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  • Carving up the Roof of the World: Causes and Effects of Environmental Change in the Himalayas
    Events at Stanford - 19:37 Oct 27, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021. 6:00 PM. Location: via Zoom webinar: Register at https://bit.ly/3ntz4cU The greater Himalaya mountain range, known as the “roof of the world,” plays a central role in the environmental wellbeing of Asia and the world. It is the source of a system of rivers that sustain fertile food-producing land – and therefore populations – across the continent. But the recent race to develop infrastructure in the region, including hydropower dams, endangers the ecosystems that flourish around these rivers, and the populations that depend on them. This panel discussion will explore the causes and effects of those environmental changes. What is driving the competitive infrastructure development in India and China? How does this affect the hydrology and ecology of Asia’s major river systems? And how will these changes affect populations, and in turn state policy, in the many downstream countries? Speakers: - Ruth Gamble, environmental, cultural and climate historian of Tibet, the Himalaya, and...
  • Japan's Energy Policy in Flux: Uncertain Future of Renewables, Nuclear Energy & Carbon Neutrality
    Events at Stanford - 19:37 Oct 27, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar; Register at: https://bit.ly/2YayEzo In April 2021, then Prime Minister Suga announced to the world that Japan will strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, seemingly setting the country on a path toward accelerated energy transition primarily by renewables. Under Prime Minister Kishida, Japan’s commitment may be on a more shaky ground, as demands for steady energy supply by old industries gained more traction and calls for restarting nuclear power plants are becoming louder. In this new political environment, in which Japan’s energy policy seems to be in flux, what is the future of renewables, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels, and what is the best energy mix for Japan considering its unique geopolitical position? Speakers: Mika Ohbayashi, Director at Renewable Energy Institute Phillip Lipscy, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Moderator: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Director of the Japan Program and Professor of ...
  • Main Stage | "As Soon As Impossible"
    Events at Stanford - 19:36 Oct 27, 2021
    Date: Ongoing from November 11, 2021 through November 20, 2021. See details for exact dates and times. Location: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater This World Premiere of As Soon As Impossible is directed by Professor Samer Al-Saber, and written by Roberta Denning Visiting Artist Betty Shamieh. As Soon As Impossible is a comedy that explores the relationship between two older men, Ramsey and Arthur, an Iraqi-American and a WASP. Their annual summer fishing trip is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of Ramsey’s granddaughter, Layla, who claims to be on the run. With Arthur’s suspicions raised, Ramsey may get more than he bargained for when he begins to plan Arthur a surprise birthday party. A play about friendship in a time of war. This play was originally commissioned by Second Stage with support from the Time Warner Commissioning Program.
  • A Global Health Conversation With Dr. Peter Hotez: World-Renowned Vaccinologist and Neglected Tropic
    Events at Stanford - 15:59 Oct 26, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021. 3:00 PM. Location: Online Dr. Peter Hotez is an internationally-recognized scientist, pediatrician and global health advocate who leads a critical field that defines and understands neglected tropical diseases and vaccinology. Dr. Hotez has spent his career on the front lines of global health science and advocacy, and is more recently known for his leadership and effective communication to dispel myths around the COVID-19 vaccine and increase global access and vaccine equity.  Dr. Peter Hotez is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.  As head of the Texas Children’s Venter for Vaccine Development, he leads a team and product development partnership for developing new vaccines for hookworm infection, schistosomia...
  • Quarantine Sessions: A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation
    Events at Stanford - 15:57 Oct 26, 2021
    Date: Sunday, October 31, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: online | CCRMA Live The Coronavirus Crisis has changed our lives, and we are in the midst of a long period without concerts as we knew them. In addition to the problem of large audiences, the regulations also make it "virtually" impossible for musicians to get together, rehearse, or perform. However, many technologies and solutions are available, helping us to find new ways of collaborating and transporting our work to audiences. We have been programming, testing, and rehearsing in an online environment with artists in the US and Europe. The sessions are broadcast live with audio and video feeds from each site. | Livestreaming at CCRMA Live The Core performers Constantin Basica (Stanford, CA) Chris Chafe (Woodside, CA) Henrik von Coler (Berlin, DE) Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (San Carlos, CA) Juan Parra (Ghent, BE) Klaus Scheuermann (Berlin, DE)
  • Camera as Witness Presents the 24th UNAFF
    Events at Stanford - 15:56 Oct 26, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Encina Hall 616 Serra Street Camera as Witness Stanford Arts Program Presents the 24th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) Session 16 4:00 PM / MIND/GAME: THE UNQUIET JOURNEY OF CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW (US, 56 min) 5:10 PM / AULCIE (Israel/US, 72 min) 6:40 PM / Panel "Mental Health and Sports” (FREE Admission) Session 17 8:00 PM / PRESERVING THE HOLOCAUST (Poland/US, 11 min) 8:20 PM / IRAQ’S LOST GENERATION (Iraq/Syria/US, 52 min)
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  • The North Korean Conundrum
    Events at Stanford - 15:56 Oct 26, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Online October 28, 12:00 pm-1:15 pm PDT/ 3:00 pm-4:15 pm EDT This is a joint book launch with CSIS in Washington, D.C. While North Korea’s nuclear weapons and the security threat it poses have occupied the center stage and eclipsed other issues in recent years, human rights remain important to U.S. policy. The edited volume, The North Korean Conundrum, explores how dealing with the issue of human rights is shaped and affected by the political issues with which it is so entwined. In this book launch event, contributors of the book will discuss the relationship between human rights and denuclearization, and how North Koreans’ limited access to information is part of the problem, and how this is changing. Speakers: Victor Cha, Senior Vice President and Korea Chair at CSIS; Vice Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs & D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government at Georgetown University Robert King, former Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues; Senior Adv...
  • CCSRE Faculty Seminar Series | Assimilation: An Alternative History
    Events at Stanford - 23:07 Oct 25, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: CCSRE Conference Room | BLDG 360 | ROOM 361J Catherine S. Ramírez, chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of Mexican American history; race, migration, and citizenship; Latinx literature and visual culture; comparative ethnic studies; gender studies; and speculative fiction. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory and she is a co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship. She has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Public Books, and Boom California. Tomás Jiménez is a Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.  He is also Director of the Undergraduate Program on Urban Studies. His research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. His forthcoming book...
  • Bay Area Adult Autism/DD Virtual Conference
    Events at Stanford - 15:18 Oct 22, 2021
    Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021. 9:00 AM. Location: Virtual via Zoom Topics include: Behavioral therapy for independence, genetic testing, caregiver mental health, strategies for safe interactions with law enforcement, myths and facts of medication treatments, public benefits, technology to support independence and more! Conference will be in English, with a Spanish interpreter option. The conference will be recorded for those who have registered.Registration fees from $0-$25 donation. Registration closes on 11/12/21. Parents, caretakers, educators and professionals are all invited to attend. 
  • Six Myths About US Involvement In and Withdrawal From Afghanistan with Erik Jensen
    Events at Stanford - 18:33 Oct 21, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom The withdrawal from Afghanistan over the last several weeks has elicited an unprecedented volume of “hot-takes,” journalistic provocation based on thin information. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the withdrawal whether they could identify Afghanistan on a map or not. And, predictably, the withdrawal sparked vigorous partisan finger-pointing. In this polemic hot-house, Jensen will identify at least six widely held myths that underlie public perceptions of the war in Afghanistan and the urge of many politicians to justify US withdrawal from the country unconditionally. 
  • Encountering Anticolonial Traces: On the Impossibility of Archiving
    Events at Stanford - 18:32 Oct 21, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 11:00 AM. Location: Zoom Abstract: This talk explores anticolonial memory and anticolonial archiving as entry points into broader questions of time, temporality and the politics of the present. Thinking with Egypt’s project of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, I focus on the varying ways in which anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what this might suggest about the future. I think through two forms of anticolonial memory: one fleeting and fragmented, the other institutionalised and material, and ask how these different forms of memory constitute different types of anticolonial archives. Both forms of memory and practices of archiving appear in the present, albeit in vastly differing ways. Through an exploration of these two forms, I think through both the urgency of the past and the present in Egypt, as well as the ways in which the crisis of the anticolonial past has structured the crisis of the postcolonial present. Dr. Sara Salem is an Assis...
  • Toward an Inclusive Maritime Heritage: Community Perceptions of Mediterranean Connectivity in Southe
    Events at Stanford - 18:31 Oct 21, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Join us via Zoom The long-term relationship between the sea, the coast, and the peoples connected across the Mediterranean defines the heritage of southeast Sicily. This presentation highlights three entangled case studies of maritime mobility in the local landscape, embodied by the boat: (1) the Marzamemi 2 "church wreck" as testimony to multivalent commercial and cultural networks in antiquity; (2) a historic fishing boat once used in the mattanza, the traditional community trapping and slaughter of bluefin tuna; and (3) an unnamed contemporary vessel, impounded as evidence of human trafficking between Libya and Italy. The juxtaposition of these vessels and their local reception alternatively as valorized heritage, vernacular tradition, or political debris, provide a framework to contextualize maritime archaeology within a broader dialog about long-term marine and coastal resource adaptation, seaborne interaction and migration, and cultural identities d...
  • An Evening with the Curator: Paper Chase at the Cantor Arts Center
    Events at Stanford - 15:29 Oct 20, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Virtual Event on Zoom Come hear curator Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell talk about the new exhibition Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs as the Cantor, featuring works by artists from around the world. This is a virtual event that will take place on Zoom. Please register for a free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-the-curator-paper-chase-at-the-cantor-arts-center-tickets-182146293467  If you need a disability-related accommodation like live captioning, please contact cantor_education@stanford.edu. Requests should be made at least one week in advance of the event date. Image: Martine Gutierrez (American, born in 1989), Masking, Green-Grape Mask, p51 from “Indigenous Woman”, from Masking Series, 2018. C-print mounted on Sintra. © Martine Gutierrez. Robert E. and Mary B. P. Gross Fund, 2019.144.5
  • Camera as Witness Presents the 24th UNAFF
    Events at Stanford - 15:28 Oct 20, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 29, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Encina Hall 616 Serra Street Camera as Witness Stanford Arts Program Presents the 24th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) Session 18 4:00 PM / FRENEMIES (Cuba/US, 86 min) 5:40 PM / COUP 53 (Iran, 119 min) 7:40 PM / Panel “From Havana to Tehran – Strained Relations” (FREE Admission) Session 19 9:00 PM / CARTERLAND (US, 122 min)
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  • Jews of Color with Gage Gorsky & Ilana Kaufman
    Events at Stanford - 15:27 Oct 20, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Rimon Lounge in the Hillel Building, 565 Mayfield Ave Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies and the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies at the Graduate School of Education invite you to a conversation about Jews and race with two leaders in the field. American Jews are diverse, representing a range of identities. Although American Jewish Organizations have spent considerable effort trying to understand American Jewish experiences, they have also consistently avoided questions about race and ethnicity, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of American Jews who might identify as "people of color." In 2020, the Jews of Color Initiative sought to rectify this situation by commissioning a national study of self-identified Jews of Color. The effort culminated in the publication of "Beyond the Count: Experiences and Perspectives of Jews of Color." Join Ilana Kaufman, the Executive Director of the Jews of Color Initiative, and Dr. Gage Gors...
  • The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity from Poetry to Mathematics
    Events at Stanford - 15:27 Oct 20, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 9:30 AM. Location: Zoom October 28, 2021 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)  Jean-Christophe Goddard (Philosophy, Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)  Moderator: Gabriel Catren (SPHERE—Science, Philosophie, Histoire, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS). *This event will be held in French  About the Collaborative Research Project: In the last century, major breakthroughs in our understanding of ‘identity’ have changed the way that we think about ourselves and the world around us. In the Humanities, fields such as Race and Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, History, and Literary Studies have taught us to think of who we are and how we identify ourselves from an intersectional, multicultural, and interspecies viewpoint. In contemporary Mathematics and Logic, the notion of identity has been the object of a radical reconceptualization, mainly developed in the framework of category theory and homotop...
  • Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program Opening Event
    Events at Stanford - 15:25 Oct 20, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Where In-person for Stanford affiliates, open to the public via Zoom Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law invites you to a special event on October 26 to celebrate the arrival of our third cohort of Ukrainian Emerging Leaders at Stanford – Yulia Bezvershenko, Denis Gutenko, and Nariman Ustaiev – who will join us for a conversation about their work and Ukraine's political development.  The three fellows were selected for their outstanding contributions to Ukraine's political, economic and social development. They have arrived at Stanford this September to start the fellowship program, which combines academic and project-based work. The event will be followed by a light outdoor reception. The Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program and this event are possible thanks to the generous support of our donors, which include: the Astem Foundation, Tomas Fiala, Victor and Iryna Ivanchyk, MacPaw, Omidyar Network, Parimatch, Slava Vakarchuk and We...
  • Reimagining Work Post COVID | Rethinking Gigs, Redefining Careers
    Events at Stanford - 15:52 Oct 19, 2021
    Date: Monday, October 25, 2021. 6:30 PM. Location: By zoom Everything from rides and food, to graphic design and copy editing can be accessed in near real time. Gig work is on the rise and is revolutionizing not just how we live, but how we work. How did the gig economy adapt through the pandemic? Might it provide a model to reimagine work post COVID? On Monday October 25, Professor Brian Lowery talks about the promise and perils of the  gig economy with Melissa Valentine, Professor at Stanford University and Samuel Bright, Chief Product and Experience Officer at Upwork. 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! 
  • Quarantine Sessions: A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation
    Events at Stanford - 15:51 Oct 19, 2021
    Date: Sunday, October 24, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: online | CCRMA Live The Coronavirus Crisis has changed our lives, and we are in the midst of a long period without concerts as we knew them. In addition to the problem of large audiences, the regulations also make it "virtually" impossible for musicians to get together, rehearse, or perform. However, many technologies and solutions are available, helping us to find new ways of collaborating and transporting our work to audiences. We have been programming, testing, and rehearsing in an online environment with artists in the US and Europe. The sessions are broadcast live with audio and video feeds from each site. | Livestreaming at CCRMA Live The Core performers Constantin Basica (Stanford, CA) Chris Chafe (Woodside, CA) Henrik von Coler (Berlin, DE) Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (San Carlos, CA) Juan Parra (Ghent, BE) Klaus Scheuermann (Berlin, DE)
  • COP26: Hopes, Expectations, Fears
    Events at Stanford - 00:03 Oct 19, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Online Event Please join the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment on Thursday, October 28, for a wide-ranging, informal conversation about the upcoming Glasgow Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Panelists: Catherine Coleman Flowers, Director of Environmental Justice and Civic Engagement, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary Rob Jackson, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University Cathy Luo, Co-director, Students for a Sustainable Stanford, Stanford University Moderated by: Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

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