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  • Book Talk: “A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity” w/ Sherina Feliciano-Santos
    Events at Stanford - 21:09 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 12, 2021. 3:30 PM. Location: Zoom Please join the Center for Global Ethnography for a book talk by Dr. Sherina Feliciano-Santos (Anthropology, University of South Carolina) on her new monograph, A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism (Rutgers UP, 2021).
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  • Cuba en el siglo XXI
    Events at Stanford - 21:09 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 5, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Join us for a conversation on Cuba led by scholars and professionals within and outside Cuba who will discuss contemporary Cuba from a variety of perspectives. Going beyond the media headlines and coverage of the July 11th protest, the panelists will discuss Cuba from a longer term perspective primarily focused on the early 21st century and considering US-Cuban relations, Cuba in the US media, freedom of academic, literary, and artistic expression in Cuba, as well as other relevant topics concerning Cuba’s present and future. This event made possible through the generosity of the tinker foundation. Speakers: Ernesto Domínguez , Darsi Fernández, Sachie Fernández, and Mikael Wolfe.  Livestream Here: https://tinyurl.com/livestreamcuba21 Note: Please feel free to send your questions in the comments section on the Youtube page and we will read them to the panelists. 
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  • Take a break, pet a dog
    Events at Stanford - 21:07 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 3:00 PM. Location: Science and Engineering Quad, Y2E2 Courtyard The Terman Engineering Library is pleased to have therapy dogs again this quarter. Please join us in the Y2E2 Courtyard on the second Thursday of the month from 3-4pm. Dog and owner teams from Pet Partners will be providing relaxation and stress relief. In the event of rain, look for us under the covered walkway. Please note that masks will be required and we will be asking that hands be sanitized before and after petting. Hand sanitizer will be provided. Please join us!
  • The Russia Challenge: Limited or Resurrected?
    Events at Stanford - 21:05 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Only. This event will not be held in person. As relations between the West and Russia plunge to a post-Cold War nadir, how strong a competitor will the Kremlin prove? Will constraints on Putin's autocracy hinder his ability to have Russia play a great power role, or has Russia alrealdy successfully resurrected itself and is now able to exercise significant influence on the global stage? On November 10, Timothy Frye (author of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia) and Kathryn Stoner (author of Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order) will discuss the nature and depth of the Russian challenge to the West. About the Speakers:  Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University. Professor Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an M.A. from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in Political...
  • Conversation between Reverend Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and Professor Michaela Mross
    Events at Stanford - 21:03 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021. 7:00 PM. Location: Virtual via Webinar Join us for a conversation between Reverend Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and Professor Michaela Mross.  Free and open to the public. Registration Required. Webinar link will be sent after registration. Bios: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is a poet and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest in the Shunryu Suzuki Roshi lineage. She is the author of The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness; Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging; The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender; and Tell Me Something About Buddhism: Questions and Answers for the Curious Beginner.  Michaela Mross is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford. She specializes in Japanese Buddhism, with a particular emphasis on Sōtō Zen, Buddhist rituals, sacred music, as well as manuscript and print culture in premodern Japan. She has written numerous articles on kōshiki 講式 (Buddhist ceremonials) and co-edited a special iss...
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  • Global Dialogues Series: Scholar Rescue at Stanford
    Events at Stanford - 21:02 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021. 12:30 PM. Location: Virtual via Zoom Each year, thousands of scholars face threats to their lives and careers because of their research, activism, or identities. Since 2002, Stanford has worked with the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) to host threatened and displaced scholars from around the globe. Today, the need for an institutionalized program at Stanford to support at-risk scholars is greater than ever as scholars from around the world continue to confront threats that are unprecedented both in scale and complexity. This webinar will look at the fight for freedom of speech in contexts around the globe and the individuals who have risked everything to stand up against authoritarianism and advocate for human rights. Panelists will discuss some of the threats facing scholars today and the ongoing efforts, at Stanford and elsewhere, to support endangered scholars and protect academic freedom. This Zoom webinar is the first in Stanford Glo...
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  • Untold Stories of the Conservation Movement: Race, Power, and Privilege
    Events at Stanford - 21:01 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event Racism, sexism, and social class discord have been a part of conservationism and environmentalism since the dawn of these movements. However, most accounts of the conservation movement are filled with stories of wealthy white males protecting nature. The stories of wealthy white females are infrequently told, and the lives and contributions of working-class white males and females, as well as people of color, are usually ignored.  Yet, gross social inequalities and discrimination are commonplace in the movements.  This talk explores racial and power dynamics in the history of conservationism/ environmentalism. Dorceta Taylor will be in conversation with Emily Polk, Advanced Lecturer in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric. This talk is part of the Center's Arrow Lecture Series on Ethics and Leadership. The series honors the late Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow, the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emer...
  • Duo Gordis-Hantaï: Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba
    Events at Stanford - 20:57 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 5, 2021. 7:30 PM. Location: Campbell Recital Hall Duo Gordis-Hantaï is comprised of Jérôme Hantaï, viola da gamba, and Lillian Gordis, harpsichord. They have been performing as a duo since 2018, seeking a common sound that lies between the singing inertia of the bow and the percussive attack of the keyboard. Their repertoire centers around the French virtuosos of the viola da gamba — Marin Marais and François Couperin — and the sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord of Johann Sebastian Bach. Program Marin Marais: Pièces de viole in d minor, Livre II François Couperin: Suite in E minor, Pièces de viole J.S. Bach: English Suite 5, BWV 810 J.S. Bach: Sonata III for obbligato harpsichord & viola da gamba, BWV 1029 ADMISSION INFORMATION Free admission Please read our COVID-19 Safety information.
  • China and the Protection of Its Interests Overseas: Challenges and New Dynamics
    Events at Stanford - 17:40 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/3AUnPi3 This is a virtual event. Please click here to register and generate a link to the talk.  The link will be unique to you; please save it and do not share with others. November 10, 5:00-6:15 p.m. California time / November 11, 9:00-10:15 a.m. China time Based on his recent Oxford University Press book Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy, Dr. Andrea Ghiselli will discuss the role of the actors that contributed to the emergence and evolution of China's approach to the protection of its interests overseas. He will show how the securitization of non-traditional security threats overseas played a key role in shaping the behavior and preferences of Chinese policymakers and military elites, especially with regard to the role of the armed forces in foreign policy.  While Chinese policymakers were able to overcome important organizational challenges, the future of China's appr...
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  • High-tech Modernism
    Events at Stanford - 17:36 Nov 01, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 8, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Live online webcast This is episode 18 in the CASBS series Social Science for a World in Crisis. Learn more about the series here. Roundtable panel: danah boyd, Henry Farrell (2021-22 CASBS research affiliate), Marion Fourcade (CASBS fellow 2008-09), William Janeway, Charlton McIlwain, and Zeynep Tufekci We still do not have a sufficient understanding of the moral political economy of machine learning and other algorithmic forms of decision making. In a new working paper, Henry Farrell and Marion Fourcade present one way of addressing this challenge. They argue that both machine learning and traditional bureaucracies are engines of classification, so that our current moral political economy can be compared to the 19th and 20th century "High Modernism" described by James C. Scott (a former CASBS fellow) in his classic book, Seeing Like a State. What can we learn by thinking of these new techniques as a kind of "High-tech Modernism" and what do we miss? What a...
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  • Reimagining Work Post COVID | “No Place for That in the Office…”: Activism in the Workplace
    Events at Stanford - 15:36 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 15, 2021. 6:30 PM. Location: By zoom The expectations for leaders across sectors to engage with issues of social and political importance are growing. As leaders navigate these public responsibilities, tensions have arisen between management and employees around the proper role of politics in the office. Should employers be allowed to ban politics in the workplace? Should employees be able to revolt against their bosses when they don’t? Where does the workplace end and politics begin? On Monday, November 15, Professor Brian Lowery talks about freedom of expression and worker activism in the workplace with John Russ, a former senior executive at Coinbase, and Jason Fried, the CEO of Basecamp. Professor Brian Lowery talks with Anu Partanen, journalist and author of The Nordic Theory of Everything, and Karen Arnold, Head of Talent Acquisition at Automattic, a company that publishes Wordpress and Tumblr among other tech products and that always operated on a fully remote basis without an of...
  • Conversations with Latin American Authors: Africanness in Action
    Events at Stanford - 15:35 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 3:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Stanford CLAS, UC Davis' Hemispheric Institute on the Americas & SJSU's Department of World Languages and Literatures present the Conversations with Latin American Authors series: Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil Author Talk By: Juan Diego Díaz, Assistant Professor, UC Davis Comments by: Juan Eduardo Wolf, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Book abstract: When people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions about Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the "West," Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic. In Africanness in Acti...
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  • How Could States Use Nuclear Weapons? Four Models After the Bomb
    Events at Stanford - 15:34 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual Seminar According to the Theory of the Nuclear Revolution (TNR), nuclear weapons have stabilized relations between great powers, making deterrence easier than compellence. This view is currently under attack. Recent work has documented Washington’s competitive approach to arms control agreements and the fragility of the nuclear stalemate. However, these critiques have not explained how policymakers could hope to extract coercive benefits from nuclear weapons. This paper revisits this question using a game-theoretic model. It shows that if the compellent state is able to bolster the credibility of its threat through standard techniques, i.e. burning bridges, probabilistic threats, or the rationality of irrationality, then compellence may succeed. However, greater military capabilities bolster coercion by increasing the risk of disaster, with first-strike capabilities being especially destabilizing. TNR was correct to warn about the risks of nuclear co...
  • From Olmsted to the Future: Stewarding the Planning and Architecture of the Stanford Campus
    Events at Stanford - 15:33 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 4:30 PM. Location: Zoom [virtual event] Free and open to the public. Registration is required here. You will receive the webinar access information two days before the event. If you do not see the email in your Inbox or SPAM box, please send us an email at historicalsociety@stanford.edu. David Lenox, Stanford University Architect Stanford University was one of the few fortunate universities to have a master plan conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted prior to any building development. That brilliant framework plan continues to serve as the foundation for planning the Stanford campus in a cohesive and orderly manner. David "Dave" Lenox will highlight the key precepts of the original campus plan, lead us on a journey to demonstrate how projects built in the recent decade uphold the original planning tenets, and also illustrate the guiding principles that ground the architecture and design. David Lenox has been the Stanford University Architect since 2005 and has been focused on e...
  • Reimagining Work Post COVID | The Continued Myth of Meritocracy
    Events at Stanford - 15:32 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 8, 2021. 6:30 PM. Location: By zoom How far will working hard take you in today’s American society? Based on the experience of the frontline workers we called heroes during COVID, not very far. As the wealth divide continues to deepen and class and race inequities are exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the American dream of upward mobility has been called into question. Can one make it simply by trying?  On Monday, November 8, Professor Brian Lowery talks about mobility and wealth with Christina Sass, the co-founder of Andela, and Laura Maristany, the director External Affairs of Bitwise Industries. Throughout the Fall Quarter, the Leadership for Society program, led by Professor Brian Lowery, is hosting a weekly webinar featuring prominent leaders discussing issues of critical importance to society. This quarter, we will explore new ways to think about work. The series is available to the whole Stanford community and the general public. Register for any or all of the webinars here!
  • "America's Arab Refugees" Seminar with Marcia Inhorn
    Events at Stanford - 15:32 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 11:30 AM. Location: Zoom “Introduction to Arab Studies” is a Fall 2021 course that will offer a speaker series component open to our community. The series of events will highlight the framework of collective belonging, cultural construction, identity and heritage formation, and is this year's academic theme for the Abbasi Program. Thursday, November 11th: Marcia Inhorn, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, will discuss her book America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins. America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of...
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  • Jumia Nigeria chairwoman Juliet Anammah @ ETL
    Events at Stanford - 15:32 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Online Only Juliet Anammah is the Chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Chief Sustainability Officer of Jumia Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and the first African tech startup to be listed on the NYSE. Anammah oversees institutional relationships, corporate communications and ESG for Jumia across 11 countries in Africa. She previously served as the CEO of Jumia Nigeria for more than 4 years, overseeing the growth and transition of Jumia Nigeria from online retail to a full digital ecosystem that included marketplace, logistics and payments services. This appearance by Juliet Anammah is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Join us virtually at youtube.com/ecorner as we bring founders, investors and industry influencers to center stage and invite them to share what it takes to become a disruptor.
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  • Mobile Communications: and the Future of Digital Transformation in India
    Events at Stanford - 15:31 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Zoom Join the US-Asia Technology Management Center for a session in our 2021 Autumn Seminar Series, Mobility: Asia Moves Forward in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Speakers: - Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog - Gopal Vittal, CEO, Airtel Co-moderators: - Dr. Amit Kapoor, Honorary Chair, Institute for Competitiveness, India - Dr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center This session is presented by the US-Asia Technology Management Center in cooperation with the Institute for Competitiveness, India and the Center for South Asia, Stanford University. REGISTER below for the entire series.  The same link will be used for all sessions. Register in advance for this meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsc-uvqDkrG9JJBIGwCHyIgRoTWeKDzARi After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting series. The series begins September 23, 2021 and continues weekly until December 2, 2021. S...
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  • 2021 HAI Fall Conference on Policy & AI: Four Radical Proposals for a Better Society
    Events at Stanford - 15:29 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Ongoing every day from November 9, 2021 through November 10, 2021. 9:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event We are pleased to invite you to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) virtual fall conference on Policy & AI: Four Radical Proposals for a Better Society on November 9-10, 2021. This year’s virtual fall conference features a novel format. We will present and discuss four policy proposals that respond to the issues and opportunities created by artificial intelligence. Each policy proposal will be a radical challenge to the status quo and capable of having a significant and far-reaching positive impact on humanity. The proposals will be presented to a panel of experts from multiple disciplines and backgrounds, who will vet, debate, and judge the merits of each proposal. We will also encourage audience participation throughout. Keynote Speaker:  Eric Lander, President’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) The pr...
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  • Accomplishment – Book Talk with Sir Michael Barber
    Events at Stanford - 15:29 Oct 29, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 8, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom There is no secret formula for success. But what if there were a pattern you could follow? A way of mapping the route and navigating the obstacles that arise? Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book, he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organizations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes – from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Gareth Southgate to Justin Trudeau – Accomplishment blends personal anecdote and proven strategy to trace a blueprint that can be applied to any area of life. At the book’s core is the need to remember the ethical basis for what you have set out to do. Doing the right thing for the right reason is the reward that will see you through the criticism and setbacks. So whatever it is that you ...
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