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  • Reimagining Work Post COVID | Interconnected: Work in the Global Economy
    Events at Stanford - 17:36 Nov 15, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 29, 2021. 6:30 PM. Location: By zoom Opportunity is unevenly distributed around the world, yet - as the pandemic so clearly illustrated - we are all interconnected and dependent on each other. Given the ever-more connected world we live in, how should we reimagine the economy? Professor Brian Lowery is joined by Condoleezza Rice,  the 66th US Secretary of State and current Director of the Hoover Institution to discuss the geographic distribution of work, nationally and internationally, and the world economy post-COVID. 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!
  • Against the Politics of Death: Breaking the Hold of State & Capital on Black & Indigenous Struggles
    Events at Stanford - 17:36 Nov 15, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. Location: Zoom Join Concerning Violence: A Collaborative Research Group for our second workshop of the quarter with Dr. Anthony Dest (Lehman College - CUNY). This event will be held over Zoom. Abstract: This workshop is based on my article, “‘Disenchanted with the State’: Confronting the Limits of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Colombia,” which appeared in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies in June 2020. The article explores why two distinct social movements – the Afro-Descendant Women’s Mobilization for the Care of Life and Ancestral Territories and the Liberation of Mother Earth Process – emerged in 2014 in response to the failure of multicultural rights to guarantee the conditions for their autonomy and self-determination. The article concludes with a meditation on the potential impasse of struggling in and against the state and capital. In this talk, I will discuss how my thinking about this supposed impasse has evolved, as well as the trajectory of each of the ...
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  • Smart City Infrastructure for Mobility
    Events at Stanford - 17:34 Nov 15, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Zoom Join the US-Asia Technology Management Center for the ninth session in our 2021 Autumn Seminar Series, Mobility: Asia Moves Forward in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Join us for an introduction to the vision and activities of Woven Planet Holdings and a discussion of how they are improving and transforming not only the ways that people and goods move, but also the things that individuals can do while on-the-move. "For nearly a century, Toyota has been delivering products and services that improve lives. Automation that originated to increase the efficiency of daily activities has evolved into the safe, reliable, connected automobiles we enjoy and depend on today. Now, we are looking to the next 100 years and to extending that dream for a better life for all people. Through Woven Planet Group we strive to build a safer, happier, more sustainable world.   Woven Planet Group seamlessly weaves together modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japa...
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  • SIEPR/SEEPAC forum: CA Environmental Justice Concerns and Public Policy Challenges
    Events at Stanford - 16:11 Nov 11, 2021
    Date: Monday, November 15, 2021. 4:30 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event Join SIEPR and SEEPAC online on Monday, Nov. 15 for a forum on environmental justice and environmental policy issues associated with the significant levels of air pollution in parts of California. The forum will offer a roundtable discussion featuring three leading contributors to the state’s air quality discussions and policy decisions. Please register here to attend. 
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  • Natural Gas in Europe, Nord Stream 2 and Russia
    Events at Stanford - 21:34 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Only. This event will not be held in person. Natural gas prices in Europe have spiked in recent weeks. In the meantime, Russia is pressing for early certification of the newly-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would increase capacity for moving gas from Russia to Europe. How serious is the gas situation in Europe, and how might Nord Stream 2 affect it? What motivates Moscow's push to get the new pipeline in operation? What policy should the U.S. government pursue on these questions? Ambassador Daniel Fried of the Atlantic Council and Edward Chow of Center for Strategic and International Studies will address these issues on November 17. About the Speakers: In the course of his forty-year Foreign Service career, Ambassador Fried played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. As special assistant and NSC senior director for Presidents Clinton and Bush, ambassador to Poland, and...
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  • Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves
    Events at Stanford - 16:59 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 19, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Join us for the Latin American Perspectives Distinguished Lecture Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Professor and Senior Researcher, CIESAS.  Abstract: In this lecture, Prof. Hernández Castillo will offer an ethnographic account of family collectives searching for their disappeared relatives throughout Mexico. She will seek to synthethize her last five years of experience as a political anthropologist conducting feminist activist research in Mexican territories under the context of the “war on drugs” and its idiosyncratic necropolitics, which are marked by a certain constellation of racist, classist and patriarchal practices. Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo earned her doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1996. She is currently a Professor and Senior Researcher at CIESAS, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mex...
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  • Tackling Global Challenges - Tropical Deforestation
    Events at Stanford - 16:58 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: online via Zoom and Facebook live A quarterly lecture series where you will hear from experts about pressing sustainability challenges so you can apply your expertise and ingenuity to develop solutions that will make an impact. Resources and funding to advance your solutions are available through TomKat Solutions Episode 1:  Strategies to Protect Tropical Forests Speakers: Dan Nepstad, President and Founder · Earth Innovation Institute Matt Leggett, Associate Director, Sustainable Commodities and Private Sector Engagement · Wildlife Conservation Society The speakers will provide their insights into the challenges of protecting forests, highlighting success stories from effective programs that they have deployed. There will be opportunities for Q&A from attendees. Wednesday, November 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm (Pacific) via Zoom RSVP Here
  • The Afterlife of Colonialism: The Origins of Racial Inequality and Segregation in the Modern World
    Events at Stanford - 16:56 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Friday, November 19, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvd-GurDoiE9ShGyiyX-lm2oi8aYo5HHwK FSI'S REDI Task Force invites you to the premiere event in our Critical Conversations series, "The Afterlife of Colonialism: The origins of racial inequality and segregation in the modern world". Capitalism and colonialism are often invoked in discussions in the social sciences and the humanities as the profound causes of racism, discrimination, human rights abuses, and the subaltern status of minority (and sometimes majority) groups in contemporary societies. These concepts are often a useful more as a shorthand to describe deep historical processes. This panel seeks to elaborate on the specific mechanisms and accumulated social, political and economic events of colonialism that lead to particular outcomes of poverty, inequality or violence today. Comparative perspectives from history, political science and economics, from various regions of the world may advance our understandi...
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  • Closing Keynote: What Asia Mobility means for U.S. Business
    Events at Stanford - 16:56 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, December 2, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Zoom Join the US-Asia Technology Management Center for the ninth 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: Mr. Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital Hans Tung is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital, focusing on early-stage investments across the global digital economy ecosystem. He is consistently recognized amo...
  • Inclusive Design and the Built Environment
    Events at Stanford - 16:56 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event Join us for the fourth day of the Stanford Equitable Design in Technology (EDiT) conference with a panel on how design choices for the built environment impact the accessibility of our public spaces and communities. How we choose to construct our buildings and community spaces has a deep impact for the inclusion of underrepresented minorities in society, including those with disabilities. Our panelists, Blaine Brownell, Craig Wilkins, and Bess Williamson, provide a historical and modern perspective on how the design philosophy of architecture and urban planning have evolved in response to the demands of persons with disabilities and persons of color in our society. Blaine Brownell is an architect, educator, and materials researcher and currently serves as the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also a writer for Architect magazine’s “Mind & Matter” column and has stressed the importan...
  • Disability, Design and AI
    Events at Stanford - 16:55 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event Join us for the second day of the Stanford Equitable Design in Technology (EDiT) conference with a panel discussion on how the design of AI can impact persons with disabilities across many sectors in society. The implementation of AI systems for services such as healthcare, housing, employment and mobility is increasing in prevalence in society. However, these systems have the potential to cause significant harm to those with disabilities if not designed properly. Our panel, composed of Sachin Pavithran, Lydia X.Z Brown, and Karen Nakamura will discuss these problems from various perspectives respectively: US policy, community activism, and academic. Sachin Pavithran is a civil rights advocate passionate about accessibility and has worked on developing assistive technology projects for over twenty years. He currently serves as the Executive Director for the U.S. Access Board. While he worked at Utah State University, he served as the Director ...
  • Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air we Breathe - Atom by Atom
    Events at Stanford - 16:54 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Online Join us on Zoom (passcode 650650) The lecture is one hour long, followed by Q&A.  Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid biomass and exhaling oxygen. Their release of oxygen into the air made animal life possible.  But how, exactly, do plants produce oxygen? Scientists have been puzzling over this for decades. In the past few years, experiments at X-ray lasers such as the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC have allowed us to follow the production of oxygen step by step and atom by atom. In this lecture, I will show a molecular movie made here at SLAC of the first half of oxygen production in cyanobacteria.  The movie reveals the amazingly complex, concerted atomic motions that nature has orchestrated to perform this essential reaction. I will discuss what we have learned about the process of oxygen production, and the mysteries that still remain. About ...
  • Ukraine vs Russia: War for Democracy
    Events at Stanford - 16:52 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: In-person for Stanford affiliates, open to the public via Zoom There is an ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. It is not a war solely for territories, resources, or people — it's an ideological war, indicative of the battle between authoritarianism and democracy. What is the real nature of this conflict and who are the parties involved? What tools does the Kremlin use to control the narrative and what can be done to stop it? And why is Ukraine the cornerstone of democracy in the region? Join former Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk, the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at FSI, to discuss. The Liautaud Fellowship was established to bring former heads of state or senior policymakers to Stanford, with the goal of promoting meaningful dialogue on the challenges world leaders face in crafting policy solutions for pressing global problems. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the former President of Estonia, was the inaugural Liautaud Fellow in 2017, fol...
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  • Nainoa Thompson : Polynesian Voyaging Society
    Events at Stanford - 16:51 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. 2:45 PM. Location: Zoom As announced in the concluding remarks at the The Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography on October 22, 2021, the work and focus on Indigenous Mapping continues. Nainoa Thompson who is a Native Hawai'ian navigator and the President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society will speak under the auspices of the David Rumsey Map Center. He journeys across the seas without the use of modern technology , bringing awareness for the need to care for our fragile planet.   The event is co-sponsored by Barry Lawrence Ruderman, the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Native American Cultural Center.   The event is free and open to the public. Please register using the Ticket/RSVP link.
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  • Curator's Talk: Art/Object
    Events at Stanford - 16:51 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar Virtually join graduate student curator, Jennie Waldow, to discuss her online exhibition, Art/Object: Contemporary Works between Mediums. You will receive a Zoom Link for the event after registering on Eventbrite here. We often categorize objects in an effort to make sense of them, but what if we aren't able to? Our online exhibition, Art/Object: Contemporary Works between Mediums, considers this question through works in the collections of the Cantor and Bowes Library that fall between the cracks of obvious medium categories. In this virtual presentation, graduate student curator Jennie Waldow will discuss how the editions, documents, posters, and invitations in the exhibition point to the way an artist’s practice often flows across media, with ideas or visual motifs explored through preparatory, experimental, and everyday formats. If you need a disability-related accommodation like live captioning, please contact cantor_education@stanford.e...
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  • Stacy Levy: Revealing Nature: Art Translates Ecology
    Events at Stanford - 16:50 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar How can art create ecological legibility and give us an understanding of the natural world in our backyards, parks and urban spaces? Art can create a new modality for comprehending nature— different from science, which has been the traditional translator of nature. This new take on ecology can be more experiential and show change over time. Art has the power to capture nature at all its scales: from the microscopic diatom to the vast weather patterns and to invite people to see and sense and learn about the ways they are connected to the natural world. https://www.stacylevy.com/ Join us for an engaging talk from Stacy Levy, in celebration of GISDay@Stanford. Stacy will discuss the motivation and process for creating her architectural-scale sculptural geographic installations & "physicalizations" of spatial information and dynamics.
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  • Fireside Chat with Mimi Kuo-Deemer
    Events at Stanford - 16:50 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 12:30 PM. Location: At your computer/device Join BeWell for a free fireside chat with Mimi Kuo-Deemer, qigong, internal martial arts, mindfulness and yoga author and teacher, with moderator Patty de Vries, director of strategy, outreach & innovation for BeWell. Preregistration is required. REGISTER
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  • Camera as Witness Presents documentary SEYRAN ATES: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM
    Events at Stanford - 16:49 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 7:00 PM. Location: Stanford Medical School's LKSC Room 120 Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents series MOVING FORWARD co-presented with Santa Clara County, Stanford Film Society and Stanford Medical School Medicine and the Muse SEYRAN ATES: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM (55 min) Germany/Norway/Turkey Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen  Producer: Jørgen Lorentzen In the 1960s, the hippies championed the idea of a sexual revolution. They received neither Fatwas nor bodyguards. Today, Seyran Ates - a Turkish- German lawyer, feminist, and one of the first female imams in Europe - is fighting for a sexual revolution within Islam. In return, she was shot, received fatwas and death threats, and now has to live under constant police protection. Seyran believes the only way to fight against radical Islam is through Islam, which is why, in her liberal mosque, there is no gender segregation or exclusion based on sexual orientation. This is the story of Seyran's personal and ideological f...
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  • Capability and Incorporation: Pathways to Redress in the Aftermath of Violence
    Events at Stanford - 16:46 Nov 10, 2021
    Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Webinar (Pacific Time) Capability and Incorporation: Pathways to Redress in the Aftermath of Violence | Poulami Roychowdhury Gender-based violence is a heavily politicized issue in India with diverse organizations supporting women’s legal claims. Meanwhile, law enforcement personnel are both sexist and have limited abilities to enforce the law. How do women claim rights within these conditions? How do rights negotiations impact gender inequality, legality, and state authority? Using participant observation and in-depth interview data, Roychowdhury shows how women are compelled to demonstrate “capability” when they claim rights against violence. Law enforcement personnel respond favorably to women who mobilize collective threats and do the work of the state themselves, while ignoring women who are meek and docile. They incorporate “capable” women into regulatory functions, urging them to complete case processing duties, negotiate extra-legal settle...
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  • A Conversation with Assemblymember Robert Rivas
    Events at Stanford - 23:00 Nov 09, 2021
    Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Online Event Please join us for a conversation with Assemblymember Robert Rivas, representing California Assembly District 30 and Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Assemblymember Robert Rivas has represented California’s 30th State Assembly District since 2018. While still in his first term, he was appointed as Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee and elected as Vice-Chair of the influential Latino Legislative Caucus. In the Assembly, Rivas’ first-term legislative achievements include securing enactment of the first-in-the-nation COVID-19 Farmworker Relief Package, which included critical efforts related to agricultural workplace safety, access to PPE and testing, temporary housing, and access to healthcare and the courts. He also co-authored the Farmworker Housing Act, which streamlines the process to build quality housing for farmworkers and their families and he continues to lead efforts to address the st...
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