https://simplecast.com Whole Minds A podcast about ideas, arts, and culture brought to you by the Stanford Humanities Center en Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:34:20 +0000 https://whole-minds.simplecast.com Whole Minds https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1c986439-b98e-4512-bf9a-b618041b5ff5/d02d9009-5df4-4a4f-8b39-0e629bc01e1b/3000x3000/stackedwstanford.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://whole-minds.simplecast.com episodic A podcast about ideas, arts, and culture brought to you by the Stanford Humanities Center Stanford Humanities Center false https://feeds.simplecast.com/YHRhvLW9 digital humanities Stanford Humanities Center stanfordhumanities@stanford.edu 6644bab4-4b14-4e21-869e-5cba7e4edd75 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 versa
  • How the field of the blue humanities developed, and Professor Cohen’s role
  • The metaphors and the realities of the ocean
  • Professor Cohen’s latest project on representations and imaginations of the Monterey Bay in the 1930s and the 1990s

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]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 stanfordhumanities@stanford.edu (Stanford Humanities Center) https://whole-minds.simplecast.com/episodes/blue-humanities-from-the-novel-to-the-ocean-s8ubw13b 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 versa
  • How the field of the blue humanities developed, and Professor Cohen’s role
  • The metaphors and the realities of the ocean
  • Professor Cohen’s latest project on representations and imaginations of the Monterey Bay in the 1930s and the 1990s

Links/Resources

]]> Blue Humanities: From the Novel to the Ocean Stanford Humanities Center 00:51:11 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. 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. false full 2 193f2f8c-e500-48ab-95c9-99c603006e6f 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
 

]]> Fri, 8 May 2026 21:56:36 +0000 stanfordhumanities@stanford.edu (Stanford Humanities Center) https://whole-minds.simplecast.com/episodes/digital-humanities-AYqQQsuM 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? Stanford Humanities Center 00:39:06 In this episode, Roland Greene and graduate student co-host Sunil “Sunny” Persad speak with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Associate Professor of English at Stanford and Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, or CESTA, about the digital humanities. In this episode, Roland Greene and graduate student co-host Sunil “Sunny” Persad speak with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Associate Professor of English at Stanford and Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, or CESTA, about the digital humanities. false full 1