Whole Minds

Stanford Humanities Center

A podcast about ideas, arts, and culture brought to you by the Stanford Humanities Center

Episodes

  1. Oct 19

    Blue Humanities: From the Novel to the Ocean

    In this episode, Roland Greene and graduate student co-host Sasha Starovoitov speak with distinguished scholar of the novel Margaret Cohen about the blue humanities, or the intersections of the humanities and oceanic studies. Their interview discusses: Strategies for interdisciplinary studies and pedagogy, in particular the importance of considering environmental sciences as humanities scholars, and vice versaHow the field of the blue humanities developed, and Professor Cohen’s roleThe metaphors and the realities of the oceanProfessor Cohen’s latest project on representations and imaginations of the Monterey Bay in the 1930s and the 1990sLinks/Resources J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Storm:_Steam-Boat_off_a_Harbour%27s_MouthHester Blum, “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies”: https://www.hesterblum.com/s/10-Prospect-of-Oceanic-Studies-PMLA.pdfSamuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834Alexander Sherman, Meghan M. Shea, Fatoumata Binta Barrie, Rahsaan McFarland II, Stephen R. Palumbi, Fiorenza Micheli & Margaret Cohen, “A framework for co-creating knowledge across the ocean humanities and sciences”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-026-00186-1“Towards a Blue Art History” Arcade Colloquy: https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/colloquies/towards-blue-art-history“Imagining the Oceans” Arcade Colloquy: https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/colloquies/imagining-oceans

  2. May 8

    How Did the Humanities Go Digital?

    Their interview discusses: What is the digital humanities (and what isn't it)How did Stanford become a key player in the history of the digital humanities?How do Mark and Sunny employ digital humanities in their research?How does AI fit into the broader world of the digital humanities?What will the future bring for the digital humanities? Transcript: Digital Humanities: Present and Future Transcript.docx Projects mentioned in this episode: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)  Stanford Literary Lab  The Spatial History Project  Humanities + Design  Stanford BA in Data Science for Artistic and Cultural Analysis  ORBIS

    How Did the Humanities Go Digital?
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A podcast about ideas, arts, and culture brought to you by the Stanford Humanities Center

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  • Creator
    Stanford Humanities Center
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Whole Minds