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  • Talking about Trade: Prospects and Challenges in U.S.-Taiwan Economic Ties
    Events at Stanford - 20:12 Jan 31, 2022
    Date: Monday, February 7, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution hosts Talking about Trade: Prospects and Challenges in U.S.-Taiwan Economic Ties on Monday, February 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. PT. U.S.-Taiwan economic ties are at a crossroads. In 2020, President Tsai Ing-wen lifted a ban on U.S. pork imports containing the feed additive ractopamine, removing a long-standing irritant in trade relations with the United States. Last summer, the Biden administration held bilateral talks with their Taiwan counterparts under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) for the first time since 2016. In more recent months, the two sides have begun additional discussions about strengthening the resilience of global supply chains, including the supply of one of Taiwan’s most strategically important exports: semiconductors. In this discussion, Wendy Cutler of the Asia Society will comment on these developments and the prospects for deepening U.S.-Taiwan economic relations in a moderated convers...
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  • David Treuer Reading, part of the Lane Lecture Series
    Events at Stanford - 16:50 Jan 31, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 6:30 PM. Location: Bechtel Conference Center David Treuer Part of the Lane Lecture Series. Registration and Stanford ID required. Masks will be required. Bestselling author David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a 2019 finalist for both the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a Professor of English at USC. The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal court judge, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University where he wrote two senior theses--one in anthropology and one in creative writing-...
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  • Distinguished Lecture Series : Endangered maritime cultural heritage
    Events at Stanford - 16:49 Jan 31, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: ONLINE WEBINAR /STANFORD ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER LUCY BLUE Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton Maritime cultural heritage is under threat! Many sites in the coastal and near shore zone are being lost faster than we can record them. This paper briefly reviews the nature of threat, anthropogenic and environmental, before addressing through ongoing projects, ways in which research and capacity building can help counter the effects of threat. Documentation is key and the Maritime Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa (MarEA) project reveals ways that baseline documentation and working with local partners can help quantify the nature of the resource and the degree of threat. The community-based, maritime ethnographic project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania - Bahari Yetu, Urithi Wetu (Our Ocean, Our Heritage) – outlines the diverse and rich nature of living maritime cultural heritage and how co-creation can help sustain both livelihoods and cultura...
  • Health System Strengthening during the Pandemic and Beyond: Views from the Health Minister of Bhutan
    Events at Stanford - 17:07 Jan 28, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022. 6:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: bit.ly/3G0tR4i Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) 2021-22 Colloquium series "Aligning Incentives for Better Health and More Resilient Health Systems in Asia” The Minister of Health of Bhutan, Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo, will share her insights and experiences from managing the national health system during the COVID-19 crisis, serving as President of the 74th World Health Assembly, and her views on health system strengthening, innovative primary care, chronic disease control, health governance, and the global implications of the pandemic as it unfolds in its third year. Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo, the only female Minister in the current cabinet of Bhutan formally took charge of the Ministry of Health on 7th November 2018. Prior to joining politic in 2018, Her Excellency worked as a public health international consultant with primary focus on health system, governance, policy and strategic planning for governments an...
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  • William Faulkner in Korea, Within and Beyond Cold War Politics
    Events at Stanford - 17:06 Jan 28, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022. 4:30 PM. Location: Hybrid event - Public via Zoom Professor Kwon examines the global circulation and reception of William Faulkner and his works during the Cold War era. In particular, she focuses on how Faulkner's popularity among "Third World" intellectuals and writers both exceeds and was determined by the framework of Cold War geopolitics. In tracing Faulkner's own political and aesthetic transformation before and after World War II, Professor Kwon argue that his use by the architects of the cultural Cold War and literary figures in Third World Nations alike testify to the complexity of cultural and literary networks during this period. Furthermore, she highlight Faulkner's reception in South Korea after the Korean War, detailing his trajectory from France, Japan, and finally South Korea to illuminate the entangled relationship between U.S. government agencies, private foundations, and Korean intellectuals. Ultimately, Professor Kwon's talk hopes to demonstrate how re-read...
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  • Governance Breakdowns: Facebook Files, Bill Gates & Credit Suisse with WSJ Reporter, Emily Glazer
    Events at Stanford - 16:44 Jan 28, 2022
    Date: Monday, February 7, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual event on Zoom or in-person for Stanford students, faculty and staff (see registration for further details)  Whistleblower documents, an affair gone rogue and billions in lost revenue are just some of the catalysts causing mayhem at big companies over the last year. Award-winning reporter Emily Glazer, who writes about business leaders and corporate governance, will dig into Wall Street Journal investigations into CEOs and board members of some of the largest companies and how their actions exposed major problems.
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  • Spectrum PHS Pilot Grants Research Seminar
    Events at Stanford - 18:26 Jan 27, 2022
    Date: Friday, January 28, 2022. 9:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) cordially invites you to join us for a star-studded round of lightning talks presented by the 2020 cohort of Spectrum PHS Pilot Grantees. Talks will address virtual disparities in telemedicine, the impact of COVID-19 on health inequities, stress management for distance learning, and much more!
  • The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar's The Vale of Cedars
    Events at Stanford - 17:24 Jan 27, 2022
    Date: Monday, January 31, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars Lital Levy (Princeton University) follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Tunis, and Calcutta. A case study for her project on “Global Haskalah,” it brings together world literature and translation studies, transnational literary history, and Jewish literary studies. While mapping the book’s multilingual journey and elucidating the cultural markers of its myriad translations, the talk will highlight the influential Hebrew edition and its Judeo-Arabic successors.
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  • Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development
    Events at Stanford - 17:24 Jan 27, 2022
    Date: Friday, January 28, 2022. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE The Berkeley-Stanford Latin American Politics Workshop and Stanford CLAS present: "Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development" by Dr. Carlos Schmidt-Padilla Dr. Padilla studies how two of the world's largest gangs — MS-13 and 18th Street — affect economic development in El Salvador. The emergence of these gangs was the consequence of an exogenous shift in American immigration policy that led to the deportation of gang leaders from the United States to El Salvador. Using a spatial regression discontinuity design, he found that individuals in gang-controlled neighborhoods have less material wellbeing, income, and education than individuals living only 50 meters away, but outside of gang territory. None of these discontinuities existed before the emergence of the gangs. A key mechanism behind the results is that gangs restrict individuals' freedom of movement, affecting their labor market options. Residents of gang territory are also more likely t...
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  • Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction During Community Self-Recovery
    Events at Stanford - 16:51 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar While Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is ideally focused on proactively building resilience before a damaging hazard event, the post-disaster recovery period provides a rare opportunity to operationalize the lessons learned in a disaster experience at a time when there is an acute awareness of vulnerabilities and motivation to take action. Notably, much of this recovery unfolds without the benefit of regulatory reforms that promote a “build back better” approach and even more tragically, with limited financing are resources. During such “self-recovery” processes, stakeholders must repair or reconstruct damaged assets informed only by the limited resources, capacity and guidance available in their community. It is unsurprising then that many communities struggle to effectively and efficiently recover, often reverting to the policies and practices that created the vulnerabilities initially exploited in these disasters. Thus disaster risk will be re...
  • A Conversation with Helene Wecker
    Events at Stanford - 16:49 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: The Terrace Room (Bldg 460, Rm 426) Best-selling author Helene Wecker will read from and discuss her historical fantasy series The Golem and the Jinni (2013) and The Hidden Palace (2021). Co-sponsored with the Department of English at Stanford, the Abassi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford, the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco.
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  • Global Dialogues Series: Reimagining Environmental Futures
    Events at Stanford - 16:48 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Friday, February 11, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual via Zoom Climate change poses the most critical question ever to confront culture. We continue to struggle with what it means to live in the age of the Anthropocene: as the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns us, in what has been described as a “code red for humanity,” many planetary shifts currently in motion are already irreversible for centuries to millennia. What does it mean to imagine futures in conjunction with layers of the deep past and an already irreversible present? How and under what conditions can we still conceptualize global connections for a collective future in a time of prolonged ecological crisis? Furthermore, as climate injury and environmental racism disproportionately affect marginalized communities, we must continue to mediate the continual interplay between global collectivity and local positionality in order to imagine a just future for all. When we consider the responsibilities, accountabilit...
  • The Impacts of US-China Tech Decoupling
    Events at Stanford - 16:48 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/3IA7MdJ 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. Once considered incapable of innovation, China’s contribution to technological advancement has become impossible to ignore as it continues its historic rise. Now home to such tech giants as Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei, China is competing in the global market. But what does this technological success mean in the context of China internal and international politics, particularly its tense relationship with the United States? Will efforts to decouple help or hinder progress in tech? Can China’s educational system produce the next generation of innovators and propel them to the forefront of technology? What effects, if any, is the recent tightening on tech giants having on the sector at large? In this program, experts Denis Simon, Senior Advise...
  • "COMFORT 보드랍게" - Film Screening & Conversation with the Director
    Events at Stanford - 16:47 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: Hybrid event - Public via Zoom  "COMFORT 보드랍게" (2020), tells the life story of KIM Soonak, a survivor of the “comfort women system” and so much more. After the war, she engaged in prostitution, US camptown sex trade, and also worked as a maid. Weaving interviews of activists, archive footage, animation, and the recital of testimonies, the film reconstructs the life stories of the late KIM Soonak. It won the Documentary Award at the 2020 Jeonju International Film Festival and the Beautiful New Docs Award at the 2020 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. This film screening will be followed by Q&A with the director. This film screening is part the Everyday Resistance: CEAS Documentary series on East Asian Protest Culture.  RSVP REQUIRED. This is a hybrid event, with in-person attendance restricted to Stanford affiliates (ID holders) ONLY (Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom), pandemic conditions permitting. Members of the public can join us for this t...
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  • Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
    Events at Stanford - 16:47 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022. 2:00 PM. Location: Zoom Apr. 26, 2022, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master designer of public parks and a founder of the field of landscape architecture. Join historian and filmmaker Laurence Cotton (originator of and consulting producer to the PBS special Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America) as he does a deep dive into the remarkable life and career of the Renaissance-man Olmsted — writer, philosopher, social reformer, advocate for the preservation of natural scenery and creator of some of the most beautiful public and private parks and gardens in all of North America. In his presentation, Laurence will talk about the influences of design traditions, aesthetics and philosophies that influenced Olmsted’s thought — including English garden design, the Hudson River School and Transcendentalism. Laurence will also give a visual tour of representative masterful landscapes designed by Olmsted Sr. as well as his two sons, who together...
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  • Rebuilding the Rule of Law with Religion
    Events at Stanford - 16:46 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022. 11:30 AM. Location: Zoom Mark Fathi Massoud will discuss his new book, Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics (Cambridge University Press 2021). Based on historical research, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews in the Horn of Africa, Shari‘a, Inshallah documents nearly 150 years of historic attempts by the Somali people to use shari‘a to strengthen human rights and the rule of law — including attempts by contemporary women's rights activists to push for gender equality by invoking shari‘a. Massoud upends the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law. In a space where secular human rights interventions have largely failed, Massoud shows how future progress in human rights and the rule of law is still possible under shari'a.
  • Carillon Serenades - In Celebration of Hoover Tower in its 80th Year
    Events at Stanford - 16:44 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022. 4:45 PM. Location: Hoover Tower For the 2021–2022 year, listen for the newly dedicated, Lou Henry Hoover 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, Dr. Timothy Zerlang.  Current schedule: 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm on the second Thursday of the month February 10 March 10 April 7 (rescheduled for first Thursday) ABOUT HOOVER TOWER & THE CARILLON Commissioned by Herbert Hoover and dedicated 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 enjoy the gallery spaces featuring special items from Hoover’s collections. Located on the 14th floor, is the carillon—a gift from the Belgian-American Education Foundation—which symbolizes an over...
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  • Quarantine Sessions: A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation
    Events at Stanford - 16:41 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Sunday, January 30, 2022. 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)   Guests to be announced  
  • Reorienting the Past in South Africa: An Artist Talk
    Events at Stanford - 16:40 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Friday, January 28, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Online/Zoom Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s new musical composition, ‘Do not fear the past’, renders Zuhura Seng’enge’s poem of the same title in a setting for soprano solo and string quartet. It anchors a program that explores and questions the nature of remembrance and reconciliation amid tragedy. The result of a commission, his ‘Do not fear the past’ is an oblique response to the death of Stanford alumna, Amy Biehl (1967-93) during her stint as Fulbright fellow in Cape Town, South Africa, in the lead-up to that country’s first democratic election. It will be performed at the Bing Concert Hall (Studio) in April 2022. This event is an opportunity to discuss aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of the work and its genesis.  Speakers: Grant Parker and Bongani Ndodana-Breen The research and creative output of Bongani Ndodana-Breen (PhD in music composition from Rhodes University) engages with diversity and inclusion in classical music. His compositions draw hea...
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  • Evolution and Challenges of Alaska's "Railbelt" Electric System
    Events at Stanford - 16:39 Jan 26, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 1:30 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event: Please register using link Speakers: Phylicia Cicilio and Steve Colt Seminar Abstract: Phylicia Cicilio and Steve Colt will discuss the history and challenges of carbon reduction efforts and renewable energy deployment in Alaska. Speaker Bios: Phylicia Cicilio is a research assistant professor at Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP). She has a PhD in electrical engineering and specializes in power system dynamics, modeling, and planning. Steve Colt is a research professor of energy economics and policy at ACEP. His work focuses on the prices, incentives, and energy policy that supports and accelerates sustainable and resilient microgrids and energy systems. Admission Info: Seminar is open to the public. Stanford students enrolled in the Smart Grid Seminar course will attend in person in Y2E2 300. All others, please register to attend on Zoom via the RSVP link.

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