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  • CBD 2021: Actionable Hope in a Time of Planetary Change, Nicole Ardoin, PhD
    Events at Stanford - 00:03 Oct 19, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 1, 2021. 12:30 PM. Location: Zoom Meeting As evidenced by the increasing severity of intense weather events, wildfires, and climate-related ecosystem shifts, among other wide-ranging challenges, our world is hurtling toward changes that are altering life as we know it. Yet, despite the bleak news on many fronts—including from the most-recent IPCC report— the hopeful side of this equation is that humans, individually and societally, are indeed capable of tremendous change. With this grounding and motivation, Professor Nicole Ardoin and her Social Ecology Lab at Stanford pursue theoretical and empirical work that considers questions such as: How and under what conditions do people come to see themselves as part of the (collective) solution to pressing environmental challenges? What is the interplay between hope and fear, optimism and pessimism in motivating individual and collective environmental behavior? Working in places as wide-ranging as redwood forests, the Galapagos Islands, and th...
  • Camera as Witness Presents the 24th UNAFF
    Events at Stanford - 16:55 Oct 18, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 3:30 PM. Location: Stanford Medical School Li Ka Shing Center bldg. room 130 and room 120 Camera as Witness Stanford Arts Program Presents the 24th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) Session 12 (LKSC room 130) 3:30 PM / GROUNDED (Canada, 7 min) 3:50 PM / FULL PICTURE (US, 12 min) 4:20 PM / THE PIANIST FROM RAMALLAH (Israel/Palestine, 60 min) Session 13 (LKSC room 120) 6:30 PM / THEY KEEP QUIET SO WE MAKE NOISE (Malaysia/US, 12 min) 7:00 PM / FATHER OF THE CYBORGS (Ireland/US, 76 min) 8:30 PM / MEDICINE MAN: THE STAN BROCK STORY (UK/US, 85 min)
  • Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Urban Alchemy: How Urbanists Can Save Us
    Events at Stanford - 16:45 Oct 18, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom We invite you to attend the Program on Urban Studies’ 15th Annual Model Scholar Lecture, Urban Alchemy: How Urbanists Can Save Us, with Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health at The New School. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore and identify ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart and the American urban design firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative as guides as well as urban restoration projects from France and the US as exemplary cases, Fullilove identifies nine tools that can mend our broken cities and reconnect our com...
  • Steinbeck's Wolves and Werewolves: A Conversation with Gavin Jones (HOWLoween 2021)
    Events at Stanford - 16:44 Oct 18, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom (register in advance at the event page) In this third event of HOWLoween 2021: Celebrating Wolf Awareness Week at Stanford Libraries on Oct. 18-22, Gavin Jones (English) will discuss the reception of Steinbeck’s unpublished werewolf novel and what the fascination with wolves tells us about American literature. For a complete schedule of events, visit the registration page HERE.
  • Drone-Cinema, Data Practices, and the Developing New Scope of IHL Jurisdiction
    Events at Stanford - 16:43 Oct 18, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 3:00 PM. Location: Virtual Only. This paper explores the role of cinematic representations of lawfare in shaping and disseminating the jurisdiction of humanitarian law (IHL) through advanced military technologies and data practices. Taking the 2015 British thriller ‘Eye in the Sky’ as an instance of a dominant representation of lawfare, I analyse how this representation strengthens and reaffirms misconceptions about IHL and the bureaucracy of killing. As a popular culture product – and one that is embraced by various IHL experts and organisations – ‘Eye in the Sky’ participates in the ethical, legal, and political debates about advanced military technologies, and establishes mundane data practices as a system of knowledge production through which IHL exercises its jurisdiction over facts, people, and spaces. In particular, the paper analyses how ‘Eye in the Sky’s representations of IHL’s data practices strengthen and reinforce a particular IHL narrative, which is consistent wi...
  • SIEPR Associates Meeting with Chris Waller, Federal Reserve Governor
    Events at Stanford - 16:51 Oct 14, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event Join SIEPR on October 19 at noon PT for an Associates Meeting with Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller on inflation. This event will be moderated by Monika Piazzesi, SIEPR Senior Fellow and the Joan Kenny Professor of Economics at Stanford. 
  • Liu Lecture: Debbie Millman, host of the "Design Matters" podcast
    Events at Stanford - 22:53 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Join us for a lecture and Q&A with Debbie Millman, host of the longest-running podcast on design and creativity, Design Matters, and President Emeritus of AIGA and chair and co-founder of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.   Bio:  Named “one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company” and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is an author, educator, strategist and host of the podcast Design Matters. Design Matters is the first and longest running podcast about design and Debbie has interviewed 300 design luminaries and cultural commentators. The show has over 5 million downloads per year, a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and iTunes designated it one of the best podcasts of 2015. Debbie’s visual essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Print and Fast Company. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Boston Biennale, Ch...
  • 2021 U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards: Justice and Equity in Clean Energy
    Events at Stanford - 22:53 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Ongoing from November 3, 2021 through November 4, 2021. See details for exact dates and times. Location: Virtual Event Clean energy, environmental justice, and social equity are at a critical juncture in the United States. All Americans should share in the benefits of the energy transition regardless of income, race, ethnicity, gender, and geographic location. These benefits include sustainable energy technologies, new job opportunities, healthier people, and a healthier planet. At this year’s tenth U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards, thought leaders will discuss the latest advances in the energy transition, this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), what lessons the United States can learn from other countries, and what U.S. successes are replicable in other countries, especially those with developing economies. Leadership Dialogue: Influencing from the top: How corporate leaders can advance social equity and environmental justice in the energy transition. Panel...
  • The Future of Motorcycles
    Events at Stanford - 22:47 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Zoom Join the US-Asia Technology Management Center for the sixth session in our 2021 Autumn Seminar Series, Mobility: Asia Moves Forward in the 4th Industrial Revolution. The shift of IT to the cloud and the growth of new tools such as AI and edge computing have already caused major advances in mobility; for example, smartphones now serve as platforms for banking, education, ride hailing, ID authentication, wellness monitoring, etc.  This series examines new technology-and-business solutions that may shape the future of mobility, e.g. smart city infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, intelligent prosthetics for physical mobility, autonomous delivery robots, new propulsion and navigation systems, new applications of mobile IT devices, and more. SPEAKER: Yo Matsuda, Deputy GM, R&D Division, Kawasaki Heavy Industries REGISTER below for the entire series.  The same link will be used for all sessions. Register in advance for this meeting: https://stanford.zoom....
  • Book Talk on Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
    Events at Stanford - 22:45 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual Seminar There is never a good time for a pandemic but Covid-19 may have hit at the worst possible moment. In the decade before the virus, China had grown more dictatorial and assertive; populist nationalists held power in the United States, India, and Brazil; geopolitical tensions heightened—not just between China and the United States but also within the west; and the very notion of an objective truth was increasingly called into question. In Aftershocks, Colin Kahl and Tom Wright draw on interviews with officials from around the world to document how the world responded, or failed to respond, to a global crisis in an age of rivalry and nationalism. They shed new light on China’s lack of cooperation with the international community, how the Trump administration failed to rally an international coalition to deal with the pandemic, how Covid-19 brought the EU close to collapse, the role of central banks in averting a financial crisis, and the impact o...
  • A Discussion with C.I.A. Director William Burns
    Events at Stanford - 22:43 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Bechtel Conference Center Encina Hall, First floor, Central, S150 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305 The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) is honored to host the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William J. Burns, for a discussion on the national security challenges and opportunities facing the United States, and his experiences and lessons learned during his career in the Foreign Service. FSI Director Michael McFaul will moderate the discussion and questions from the audience. Director Burns was officially sworn in as C.I.A. Director on March 19, 2021, making him the first career diplomat to serve as Director. Director Burns holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service—Career Ambassador—and is only the second serving career diplomat in history to become Deputy Secretary of State. Director Burns retired from the State Department U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 before becoming president of the Carnegie Endowment for I...
  • "Two L.A.S.E.R. talks: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content; Stories of interspecies encounter
    Events at Stanford - 22:43 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom This lunch-time event will feature 2 presentations: - Heather Barnett (live from London) on "Compostulations: stories of interspecies encounters (between art, science and ecology)" - Clare Stanton (live from Boston) on "Linkrot and Content Drift: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content" Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with living systems. She  is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science and Convenor of the Art & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and founding member of The Slime Mould Collective (http://slimoco.ning.com/). She works with natural phenomena and emergent systems. Employing live organisms, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies, her work explores how we observe, influence and understand multi-species ecosystems. Clare Stanton is in charge of Communications & Outreach at Harvard's Library Innovat...
  • Ecuador During the Pandemic: New Government & Polarization: New government & Polarization
    Events at Stanford - 22:43 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 22, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Soon Abstract: Ecuador’s navigation of the covid-19 pandemic coincided with general elections that resulted in a new government. After three months, the Lasso administration struggles to pass a much needed economic reform to reactivate the dollarized economy, in negotiations with a legislature that reflects the traditionally fractionalized nature of the party system. Speaker Biography: Carolina Curvale holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University, where she also earned a master´s degree. She received her baccalaureate from San Andres University in Argentina. Her main research areas are political institutions and political economy, with a regional focus in Latin America. Her research has been published by Oxford University Press and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, among others. Livestream link to be posted soon
  • Google Earth Engine 101: An Introduction for Absolute Beginners
    Events at Stanford - 19:48 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 15, 2021. 9:00 AM. Location: Zoom Workshop Google Earth Engine 101: Introduction to Earth Engine for beginners Meet Earth Engine Google Earth Engine is a geospatial processing service. With Earth Engine, you can perform geospatial processing at scale, powered by Google Cloud Platform. The purpose of Earth Engine is to: Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. Presenter: Stace Maples - Stanford Geospatial Center Description: The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward people who would like to analyze satellite and vector data. The session will be hands-on, using the Earth Engine Javascript code editor. Prerequisites...
  • Carillon Serenades - In Celebration of Hoover Tower in its 80th Year
    Events at Stanford - 19:46 Oct 13, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021. 4:45 PM. Location: Hoover Tower For the 2021–2022 year, listen for the carillon as the bells ring in celebration of Hoover Tower’s 80th year and in the spirit of welcoming the Stanford community back to campus. The carillon serenades will be played by Stanford carillonneur Timothy Zerlang.  Current Schedule 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm on the second Thursday of the month October 14 November 11 December 9 About Hoover Tower Commissioned by Herbert Hoover and commemorated on June 20, 1941, the Tower was built to house rare library and archival materials held by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Serving as a “North Star” for the Stanford campus, the Tower also serves as a gathering space, where visitors can visit the gallery spaces that feature special collections from Hoover’s collections. Located on the 14th floor, is the carillon—a gift from the Belgian-American Education Foundation—which symbolizes an overall purpose to promote peace and personal freedom and to foster ideas th...
  • Quarantine Sessions: A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation
    Events at Stanford - 21:47 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Sunday, October 17, 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)
  • Soviet Illustrated Periodicals as Data
    Events at Stanford - 21:47 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom This talk will survey a collaborative, interinstitutional digital humanities project: “The Pages of Early Soviet Performance.” Given the complexities of early Soviet journals’ graphic environments (including twenty-six distinct titles and over a hundred thousand articles, poems, editorial commentaries, advertisements, theater listings as well as images representing a variety of genres and media), extracting data from this source material presents an enormous set of challenges. Our process and application of machine learning seeks to highlight the informative patterns that might be obscured in the simple process of manual or habitual reading, including issues’ editorial design to the larger-still structures of journal titles as complete entities. Through the abstraction of journal elements as data, we might produce representations that will make not only the journals’ contents, but also those big picture structures available to distant reading and analy...
  • Sexual Archives, Law, and the Politics of Shame
    Events at Stanford - 21:45 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 15, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Online Featuring: Jennifer Tyburczy and Joshua Chambers-Letson What happens when technology, sex, privilege, shame, and jurisprudence collide? This panel discussion will focus on the intersection of the law, sexual citizenship and archival memory, and the politics of dignity will feature an intimate conversation between scholar and archivist Jennifer Tyburczy, author of Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, and writer and performance theorist, Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life. With the increased visibility of "sex" as content creation on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram and the recent media debacle between Onlyfans and sex workers, questions about political correctness, body politics, and sexual legacies and shame errupt.  This panel will specifically address the ways in which sex and the law meet dignity and possibility for marginalized communities and everyday sexual cit...
  • The Wolf of Gubbio in Latin America From Ruben Darío to Serú Girán (HOWLoween 2021)
    Events at Stanford - 21:44 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 22, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom (register in advance at the event page) In this fifth and final event of HOWLoween 2021: Celebrating Wolf Awareness Week at Stanford Libraries on Oct. 18-22, Ximena Briceño (Iberian and Latin American Cultures) will discuss the retelling of the story of Francis’ wolf from the Fioretti in Latin American literature. For a complete schedule of events, visit the registration page HERE.
  • Halloween Concert: Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Wind Symphony
    Events at Stanford - 21:44 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 29, 2021. 7:30 PM. Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium The annual Halloween Concert by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and the Stanford Wind Symphony will include everything from chills to thrills, ending with the annual Costume Competition and a lucky winner serving as guest conductor for the encore.  Program I. Stanford Symphony Orchestra Paul Phillips, conductor Pirates of the Caribbean – Klaus Badelt Seven O'Clock Shout – Valerie Coleman Theme from Jurassic Park – John Williams Pines of Rome: IV. The Pines of the Appian Way – Ottorino Respighi II. Stanford Wind Symphony Russell Gavin, conductor Moth – Viet Cuong Selections from West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein Suite from Star Trek – Michael Giacchino ADMISSION INFORMATION Please read our COVID-19 safety information and the current Stanford Ticket Office policies before purchasing tickets. ADVANCE TICKETS: General $18 | Senior (65+) $13 | Non-Stanford Student $13 DAY-OF TICKETS: General $23 | Senior (65+) $18 | Non-Stanford Students $...

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