http://news.stanford.edu Latest Humanities news headlines from Stanford University. Copyright (C) Stanford University en-us http://news.stanford.edu/images/srdot.gif http://news.stanford.edu http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november16/bede-scholar-brown-111909.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november16/bede-scholar-brown-111909.html Bede was the "teacher of the whole Middle Ages" – and one Stanford scholar has devoted a lifetime to his achievements. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/inca-pottery-replication-111209.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/inca-pottery-replication-111209.html The Inca artisans of the 1570s tried to recreate the pots their predecessors had made before the Spanish Conquest. Now Stanford's Archaeology Center retraces their steps and in doing so, rediscovers a vanished world. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/adam-johnson-award-111209.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/adam-johnson-award-111209.html "Why not have a spaceship come into the story? Why not?" asks the author who has been praised for his "satiric glee and elegiac compassion." Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november2/bulrusher-drama-production-110509.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november2/bulrusher-drama-production-110509.html A collaboration between the Drama Department and Blackstage Theater Company, Bulrusher will be performed Nov. 5-7 at the Nitery Theater. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november2/art-academia-debate-110409.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november2/art-academia-debate-110409.html Five celebrated artists at Stanford join a growing national debate about what happens when artists become teachers and academia collaborates with the arts. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october26/jeffers-collected-letters-122809.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october26/jeffers-collected-letters-122809.html The 1,000-page first volume of the Collected Letters, published by Stanford University Press, is an 'epistolary autobiography' of one of America's greatest poets, Robinson Jeffers and his wife, Una. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october19/chant-camp-singers-102109.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october19/chant-camp-singers-102109.html At Stanford's "chant camp," singers learn a medieval musical form that relies on memory and the ear to sing shapes and gestures – not notes.  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october12/litquake-literary-event101409.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october12/litquake-literary-event101409.html The centuries-old genre faces blurring boundaries, accountability and the Internet. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october12/lunsford-writing-research-101209.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october12/lunsford-writing-research-101209.html Stanford researcher Andrea Lunsford finds that today's students are writing more than ever before – but it may not look like the writing of yesterday. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october5/othello-syndrome-event-100909.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october5/othello-syndrome-event-100909.html The Grammy-nominated work 're-imagines' Verdi's classic opera and Shakespeare's play. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/undergrad-edu-minor-100209.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/undergrad-edu-minor-100209.html The program doesn't come with a teaching credential, but it is designed to help undergraduates get a better sense of what a career in education might look like. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/moravcsik_memorial_service_100109.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/moravcsik_memorial_service_100109.html Hungarian-born Julius Moravcsik, former Philosophy Department chair, made important contributions to the study of the philosophy of language and of ancient Greek philosophy. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/uganda-dance-collaborate-093009.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/uganda-dance-collaborate-093009.html Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/shloss-joyce-settlement-092809.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/shloss-joyce-settlement-092809.html Stanford scholar Carol Shloss’ breakthrough settlement against the James Joyce Estate gives hope to beleaguered researchers. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september14/three-books-event-091809.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september14/three-books-event-091809.html "Three Books" program brings authors Abraham Verghese, Lan Samantha Chang and Malcolm Gladwell together to discuss outsiders, outliers and what we mean by "success." Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT