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  • Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations
    Events at Stanford - 16:59 Sep 30, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/38ME0m3 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. Co-sponsored by the Stanford Center at Peking University. In honor of its release, contributors Mary Bullock, Thomas Fingar, and David M. Lampton will join editor Anne Thurston for a panel discussion of their volume Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations (Columbia University Press, 2021). Recent years have seen the U.S.-China relationship rapidly deteriorate. Engaging China brings together leading China specialists—ranging from academics to NGO leaders to former government officials—to analyze the past, present, and future of U.S.-China relations. Bullock, Fingar, Lampton, and Thurston will reflect upon the complex and multifaceted nature of American engagement with China since the waning days of Mao’s rule. What initially mo...
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  • System Error, Live! With Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein
    Events at Stanford - 16:11 Sep 30, 2021
    Date: Monday, October 11, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Outdoors at Encina Hall (Bechtel Courtyard) Join Profs. Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein — the authors of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot — for a discussion hosted by Professor Michael McFaul, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and moderated by Julie Owono, Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders) and inaugural member of the Facebook Oversight Board. The operating system of Big Tech is broken, and this panel discussion will explore the path to a reboot. Plus, it will also allow you experience Professor Sahami’s famous tradition of throwing candy into the audience! A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors — experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades — System Error reveals how Big Tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and demands that we change course t...
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  • Dropkick Murphys and Rancid
    Events at Stanford - 16:09 Sep 30, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021. 06:00 PM. Location: Frost Amphitheater Known for their energetic shows, the American Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys makes a tour stop at Frost where the band will share the stage with the Berkeley-formed punk rock group Rancid. Dropkick Murphys released their tenth studio album, Turn Up That Dial, in spring 2021.
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  • Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani @ ETL
    Events at Stanford - 16:08 Sep 30, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Online Only Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, as well as the author of the forthcoming book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think). Saujani has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently advocating for policies to support moms impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect, and her influential TED talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has more than five million views globally. Saujani began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer. In 2010, she became the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. This appearance by Reshma Saujani is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Join us virtually at youtube.com/ecorner as we bring founders, investors and indu...
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  • Wooden Fish Ensemble
    Events at Stanford - 22:23 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Sunday, October 17, 2021. 2:30 PM. Location: Campbell Recital Hall and Livestreaming Online The Wooden Fish Ensemble is comprised of  Thomas Schultz, piano (Stanford piano faculty); Terrie Baune, violin; Ilana Blumberg, violin; and Hwayoung Shon, kayageum. Program: music by Bach-Busoni, Rzewski, Satie, Na, and Pärt, as well as Korean traditional music. This live performance in Campbell Recital Hall is open to the public and will also be livestreaming on the Department of Music website. Admission Info Free admission Please read our COVID-19 Safety information.
  • Engaging Gita: A Renaissance Indonesian Reviews His Country and the World
    Events at Stanford - 17:27 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: https://bit.ly/3z7hM9b Interview Gita Wirjawan, Indonesian businessman, philanthropist, educationist, musician, former minister of trade, badminton advocate, and popular talk-show host
  • Rap, Law and Critical Race Theory
    Events at Stanford - 17:14 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 8, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Online Featuring: Andrea Dennis, Erik Nielson, and A.D. Carson Moderated by: Nomi Dave This panel discussion focusing on the connections between rap, the law, and Critical Race Theory will feature co-authors of Rap on Trial Andrea L. Dennis and Erik Nielson, and artist and scholar A.D. Carson. With the increased visibility of demands for change in U.S. policing and carceral systems as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement among other activists, questions over the impact of the U.S. legal system on Black and Brown communities and individuals have also fostered both increased interest in Critical Race Theory, and reactionary backlash against it. Moderated by Director of The University of Virginia's Sound Justice Lab, Nomi Dave, this panel will specifically address the ways in which race and the law meet at the intersection of rap music.
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  • Last Gasp WFH with Split Britches
    Events at Stanford - 15:55 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021. 4:30 PM. Location: Zoom Last Gasp WFH Screeninig + Talkback Featuring iconic queer theatre company Split Britches OCT 6: 5-6:30 pm Screening in Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460), 4th Floor Terrace Room, plus remote viewing option OCT 7: 4:30-6 pm Virtual Talkback Register by OCT 4th at https://tinyurl.com/splitbritches Founded in New York in 1980 with Deb Margolin, Split Britches continues with the duo and solo work of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw which spans satirical, gender-bending performance, methods for public engagement, videography, digital and print media, explorations of ageing and wellbeing, and iconic lesbian-feminist theatre. Split Britches’ collection of scripts, Split Britches Feminist Performance/Lesbian Practice, edited by Sue Ellen Case, won the 1997 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. In 2012, Split Britches was presented with the Edwin Booth Award by City University of New York in honor of their outstanding contribution to the New York City/American Theater and...
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  • Another Look presents Dorothy Strachey's 1949 novel “Olivia” on October 13!
    Events at Stanford - 15:54 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom Please join Stanford’s Robert Pogue Harrison, Maria Florence Massucco, and Tobias Wolff, for an Another Look webinar discussion of Dorothy Strachey’s 1949 novel, Olivia.The event will take place 5:00-6:30 p.m. (PST) on Wednesday, October 13. This will be a virtual event. Stanford’s Prof. Robert Harrison, an acclaimed author and director of Another Look, will lead the discussion, joined by the eminent novelist Tobias Wolff, founding director of Another Look and a National Medal of Arts winner. Massucco, a PhD candidate in Italian Studies who specializes in the 20th century novel, will round out the panel. André Gide called Olivia“a little masterpiece,” and we think you’ll agree. The story traces the intense emotional currents among the girls and teachers in a finishing school outside Paris. Olivia, a 16-year-old English girl, finds herself falling under the spell of the charismatic Mademoiselle Julie, a founder of the school.The Times (London) praised ...
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  • Do Whales Judge Us: Interspecies History and Ethics
    Events at Stanford - 15:52 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Bowhead whales have been known to three groups along the Bering Strait over the past two centuries: Indigenous Yupik and Inupiaq whalers, capitalist commercial whalers, and communist industrial whalers. Each imagined different normative relationships with whales, tied to visions of time, history, and the future. This talk explores how those ideas shaped interactions between human hunters and whales, and what we can discern of whales' own adaptations and— perhaps—ethical responses to their pursuers.  Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her prize winning first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton) was named a Nature Top Ten Book of 2019 and Best Book of 2019 by NPR, Library Journal and others. Demuth holds a BA and MA from Brown University, and an MA and PhD f...
  • Clayman Conversations-Silenced: How America's Love Affair with the NDA Protects Workplace Predators
    Events at Stanford - 15:51 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021. 04:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar Non-disclosure agreements are a powerful tool to silence survivors of sexual harassment and to uphold racist and sexist hierarchies in many workplaces. The rise of #MeToo revealed the central role NDAs have had in maintaining codes of silence. Straying from the original function to protect trade secrets, NDAs are now often used to shield powerful men from accountability. In this Clayman Conversations event, speakers will discuss the gender and racial dimensions of NDAs. How are NDAs used across sectors and organizations? How are activists mobilizing for state and federal legislation to address the perniciousness of NDAs? What are the opportunities and challenges in eliminating the systematic harms caused by NDAs? Speakers: Gretchen Carlson is a journalist, podcaster, author, and empowerment advocate. She co-founded the non-profit Lift Our Voices to eradicate forced arbitration and NDAs. Julie Roginsky is the Co-founder of Lift Our Voices. She...
  • "Unknown Past" Seminar with Hanan Hammad
    Events at Stanford - 15:50 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 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 26th: Hanan Hammad, Professor of Middle East Studies at Texas Christian University, will discuss her book Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of 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 ...
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  • Massive adoption: VC perspectives into Asia opportunities in Mobility Applications
    Events at Stanford - 15:49 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Zoom Join the US-Asia Technology Management Center for the fifth session in our 2021 Autumn Seminar Series, Mobility: Asia Moves Forward in the 4th Industrial Revolution. SPEAKER: Ms. Madhu Shalini Iyer, Partner, rocketship.vc Join our guest speaker, Ms. Madhu Shalini Iyer, as she shares her perspectives into Asia mobility and the recent investing trends in Asia mobility opportunities by the world-wide VC community. This talk will cover the history of the first wave of successful mobility app startups in Asia from delivery and ride-sharing to EdTech, tele-health and e-commerce.  We’ll examine why U.S. startups in this space were not more successful in the Asia market. Recognizing that a second wave of mobility apps that are targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities is underway, this talk will evaluate differences from the first wave and examine the future-focused questions of:   Where will these opportunities lead?  Will we see successful Asian companies expanding...
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  • Virtual Exhibit Tour: Gender and the Origins of Stanford's Anthropological Collection
    Events at Stanford - 15:48 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 22, 2021. 03:15 PM. Location: ONLINE ZOOM WEBINAR Virtual Exhibit Tour: Women in the World: Gender and the Origins of Stanford’s Anthropological Collections ONLINE via ZOOM for REUNION/HOMECOMING - but ALL WELCOME! Curators will guide you through Stanford University Archaeology Collections' (https://suac.stanford.edu/) new online exhibit, which explores for the first time how women have shaped the university’s anthropological collections since the 1880s. Learn how these women navigated changing expectations around gender, race, and opportunity through their pursuit of world travel, interest in global cultures, and donations to Stanford’s collections. The exhibt features several Stanford alums and faculty.   --- WEBINAR LINK --- 3:00 PM: Zoom Webinar Waiting Room opens 3:15: Curator talks, Christina J. Hodge and students followed by moderated Q&A until 4:15  
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  • China Tackles Climate Change
    Events at Stanford - 15:47 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/2XtnSDE 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. In September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.  This climate pledge is widely considered the most ambitious of all made to date, especially since the world’s largest carbon-emitting nation is still at a developing stage and has not yet achieved its emissions peak.  With the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the horizon, the world is eager to learn about any potential new pledges from the Chinese leadership.  This talk will provide an overview of climate governance under President Xi Jinping and draw on the presenter’s work on local implementation of air pollution policies in China to discuss potential lessons for its ongoing efforts to curb carbon emissions. Shira...
  • Film screening: There Is No Evil
    Events at Stanford - 15:46 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 29, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom webinar RSVP to receive the Zoom link for the October 29 dicussion with the film's director, Mohammad Rasoulof.  The film will be made available October 26-28 and the link will be emailed to registrants ahead of time.  About the film: Filmed in secret and banned in its home country, Mohammad Rasoulof’s Golden Bear-winning film is an anthology of four short stories, each focused on a person affected by the capital punishment system in a country that commits more executions per capita than anywhere else on Earth. About the director: Mohammad Rasoulof was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1972. He is an independent director, writer, and producer. He studied sociology. Rasoulof started his filmmaking with documentaries and short films. For his first film Gagooman (The Twilight, 2002) Rasoulof won the prize for the best film at the Fajr Film Festival in Iran. After his second film Jazireh Ahani (Iron Island, 2005) he began to have problems with the censorship system i...
  • Facing Code Red: Climate Change in Southeast Asia
    Events at Stanford - 15:46 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: https://bit.ly/3ulj9jV Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and the Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Melissa Low, Research Fellow, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore Viewed alongside other world regions, Southeast Asia is uniquely vulnerable to major damage by global warming. Its coastlines are lengthy and subject to searise. Its urban centers of economic and political gravity are mainly riverine or deltaic. Its agriculture requires optimal levels and rhythms of waterflow, as do its polluted main veins, the Mekong and the Irrawaddy.  In already tropical conditions, heatwaves are especially enervating.  Nor has the region escaped extreme weather events.  The ten most afflicted countries worldwide in that regard include Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.  With this background in mind, Angel Hsu and Melissa Low, two scholars with deep regional and policy knowledg...
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  • Alone in the Ring: A Research-Based Theatre Production About Disability Inclusion In Healthcare
    Events at Stanford - 15:45 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Live virtual event on Zoom Led by Dr. Tal Jarus and her interdisciplinary research team from the University of British Columbia, Alone in the Ring aims to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in the health and human service professions and education by highlighting the barriers that students and clinicians with disabilities in health and human service professions experience. In bringing Alone in the Ring to campus during the Annual Stanford School of Medicine Diversity Week and National Disability Employment Awareness Month, SMAC and Stanford Medicine and the Muse hope to continue the discussion on how to spark and sustain change towards inclusive workspaces. Alone in the Ring is followed by a discussion between the team and audience members. During the presentation, audience members are encouraged to reflect: How inclusive is your workspace? How could you make it more accessible? For more Disability Advocacy-related information, Join the SMAC listserv...
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  • “I Say It Burns”: Poet/post-rock musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski in Conversation with Cynthia Haven
    Events at Stanford - 15:37 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 8, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is fast becoming one of the most vital poetic voices from today’s Poland, with six volumes of acclaimed poetry and translated editions on the way. He is also celebrated as a musician: his internationally known post-rock band Trupa Trupa has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.   Kwiatkowski’s minimalist poems explore not only conflicted pasts of Eastern Europe – for example, the Nazi “Aktion T4” euthanasia program – but also the paradoxes of contemporary genocides. As he said, “I’m intrigued by the combination of ethics and aesthetics in one person, one life, one story.” His poems have been perceived as quasi-testimonies, provocative and lyrical utterances delivered by the dead.   “My grandfather was a prisoner in Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp east of what used to be the Free City of Danzig. Later he was forced to become a Wehrmacht soldier,” Kwiatkowski said. “I’m intrigued by the combination of ...
  • Myanmar Back into Darkness: 2021 Shorenstein Journalism Award Honors Swe Win
    Events at Stanford - 15:34 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar The military coup in February 2021 put an abrupt end to hopes of democracy and liberty in Myanmar. With every form of free speech now brutally suppressed, one of the major victims of the coup has been the independent press. Newsrooms were raided and dozens of journalists have been arrested. Several publications, including Myanmar Now, had their operating licenses revoked and their websites blocked. Most of the staff of the outlets targets by the junta were forced to flee to territories along the country's border areas controlled by ethnic armed organizations. From there, they continue their professional work despite the threats to their lives and logistical difficulties. Swe Win is a Burmese journalist, human rights defender, and the chief editor of Yangon-based news outlet Myanmar Now. He has survived an assassination attempt and detention by his own government. Now he leads Myanmar Now from exile and his newsroom is in hiding.  Join APARC ...

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