Love and War: on the Romance of a Civil War Photograph
Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford, Alexander Nemerov is a scholar of American art and author of Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov and Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s.
The Musical Origins of Contemporary Affect Theory
Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, Roger Mathew Grant is a scholar of 18th century music theory and author of Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era. He is currently a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror
Authors Stover, Peskin, and Koenig tell the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted war criminals, and attempt to understand why so many states ignore their legal obligations to arrest and try war crimes suspects.
Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945
Weihong Bao’s book traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.
Jeff Chang is author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and the forthcoming We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Hua Hsu, contributing writer for the New Yorker, is an associate professor of English at Vassar College.
Film, Television, Media Old and New
Lili Loofbourow is culture critic for The Week and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Film critic and historian David Thomson is the author of How to Watch a Movie and over twenty other works of film history.
Professor of English Steven Lee’s book makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde."
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Graduate School of Journalism lecturer Adam Hochschild explores the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) through the lives of idealistic international young volunteers as well as American journalists, scholars, citizens, and a right-wing oil company executive who supplied Franco’s army.
Professor of History Martin Jay’s book tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor?
Domestic Disturbances
Lawrence Weschler in conversation with Ramiro Gomez, Los Angeles-based artist, and subject of Weschler’s recent piece in The New York Times Magazine and forthcoming book Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez.