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CESTA Lunch Seminar Series

On most Thursdays at lunchtime (12:15-1:15PM) during the academic quarter, researchers from across the Stanford community and beyond come together for presentations of new work in the digital humanities.

Currently, our events are primarily in a hybrid format, with some entirely online. You may join our events remotely via Zoom by CESTA Research and Programs Manager Erin Eger (erineger [at] stanford.edu (erineger[at]stanford[dot]edu)). If you do not have Zoom installed, you can download it for free here.

Recordings of some of our past seminars are available on CESTA's Youtube Channel.

Past Events

February
5
Date
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A


Professor Michael Rau: Stanford Department of Theater and Performance Studies

January
29
Date
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A

January
29
Date
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160
Also online via Zoom

The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a…

January
20
Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A

Petra Kuppers will talk about her Planting Disabled Futures project, a virtual reality/community performance experience.

December
2
Date
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A

Lunch will begin at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees.

Our next lunchtime seminar will feature Michael Penn, Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford. 

November
20
Date
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A
Whereas humanists have generally pursued scholarship on an individual basis, DH projects are often collaborative by design. This talk reflects on the thrills and spills of collaborating on archival…
November
13
Date
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A

Also online via Zoom
In 1917, Virginia Woolf co-founded her own private Press, the Hogarth Press, on the dining table of her home, Hogarth House, in southwest London. While Virginia and her husband, Leonard, initially…
November
6
Date
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A and Online

Computational museology is a scaffold that unites machine intelligence with data curation, ontology with visualization, and communities of publics with that world of knowledge through embodied…

October
30
Date
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A

October
23
Date
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A