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  • Managing the Changing Risk and Health Burden of Wildfire Smoke in the US with Sam Heft-Neal
    Events at Stanford - 15:33 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Wildfire smoke is rapidly becoming a regional air pollution issue threatening decades of air quality improvement. Meanwhile, the health impacts from exposure to wildfire smoke are increasingly understood to be widespread but to exhibit different patterns of exposure than other pollution sources in the United States. In light of these considerations, this talk will address the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the United States as well as the implications for air quality management. 
  • "Three L.A.S.E.R. talks: Diegetic Prototypes, Neuroprosthesis and Brain organoids"
    Events at Stanford - 15:30 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021. 6:00 PM. Location: Zoom This evening will feature three presentations: - David Kirby (Cal Poly) on "The Nature of Diegetic Prototypes and their Social Impact" - Liu,  Moses & Metzger (UC San Francisco) on Speech Neuroprosthesis - Alysson Muotri (UC San Diego) on "Applications of human brain organoids" The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, are an international program of evening gatherings that bring together artists, scientists, inventors and scholars in a variety of disciplines for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. Detailed info at: www.lasertalks.com David A. Kirby is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts and Director of the Science Technology & Society Program at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. His research examines how movies, television, and computer games act as vehicles of scientific communication. He explored the collaboration between scientists and th...
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  • Energy Seminar: Building a Climate-Resilient Energy Network for CA - Carla J. Peterman, PG&E
    Events at Stanford - 15:26 Sep 29, 2021
    Date: Monday, October 18, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TKw3HiXQDGs0chBLqh2Kg As California continues to experience the impacts of climate change, utilities are taking action to build a more climate-resilient energy network. Utilities in California face an increasing amount of risk due to extreme weather events driven by climate change including heat waves, more frequent and extreme storms and wildfires, drought, subsidence, and rising sea levels. PG&E is the largest electric and gas utility in the nation, serving 16 million customers. Drought effects 100% of the PG&E service territory and the region is experiencing higher temperatures, increased wildfire risk, and a longer wildfire season. In less than a decade, the percentage of PG&E’s service area in a High Fire Threat District grew from 15 percent to over 50 percent.  Today, nearly one-third of the electric lines that serve PG&E’s customers are now in High Fire-Threat Districts. Adapting to the changing ...
  • Sam McDonald: Beloved Stanford Friend, Role Model, and Benefactor
    Events at Stanford - 19:52 Sep 28, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 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. The legendary Emanuel B. “Sam” McDonald (1884–1957), a grandson of formerly enslaved persons, joined the Stanford Farm in 1903 as a teamster hauling gravel. Through hard work and abundant leadership and interpersonal skills, he was hired in 1908 as custodian—later superintendent—of the university’s athletic buildings and grounds. During 46 years at the helm, he gained special recognition for his skill building running tracks. Sam befriended countless athletes and other students during his long career, financially helping many who were working their way through Stanford. Probably no other Stanford man had as many friends, a Stanford Daily writer opined in 1943. Presiding at the 1941 dedication o...
  • Lunchtime Book Talk with Lila Corwin-Berman - The American-Jewish Philanthropic Complex
    Events at Stanford - 17:58 Sep 27, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: CCSRE Conference Room, Building 360 1st Floor The Taube Center for Jewish Studies invites you to a lunchtime book talk with Professor Lila Corwin-Berman of Temple University on her new book, The American Jewish-Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution. Individually-packaged lunches will be served.
  • "The Politics of Art" Seminar with Hanan Toukan
    Events at Stanford - 17:57 Sep 27, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 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 5th: Hanan Toukan, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College Berlin, will discuss her book The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan 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 his...
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  • Campus Conversations: The New Academic Year
    Events at Stanford - 17:47 Sep 27, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. 2:00 PM. Location: Livestream Please join President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell for a conversation with the Stanford community. The President and Provost will share highlights of planning for the new academic year, including activities to rebuild our community and updates on major campus initiatives.
  • 9/11 and Afghanistan Twenty Years Later: Successes, Failures, Surprises, and Lessons
    Events at Stanford - 16:11 Sep 27, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual to Public. Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person.  The dramatic scenes the world witnessed during the fall of Kabul in 2021 following the withdrawal of US and allied forces from Afghanistan nearly coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda and the subsequent US and allied invasion of Afghanistan. The United States committed trillions of dollars, dispatched soldiers, diplomats and spies across the globe, and made dramatic alterations to domestic and international law to combat terrorism. The material, humanitarian and normative consequences of two decades of war have been significant, both globally and in Afghanistan specifically. In this panel, Dr. Felter, Dr. Mir and Professor Zegart will assess U.S. responses during the global war on terror, identify unexpected outcomes and lessons learned, and ultimately weigh the costs and benefits of t...
  • See Me: Identity in Art-making: October Second Sunday from Home
    Events at Stanford - 23:22 Sep 23, 2021
    Date: Sunday, October 10, 2021. 11:00 AM. Location: Cantor Arts Center & Anderson Collection Join us virtually for a hands-on art-making adventure!  Explore the nature of Identity and create a unique personal artwork. We are inspired by the artist Ebony G. Patterson’s artwork, ...for those who came to bear witness..., which is on view as part of the special exhibition Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cantor. You can register for the event through Eventbrite! Watch past editions of Second Sunday at home!
 Please visit our Museums From Home page. You will find further details on Second Sunday at home projects, including activity guides and instructional videos.
 Second Sunday is for everyone. You are welcome here. Second Sunday is made possible through the generous support of the Hohbach Family Fund. Image: Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaican, born in 1981), ...for those who came to bear witness..., 2018-2019, 16 fabric panels with direct archival dye and dye sublimation pr...
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  • The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series
    Events at Stanford - 19:26 Sep 22, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to the fourth event in the  The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series “A Visual Revolution: The Emperor in Popular Prints” and Launch of Online Exhibition Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan Speaker: Alice Tseng, professor of Japanese Art and Architecture at Boston University Moderator: Matthew Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University The popularization of images of the reigning emperor of Japan was one among many radical changes of the Meiji period. But it was not a simple matter of indiscriminately showing his face and form in commercial prints. This talk investigates the various ways that the emperor became visible and legible, by considering Japanese and foreign conventions of portraiture and visual representation. It also considers the effects and limitations of the new visibility. This event also celebrates the launch of the Fanning the Flames: Propaganda ...
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  • Neural interfaces for controlling finger movements - Cynthia Chestek
    Events at Stanford - 00:35 Sep 22, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Gunn Rotunda, 290 Jane Stanford Way, 94305 Abstract Brain machine interfaces or neural prosthetics have the potential to restore movement to people with paralysis or amputation, bridging gaps in the nervous system with an artificial device. Microelectrode arrays can record from up to hundreds of individual neurons in motor cortex, and machine learning can be used to generate useful control signals from this neural activity. Performance can already surpass the current state of the art in assistive technology in terms of controlling the endpoint of computer cursors or prosthetic hands. The natural next step in this progression is to control more complex movements at the level of individual fingers. Our lab has approached this problem in three different ways. For people with upper limb amputation, we acquire signals from individual peripheral nerve branches using small muscle grafts to amplify the signal. Human study participants have been able to control indi...
  • We are Stanford: A Festival of Reflection and Renewal
    Events at Stanford - 22:47 Sep 20, 2021
    Date: Ongoing every day from September 30, 2021 through October 10, 2021. Location: Stanford Campus, Redwood City Campus, Online We are Stanford: A Festival of Reflection and Renewal marks the return of the full Stanford community to campus, offering a diverse range of ritual, artistic, commemorative and celebratory programs to express and hold all that we have been through, individually and collectively, over the last 18 months. Two dozen campus departments and programs have partnered to present events that are authentic to their communities and open to broad student, staff, and faculty participation, engaging themes of grief, loss and remembrance, community and gratitude, and hope and joy. All together, the festival is an active invitation to care for ourselves and each other as we rebuild the Stanford community.  For the full schedule, visit https://orsl.stanford.edu/festival Campus partners: Baha’i Student Association, BeWell, Camera As Witness, Catholic Community at Stanford, Center for Biomedical Ethics...
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  • The Next 10 Years: Education Policy in Low-Income Countries after COVID
    Events at Stanford - 20:09 Sep 20, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021. 11:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar - RSVP Required On Tuesday, October 12, the Stanford King Center on Global Development will host a conversation on the state of learning and education systems in the Global South, with a focus on how to build back after the disruptions caused by the ongoing COVID pandemic. The event will feature:  David Evans, senior fellow, Center for Global Development, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, deputy director, Department of Basic Education, South Africa, and  Moderator Pascaline Dupas, King Center faculty director and professor of economics.
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  • Free Guitar and Kora Workshop with Derek Gripper and Yacouba Sissoko
    Events at Stanford - 21:05 Sep 17, 2021
    Date: Saturday, October 9, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Bing Concert Hall Two innovative instrumental masters, kora player Yacouba Sissoko and guitarist Derek Gripper, will share their approach to collaboration and teach some of the techniques they employ in their musical dialogue. Bring your guitar or kora, or just come to listen. All are welcome! Born in Mali to a well-known djely family, Yacouba Sissoko is a master of the kora and its oral traditions, and has absorbed many new influences to create his unique style. He has performed, toured and recorded with well-known African musicians such as Baaba Maal, Sekou (Bambino) Diabate and Kerfala Kante, and with Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Lauryn Hill. Derek Gripper is known for his groundbreaking technique for evoking the West African kora on the guitar. He has transcribed the complex music of Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté for guitar and infuses his interpretations of Bach’s music with lessons from the oral traditions of Africa. He has performed with Toum...
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  • 23rd Annual Thomas J. Fogarty MD Lecture: Focus on Innovation featuring Lisa D. Earnhardt, Abbott
    Events at Stanford - 00:57 Sep 16, 2021
    Date: Friday, October 8, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Lecture via Zoom Lecture Title: HEALTH INNOVATION: Focus on Access and Outcomes What good is innovation without widespread adoption and impact? Health technology innovation solves critical problems and saves lives. But even the best inventions are useless if they don’t reach the patients and providers who need them. Lisa Earnhardt has more than two decades of experience leading global product launches and driving the adoption of new medical technologies at Abbott, Intersect ENT, Boston Scientific, and Guidant. Join us as she shares her vision for a new approach to innovation focused on access, affordability, and outcomes. The Fogarty lectureship was established to bring together a diverse community in Silicon Valley focusing on leaders in discovery, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This event is sponsored by the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Fogarty Innovation and Stanford Department of Surgery.
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  • Presidential Lecture In the Humanities: Timothy Snyder
    Events at Stanford - 20:53 Sep 15, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Zoom "The Five Forms of Freedom" Timothy Snyder Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University Freedom is the main idea of American political life, but no one knows what it means. The right treats it as the highest value, but defines it very narrowly, as the absence of hindrances. The left supports policies that are liberating, but concedes the idea of freedom to the right. Intellectuals propose that freedom will be brought by larger forces, such as economics or technology, which perverts the very idea of individual agency. Americans associate freedom with abstractions and phantoms, such the "free market," which means granting their own rights to entities that do not actually exist. Meanwhile, the digital world remodels thought and behavior towards conformism and polarization.  What would it take to have a country of free speakers and free people? In this lecture, Timothy Snyder defines freedom as the capacity to choose among values, envision futures...
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  • China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
    Events at Stanford - 21:23 Sep 14, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/3zDZ3D0 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. Peter Martin joins us to discuss his recent book, China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. Chinese diplomacy in the past several years has become more assertive and its diplomats have used sharper language, earning them the title "wolf warriors." The book traces the roots of China's approach to diplomacy back to the communist revolution of 1949 and tells the story of how it's evolved through social upheaval, famine, capitalist reforms and China's rise to superpower status. It draws on dozens of interviews and -- for the first time -- on the memoirs of more than 100 retired Chinese diplomats. Peter Martin is a political reporter for Bloomberg News. He has written extensively on escalating tensions in the US-China relation...
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  • Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2021 Symposium: The addiction epidemic, from neuroscience to policy
    Events at Stanford - 21:22 Sep 14, 2021
    Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021. 9:00 AM. Location: Gunn Rotunda, 290 Jane Stanford Way, 94305 The Eighth Annual Symposium of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute presents a scientific symposium exploring the addiction epidemic, from neuroscience to policy. Speakers include Yasmin Hurd from Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Brian Kobilka of Stanford University, George Koob from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Marina Picciotto from Yale University and Valerie Voon from Cambridge University. The symposium will also feature a fireside chat with Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court and a special session with Lenny Bernstein of the Washington Post focused on how scientists and educators can work more effectively with the media. After the talk series, attendees are invited to an outdoor poster session and reception. Speakers: Brian Kobilka, Stanford University Valerie Voon, Cambridge University, UK Yasmin Hurd, M...
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  • Advanced Pranayama
    Events at Stanford - 21:21 Sep 14, 2021
    Date: Saturday, October 16, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual Pranayama: Healing through Freeing the Breath  This advanced pranayama workshop, framed within polyvagal theory, explores breath as a bottom-up process of self-regulation to access emotional and physical balance, as a way to access to inner awareness (through neuroception and interoception), and as way of stimulating the vagus and creating resilience in the autonomic nervous system.  Breath and breathing will be explored as the bridge between mind and body leading to enhanced awareness of and capacity to modulate energy, affect, and arousal. Several types of breathing practices will be explored, placed in the context of polyvagal theory, with the purpose of equipping teachers to offer students a variety of breathing technique.  Understanding types of breath and student needs in the context of polyvagal theory (or the gunas, in the terms of ancient yoga wisdom) allows teachers and students to access the breath in ways that are optimally adapted and t...
  • 31st Annual Jonathan J. King Lecture
    Events at Stanford - 18:02 Sep 10, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: https://livestream.com/accounts/1973198/king-lecture-2021 We invite you to join our free live webinar of the 31st Annual Jonathan J. King Lecture on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 5:30 pm PDT: “The Future of Palliative Care After the Storm: A Conversation with Dr. Betty Ferrell.” Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN, CHPN has been in nursing for 44 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the Director of Nursing Research & Education and a Professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she has over 480 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is Principal Investigator of the “End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)” project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and QOL issues. Dr. Ferrell was Co-Chairperson of the National Cons...
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