As part of its educational and outreach mission to encourage thoughtful consideration of international issues and challenges, the Freeman Spogli Institute hosts public events, discussions and lectures on pertinent international issues involving Stanford faculty, as well as prominent outside politicians, officials, and academics.
The FSI Stanford events calendar provides a consolidated listing of events sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute and its centers.
Jan 15, 2013
Jan 16, 2013
Jan 17, 2013
- The Eurocrisis and Opportunities for further EU Integration
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Rudi Veestraeten, Consul General to the US, the Consulate General of Belgium in Los Angeles - Old Regime Conservative Parties and their Surprising Contributions to Democratization: Lessons from the Historical Rise of Democracy in Europe
CDDRL Research Seminar (RSVP required)
Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Harvard University - Windows of Volatility?: Unpacking the Relationship Between Nuclear Proliferation and Time
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Vipin Narang; Scott D. Sagan - Intermediaries are Liabilities: The New Technologies of Liberation
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Daniel Siders, Co-founder, Tent - The United Nations and a World in Transition
FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jan 22, 2013
- The Politics of Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Lessons from Anti-Base Protests on Jeju Island
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, KSP Seminar (RSVP required)
Dr. Andrew Yeo, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America - CDDRL-CISAC Special Seminar: The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
CISAC, CDDRL Special Seminar
Benjamin Lessing, Post-doctoral Fellow, CDDRL and CISAC - The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Tom Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UCSFflyer available
- ICC Speaker Series- Jim Fearon
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
James D. Fearon
Jan 23, 2013
- Data-driven medicine in the age of electronic health records
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Nigam Shah, PhD - How can trade improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa?
FSE, FSI Stanford Symposium (RSVP required)
Kym Anderson; Johan Swinnen
Jan 24, 2013
- Visualizing Political Struggle in the Middle East
CDDRL, ARD Research Seminar (RSVP required)
Lina Khatib, Program Manager for the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, CDDRL - The 18th Party Congress and Institutionalization in Chinese Leadership Politics
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Alice Miller, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution - Liberation Technology Seminar Series- Evgeny Morozov
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Evgeny Morozov - Rapture at Depth: The rhetoric of enchantment in dive documentation
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Margaret Cohen, Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel, professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization, and research affiliate, The Europe Center
Jan 25, 2013
- Teaming Up to Learn How to Overcome Anemia: Nutritional Education and Mobile Messaging Design for Household Engagement
Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Scott Rozelle; Dan Schwartz - Crossing the Border from "Chōsen" to "Kankoku" in Japan
Shorenstein APARC, KSP, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Younghae Han, 2012-2013 Visiting Professor at Shorenstein APARC
Jan 28, 2013
- Can a scholar change society’s collective memory? Jan Gross’ Writings and Holocaust Memory in Poland
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar (RSVP required)
Barbara Tornquist-Plewa; Norman M. Naimark - The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Mark Smith, MD, MBA, President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundationflyer available
Jan 29, 2013
Jan 30, 2013
- The Impact of Water Quality on Health and Youth Education in Rural China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar (RSVP required)
Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China - Improving Care for Children with Chronic Conditions: The Need for Systemic Innovation
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Lee M. Sanders, MD, MPH
Jan 31, 2013
- The World Bank's Doing Business Project: A Template for Promoting Economic Reforms?
CDDRL Research Seminar (RSVP required)
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director of Global Indicators and Analysis, The World Bank-IFC - The 'Tax-Welfare Mix' : the Welfare State and Extractive Capacity in Japan and Sweden
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Gene Park, Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) - Can You Hear Me Now? Law Enforcement Surveillance of Internet and Mobile Communications
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist, ACLU
Feb 1, 2013
Feb 4, 2013
- Information Session - CDDRL Senior Honors Program 2013
CDDRL Special Event - The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Susan Smith, MD, Regional Medical Director, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Groupflyer available
Feb 5, 2013
- Africa's Food Systems in 2030
FSE, FSI Stanford Symposium (RSVP required)
Paul Collier; Derek Byerlee - ICC Speaker Series- Ambassador David J. Scheffer
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
Ambassador David J. Scheffer, Special Expert to the Secretary General, U.N Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trails
Feb 6, 2013
- Never Waste a Crisis: the European Left Holds the Key to Solving Common Challenges
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series (RSVP required)
Pia Olsen Dyhr, Minister for Trade and Investment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark - RIP Seminar TBA
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Oana Carja, PhD in Biology (CDEHA Grant Project)
Feb 7, 2013
- Burma's Human Rights Challenges
CDDRL Research Seminar (RSVP required)
Helen Stacy, Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Coordinator, Program on Human Rights, FSI - The Problem of Emergence
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Woody Powell, Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, MS&E;, and Communication, Stanford - Liberation Technology Seminar Series- Paul Wise
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Paul H. Wise
Feb 11, 2013
- (Un)Covering North Korea
Shorenstein APARC Special Event (RSVP required)
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Erika Schillinger; Erica Weirichflyer available
Feb 12, 2013
Feb 13, 2013
- Technology in the US presidential elections
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Special Event
Nathanial Lubin; Zac Moffat; Sasha Issenberg - RIP Seminar TBA
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD
Feb 14, 2013
- Nationalism and the Rise of Public Protests in Russia
CDDRL Research Seminar (RSVP required)
Alexander Verkhovsky, Founder and Director of the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow based NGO - Understanding the Pax Technica: Social Media, Big Data, and the New Rules of Global Power Politics
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Philip Howard, Fellow, Professor (on leave UW Seattle), Princeton University
Feb 15, 2013
Feb 19, 2013
- ICC Speaker Series- William Pace
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
William Pace, Covenor, International NGO Coalition for the ICC (CICC) - The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Kevin Grumbach, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UCSFflyer available
Feb 20, 2013
Feb 21, 2013
- Challenges of Private Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa
CDDRL Research Seminar (RSVP required)
John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) - Gender Imbalance and Social Network Pressures in Rural China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar (RSVP required)
Xi Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management Yale School of Public Health - Strengthening Free Speech and Human Rights on the Internet: A New Challenge for Democracy in Latin America?
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Eduardo Bertoni, Director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Palermo University School of Law, in Buenos Aires
Feb 25, 2013