Stanford DLCL Humanities Education Focal Group

11/22/2016

Thank you to everyone who attended the Slow Professor​ Book Discussion on November 4th! We are excited to share a blog post written by one of the attendees, Chris Golde, BEAM Career Counselor for Humanities PhDs and former Associate VPGE, about what it means to be a "slow grad student."

What is a “slow graduate student”? That is what I puzzled over while reading The Slow Professor. Taking inspiration from the Slow Food movement, this book advocates embracing the principles of Slow…

11/22/2013

We were pleased to host Amir Eshel and Brian Johnsrud today as part of the "Series on Public Humanities," and to learn about their public research web platform "Lacuna Stories," a website that curates and facilitates discussion of materials on complex historical events (currently focused on 9-11). Thank you, Amir and Brian, for a fascinating presentation!

10/15/2013

The opening round-table of the "Public Humanities Series" has been rescheduled! It will be on:

October 29th
12:00pm
Bldg 260, Room 252

Please adjust your calendars accordingly! Thank you, and hope to see you there!

(Please RSVP at the event on our page)

05/17/2013

Discussing the future of the doctoral degree across the departments of H&S. PhD Grads as future high school teachers? Shortening time-to-degree? Thoughts?

At Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting, a panel discussed new initiatives designed to prepare PhD candidates for today's job market, including a program that would expose them to careers as high school teachers.

05/06/2013

Please check out the following short article by Tom Friedman for tomorrow's meeting! Looking forward to seeing you there!

It’s hard to have a conversation today with any worker, teacher, student or boss who doesn’t tell you some version of this: More things seem to be changing in my world than ever before, but I can’t quite put my finger on it, let alone know how to adapt. So let me try to put my finger on it: We now l...

04/24/2013

This is the third year that BiblioTech has sparked a much-needed conversation between humanists and entrpreneurs. What is the value of a humanities education in the private sector? How does the Tech Industry use the humanities? How can humanities dissertations work with the ideas that propel the innovations of the future? This morning, creative leaders of Silicon Valley as well as DLCL graduate students spoke to these central questions. Thank you to Anais Saint-Jude for fostering these conversations!

April 24, 20137:30 AMTresidder Memorial Union, Oak Lounge