a deep technology based skill set. He discusses how innovation in the 21st century will be driven by right brain thinking. (May 11, 2011) | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoSilicon Valley Entry Points for Humanities Ph.D.s: Google | Marissa Mayer discusses the ways in which Google incorporates the humanities in innovation. (May 11, 2011) | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoWhy You Should Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D. | Dr. Damon Horowitz is a philosopher and entrepreneur, exploring what is possible at the intersection of technology and the humanities. He discusses the value of a humanities Ph.D. (May 11, 2011) | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoThe Story Behind "TED: Ideas Worth Spreading" | June Cohen looks at how she brought a lecture series with an attendance of a few hundred to over 150 million people across the world. She discusses how innovation and the spread of ideas is key to keeping TEDTalks a viable platform. (May 11, 2011) | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoBringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley: A Case for Rising Principles | Patrick Byrne, CEO and founder of Overstock.com, is deeply involved in the world market and the use of the internet as means of doing business. He explains how his diverse academic background has given him an incredibly unique skill set. (May 11, 2011) | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoPolis: The Greek City-State 800 BC-AD 600 | John Ma discusses the Polis, the Greek for of a city-state, and how it was organized politically as well as socially for around twelve centuries. (April 14, 2011) | 5/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoMusic Between Nature and Architecture | Leon Botstein talks about the relationship between music and architecture in a natural setting and how different periods show the different connections between the two seemingly distinct fields. (April 26, 2011) | 5/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoIn Their Own Words: Michele Elam on Mixed Race in Literature and the Arts | In her most recent publication, "The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium," Michele Elam examines how representations of mixed race in literature and the arts are redefining new millennial aesthetics. (April 15, 2011) | 4/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoCan I Get into Biz/Ed/Law/Med School with a Major in the Humanities? | The deans of four Stanford graduate schools discuss the values of a liberal arts major and how that might impact a student who is interested in applying to professional school. (February 8, 2011) | 3/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoA Conversation with Tim O'Brien on "Writing and War" | Tim O'Brien discusses the ethical issues raised by war with author Tobias Wolff. The two authors delve deeply into the less discussed issues of war and how it is portrayed in writing. (January 24, 2011) | 2/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoA Conversation with Tim O'Brien on "Writing and War" | Tim O'Brien discusses the ethical issues raised by war with author Tobias Wolff. The two authors delve deeply into the less discussed issues of war and how it is portrayed in writing. (January 24, 2011) | 2/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoAn Evening with Judith Jamison | Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, participates in a discussion with Harry Elam Jr. about the current world of dance and her experiences as a professional dancer. (January 10, 2011) | 1/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoRepresentations of Race and Ethnicity in Art & Literature | This wide-ranging panel discussion featured four Stanford University professors sharing examples of how they have observed race and ethnicity in art and literature and the impact these portrayals have had. (October 9, 2010) | 11/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoThe Exemplary Life of Germaine Tillion | Tzvetan Todorov talks about the life of Germain Tillion, a leading commander in the French Resistance during World War II who was betrayed by a priest and sent to a German concentration camp. (May 5, 2010) | 7/23/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoReflections on the Fall of the Wall | Tzveton Todorov discusses communism as a religion that has been in the making since the Enlightenment period, and he reflects on the place of communism and its present substitutes since the fall of the Berlin wall. (May 3, 2010) | 7/23/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoThe Evolution of 'Why' as the Key to Free Will | Daniel Dennett talks about free will and how this came to be an integral part of humanity. (January 12, 2009) | 7/2/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoHuman Rights Strategies in the 21st Century | Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and founder of Realizing Rights, discusses the work of her organization in areas of corporate responsibilites. (April 12, 2010) | 5/13/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoPoetry Rules | A panel of poets: Tom Killion, John Felsitner, Robert Conquest, Peter N. Carroll, and Patrick Hunt share their recent work in the seventh annual spring book salon which features a rich variety of writers from Stanford University. (April 24, 2010) | 5/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoLife and Imagination | A panel of writers: Kathryn Ma, Jean-Marie Apostolidies, and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, share their recent work in the seventh annual spring book salon which features a rich variety of writers from Stanford University. (April 24, 2010) | 5/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa 1945-1960 | Frederick Cooper discusses "imperial citizenship" during the period of 1946, when all "subjects" in the French empire became citizens until the independence of French Africa in 1960. (February 1, 2010) | 3/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Imperial Repertories and the Myth of Modern Colonialism | Frederick Cooper reflects on the place of 19th and 20th century colonization in the long-term history of empire and presents a skeptical view of notions of new imperialisms, second empires, and colonial modernity. (February 3, 2010) | 3/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoAndre Aciman on Writing, His Work and Inspirations | Novelist and literary critic Andre Aciman shares his thoughts on his current work, inspiration and being a writer. (October 20, 2009) | 12/9/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoThe Value of the Essay in the 21st Century | A panel discussion exploring the past, present, and future of this important genre of writing with Stanford professors Andrea Lunsford, Dan Edelstein, Nicholas Jenkins and Robert Harrison. (October 11, 2009) | 10/13/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoThe Role of Fiction in the Well-Lived Life | Professor Joshua Landy, co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford, talks about his current research on the role that fiction plays in the well-lived life. (May 4, 2009) | 7/22/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoThe Black Death | John Hatcher shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History. (January 27, 2009) | 7/1/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Write About Writing?; Or, How Dr. Johnson Can Save Your Life | Adam Gopnik discusses literary criticism as a form of writing about characters that happen to be works of fiction, that literary criticism is essential to understand the state of being human. (May 13, 2009) | 6/3/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoBut There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War | James McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University, discusses the turmoil and violence of the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War. (April 13, 2009) | 5/4/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Invention of Celebrity | Felicity Nussbaum, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, delivers the 17th annual Bliss Carnochan lecture at Stanford on the birth of celebrity in eighteenth century England. (April 3, 2009) | 5/4/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Holy Pieces: Attitudes Toward Parts and Wholes in Late Medieval Devotion | Professor of European Medieval History Caroline Walker Bynum discusses the importance of relics, particularly holy body parts, in medieval Christianity. (February 25, 2009) | 4/8/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages | Professor of European Medieval History Caroline Walker Bynum discusses the role of transformation miracles in medieval Christianity. (February 23, 2009) | 4/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Verbal Bubblewrap; or, the Contradictions of Art Writing | Julian Bell, an English painter and art critic who contributes to The New York Review of Books, considers the current profiles of this branch of writing as seen from London. (March 5, 2009) | 4/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Art of Judging Music: An Update | Anthony Tommasini, Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times, discusses the lack of performance of contemporary compositions today. (May 14, 2008) | 3/23/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoThinking About our Shared Home: Earth | Four Stanford humanities scholars participated in San Francisco’s 2008 Litquake Litcrawl. In a panel presentation the scholars illustrated how humanistic perspectives are just as valuable to environmental discourse as scientific data. (October 11, 2008) | 12/18/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights and Democratic Iterations | Presidential lecturer Seyla Benhabib, an author and the Eugene-Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale, discusses the role of national politics in the fundamental human rights of individuals and societies. (October 27, 2008) | 12/17/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock's Vertigo | Three panelists gave intriguing presentations on Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo. Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a Professor of French and Political Science at Stanford, discussed the complex use of time and temporality. (October 17, 2008) | 12/16/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vertigo: Perfection of Form | Guest speaker Richard Allen, Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, discusses how Vertigo is not only a story about male pathology but also about love. (October 17, 2008) | 12/16/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Voice of the Toy: Writing Magic and Enchanted States | Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism, and history, who explores mythology, symbolism, and fairy tales with an emphasis on their contemporary meanings. (April 14, 2008) | 5/1/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shaping & Breaking the Politics of Legal History | David Lieberman joined the Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Lieberman's lecture examines modes and projects of legal history in 18th century England. (April 4, 2008) | 5/1/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoReviewing: Is it an Art or a Craft? | Joan Acocella is the dance critic of The New Yorker, where she also reviews books. She has published Mark Morris, a critical biography. (February 6, 2008) | 2/26/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoNewton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy (Video) | Simon Schaffer is a Professor of History of Science at University of Cambridge. He was trained in natural sciences and history of science at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught at the Imperial College London. (January 16, 2008) | 1/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy (Audio) | Simon Schaffer is a Professor of History of Science at University of Cambridge. He was trained in natural sciences and history of science at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught at the Imperial College London. (January 16, 2008) | 1/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoNewton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (Video) | Simon Schaffer is a Professor of History of Science at University of Cambridge. He was trained in natural sciences and history of science at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught at the Imperial College London. (January 14, 2008) | 1/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (Audio) | Simon Schaffer is a Professor of History of Science at University of Cambridge. He was trained in natural sciences and history of science at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught at the Imperial College London. (January 14, 2008) | 1/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoThe Black Hole of Empire (Video) | Partha Chatterjee is Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, and Professor Anthropology at Columbia University. (November 7, 2007) | 12/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoThe Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On - America & Britain: Two Diverging Destinies? (Video) | Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, the author of thirteen books, talks about the Abolition of the Slave Trade. (October 29, 2007) | 12/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade - America and Britain: Two Diverging Destinies? | Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University talks about Abolition of the Slave Trade. (October 29, 2007) | 12/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Black Hole of Empire | Partha Chatterjee is Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, and Professor Anthropology at Columbia University. (November 7, 2007) | 12/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism | Talal Asad delivers the first lecture in the 2006-2007 Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and Arts Series. His lecture is entitled "Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism." (October 9, 2007)r | 4/23/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoSome Rights Reserved - Creative Commons Copyright | New Directions in Humanities Research: Director of Creative Commons, Glenn Brown, introduced faculty and students to the mission of Creative Commons and the benefit of managing one's own copyright licenses. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoRethinking Books in the Era of the Network | Bob Stein reviews the trajectory of electronic publishing since the 1980s and how he came to develop Sophie: a tool for reading. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoWelcome to Convergence Culture - Consumer Participation & Branded Entertainment | Presenting material from his forthcoming book, Henry Jenkins discusses how the role of content consumers has changed, enabling us to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content and how producers of content are exploiting these changes. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The First Theorists of History | The Stanford Humanities Center presents the 2006 Harry Camp Memorial Lecture series. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Life and Death of a Genre | The Stanford Humanities Center presents the 2006 Harry Camp Memorial Lecture series. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Extremism | University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann delivers the last of three Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and Arts. Her lecture is entitled "Extremism." | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day | This is the inaugural event of Distributed Whitehead Network and will feature a panel focusing on essays by Isabelle Stengers ("Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day") and respondents Richard Rorty and Donna Haraway. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Analogy as the Core of Cognition | The Stanford Humanities Center presents the 2005-06 Winter quarter Presidential Lecture. Douglas Hofstadter is a College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoOpen Content: How Online Digital Libraries Will Provide Access to Cultural Information in the 21st Century | David Rumsey is a map collector with one of the largest private map collections in the United States. He talks about online digital libraries and now they can provide access to cultural information. | 3/29/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoRethinking Books in the Era of the Network | Bob Stein reviews the trajectory of electronic publishing since the 1980s. | 3/29/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoText Encoding and Future Archives | Julia's research focuses on text encoding and how it transforms textual information into data, giving it new cultural meaning. Many of the students in attendance were from the newly created undergraduate Digital Humanities concentration. | 3/29/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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