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  • Image and words in the films and stories of Ebrahim Golestan
    Events at Stanford - 21:43 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 22, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom webinar Ameneh Yousefi was born in Hamedan city in Iran.  She received her Doctoral in Persian Literature from the University of Karaj.  She has done several auditorial, visual and animated projects as an author for Local National Broadcasting.  She currently teaches Persian Literature in Ganjname University in Hamedan City and is researching the representation of intellectual figures in ten contemporary Persian novels.  Her talk will cover the inter-textual relations between words and images in Golestan’s films and fiction. Event is in Persian.  If you need a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact us at iranianstudies@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by October 13, 2021.
  • A Conversation with Obi Felten, founder and CEO of Flourish Labs
    Events at Stanford - 21:42 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: In-person for Stanford affiliates, open to the public via Zoom Shooting for the Moon, embracing failure, learning fast: How to build a culture of innovation in any organization A Conversation with Obi Felten, founder and CEO of Flourish Labs With Additional Remarks by 66th US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Moderated by Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli Named in honor of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Condoleezza Rice “Women Who Inspire” Lecture Series seeks to highlight how women are reshaping the world, confronting global challenges, and blazing trails across all walks of life that improve the human condition.
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  • Speaker Series with Penny Goldberg: A conversation on supply chain disruptions from COVID-19
    Events at Stanford - 21:42 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar - RSVP Required On Tuesday, November 2, the Stanford King Center on Global Development will host a Speaker Series with Penny Goldberg, Elihu Professor of Economics, Yale University. Goldberg will discuss supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, including issues related to vaccine distribution. The discussion will be moderated by Pete Klenow, Landau Professor in Economic Policy, Stanford University.  The Series features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers with the goal of fostering discussions about successes and challenges in the field of poverty alleviation.
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  • Brown Institute for Media Innovation Showcase
    Events at Stanford - 21:33 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: https://ohyay.co/s/2021-showcase Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the 2021 Magic Grant Showcase, highlighting projects from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation! Join us for a virtual reception starting at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT) on October 14, 2021 to be held in a special space hosted by ohyay.co and designed by the Brown Institute. The event features a unique mix of journalists and technologists, all funded through the 2020-21 Magic Grant program. The projects this year are incredibly strong. One team has built an audio storytelling platform that uses geolocation to connect participants to stories of people, places, and things that they walk by. Another has assembled a repository of email chains from officials in local and state governments, capturing how they addressed the COVID-19 pandemic — this database has led to almost 100 publications. One Magic Grant has built high-level abstractions for understanding and describing s...
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  • Negotiating Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico
    Events at Stanford - 16:49 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 15, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: Livestream link her Title: “Me gustaría que este libro no existiera”: Negotiating Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico Book Presentation Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Samuelson will explore some conceptual and artistic responses to the spectaclization, commercialization and politicization of violence in Mexico since 2006. Works such as Cristina Rivera Garza’s essays and fiction, Balam Rodrigo’s Libro centroamericano de los muertos, and Sara Uribe’s Antígona González offer alternative modes of engagement with the most difficult of contemporary realities. Thinking alongside these works can help us understand how writers are attempting to respond both ethically and aesthetically to the horror, grief and impunity occasioned by the ongoing narco-war in Mexico, as well as offering the opportunity to think through larger questions about the role of contemporary literature in the context of atrocity. Biography: Dr. Cheyla Samuelson writes on the na...
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  • When Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon
    Events at Stanford - 16:23 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Please join the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics on Tuesday, October 19th at 10am PDT for a presentation entitled, “When Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon,” featuring Dr. Joshua Mezrich, a Professor of Organ Transplantation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
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  • Reimagining Work Post COVID | Worker Power
    Events at Stanford - 16:15 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Monday, October 18, 2021. 6:30 PM. Location: By zoom Professor Brian Lowery explores workers’ rights and protections in the post-COVID and automation age with Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, and Mary Kay Henry, International President of the Service Employees International Union. 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 the series here!
  • The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: Pandemic Responses in Bangladesh and Beyond
    Events at Stanford - 16:02 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: https://bit.ly/3ulFdLi Professor Mobarak will discuss his research on COVID-19 response in Bangladesh and beyond, including masking, vaccine equity, and appropriate pandemic response policies in low and middle income countries. He will provide an overview of the coauthored MaskNorm study, a randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 that demonstrates a scalable and effective method to promote mask adoption and reduce symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. He will also discuss efficient last-mile vaccine delivery in low-income countries and related research on the lower epidemiological and welfare value of social distancing in lower-income countries.
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  • Global 1968, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of the Iranian Revolution
    Events at Stanford - 16:00 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 15, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom webinar This talk reconstructs rumors and demonstrations in 1968 around the death of Gholamreza Takhti, Iran's beloved gold-winning wrestling champion, recentering them in the history of the 1979 revolution and the global 1960s. The account of the demonstrations provided here explains a mobilization tactic used to great effect in the lead up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution: the staging of protests on the fortieth day of mourning. Locating this tactic in 1968, at a moment of global protest, and before ideological disputes between leftists and Islamists congealed in Iran, casts a spotlight on the indeterminate quality of the revolution as a lived event. The authors argue that discussions of “global 1968,” and approaches to global history more broadly construed, must account both for the local specificity and the global echoes signaled by events like the Takhti demonstrations. Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History a...
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  • "A fireside chat on Covid-19 and the Virusphere"
    Events at Stanford - 16:00 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. 6:00 PM. Location: Zoom Description: This evening will be a special LASER, a fireside chat with Stanford virologist Catherine Blish on Covid-19 and the Virusphere. Register here:  https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4mh9Hg4pSkO_hho6XM0pBA Catherine Blish is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and an Assistant Director of the Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program. Her clinical focus is on infectious diseases. She received her PhD in Immunology from the University of Washington School of Medicine, where she then pursued a fellowship in Infectious Disease, with a research focus on immune correlates of HIV-1 infection. Her current research aims to understand the successes and failures of the immune system in order to better harness it to prevent infections. Her lab is perhaps best known for redefining our understanding of the diversity of human natural killer cells, a critical first line of defense against vi...
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  • Lunchtime Music at MemChu
    Events at Stanford - 15:59 Oct 12, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. 12:15 PM. Location: Stanford Memorial Church Enjoy a musical performance by Dr. Robert Huw Morgan, University Organist, in the peaceful ambiance of Memorial Church. Free and open to all. Attendees must comply with the following health & safety measures: Be vaccinated or have a negative COVID test within 72 hours of event Register upon arrival. Off-campus guests must also complete the Stanford Visitor: COVID-19 Health Attestation on the same day Wear a face covering while inside Memorial Church. Social Distancing is encouraged
  • Security & Illegality in Cuba's Transition to Democracy:Violence in the Hispanic & Lusophone Worlds
    Events at Stanford - 15:32 Oct 07, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 8, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Book Presentation Abstract: As in many non-democratic regimes, widespread illegality coexists alongside relatively good security in Cuba. Economic and political liberalization are highly desirable, and can entail significant benefits for the population. However, the process is not without danger. This book examines Cuba’s present security conditions and forecasts the effects liberalization could have on the people of Cuba. Biography: Vidal Romero is professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Romero Co-Directs ITAM’s Center for the Study of Security, Intelligence and Governance. He is visiting fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was Tinker visiting professor at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. His current research focuses on the determinants of (democratic) order, and on the conditions under which...
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  • A Conversation with Marcene Mitchelle
    Events at Stanford - 23:41 Oct 06, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Online Event Please join the Woods Institute for a conversation with Marcene Mitchell, senior vice president of Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund and Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Marcene Mitchell is the senior vice president of Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Marcene is advancing WWF's important climate agenda in the US and globally and building greater synergies across WWF's climate change mitigation and resilience initiatives—with a particular focus on nature-based climate solutions. Marcene’s role is crosscutting because addressing the climate crisis cuts across all aspects of work at WWF. Marcene previously served as the Global Head of Climate Strategy and Business Development at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. In this role at IFC and in previous positions, Ms. Mitchell’s expertise has been on creating new markets for business t...
  • “Code Red for Humanity”: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change – Process, Results, and
    Events at Stanford - 21:26 Oct 05, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual Seminar The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded in 1988 to provide scientific background for the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, it has released six major assessment reports. The Sixth Assessment, released in August 2021, prompted the UN Secretary-General to call it a “code red for humanity.” As one of 234 Lead Authors of the IPCC Sixth Assessment’s physical science report, I will present some of its main conclusions. We’ll dive below the level of headline statements to examine some major scientific innovations since the last IPCC report in 2013. I’ll talk about my personal experience of the 3-year assessment process, including the most intensive peer review in the history of science; here I will also talk about the significance and the future of peer review in general. Finally, I’ll showcase some tools this new report provides for policy analysis at the regional scale, and discuss its implications...
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  • "Street Sounds" Seminar with Ziad Fahmy
    Events at Stanford - 21:25 Oct 05, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 12, 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. Tuesday, October 12th: Ziad Fahmy, Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University, will discuss his book Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Course description: What is Arab Studies? Who are Arabs? Where do they live? How can we better understand this area and its people? This class offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to engage with Arab Studies through a series of public lectures, screenings, and discussions. One key theme of our course this year is Arab Cities and Urban life. After a quick introduction to the region in the first week, we quickly move to crucial historical junctures in worl...
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  • Regional Effects of the Taliban Takeover
    Events at Stanford - 15:49 Oct 05, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: via Zoom webinar The Taliban’s shock takeover of Kabul in August 2021 has implications for South Asia far beyond Afghanistan’s borders. The Taliban does not have transnational political ambitions, but it is closely tied to the Pakistan security establishment, and its victory will resonate among other networks of terrorists. This webinar will explore the regional geopolitical consequences of the Taliban takeover. It will examine the Taliban victory’s impact on Pakistan’s regional strategy, on security in disputed Kashmir, on the role of China in the region, and on the trajectory of Islamist groups across the region. Speakers: - Javid Ahmad, Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council and was, until recently, Afghanistan's ambassador to the UAE - C. Christine Fair, Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service - Avinash Paliwal, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Deputy Director of ...
  • Master of Liberal Arts Information Session
    Events at Stanford - 21:09 Oct 04, 2021
    Date: Monday, October 11, 2021. 6:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar Join us for a virtual info session! Information sessions offer an opportunity to learn more about the Master of Liberal Arts. MLA faculty and students will discuss the program and the application process, and answer your questions https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp.
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  • CBD 2021: Valuing Nature in Personal Practice and Societal Transformation with Gretchen C. Daily
    Events at Stanford - 21:06 Oct 04, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 7:00 PM. Location: Zoom An awakening is underway, to the values of nature and the risks and devastating costs of its loss. Stanford Professor Gretchen Daily will describe new science to quantify nature’s benefits to people and integrate them into decision-making – in planning, policy, finance, and practice. Gretchen will relate the arc of advances in science, in understanding nature’s contributions to a range of benefits from crop pollination and coastal climate resilience to mental health in cities. Through stories, she’ll describe the innovation in actionable tools, engagement, and demonstrations, and a strategy for scaling models of success across diverse cultures, sectors, countries, and global institutions. She will focus especially on China and Latin America, places that stand out today for innovation at scale, illuminating pathways toward green, inclusive development. Gretchen Daily is Bing Professor of Environmental Science and co-founder and faculty director of the N...
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  • SIEPR Associates Meeting with Lisa Cook
    Events at Stanford - 16:43 Oct 04, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021. 3:00 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event Join SIEPR on October 7 at 3pm PT for an Associates Meeting with Lisa Cook, Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University. Dr. Cook is currently serving as the Deputy Team Lead for the Federal Reserve, Banking, and Securities Regulators Agency Review Team on the Biden-Harris Transition team.
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  • What's Right For You? 2-Part Virtual Advance Care Planning Workshop- Open to all
    Events at Stanford - 15:55 Oct 01, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom "Advance care planning" is the term to describe the conversations and processes involved in making what is more commonly known as a "living will" or "advance health care directive."  In this workshop format, we'll talk about what's right for you and those close to you.  Whether you are a person living with a serious illness, a caregiver of a loved one, or the healthiest you have ever been, having some form of a care plan in the event you are unable to speak for yourself, is important for providing you and your family with the comfort and confidence knowing that your wishes will be honored no matter what happens.  Come learn about the questions you should be asking yourself, your doctors, and your loved ones.  You may even leave with an advance care plan completed. October 5th, 12-1pm, Part I: We will define and describe advance health care planning and provide a 4-step plan to help you get jump started on thinking about the questions you should be consi...

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