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  • Discover Stanford for You
    Events at Stanford - 21:37 Jan 24, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Accelerating Public Impact: Scholarship & Partnership Help Oakland Students Thrive How do Stanford researchers collaborate with partners to solve some of our most pressing problems? This program will show how research, when designed with school partners, helped children in the juvenile justice system return to school and thrive. Please join us to hear how Stanford Impact Labs is supporting a team of scholars and Bay Area school partners to combine research insights and first-hand experience. Stanford psychologist Greg Walton and Hattie Tate, administrator at Oakland Unite's Juvenile Justice Center, will explain how a simple intervention helped create a powerful sense of social belonging—a connection that is showing it can keep children in school and out of the juvenile justice system. Our conversation will be led by Stanford Impact Labs' Faculty Director Jeremy Weinstein and close with comments from Nicole Taylor '90, MA '91, president and CEO of Sil...
  • Ghana's National Peace Architecture and Electoral Violence Prevention
    Events at Stanford - 22:54 Jan 21, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022. 11:30 AM. Location: Zoom Since 1990 African elections have consistently involved electoral violence. Between 1990 and 2012, 43 percent of African national elections were accompanied by post-election violence (PEV). PEV is a process that unfolds in distinct phases and elections held in countries with specific plans to preempt or interrupt it are less likely to experience PEV. Ghana is one such country. Even though Ghana previously experienced electoral violence, it has avoided PEV in recent elections because of its electoral violence prevention strategies grounded in a national peace architecture, anchored by the National Peace Council. This talk addresses the following questions: Why did Ghana develop a national peace architecture? What specific electoral violence prevention strategies have been used? How and why have they been successful? What role have civil society organizations played? It argues that Ghana’s success has created an identity/narrative of peace, which has be...
  • Un-othering Through Artistic Exchange: A Dialogue between Inua Ellams and Professor Ato Quayson
    Events at Stanford - 22:52 Jan 21, 2022
    Date: Friday, January 28, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, and designer. He is an ambassador of the Ministry of Stories and his published books of poetry include Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen, #Afterhours, and The Half-God of Rainfall-an epic story in verse. His first play The 14th Tale was awarded a Frince First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth Barber Shop Chronicles sold out two runs at England’s National Theatre. He recently completed his first full poetry collection, The Actual, is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant and working on several commissions across stage and screen. He lives and works in London, where he founded the Midnight Run, a nocturnal urban excursion. Heis a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplin...
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  • Sparking Joy Across the Pacific: How KonMari Became a Global Success
    Events at Stanford - 22:52 Jan 21, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar A tidying expert who started her consulting business as a 19-year-old college student, Marie Kondo leveraged her success in the Japanese market into global fame with her husband Takumi Kawahara as a key producer. What were the business strategies behind their success and how did they break the cultural barrier in the U.S. that shattered the dreams of many Japanese content makers to produce a New York Times bestseller, a hit Netflix show, and a recognition as Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World? This session explores their media strategy that used platforms like Netflix and YouTube effectively and lessons that other content makers can learn from their success in bringing content from Japan to the U.S. Speakers: Marie Kondo, Founder of KonMari Media, Inc. Takumi Kawahara, CEO of KonMari Media, Inc. Moderator: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Deputy Director of Shorenstein APARC where he is also the Director of the Japan Program Visit th...
  • Fanning the Flames Speaker Series
    Events at Stanford - 22:51 Jan 21, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to the seventh event in  Fanning the Flames Speaker Series Propaganda Leaflets against the Japanese by the Allies: Insight, Revelations and Japanese American Contributors Speaker: Reiko Tsuchiya, professor, Waseda University Moderator: Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives In the Pacific War, more than 100 million copies of propaganda leaflets against Japan were made and distributed by the Allied powers. The American, Australian, British and Chinese armies all mobilized people with knowledge of the Japanese language and culture to promote propaganda against the enemy in their respective war theater. A diverse group of people, including Westerners born and raised in Japan and in particular, Japanese Americans, were involved in making propaganda leaflets and played a part in the psychological warfare. The propaganda deployed there ...
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  • China on the Eve of the Winter Olympics: Hard Choices for the World's Democracies
    Events at Stanford - 17:15 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Monday, January 31, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to China on the Eve of the Winter Olympics: Hard Choices for the World’s Democracies on Monday, January 31, 2022 from 10:00 am - 11:30 am PT. As China prepares to host the Winter Olympics, its economy is slowing, its real estate sector is in crisis, and its push for regional dominance is alarming its neighbors. At the 20th Party Congress this October, Xi Jinping is expected to win a third term as China’s ruler. What do these developments portend for China and the world, and how should the United States respond? SPEAKERS George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management and the founder and chair of the Open Society Foundations. He began his philanthropic work in 1979 with scholarships for Black African university students in South Africa and for East European dissidents to study in the West. He has given away more than $32bn to advance rights and justice across the world. Matt Pottin...
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  • Mandates, Massacres, and Migration: The Politicization of Transitional Justice in Central America
    Events at Stanford - 17:00 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Friday, January 21, 2022. 1:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Contemporary Central America represents a "worst case" of electoral authoritarian regimes and endless state-sponsored violence. This moment of "transition" reflects a continuous vicious cycle between constant and increased militarization and gang violence, linked through criminal activities, as well as acute climate change.  This ongoing vicious cycle occurs despite "democratic openings" "peace agreements (Guatemala and El Salvador), and so-called democracy promotion from the U.S. -- leading to even greater out-migration than during the wars of the 1980s.  This talk draws on the author's testimony as an expert witness as well as interviews with both perpetrators of violence and victims conducted in El Salvador. Terry Lynn Karl earned her Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University. After serving on the faculty in the Government Department of Harvard University, she joined Stanford University’s Department of Political Science in 1987. ...
  • HAI Weekly Seminar with Sabelosethu Mhlambi
    Events at Stanford - 16:56 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event Speaker: Sabelosethu Mhlambi, Practitioner Fellow at Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS); Research Fellow of Ethics and Technology, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University Topic: Decolonizing AI Abstract: "Decolonizing AI" is both a critique and an emerging movement both in the West and Non-Western world amongst AI researchers, activists, and practitioners. While its proponents have identified parallels  between historical colonialism and the colonial-like scale and extractive nature of AI related technologies developed by big tech companies, can a decolonial framing address broader socio-economic about power and agency within the creation and use of AI? This talk will explore the varying views on "decolonizing" AI and will build upon work from the “AI Decolonial Manyfesto” collaborative effort (https://manyfesto.ai). 
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  • Javier Medina – Cerebellum learning: Myths and revelations in the blink of an eye
    Events at Stanford - 16:49 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: via Zoom The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute seminar series brings together members of the Stanford neuroscience community to hear about and discuss cutting edge brain research, including imaging, neuro-engineering, computational approaches, theory, translational neuroscience, human neuroscience and basic neurobiology. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Thursdays at 12:00 noon PT.
  • China's Local Government Debt: The Grand Bargain
    Events at Stanford - 16:48 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022. 4:30 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/34mnOcc 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. China’s rapidly growing local government debt problem has long been recognized by foreign observers as a risk, but inside China, only recently was this problem called out as alarming.  Why has local government debt been allowed to grow with little direct intervention from central authorities?  Based on a forthcoming paper, Oi will show how a “grand bargain” the central authorities entered into with the localities allowed Beijing to take the lion’s share of tax revenues after 1994, but also allowed localities to gain new resources and power as a quid pro quo.  While the bargain provided an expedient and seemingly successful strategy that worked for more than a decade to fuel rapid local state-led growth, it had significant costs that are now...
  • Shadows from the Valley of Death with Dr. Martin Dean
    Events at Stanford - 16:48 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invite you to an important talk by Dr. Martin Dean, a researcher for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Shadows from the Valley of Death: Following the Evidence from Babyn Yar and Incorporating Jewish Responses Dr. Dean will examine the complex history of the Babyn Yar ravine, where more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were shot by units of the German SS and Police in just two days. Incorporating new research and images from the 3-D model constructed by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC), the presentation will reconstruct the landscape as it existed on September 29-30, 1941, and describe the route taken by the Jews into the ravine. Using numerous witness testimonies and key photographic images, Dr. Dean will discuss reactions among Ky...
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  • NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Alexandra Hawley
    Events at Stanford - 16:47 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022. 12:30 PM. Location: Campbell Recital Hall The flute students of Alexandra Hawley present a noontime recital. Program TBA Admission Info Free admission Please read our COVID-19 Safety information. Parking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.   Note: Don't be late; our doors will close 15 minutes after the event begins and no late seating will be accommodated.  
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  • The Clayman Institute Artist's Salon Featuring Terry Berlier
    Events at Stanford - 16:46 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022. 04:15 PM. Location: Virtual Event Join the Clayman Institute for an event featuring sculptor Terry Berlier, an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the evolution of human interaction with queerness and ecologies. Berlier will share recent art projects and provide an overview of her practice. Berlier has exhibited in solo and group shows in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Contemporary Art and Spirits in Osaka, Japan, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Stanford Art Gallery. She is an Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art Practice, and Director of the Sculpture Lab in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. She serves as an advisory board member for Recology’s Artist-in-Residence Program in San Francisco.
  • Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
    Events at Stanford - 16:46 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual Seminar Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology. Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence officials, Zegart provides a history of U.S. espionage, from George Washington’s Revolutionary War spies to today’s spy satellites; examines how fictional spies are influencing real officials; gives an overview of intelligence basics and life inside America’...
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  • Getting to the Core of Earth's Magnetic Field
    Events at Stanford - 16:44 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: Zoom Join us on Zoom (Passcode: 650650) Earth’s magnetic field does more than just help us to navigate. It is also used by animals for orientation and migration,  and it protects life on Earth from charged particles that stream in from the sun and from deep space. This field is believed to be powered by a gigantic engine, or dynamo, created by electric currents carried by streams of molten iron in the Earth’s core. Scientists think these electric streams can start spinning spontaneously, driven by the Earth’s rotation. To test that theory, we need to know more about the properties of molten iron in the center of the Earth, where temperatures are a hundred times higher and pressures a million times greater than those on the surface. This lecture will describe studies underway at SLAC that re-create those extreme conditions, and describe a path towards measuring properties of molten iron using the unique capabilities of SLAC’s LCLS X-ray and ultrafast lasers....
  • Women on the Board: The Next Step for Women in Japanese Business
    Events at Stanford - 16:42 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 3:15 PM. Location: Zoom Meeting Join us for an engaging discussion about the complexities and practicalities of being a businesswoman in Japan. Although diversity in the workforce has become a hot topic in Japan, it is still rare to find women in roles that involve exercising corporate governance.  In this special session of our Stanford course on “Japanese Business Culture and Systems” our panelists will tell about their own experiences working at the top of Japanese organizations, discuss the challenges and solutions to increasing participation by women on corporate boards of directors in Japan, and outline their vision of what women will need to do to be successful in board roles in Japan. Panelists: - Naomi Koshi, Co-Founder and CEO of OnBoard KK (and former mayor, Otsu City) - Fujiyo Ishiguro, Former Chairman/President/CEO, Netyear Group - Kimberley Williams, Senior Program Manager, US-ATMC (Moderator) Advanced registration required at
  • Ruin in the Turkish Aegean: Futures in the Aftermath of Empire, with Miray Cakiroglu
    Events at Stanford - 16:38 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Monday, January 24, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Join the Ruins of Modernity Focal Group for the first guest lecture of 2022.   Ruin in the Turkish Aegean: Futures in the Aftermath of Empire   Abstract: Ruin object has proved a productive conceptual anchor of critical theory in its capacity to hold past-present-future and raise questions about historical temporality. Ruin takes two distinct shapes in the Aegean, a regional space that is considered within the scope of the Mediterranean in the history and anthropology literature. On the one hand, the concept captures the prominent ruins of the classical past, and, on the other, it qualifies a form of a historical condition that refers to the aftermath of the violent foundation of the nation-state marked with a forced exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey. In this talk, I will share some preliminary attempts to develop a conceptual framework to read these two genres of ruin against each other. I look at historical projects entailing a future ...
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  • The Crisis in Xinjiang: What's happening now and what does it mean?
    Events at Stanford - 16:36 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 4:30 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/3zX2GoF 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. Policies implemented by the CCP in Xinjiang since c. 2016 have become a central issue in PRC international relations, leading to international determinations that those policies constitute genocide; scrutiny of global supply chains for Xinjiang cotton, textiles and polysilicon; US sanctions on companies and individuals and Congressional inquiries directed at Airbnb and other multinationals operating in Xinjiang; and diplomatic boycotts of the Olympics. The assimilationist policies, if most extreme in Xinjiang, are related to the broader Zhonghua-izing campaign against religion and non-Mandarin language and perhaps even to intensified control over Hong Kong and efforts to intimidate Taiwan—an aggressive intolerance of cultural and political ...
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  • Robert G. Wesson Lecture: Facing Autocracy, a Global Challenge
    Events at Stanford - 16:36 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: In person and streaming via Zoom Robert G. Wesson Lecture Series in International Relations Theory and Practice As a Venezuelan, Leopoldo López lived through the gradual deterioration of what was once a regional reference for democracy into an authoritarian regime that has created the worst humanitarian and migration crisis in the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela is a clear example of how democracy could lose the battle against autocracy. Unfortunately, the fight for freedom is no longer an issue to be solved only among Venezuelans. In fact, our conflict has become, like many others around the world, part of the global conflict between autocracy and democracy. Autocracy in its different forms is spreading and constitutes a diverse but articulated movement around the world. To face this situation, new forms of organizations and democratic leadership must be promoted and empowered as an effective way to revert this new wave of autocracies. It is essential to cr...
  • HAI Weekly Seminar with Juan Banda
    Events at Stanford - 16:34 Jan 20, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event Speaker: Juan M. Banda, PhD, Affiliate, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford Medicine Title: Are Phenotyping Algorithms Fair for Underrepresented Minorities within Older Adults? Abstract: The widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) algorithms for risk-stratification has unearthed plenty of cases of racial/ethnic biases within algorithms. When built without careful weightage and bias-proofing, ML algorithms can give wrong recommendations, thereby worsening health disparities faced by communities of color. Biases within electronic phenotyping algorithms are largely unexplored. In this work, Juan Banda looks at probabilistic phenotyping algorithms for clinical conditions common in vulnerable older adults: dementia, frailty, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Banda created an experimental framework to explore racial/ethnic biases within a single healthcare system, Stanford Health Care, to f...
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