October 8, 2001 -- for immediate release

PRESS RELEASE:

Stanford Humanities Laboratory Announces

Undergraduate Open House

The Stanford Humanities Laboratory will be holding an Open House this Friday, October 12, 2001, to display the interim results of the current projects to the undergraduate community at Stanford.  This hands-on demonstration will be held on the first floor of Meyer Library from 2pm - 5pm, and the research teams will be on hand to discuss their work and talk about future plans.  

The Stanford Humanities Laboratory, in its second year of operations, was created to pioneer new ways of producing knowledge in the humanities, using collaborative models usually reserved for the sciences and resulting in non-traditional research outputs.  Every SHL project features the involvement of scholars from all levels -- undergraduates working side-by-side with graduate students, staff members, and faculty, each making vital research contributions. 

SHL is currently funding six projects, on topics ranging from medieval Spain to a history of video-gaming, with results taking a variety of forms, including dvd films, cd-rom HyperTextbooks, museum exhibitions, interactive galleries, and online streaming-media journals.  In addition, SHL is collaborating with other institutions on two archival projects, on the engineer/inventor/Renaissance man Buckminster Fuller and on Italian history as viewed through television.

All members of the Stanford community are welcome to stop by the Open House to see the projects underway.  Undergraduates who are interested in working with an SHL project are particularly encouraged to attend the Open House or to visit the SHL website at http://www.stanford.edu/group/shl.

For further information, contact:  Meg Worley, Associate Director (736.1761 or mworley@stanford.edu) or Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp, Director (725.3270 or schnapp@stanford.edu).