Stanford Humanities Center Newsletter

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ARTURO ARIAS (1994-95) is now Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His book Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America came out in 2007.

TIM DEAN (1997-98) is now Professor of English at University at Buffalo (SUNY) and has just been appointed Director of the University of Buffalo Humanities Institute (effective January 1, 2008). Tim said, “I will look back with great fondness and nostalgia on my year at the Stanford Humanities Center, and, as Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Buffalo, I will be aspiring to emulate many features of the Stanford Humanities Center!”

MARISA GALVEZ (2006-07) received the 2008 Bernheimer Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for her outstanding dissertation, “Medieval Songbooks: The Transmission and Reception of Vernacular Lyric.”

DAVID HAHN (1991-92) His Concerto Anatolia for solo guitar and orchestra had its world premiere performance by the Antalya State Orchestra in Antalya, Turkey on January 19, 2008. Cem Duruöz, who will also perform the U.S. premiere at the Texas Round Top International Guitar Festival on February 16th, 2008, played the solo guitar.

David received an award from the American Music Center's Composer Assistance Program to cover the costs of score engraving and printing of my Concerto Anatolia.

David continues to work on the musical comedy The Incomparable Dexter, written by Canadian playwright Barry Healey. The play, an environmentally themed farce about the shenanigans of two failed buskers, has been likened to "the Marx Brothers doing Candide.” It is scheduled to have a workshop performance run in Toronto in May. Demos from the play are available for download at: http://www.davidhahnonline.com/old%20site/pages/shoutingdexter.htm

David’s CD Your Time Is Up is now available at CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/hahnonline2. The CD is a collection of his electric guitar music both old and new.

"Amerika Ist Nun Erwacht" will be released on a compilation of new music produced by the Vox Novus 60x60 Composers' Collective.

CHRISTIAN HENRIOT (2006-07) was appointed a senior fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF): http://cpu.fr/iuf/. IUF selects 25 senior and 50 junior fellows across all disciplines in the French university system for an appointment of five years. Christian has also been appointed visiting professor of history at UC Berkeley for the next three semesters.

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY (2004-05) just published a co-edited (with Ben Keppel of University of Oklahoma) anthology titled Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007). This appeared as part of the press's series “African American Intellectual Heritage.” Jonathan remarked, “the book was wrapped up during my year at the Stanford Humanities Center and went to press shortly after I returned from that glorious sabbatical.”

TROY JOLLIMORE (2006-07) published "The Psychology of Exclusivity" in Les Ateliers de l'Ethique, Vol. 3 No. 1. It is available online at: http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/IMG/pdf_volume3no1_05_jollimore.pdf

ROBERT KRAUT (1995-96) has just published a book titled Artworld Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2007).

GONZALO MUNÉVAR (1983-84) published La Evolución y la Verdad Desnuda with Ediciones Uninorte in Barranquilla, Colombia.

SALLY PRICE (1989-90) published Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

RICHARD PRICE (1989-90) published Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

 SVEN SPIEKER (2002-03) has a book titled The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy forthcoming from MIT Press.