BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Events at Stanford//iCal4j 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Events at Stanford lectures\, readings & talks BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091107T090000 SUMMARY:Signing with William Pack UID:events_stanford_edu_21041 DESCRIPTION:Stanford Alum William Pack will be signing his debut novel\, "The Bottom of the Sky"\, winning finalist for the National Best Book 20 09 Awards and confirmed entrant for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. An aching r ags-to-riches family saga that springs from rural Montana squalor into t he power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrast s the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who\, after one abandons the other\, seek to claim themselves from their abhorrent legac y. This bare-knuckled tour de force deals head-on with childhood shame\, promiscuity\, prejudice\, Wall Street’s rape of Main Street\, genius\, madness and violence. It is a tale of extraordinary sacrifice\, of disco very\, of redemption.\n\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21041 LOCATION:Stanford Bookstore\, Main Level near Customer Service END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091108T140000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Matt Kahn UID:events_stanford_edu_20111 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . \n\nLecture by artist Matt Kahn begins at 2pm. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/201/20111 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091109T120000 SUMMARY:Engineers as Culture Warriors? Competing Visions of the Technolo gical Society in 1960s America UID:events_stanford_edu_20535 DESCRIPTION:Professor Matthew Wisnioski\, Virginia Tech STS Program\nPres entation in Stanford's Seminar on Science\, Technology\, and Society (ST S)\n\nEngineers\, it might be assumed\, played no part in the social mov ements of the 1960s\, much less called into question technology’s progre ssive worth. In most theorists’ conceptions\, engineers were the embodi ment of the military-industrial complex: conformist organization men in the system that stood to be torn down. But environmental degradation\, the Vietnam War\, and a host of socio-technical concerns led reformers to pressure their profession to honor its social responsibilities. At t he same time\, society officers\, college deans\, and top management lik ewise debated the proper uses of the nation’s technical labor force\, re sponses to pollution and urban poverty\, and professional bonds of servi ce and responsibility. Between 1965 and 1973 an existential rift about the nature of technology and the purposes of engineering opened within t he profession\, sparked by a combination of changes in the organization\ , content\, and scale of engineering labor\, and a vigorous critique of technology from intellectuals\, activists\, and everyday people. The mo st significant outcome of this cultural conflict\, I will argue\, was ho w\, largely in reaction to the alternative futures of reformers and diss idents\, engineers adopted a powerful vision of autonomous technological change that continues to influence engineering’s visionaries even as th ey strive to overcome it. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20535 LOCATION:Encina Hall East 207 \nhttp://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm? ID=06-030 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091109T121500 SUMMARY:Hydrologic influences on carbon storage\, decomposition\, and gas eous fluxes in re-established wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Del ta. UID:events_stanford_edu_20517 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robin Miller\, Biogeochemist\, USGS Sacramento URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20517 LOCATION:Y2E2 Building\, Room 101\, 1st Floor\, Red Atrium. Brown bag lu nches are welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091109T180000 SUMMARY:Genevieve Bell - David H. Liu Memorial Lecture UID:events_stanford_edu_20357 DESCRIPTION:Named one of the top 50 most creative people in Business (Fas t Company\,) Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and director of the User Experience Group within the Intel Digital Home Group.\n\nBell joined Int el in 1998 and has come to lead an R&D team of social scientists\, inter action designers and human factors engineers to drive human-centric prod uct innovation in Intel's consumer electronics business. In this role sh e is responsible for setting research directions\, conducting comparativ e qualitative and quantitative research globally\, leading new product s trategy and definition\, and championing consumer-centric innovation and thinking across the company.\n\nPrior to joining Intel\, Bell was a lec turer in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She has written more than 25 journal articles and book chapters on a range of su bjects focused on the intersection of technology and society. Her book\, "Telling Techno-Cultural Tales\," co-authored with Prof. Paul Dourish\, is being published by MIT Press.\n\nRaised in Australia\, Bell received her bachelor's degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1990. S he received her master's and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Stan ford University in 1993 and 1998\, respectively. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/203/20357 LOCATION:Braun Hall (Building 320) Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091109T183000 SUMMARY:View From The Top with Andrea Jung\, CEO of Avon UID:events_stanford_edu_21021 DESCRIPTION:What does it take to lead and motivate more than 5 million sa les reps around the world? What can you learn when Steve Jobs and Jeff I mmelt report to you? How do you reinvent an iconic American brand\, and position it for global growth?\n\nAndrea Jung is widely regarded as one of the most influential women in business today. Sitting on the boards o f Apple and GE\, and leading her own company\, Avon\, through global exp ansion in a difficult economy\, she has countless business war stories t o share. Come hear Andrea reflect on her own experience\, from her first job working at Bloomingdales\, about the successes and failures she has faced\, and the leadership lessons she has learned.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21021 LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium\, Stanford Graduate School of Business END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T110000 SUMMARY:What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your P lace in the World UID:events_stanford_edu_21095 DESCRIPTION:Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Techno logy Ventures Program (STVP)\, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford U niversity's School of Engineering. She also teaches courses on creativit y\, innovation\, and entrepreneurship in the department of Management Sc ience and Engineering\, and within the Hasso Plattner Institute of Desig n at Stanford. \n\nTina was recently awarded the 2009 Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering\, recognizing her as a national lead er in engineering educational. She also received the 2008 National Olymp us Innovation Award\, and the 2005 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excell ence in Undergraduate Teaching. \n\nTina earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in 1985 where she studied Neuroscience. She ha s worked as a management consultant for Booz\, Allen\, and Hamilton\, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation\, and was the foun der a multimedia company called BookBrowser.\n\nTina has also written 15 popular science books and educational games. Her books include The Epic urean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science\, published by Scientific American\; and a series of twelve games called Games for Your Brain\, p ublished by Chronicle Books. Her newest book\, published by HarperCollin s this Spring is titled What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21095 LOCATION:Tresidder Memorial Union second floor: Cypress Room North & Sout h END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T113000 SUMMARY:Hepatitis B Virus and Aflatoxin: A Conspiracy for Liver Cancer in China UID:events_stanford_edu_20513 DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Groopman\, PhD\, is the Anna M. Baetjer Professor an d Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. \n\nDr. Groopman's research involves the development and application of molecular biomarkers of expo sure\, dose\, and effect from environmental carcinogens. The environment al carcinogens studied include agents that are naturally occurring in th e diet as well as those produced as a result of cooking practices. A ma jor emphasis of the research has been in the elucidation of the role of aflatoxins\, a common contaminate of the food supply\, in the induction of liver cancer in high-risk populations living in Asia and Africa. Thi s work has led to the identification of a very strong chemical-viral int eraction between aflatoxin and the human hepatitis B virus in the induct ion of liver cancer. These biomarkers have also been used in many colla borative molecular epidemiology studies of liver cancer risk and recentl y employed to assess the efficacy of a number of chemopreventive agents in trials in high-risk aflatoxin-hepatitis B virus exposed populations. This research is now being extended to develop genetic biomarkers of p5 3 mutations and viral alterations in human samples as early detection of disease biomarkers using a novel mass spectroscopy based method for gen otyping developed in the laboratory. Thus\, the research in his laborat ory focuses on the translation of mechanistic research to public health based prevention strategies. \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20513 LOCATION:Munzer Hall\, Beckman Building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T120000 SUMMARY:Natural Gas: Bridge to Sustainable Energy or Just Another Fossil Fuel? UID:events_stanford_edu_21037 DESCRIPTION:In the long struggle to combat climate change\, natural gas h as emerged as a transformative element of a low-carbon energy economy. Recent developments have greatly increased estimated resources\, while a lso introducing a host of new opportunities for efficient use of gas.\n\ nChris Flavin - CEO of the World Watch Institute - will address the pote ntial role of natural gas in achieving short-term and long-term climate and energy security goals\, focusing on opportunities in the U.S and glo bally. He will also discuss the politics of energy policy and the role that federal climate legislation and the Copenhagen climate agreement co uld play in spurring a renaissance for natural gas. \n\nSnuller Price - Partner at E3 - will address the same questions\, but from the view of a chieving CA aggressive goals of 80% emission reduction by 2050. E3 has been modeling possible trajectories of GHG emission scenarios for the Ca lifornia Public Utilities Commission to guide policy and technology deci sions at the state level. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21037 LOCATION:Hewlett 200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T120000 SUMMARY:Russian Science and the Current Crisis UID:events_stanford_edu_20915 DESCRIPTION:CREEES Seminars presents:\nIrina Dezhina\nHead of Division at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations\, Russian Ac ademy of Sciences\nLeading Research Fellow\, Institute for the Economy i n Transition\, Moscow\nConsultant for the U.S. Civilian Research and Dev elopment Foundation \n\nIn her presentation "Russian Science Policy: Bef ore and During the Economic Crisis\," Irina Dezhina will outline the maj or characteristics of the R&D sector in Russia and offer an analysis of government science policy on the eve of the global financial crisis. She will also discuss the various reactions to the financial crisis in Russ ia\, both by the federal government and the science sector\, including c ompanies investing in R&D. Finally\, Dezhina will analyze the effectiven ess of the Russian government's anti-crisis policy in terms of its impac t on supporting science and innovation. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20915 LOCATION:Encina Hall West\, Room 208 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T120000 SUMMARY:SiCa Presents: Gwyneth Lewis\, National Poet of Wales UID:events_stanford_edu_20857 DESCRIPTION:SiCa Presents is a series of lunchtime presentations focused on topics in the arts at Stanford and beyond.\n\nGwyneth Lewis\, the inaugural National Poet of Wales\, is the SiCa/Stanford Hu manities Center join fellow in the Arts and Humanities for the 2009-10 a cademic year. \n\nPlease RSVP by Nov. 6 to sicaRSVP@stanford.edu URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20857 LOCATION:Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater\, Building 160 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T120000 SUMMARY:Simple Parenting 101 UID:events_stanford_edu_20709 DESCRIPTION:Would you like to be less stressed and more confident as a pa rent? Do issues such as arguing\, bedtime\, chores\, homework\, mealtime \, shopping with the kids\, tend to get a bit “unwieldy” at times?” Hav e hope! Some simple techniques and strategies can really make a big diff erence in helping to make your child more respectful and responsible and you less stressed. Hear from educator\, Janada Clark\, MA Counseling on how parenting with Love and Logc can improve your communication with ch ildren. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20709 LOCATION:Help Center Conference Room\, Mariposa House END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T120000 SUMMARY:Biodiversity and Biooptics of Gelatinous Zooplankton UID:events_stanford_edu_20257 DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Steve Haddock\nMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst itute URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/202/20257 LOCATION:Hopkins Marine Station\, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall\, Pacif ic Grove END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T121500 SUMMARY:The Muscovite Synthesis Challenged: Russian Art and Architecture in the 17th Century UID:events_stanford_edu_20923 DESCRIPTION:History Department presents: Slide-Illustrated Lecture Series : "A Survey of Russian Art and Architecture\, 11th - 18th Centuries. Lec ture #3 in the series.\n\nJack Kollmann\, Lecturer\, Center for Russian\ , East European & Eurasian Studies\n\nThis lecture series -- open to all interested persons -- is part of Professor Nancy Kollmann's course\, Hi story 20A/120A\, "Russian Civilization from the Beginnings to the Enligh tenment\, 1400-1762". URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20923 LOCATION:Bldg. 160 (Wallenberg Hall)\, Rm. 314 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T161500 SUMMARY:"Stalking the Two-Dimensional Electron" UID:events_stanford_edu_20757 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Eric J. Heller of Harvard University will give an Appli ed Physics/Physics colloquium on 11/10/09 entitled\, "Stalking the Two-D imensional Electron". URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20757 LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center\, Rm. 201 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T170000 SUMMARY:A Conversation with Herbert M. Allison Jr.: Assistant Secretary o f the Treasury responsible for the US Government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). UID:events_stanford_edu_21043 DESCRIPTION:Herbert M. Allison Jr. is the Assistant Secretary for Financi al Stability and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He will be speaking on the government’s role in regulating the capital markets\, th e state of the economy\, his view on public/private partnerships and his leadership experience in both the public and private sectors. For more information please see http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/jacksonlibrary/progr ams/events/allison.html URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21043 LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium\, Graduate School of Business END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T193000 SUMMARY:An Evening with Verlyn Klinkenborg UID:events_stanford_edu_20043 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an enjoyable evening with Verlyn Klinkenbo rg\, acclaimed author of several books\, and of the much-loved column “T he Rural Life\,” which appears on the The New York Times editoria l page twenty-six times a year. Tom Brokaw has called Klinkenborg “our m odern Thoreau”\; others hear echoes of E. B. White in his voice. Like bo th of them\, Klinkenborg observes the juncture at which our lives and th e natural world intersect\, and finds the luminous details that transfor m everyday experiences into luminous and revitalizing prose.\n\nHis book s include The Rural Life\, Making Hay\, The Last Fine Time\, and Timo thy\; or\, Notes of an Abject Reptile. He has published extensively in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, National Geographic\, Mother Jones\, and other periodicals.\n\nKlinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family\, graduated from Pomona College\, received a PhD from Princeton\, teaches creative writing at a number of American universities and colleges\, and lives on a small farm in upstate New Yo rk. In 2007\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, which is funding his current writing project\, The Mermaids of Lapland\, about the 18 th-century English radical and farmer William Cobbett.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20043 LOCATION:Geology Corner (Bldg. 320)\, Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091110T200000 SUMMARY:Michael Chabon in conversation with Professor John Felstiner -- " Notions of Home" -The Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture UID:events_stanford_edu_20527 DESCRIPTION:Michael Chabon is a novelist\, screenwriter\, columnist and s hort story writer\, best known for his novel The Amazing Adventures of K avalier & Clay which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.\nHe gre w up reading comic books and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. In 1984 he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English. In 1987\, he received a MFA in Creative Writing fr om the University of California at Irvine. His master's thesis was the novel Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, a coming-of-age story about a man caught between romances with a man on one side\, a woman on the other\, and th e shadow of his gangster father over it all.\nIt's well known that Micha el Chabon is a celebrant of genre fiction\, and he has shown no trepidat ion at all in exploring the genres in his work: Kavalier & Clay (2000) i s historical fiction with a comics focus\, Summerland (2002) is a fantas y novel for young readers\; The Final Solution (2004) and The Yiddish Po liceman's Union (2007)\; and Gentlemen of the Road is a swash-buckling a dventure story that was serialized first in The New York Times Magazine. In 2008\, Chabon published a collection of essays entitled Maps and Leg ends in which he writes about the merit of the genres. In his novels\, C habon explores themes of Jewish identity\, family\, and magic.\nThe topi c of his talk at Stanford is Notions of Home.\nPhoto credit: Stephanie R ausser\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20527 LOCATION:Hewlett Building- Room 200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T073000 SUMMARY:Stanford Breakfast Briefings: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Organi zational Rank and Stress UID:events_stanford_edu_21079 DESCRIPTION:Presents: Robert Sapolsky\nProfessor of Neurology\, Stanford University\n\nScience proves that stress is not just a state of mind\, b ut something tangible and measurable. Over the last three decades\, scie nce has been advancing our understanding of stress - how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. \n\nThis session will unexpectedly equip leaders to identify stressors a nd mitigate adverse effects of hierarchy\, rank and authority within you r organization.\n\nWorld renowned for his studies on stress and human be havior\, and recently featured in National Geographic's documentary "Str ess: Portrait of A Killer"\, Professor Sapolsky delivers an incomparable session on the physiology of stress and human nature revealed by his li felong research of African baboons and observations of fight or flight r esponses in zebras. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21079 LOCATION:Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Ave END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T110000 SUMMARY:Professor Anders Flodstrom speaks about EIT - The European Instit ute of Innovation & Technology: The First Pan-European University UID:events_stanford_edu_21017 DESCRIPTION:EIT\, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is the first pan-European university. It is being set up by the European Un ion with a planned yearly budget close to 1.5 billion dollars. \n\nEIT a ims at improving the ‘knowledge triangle’\, the interaction between rese arch\, education and innovation – key drivers of knowledge-based society . Entrepreneurship will be an inherent mediator for improving the intera ction.\n\nThe forthcoming European Strategic Innovation Agency will prom ote EIT as a crucial instrument to improve the competitiveness of the Eu ropean knowledge society.\n\nEIT is focusing initially on the three area s: the future information society\, climate change and sustainable energ y. Each area will be addressed by a KIC – a Knowledge and Innovation Com munity. Tenders have been issued for setting up the KICs.\n\nEighteen Eu ropean consortia have applied for operating KICs. The consortia involve leading European companies\, research institutes and universities. The K ICs will be based on co-location nodes and networking activities.\n\nThe EIT Governing Board is in charge of the strategic leadership and coordi nation of the EIT. It is responsible for the selection\, evaluation and support of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The four mem bers of the Executive Committee prepare the board meetings and facilitat e the EIT’s strategic decision-making. \n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21017 LOCATION:Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater (Rm 124)\nWallenberg Hall\, Bl dg 160 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T121500 SUMMARY:EESS Fall 09-10 Seminar Series: Rob Dunbar\, Environmental Earth System Science\, Stanford University UID:events_stanford_edu_20841 DESCRIPTION:Department of Environmental Earth System Science Seminar:\n \ntbd URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20841 LOCATION:Y2E2 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T161500 SUMMARY:The Energy Seminar UID:events_stanford_edu_19941 DESCRIPTION:The weekly Energy Seminar is an interdisciplinary series of t alks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad range of energy topics. Dr op-ins welcome.\n\nThis week's speaker is Professor Michael McGehee\, Di rector of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics\, Materials Sc ience and Engineering Department addressing 'Solar Cell Technology in 20 09 and Beyond'.\n\nThank you to Chevron for sponsoring the Energy Semina r URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/199/19941 LOCATION:Building 420 (Jordan Hall)\, downstairs in Room 40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T163000 SUMMARY:Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture - Steve Blank UID:events_stanford_edu_20211 DESCRIPTION:Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from business \, finance\, technology\, education\, and philanthropy\, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world.\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/202/20211 LOCATION:Skilling Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T170000 SUMMARY:Writing The Biomedical Manuscript: A Systematic Approach UID:events_stanford_edu_20645 DESCRIPTION:This class will identify the key components of a successful p eer-reviewed biomedical manuscript. We will explore the structure of a m anuscript and describe how to systematically build a paper from the data up. This will be followed by an examination of strategies for effective ly communicating complex scientific and clinical content.\nInstructor: B ryan Hains\, Ph.D. - Genentech URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/206/20645 LOCATION:Alway Bldg\; Room M104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T180000 SUMMARY:Reading & Signing with Keith Raffel UID:events_stanford_edu_18361 DESCRIPTION:When things start to go bad for Ian Michaels\, they go really bad. A ruthless billionaire threatens to steal his company. A mysteriou s black car runs down his wife Rowena. When the police dismiss the attac k as an accident\, it’s left to Ian to track down the assailant before h e strikes again. As Rowena lingers near death\, Ian races to an atom sma sher at Stanford to fulfill what may be her last wish – that he prove an unsung female physicist was cheated out of a Nobel Prize. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/183/18361 LOCATION:Stanford Bookstore (White Plaza)\nMain Level\, Foreign Language Section (behind the Med Desk) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091111T190000 SUMMARY:"HOW I WRITE" CONVERSATION - Phil Taubman UID:events_stanford_edu_20795 DESCRIPTION:Philip Taubman is author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower\, the C IA\, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. He is currently working on a book project about nuclear threats and the joint effort of Sid Drell\, Henry Kissinger\, Sam Nunn\, Bill Perry and George Shultz t o reduce nuclear dangers. Professor Taubman worked at the New York Time s as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years\, specializing in nationa l security issues\, including intelligence and defense policies and oper ations. At the Times\, Taubman served as a Washington correspondent\, M oscow bureau chief\, deputy editorial page editor\, Washington bureau ch ief and associate editor.\nTaubman was a history major at Stanford\, Cla ss of 1970\, and served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily in 1969 . Before joining the New York Times\, he worked as a correspondent for Time magazine and was sports editor of Esquire.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20795 LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, Margaret Jacks Hall\n(building 460\, fourth f loor) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T000000 SUMMARY:Reflections: Looking Back and Preparing for What's to Come UID:events_stanford_edu_20883 DESCRIPTION:Now that Fall Quarter is coming to an end\, what can you take from your classes and the lessons that you have learned? Come listen t o Dr. Vivienne Fong\, the Academic Director for Roble\, FroSoCo\, East\, Murray\, and Yost\, as she discusses how you could effectively use the experience that you’ve gained this quarter to map the next steps in your academic plan. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20883 LOCATION:Asian American Activities Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T120000 SUMMARY:THE MENTAL COSTS OF MULTI-TASKING UID:events_stanford_edu_21099 DESCRIPTION:Social scientists have long assumed that it's impossible to p rocess more than one string of information at a time. The brain just can 't do it. But many researchers have guessed that people who appear to mu ltitask must have superb control over what they think about and what the y pay attention to. This seminar will report on the study conducted by C liff Nass\, Eval Ophir and Anthony Wagner to learn what gives multitaske rs their edge. \n\nClifford Nass is Thomas M. Storke Professor of Commun ication.\, and by courtesy in Computer Science\; Education\; Science\, T echnology\, and Society\; Sociology\; and Symbolic Systems Nass’ resea rch is informed by the notion that people's relationship with technology is fundamentally social – that is\, people use the same rules and heuri stics when interacting with technologies that they use when interacting with people. Experimental studies of social-psychological aspects of hu man-interactive media interaction in his CHIMe Lab (Communication betwee n Humans and Interactive Media) seek to rapidly advance theory\, assessm ent\, and design of how individuals and groups behave\, feel\, and think \, research must be general\, psychologically informed\, quantitatively grounded\, complementary to partners\, near-term informed\, and broadly disseminated.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21099 LOCATION:#124 Wallenberg Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T120000 SUMMARY:Hanitchak Lecture Series: Noa Kekuewa Lincoln UID:events_stanford_edu_21085 DESCRIPTION:In Cooperation with the Native American Cultural Center and I ndigenous People's Awareness Month Programming\n\nThe American Indian St aff Forum of Stanford University presents the Pam Hanitchak Lecture Seri es with\n\nNoa Kekuewa Lincoln\, Stanford Doctoral Student\, Interdiscip linary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)--and author of a n ew book:\n\n“Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiia n Plants & Polynesian-Introduced Plants”\n\nLunch Will Be Provided.\n\n( The late Pam Hanitchak\, Cherokee\, was a founder of the American Indian Staff Forum\, an organization of employees of Stanford University\, Med ical Center and Hospital and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. This o ngoing lecture series honors her dedication to strengthening our America n Indian\, Alaska Native\, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communit y at Stanford.)\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21085 LOCATION:Native American Cultural Center\, Clubhouse Ground Floor\, 524 L asuen Mall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T120000 SUMMARY:Regenerative Medicine@Stanford Seminar UID:events_stanford_edu_21059 DESCRIPTION:Jason Dugas\, Ph.D. (Barres Lab\, Neurobiology) "How do micro RNAs regulate CNS myelination?"\;\nJames Chen\, Ph.D. (Chemical and Syst ems Biology\, Bio-X) "Transcriptional profiling of the developing mesode rm with chemical probes"\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21059 LOCATION:Munzer Auditorium\, Beckman Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T120000 SUMMARY:Holiday Stress Relief UID:events_stanford_edu_20711 DESCRIPTION:The holidays are almost here. Stretching the budget is worris ome. “Shop till you drop” is exhausting. Decorate often means a day of “ de-cluttering.” Entertaining is not always as joyful as you wish. Help! You need solutions! Hear from educator\, Janada Clark (MA Counseling) ti ps and strategies that can make a big difference in how much you enjoy t he holiday season. \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20711 LOCATION:Oak West Lounge\, Tresidder END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T153000 SUMMARY:Bankruptcy\, Guns\, or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories UID:events_stanford_edu_21061 DESCRIPTION:What happens to armed organizations after they sign peace acc ords? Why do they dissolve\, return to war\, or form non-violent politic al parties? This seminar addresses and seeks to explain this empirical v ariation in former armed groups’' trajectories\, using extensive micro-l evel data on the Colombian paramilitaries. In so doing\, it seeks to con tribute an organizational-level study of peace-building. The trajectorie s explored in this seminar fundamentally shape prospects for peace\, sta te-building\, and democratization\, influence post-war patterns of human rights abuses\, and impact the legalization of war economies.\n\nSarah Zukerman Daly is a 2009-2010 Predoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar. S he is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21061 LOCATION:Encina Hall 2nd Floor East Conference Room\, 616 Serra St.\, Sta nford\, CA 94305 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T161500 SUMMARY:"A Revolution in Political Economy: Party Politics and the Revolu tion of 1688-89 in England"a lecture by Steve Pincus\, Professor of Hist ory\, Yale University UID:events_stanford_edu_21069 DESCRIPTION:The British History Lecture Series presents “A Revolution in Political Economy: Party Politics and the Revolution of 1688-89 in Engla nd” a lecture by Steve Pincus\, Professor of History\, Yale University o n Thursday\, November 12\, 2009 at 4:15 p.m. in Lane History Corner\, r oom 307\n*The British History Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from the Anglo-California Foundation.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21069 LOCATION:Lane History Corner\, room 307 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T161500 SUMMARY:Symbolic Systems Forum: Byron Reeves UID:events_stanford_edu_21011 DESCRIPTION:Byron Reeves\nCommunication Department\n\nTITLE:\nTotal Engag ement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21011 LOCATION:380-380C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T161500 SUMMARY:Chanyou: Poetic Friendships between Buddhist Nuns and Women Poets in Ming-Qing China UID:events_stanford_edu_20507 DESCRIPTION:CEAS COLLOQUIUM SERIES\n\nBeata Grant\, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature\, Washington University\n\nMuch as did their mal e literati counterparts who wrote poetry and visited monks at their mona steries and temples\, women poets of the Ming-Qing period often exchange d poems and visits with Buddhist nuns. The differences between these two groups of literate women -- one living sometimes solitary lives\, but e njoying relative independence\; the other more tightly bound by gender c onstraints and family obligations -- provided them alternative personal and intellectual perspectives. The similarities -- gentry background\, e ducation\, poetic talent\, and philosophical/religious interests -- prov ided them with a common vocabulary. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20507 LOCATION:EVENT CANCELED. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T171500 SUMMARY:"The Path of Desire: Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism." UID:events_stanford_edu_20431 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Reginald Ray (Naropa). "The Path of Desire: Tan tric Saints in Indian Buddhism." 5:15 p.m.\, Levinthal Hall\,Stanford Hu manities Center. Saints and Sages Colloquium. (Co-sponsored by Religious Studies.) URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20431 LOCATION:Levinthal Hall\,Stanford Humanities Center. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T180000 SUMMARY:Israel 101 UID:events_stanford_edu_21055 DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered why a young nation the size of a dot o n the world map is always in the global spotlight? Do you want to know m ore about Israel? \n\nThe Stanford Community is invited to a historical overview of modern Israel with Prof. Steve Zipperstein\, a renowned expe rt in the field\n\nPizza\, Soft Drinks and Israeli Snacks Will Be Served \n\nAll Are Welcome!\n\nSteve Zipperstein has taught modern Jewish histo ry at Stanford since 1991\, and was Director of the Taube Center for Jew ish Studies for sixteen years until his extended leave at Harvard from 2 007-9.  He has written widely on Jewish history\, and the history of Zio nism\, and has taught at universities in Russia\, Poland\, France\, and Israel. \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21055 LOCATION:Career Development Center - Student Services Building (Conferenc e Room)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T180000 SUMMARY:Israel 101 UID:events_stanford_edu_21051 DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered why a young nation the size of a dot o n the world map is always in the global spotlight? Do you want to know m ore about Israel? \n\nThe Stanford Community is invited to a historical overview of modern Israel with Prof. Steve Zipperstein\, a renowned expe rt in the field.\n\nPizza\, Soft Drinks and Israeli Snacks Will Be Serve d\n\nAll Are Welcome!\n\nSteve Zipperstein has taught modern Jewish hist ory at Stanford since 1991\, and was Director of the Taube Center for Je wish Studies for sixteen years until his extended leave at Harvard from 2007-9.  He has written widely on Jewish history\, and the history of Zi onism\, and has taught at universities in Russia\, Poland\, France\, and Israel. \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21051 LOCATION:Carrer Development Center (CDC) - Student Services Building (Con ference Room) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T190000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Joel Leivick UID:events_stanford_edu_19591 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . \n\nLecture by artist Joel Leivick begins at 7pm. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/195/19591 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080017Z DTSTART:20091112T193000 SUMMARY:Interpreting Prokofiev with Joseph Horowitz & Alexander Toradze UID:events_stanford_edu_20045 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of music\, recordings\, and discussion hosted and produced by Joseph Horowitz (who The New York Times h as called “a force in classical music today\, a prophet and an agitator” ) and featuring Alexander Toradze (“arguably the greatest living exponen t of Prokofiev’s piano music\,” according to The London Financial Tim es).\n\nWhy did Sergei Prokofiev choose to return to Stalin’s police state in 1935? What were the tradeoffs shaping his singular odyssey? Wh at can be learned from Prokofiev’s own recordings of his piano music— in cluding the Visions Fugitive\, which will also be heard in live performa nce\, and the Piano Concerto No. 3\, of which Toradze’s recording was on ce voted “the best of all time” in International Piano Quarterly? \n\nThis event\, also featuring Stanford pianists George Barth and Kumar an Arul (who performs the Visions Fugitive)\, begins a four-day Prokofie v festival presented by Stanford Lively Arts. Reviewing the Stanford Liv ely Arts Toradze/Horowitz “Interpreting Stravinsky” festival two seasons ago\, Richard Scheinin wrote in the San Jose Mercury News: “It w as a knockout. Here was one of those rare events we crave as listeners: a set of performances that takes the familiar\, confronts it\, and make it not just new\, but more enjoyable than before.”\n\nJOSEPH HOROWITZ\nA uthor\; Classical Music Historian\nThe most recent of Joseph Horowitz’s eight books\, Artists in Exile (named one of the best books of 20 08 by The Economist)\, explores the impact of 20th-century immigr ation and exile on composers\, actors\, and filmmakers fleeing the Russi an Revolution and Hitler. His other books include Classical Music in America: A History\, Wagner Nights: An American History\, and Understand ing Toscanini (named one of the best books of 1987 by the National B ook Critics Circle).\n\nALEXANDER TORADZE\nPianist Alexander Toradze is one of the world’s most eminent concert pianists. His Prokofiev interpre tations have been characterized by The New York Times as “an epic shriek.” Of his performance of Stravinsky’s Capriccio at Stanford two s easons ago\, Scheinin wrote in the Mercury News: “Toradze’s openi ng flourishes were delivered in a pulverizing flash. Why the keyboard di dn’t collapse is anyone’s guess. He also played with the most delicate\, jazzy refinement. But this complete artist has a very personal—and Russ ian—interpretation of the work.” URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20045 LOCATION:PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE!\nNEW LOCATION: CAMPBELL RECITAL HALL - BRAUN MUSIC CENTER END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T090000 SUMMARY:Transforming Stress\, Transforming Lives - The HeartMath Solution Workshop UID:events_stanford_edu_20775 DESCRIPTION:We live in perhaps the most challenging economic period in ou r lifetime. High levels of emotional distress are among the most costly health problems in terms of health care utilization\, absenteeism\, prog ression of chronic disease and failure to meet productivity standards. H eartMath’s research has shown that transforming stress into productive e nergy can not only improve personal health and well-being\, but it can a lso have a positive impact on productivity\, morale\, and retention. Eac h participant will receive the emWave® Personal Stress Reliever (PSR)\, that will help them learn how to identify and transform the stress respo nse.\nInstructor: Bruce Cryer\, President and CEO of HeartMath LLC. Bruc e has successfully guided the implementation of HeartMath programs at nu merous clinics and businesses across the US. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20775 LOCATION:Medical School Office Building Rm X303 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T120000 SUMMARY:Ethics@noon: Alfred Lane (School of Medicine) "Is death better th an this life?: Ethical Decisions in Severe Genetic Skin Diseases" UID:events_stanford_edu_20349 DESCRIPTION:Your skin is the most admired and ignored organ on your body. Skin becomes extremely important when there is a problem. What should y ou do when you are a parent of a child with a severely deforming and pai nful skin disease? Are you compelled to enroll your child in any researc h program that offers hope? How much risk is too much? What is the corr ect action to do? URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/203/20349 LOCATION:Bldg 110\, 1st floor seminar room (main quad) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T121500 SUMMARY:Human pathogenic and lung inflammatory aerosol exposures associat ed with land application of biosolids UID:events_stanford_edu_20635 DESCRIPTION:Emily Viau\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Civil & Environmental Eng ineering\, Stanford University URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/206/20635 LOCATION:Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building\, Room 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T130000 SUMMARY:DISSERTATION WORKSHOP UID:events_stanford_edu_20731 DESCRIPTION:DISSERTATION WORKSHOP\nFriday\, November 13\, 1-5 pm Location TBA\nBack by popular demand\, this will be an excellent workshop for al l "dissertators"\, whether you're just beginning or well into the writin g process! This hands-on workshop with dissertation coach Liena Vayzman\ , PhD will provide practical\, holistic strategies for dissertation rese arch and writing. Time management\, advisor and committee relations\, or ganization\, healthy life/work balance\, writing exercises\, and mindful ness practices for relieving stress will be addressed. Liena Vayzman is the author of the blog\, "Ask the Dissertation Diva" (www.dissertationdi va.com)\, dispensing real-world advice on the PhD process. Vayzman earne d her PhD in History of Art at Yale University in 2002 and is founder of Dissertation Diva Consulting. Please RSVP to Lori Flores (laflores@stan ford.edu) to reserve your place by FRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 6 - (PLEASE PUT "RS VP DISSERTATION WORKSHOP" IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL). Open to gr aduate women from all disciplines. Refreshments provided. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20731 LOCATION:TBA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T140000 SUMMARY:TECH BRIEFINGS: Designing for the Web with Adobe CS4 Web Premium UID:events_stanford_edu_20917 DESCRIPTION:Learn about the updated versions of the creative tools you re ly on. You’ll discover how to bring your creativity to life with technol ogy advances of Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. \n\nJoin Rick Miller as he showcases the powerful new animation tools\, and faster\, more expressi ve design tools – see how to use Live View in Dreamweaver® to design web pages under real browser conditions with direct access to code\, or ani mate quickly with new object-based animation in Adobe Flash® CS4 Profess ional. \n\nPlus find out how to fuel your creativity and optimize collab orations with the new online communication options accessible from withi n Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20917 LOCATION:Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall\, Room 111) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091113T161500 SUMMARY: A Comparative History of Religion and Secularism in China UID:events_stanford_edu_20509 DESCRIPTION:CEAS COLLOQUIUM SERIES\n\nPrasenjit Duara\, Raffles Professor of Humanities\; Director\, Humanities and Social Sciences Research\;\, National University of Singapore\n\nDiscussant: Mark Lewis\, Kwoh-Ting L i Professor in Chinese Culture\, Stanford University\n\nThis talk will e xplore the long durée history of religion and the state in late imperial China in comparative perspective. Religions in China have not historica lly been associated with tensions over fundamental scriptural or cosmolo gical ideals or with ethnic or communal militancy. Rather\, there has be en competition between the state\, elites and popular groups over the is sue of cosmological hegemony and access to cosmological power. Duara wil l track the ways in which the profile of Chinese society was historicall y shaped by this fault-line. The question of secularism in modern China has to be understood in the context of this particular difference from t he Abrahamic religions. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20509 LOCATION:Philippines Conference Room\, Encina Hall\, 3rd Floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091116T121500 SUMMARY:Crude Oil at the Bemidji Site: 25 Years of Monitoring\, Modeling and Understanding UID:events_stanford_edu_20121 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hedeff Essaid\, Hydrologist\, USGS\, Menlo Park URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/201/20121 LOCATION:Y2E2 Bldg\, Rm 101\, 1st Floor\, Red Atrium. Brown bag lunches a re welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091116T150000 SUMMARY:Science and Religion: New Approaches\, by the Program in History & Philosophy of Science & Technology UID:events_stanford_edu_20897 DESCRIPTION:Science and Religion: New Approaches\n\nspeakers include:\n\n Stephen Gaukroger\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Sydney\n"Th e Enlightenment Historicization of Philosophy and Religion: Fontenelle\, d'Alembert\, and Hume" \n\nPeter Harrison\, Ian Ramsey Centre\, Univers ity of Oxford\n"Natural Philosophy and Experimental Religion in Early Mo dern England"\n\nand Jonathan Sheehan\, Department of History\, Berkeley University\n"On Providence and Probability"\nmoderated by Professor Jes sica Riskin URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20897 LOCATION:Levinthal Hall\, Stanford Humanities Center\, 424 Santa Teresa S t. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091116T161500 SUMMARY:The Script of Difference. Cultural Representation in the Japanese Katakana UID:events_stanford_edu_20511 DESCRIPTION:CEAS COLLOQUIUM SERIES\n\nBlai Guarne\, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow\, Department of Anthropology\, Stanford University / Inter-Asia\ , Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona\n\nhttp://www.fti.uab.es/interasia/ \n\nKatakana is a syllabic script used mainly to transcribe gairaigo ("f oreign words") into Japanese and to express emphasis\, onomatopoeia and other particular issues in written communication. Writing a loanword in katakana shapes the "borrowed" term into the Japanese phonological syste m while marking it in a singular script. Thus\, the katakana performs an ambivalent writing practice that embodies a difference maintaining it l ocated in social experience. Guarné will discuss this multifaceted role of the katakana script in the cultural (re)production of difference in a globalized Japan.\n\nBlai Guarné is an associate professor of anthropol ogy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and a member of the Int er-Asia Research Group (http://www.fti.uab.es/interasia/) at the Univers itat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is currently a postdoctoral visiting fell ow in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University funded by th e Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Autonomous Government). Previously\, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo funded by the Japanese Government. During hi s tenure at the University of Tokyo\, he conducted fieldwork focusing on cultural production of difference in a globalized Japan. His current re search interests range from visual culture to postcolonial and cultural studies. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20511 LOCATION:Philippines Conference Room\, Encina Hall\, 3rd Floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T001500 SUMMARY:Peter the Great and the Founding of 'Sanktpiterburkh' UID:events_stanford_edu_20927 DESCRIPTION:History Department presents: Slide-Illustrated Lecture Series : "A Survey of Russian Art and Architecture\, 11th - 18th Centuries. Lec ture #4 in the series.\n\nJack Kollmann\, Lecturer\, Center for Russian\ , East European & Eurasian Studies\n\nThis lecture series -- open to all interested persons -- is part of Professor Nancy Kollmann's course\, Hi story 20A/120A\, "Russian Civilization from the Beginnings to the Enligh tenment\, 1400-1762".\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20927 LOCATION:Bldg. 160 (Wallenberg Hall)\, Rm. 314 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T120000 SUMMARY:The Merger of The Two Germanys - A Balance after 20 Years UID:events_stanford_edu_20717 DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Peter Schneider URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20717 LOCATION:History\, Building 200\, Room 307 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T161500 SUMMARY:Engineering Semiconductors and Engaging Diamonds for Spintronics UID:events_stanford_edu_20987 DESCRIPTION:Prof. David Awschalom from the Dept. of Physics\, Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara will give a colloquium entitl ed\, "Engineering Semiconductors and Engaging Diamonds for Spintronics" URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20987 LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center\, Rm. 201 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T170000 SUMMARY:New Models of Philanthropy in the 21st Century UID:events_stanford_edu_21077 DESCRIPTION:Join 21st century leaders in philanthropy\, Laura Arrillaga-A ndreessen\, Russ Hall and Jessica Jackley to learn about how they launch ed successful new philanthropic models impacting social change.\nModerat ed by Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Executive Direct or\, Kim Meredith.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21077 LOCATION:The Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa (behind Tresidder) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T173000 SUMMARY:California’s Catalyst for Change featuring Kamala Harris UID:events_stanford_edu_20821 DESCRIPTION:Ms. Harris has been in public service for nearly twenty years and was elected as the first woman District Attorney in San Francisco's history\, and as the first African American woman District Attorney in California. Featured on Oprah as one of “America's Most Powerful Women" and named by The New York Times as one of 17 women most likely to become the first female president of the United States\, Kamala represents a n ew generation of progressive leadership both here in California and nati onwide.\n\nMost recently\, Ms. Harris was recognized by Lifetime Televis ion among other prominent and accomplished women such as First Lady Mich elle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for her commitm ent to justice. The praise Ms. Harris has garnered is a result of her ou tstanding track record as District Attorney: she raised the felony convi ction rate in San Francisco to 67%\, the highest in over a decade. She d id this by not just being tough on crime\, but also "smart on crime." In addition to increasing convictions for serious and violent crimes\, Ms. Harris has also championed education by using truancy statutes to impro ve attendance at schools and has pioneered programs to protect and aid t he families of victims. To learn more\, please visit http://kamalaharris .com and http://www.facebook.com/KamalaHarris.\n\nCo-Sponsored by The Ha as Center for Public Service\, Stanford Criminal Justice Center\, Stanfo rd Democrats\, Sanskriti\, Black Law Students Association\, Women of Col or Action Network\, Stanford Latino Law Students Association\, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties\, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated\, Stanford Pre-Law Society\, The John & Terry Levin Center for Public Service & Public Interest Law\, The Black Community Services Center\, and Kaplan Test Prep \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20821 LOCATION:The Black Community Services Center Henry and Monique Brandon Fa mily Community Room\n418 Santa Teresa St.\nStanford\, CA 94305-4009\n650 ) 723-1587 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T190000 SUMMARY:Cafe Scientifique at Stanford Blood Center: “Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa: How a Community’s Response Can Save a Child’s Life” UID:events_stanford_edu_21019 DESCRIPTION:Ruthann Richter\, award-winning writer and Director of Media Relations at Stanford University School of Medicine\, and Karen Ande\, a cclaimed photographer\, will offer a glimpse of their new book about the ir experiences in the bush of East Africa and slums of Nairobi. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21019 LOCATION:Stanford Blood Center\n3373 Hillview Ave.\,\nPalo Alto\, 94304 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T193000 SUMMARY:Zap! The X-ray Laser Is Born UID:events_stanford_edu_20833 DESCRIPTION:SLAC has converted its giant particle accelerator into the wo rld's first X-ray laser. By a billion fold the world's brightest X-ray s ource\, the laser packs a trillion photons into pulses as short as a mil lionth of a billionth of a second. The ultra-bright\, ultra-short X-ray pulses will drive a wide range of new experiments\, as scientists strip electrons from atoms\, photograph single molecules and make movies of ch emical reactions. \nHow has SLAC accomplished such feats of X-ray wizard ry? Attend this public lecture to learn about the basics of an X-ray las er\, the technologies at SLAC that make it possible\, and the exciting n ew experiments now underway. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20833 LOCATION:Panofsky Auditorium - SLAC National Accerator Laboratory\, 2575 Sand Hill Rd\, Menlo Park\, CA 94025 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T121500 SUMMARY:EESS Fall 09-10 Seminar Series: Leif Thomas\, Environmental Earth System Science\, Stanford University UID:events_stanford_edu_20483 DESCRIPTION:Department of Environmental Earth System Science Seminar:\n \ntbd URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20483 LOCATION:Y2E2 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T161500 SUMMARY:The Energy Seminar UID:events_stanford_edu_19947 DESCRIPTION:The weekly Energy Seminar is an interdisciplinary series of t alks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad range of energy topics. Dr op-ins welcome.\n\nThis week's speaker is John Benner\, National Renewab le Energy Laboratory addressing 'Solar Energy at Scale: Materials Supply \, Environmental Impact\, and Manufacturing Energy Consumption'.\n\nThan k you to Chevron for sponsoring the Energy Seminar URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/199/19947 LOCATION:Building 420 (Jordan Hall)\, downstairs in Room 40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T163000 SUMMARY:Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture - Global Innovation Tourn ament Showcase UID:events_stanford_edu_20213 DESCRIPTION:Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from business \, finance\, technology\, education\, and philanthropy\, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world.\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/202/20213 LOCATION:Skilling Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T180000 SUMMARY:"The Importance of Understanding the Past: Greece\, China\, Mesop otamia" UID:events_stanford_edu_21057 DESCRIPTION:Sir Geoffrey Lloyd\, Emeritus Professor of Classics\, Cambrid ge University\, will review recent developments in the study of science\ , medicine\, and religion in ancient Greece\, China\, and Mesopotamia.\n \nFocusing on the social and intellectual institutions that favored or i nhibited innovation\, the lecture will suggest that understanding the pa st is an exercise in understanding others and that nothing could be more vital in the world today. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21057 LOCATION:Stanford University\nMain Quad\, Building 320\, Room 105\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T180000 SUMMARY:Ben Fry - David H. Liu Memorial Lecture UID:events_stanford_edu_20461 DESCRIPTION:Ben Fry is director of Seed Visualization and its Phyllotaxis Lab\, a design laboratory in Cambridge\, Massachusetts focused on under standing complex data.\n\nFry received his doctoral degree from the Aest hetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory\, where his resea rch focused on combining fields such as computer science\, statistics\, graphic design\, and data visualization as a means for understanding inf ormation. After completing his thesis\, he spent time developing tools f or visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the El i & Edythe L. Broad Insitute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 scho ol year\, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. At the end of 2007\, he finished writing Visualizing Data for O'Reilly.\n\nWith Casey Reas of UCLA\, he currently develops Pr ocessing\, an open source programming environment for teaching computati onal design and sketching interactive media software that won a Golden N ica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. The project also received the 2005 Interactive Design prize from the Tokyo Type Director's Club. In 2 006\, Fry received a New Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundatio n to support the project. Processing was also featured in the 2006 Coope r-Hewitt Design Triennial. In 2007\, Reas and Fry published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists with MIT Press. Processing 1.0 was released in November 2008\, and is used by tens of th ousands of people every week.\n\nFry's personal work has shown at the Wh itney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003. O ther pieces have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, at A rs Electronica in Linz\, Austria and in the films Minority Report and Th e Hulk. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature\, New York Magazine\, The New York Times\, Seed\, and Com munications of the ACM. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20461 LOCATION:Herrin T175 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091118T190000 SUMMARY:Greg Epstein\, "Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious Peo ple Do Believe" UID:events_stanford_edu_20953 DESCRIPTION:See Greg M. Epstein speak about his new book\, Good Without G od: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. A Q&A and book-signin g will follow the lecture.\n\nIn response to the "New Atheists" who see religion as a public enemy\, Epstein presents Humanism as a more balance d and inclusive worldview. With a focus on the positive\, he highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead l ives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of communit y we want and often need in good times and bad\, as we celebrate marriag es and the birth of our children\, and as we care for those who are elde rly or sick. In short\, Humanism teaches us that we can lead good and mo ral lives without supernaturalism\, without higher powers\, and without God.\n\nGreg Epstein\, called "the most outspoken voice for Humanism in the United States" by New York magazine\, serves as the Humanist Chaplai n of Harvard University. In 2005 Epstein received ordination as a Humani st Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism \, where he studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an MA (Judaic Studies) from the Universit y of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and a Masters of Theological Studies from th e Harvard Divinity School. Epstein is a regular contributor for "On Fait h\," an online forum on religion produced by Newsweek magazine\, the Was hington Post\, and Tikkun\, and his work as a Humanist rabbi and Chaplai n has been featured by National Public Radio\, BBC Radio\, Newsweek\, US News and World Report\, USA Today\, the Boston Globe\, the Jewish Daily Forward\, and many more. He was also selected by the United Nations Gen eral Assembly to serve as a representative of Humanism at a "High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Interreligious and Intercultural Und erstanding and Cooperation for Peace."\n\nCo-sponsored by the Silicon Va lley Coalition of Reason and ASSU Speakers Bureau\, and supported by the ASSU Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20953 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium\, School of Education END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T080000 SUMMARY:2009 Kailath Lecture & Colloquium: Dr. Andrew Viterbi UID:events_stanford_edu_20783 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrew Viterbi and other colloquium speakers URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20783 LOCATION:Tresidder Oak Room END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T120000 SUMMARY:THE HP PHENOMENON UID:events_stanford_edu_21101 DESCRIPTION:This seminar will present the philosophies\, practices\, and organizational principles that enabled Hewlett-Packard to significantly transform itself six times\, while most of its competitors were unable to make even one major transformation. Drawn from the recently publishe d Stanford Business Books\, The HP Phenomenon\, co-authored by Chuck Hou se and Raymond Price\, the seminar will explore the “Spirit of innovatio n\,” innovation that is customer-centered\, contribution-driven\, and gr owth-focused. Lessons from the history of Hewlett-Packard provide insig hts on leadership that emphasizes bottom-up innovation and has sufficien t flexibility to see results brought to the marketplace\, as well as bro ught alive inside the company.\n\nCharles (Chuck) House is Executive Dir ector for Media X and Senior Research Scholar in the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. House is deeply involved with questions of technology’s effect on society. Pr eviously\, he led the Research Collaboratory and served as director of S ocietal Impact of Technology for Intel Corporation\, after executive man agement positions at Dialogic\, Spectron Microsystems\, Veritas\, Inform ix\, and Hewlett-Packard.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/211/21101 LOCATION:#124 Wallenberg Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T120000 SUMMARY:Regenerative Medicine@Stanford Special Seminar UID:events_stanford_edu_21097 DESCRIPTION:Michael Karin\, Ph.D. (UCSD) "From infection to obesity: Cont rol of tumor progression and metastasis by proinflammatory signals"\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21097 LOCATION:Clark Auditorium\, Clark Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T121500 SUMMARY:"A Niche of Their Own: The Buddhist Women of Bao shan." UID:events_stanford_edu_20433 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Wendi Adamek (Stanford Humanities Center Fellow ). "A Niche of Their Own: The Buddhist Women of Bao shan." 12:15 p.m.\, Building 70\, Room 72A1. HCBSS Fellows Colloquium (joint meeting with Re ligious Studies Colloquium). URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20433 LOCATION:Building 70\, Room 72A1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T153000 SUMMARY:Bridging the (liquid) rift - International Oceanographic Studies of the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat) UID:events_stanford_edu_20887 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Monismith studies flows in lakes\, estuaries\, and th e coastal ocean. Current projects include field and computational work o n wave-driven flows over coral reefs\, transport in a small estuary/wetl and complex\, wind-waves in shallow estuaries\, benthic grazing on coral reefs and in estuaries\, internal waves and mixing in the Florida Keys\ , circulation and zooplankton retention in ther St. Lawrence estuary\, m ixed layer dynamics and circulation in the Gulf of Aqaba\, as well as la b and computational studies of flows through coral colonies and kelp for ests. He especially values field sites that are attractive (e.g. have go od diving prospects) and have good restaurants. He is also involved with various scientific panels focusing on the San Francisco Bay/Delta inclu ding the IEP Science advisor group (which he chairs) and various CALFED advisory panels and groups. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20887 LOCATION:CISAC\, Encina Hall 2nd Floor\, 616 Serra St.\, Stanford\, CA 94 305 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T161500 SUMMARY:Symbolic Systems Forum: Christos Papadimitriou UID:events_stanford_edu_21013 DESCRIPTION:Christos Papadimitriou\nComputer Science Division\, UC Berkel ey\n\nTITLE:\nThe Logicomix Tour!\nhttp://www.logicomix.com/en/ URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21013 LOCATION:380-380C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T163000 SUMMARY:Book Event Featuring Fredi Kronenberg: "Botanical Medicine: fro m Bench to Bedside" UID:events_stanford_edu_20839 DESCRIPTION:Clayman Institute Faculty Research Fellow\, Fredi Kronenberg\ , PhD\, presents this new reference book\, "Botanical Medicine: From Ben ch to Bedside". The book provides a comprehensive overview and examples of the scientific and quality control issues related to pre-clinical and clinical trials of dietary supplements. Dr. Kronenberg will discuss the book and be available to answer questions. The book will be available f or sale at the event. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20839 LOCATION:The Clayman Institute - Serra House\n589 Capistrano Way\nStanfor d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T171500 SUMMARY:Getting Grants from Foundations and Nonprofits UID:events_stanford_edu_20643 DESCRIPTION:This session will focus on the specific and often highly spec ialized funding interests of the "other" grantmakers: foundations and no nprofits. Similarities and differences between the NIH and foundations/N Ps will be detailed. Funding opportunity search strategies\, formally an d informally initiating contact with grant officers\, proposal developme nt with a keen eye for the interest of the agency\, and maintaining stra tegic relationships with the funding source\, will be discussed.\n\nInst ructor: Bryan Haines Ph.D. - Genentech URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/206/20643 LOCATION:Alway Bldg\; RM M114 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T180000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Jamie Meltzer UID:events_stanford_edu_19593 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . \n\nLecture by artist Jamie Meltzer begins at 7pm preceded by film "We lcome to Nollywood" at 6pm. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/195/19593 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T193000 SUMMARY:Thanksgiving Harvest Reading with David Mas Masumoto UID:events_stanford_edu_20047 DESCRIPTION:Please join us on the Thursday before Thanksgiving for a read ing by the much-admired writer\, popular columnist\, and organic peach f armer David Mas Masumoto. Masumoto is the award-winning author of nine b ooks including Epitaph for a Peach\, Harvest Son\, Four Seasons in Fi ve Senses\, Letters to the Valley\, and Heirlooms. This Fall he is publishing a memoir entitled Wisdom of the Last Farmer. A t hird-generation farmer\, Masumoto grows certified organic peaches\, nect arines\, grapes\, and raisins. He works with his family on their eighty- acre organic farm south of Fresno\, and is a persuasive advocate for org anic farming\, small farms\, and diversified agriculture. He is also a c olumnist for the Fresno Bee\, and has written for The New York Times Magazine\, USA Today\, and the Los Angeles Times.\n\nHailed by The New York Times as “a poet of farming\,” and b y the Los Angeles Times as a “Rockstar Farmer” who “uses his farm as Thoreau did his Walden Pond\,” Masumoto weaves together stories of f amily and farming\, and life and death\, to reveal age-old wisdom that i s fast disappearing—and urgently needed. Through Masumoto’s quiet eloque nce\, we see how our own destinies are involved in the future of our foo d\, the land\, and the farm.\n\nPlease join us for what promises to be a delightful and memorable evening with one of California’s most inspirin g writers.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20047 LOCATION:Geology Corner (Bldg 320)\, Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T200000 SUMMARY:Moshe Halbertal " At the Threshold of Forgiveness: On Law and Nar rative in the Talmud" - The Aaron-Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies UID:events_stanford_edu_21047 DESCRIPTION:Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU School of Law a nd a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University in 1989\, and from 1988-92 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Moshe Hal bertal has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School\, a nd at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.\nHe is the author of th e books Idolatry (co-authored with Avishai Margalit)\, and People of the Book: Canon\, Meaning\, and Authority\, both published by Harvard Unive rsity Press\, and of Concealment and Revelation published by Princeton U niversity Press. He has also authored two books\, Interpretative Revolut ions in the Making\, and Between Torah and Wisdom: R Menachem ha-Meiri a nd The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence\, both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His latest book in Hebrew is By Way of Truth: Nachmanides and the Creation of Tradition\, published by the Shalom Hartman Institut e.\nMoshe Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschil d Foundation\, and the Goldstein-Goren award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997-2000.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21047 LOCATION:Levinthal Hall-Stanford Humanities Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091120T121500 SUMMARY:Adoption and diffusion of household sanitation in developing coun tries\, and\, Optimizing design and operating factors for BioSand filter in Kenya UID:events_stanford_edu_20403 DESCRIPTION:Mimi Jenkins\, UC Davis URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20403 LOCATION:Y2E2\, 473 Via Ortega\, Room 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091120T140000 SUMMARY:TECH BRIEFINGS: Web Collaboration Tools UID:events_stanford_edu_20919 DESCRIPTION:Web Collaboration Tools is an effort to engage awareness to t he Stanford community about a set of products that is available for publ ishing and managing department\, group\, and in the future\, a class web presence. This Tech Briefing will promote the use of the following tool s which will be extremely helpful to the web administrators across campu s:\n\n- Media Wiki - a customizable wiki tool\n- Drupal - a web content publishing system\n- WordPress - a blogging tool\n- Web AFS - a web-base d tool to access central AFS storage space\n\nCome learn how some depart ments are using these tools and how you can take advantage of some\, or even all of them to manage your department's content on the web. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20919 LOCATION:Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall\, Room 111) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091120T153000 SUMMARY:Joseph Slaughter Book Discussion UID:events_stanford_edu_20979 DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of the Novel is proud to host Profes sor Joseph Slaughter of Columbia University\, who will be discussing his new book "Human Rights Inc.: The World Novel\, Narrative Form\, and Int ernational Law" in conversation with Professor Michael Rubenstein (Berke ley) and Professor Saikat Majumdar (Stanford). URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20979 LOCATION:English Department Terrace Room (Bldg. 460\, Room 426) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091130T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Autumn Gem" (approx. running time 60 min.) UID:events_stanford_edu_20537 DESCRIPTION:With Introduction by Thomas Mullaney\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Stanford University\, and Q & A with the producers following t he screening.\n\nAUTUMN GEM explores the extraordinary life of the Chine se revolutionary heroine and women's rights activist Qiu Jin (1875 - 190 7). During the reign of the last dynasty in China\, Qiu Jin boldly chall enged traditional gender roles and demanded equal rights and opportuniti es for women. At a time when women's lives were often marked by repressi ve practices such as footbinding\, arranged marriages\, and denial of ed ucation\, she envisioned a future where women would free themselves from the confines of tradition and emerge as strong and active citizens of a new and modern nation.\n\nThis project brings the story of Qiu Jin to t he screen in the form of a biographical documentary produced in HD video . It offers a fresh perspective on women in China by sharing the story o f a figure known as the country's first feminist. In exploring the life and work of Qiu Jin\, the project unveils a remarkable chapter in the hi story of modern China and provides a deeper understanding of the lives o f Chinese women today.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20537 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium (Education Building) - 485 LASUEN MALL END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091202T121500 SUMMARY:EESS Fall 09-10 Seminar Series: Chris Francis\, Environmental Ear th System Science\, Stanford University UID:events_stanford_edu_20485 DESCRIPTION:Department of Environmental Earth System Science Seminar:\n \ntbd URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20485 LOCATION:Y2E2 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091202T161500 SUMMARY:The Energy Seminar UID:events_stanford_edu_19945 DESCRIPTION:The weekly Energy Seminar is an interdisciplinary series of t alks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad range of energy topics. Dr op-ins welcome.\n\nThis week's speaker is Heidi Cullen\, Director of Com munications\, Senior Research Scientist\, Climate Central addressing 'Se eing Climate\, Seeing Change: Communication Climate Science in a Changin g Media Landscape'.\n\nThank you to Chevron for sponsoring the Energy Se minar URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/199/19945 LOCATION:Building 420 (Jordan Hall)\, downstairs in Room 40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091202T190000 SUMMARY:Eudora Welty at 100 UID:events_stanford_edu_20035 DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s finest prose writers\, the incomparable Eudora Welty\, a nativ e and life-long resident of Jackson\, Mississippi. Welty’s beautifully c rafted\, joyous\, and wise stories\, often set in the South\, cross the lines of color and class\, offering unforgettable portraits of a region and its people. She was the author of ten collections of short stories\, six novels\, and five books of literary criticism. Her many awards incl ude the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973.\n\nTo celebrate Welty’s 100t h birthday\, Continuing Studies has invited her biographer and friend Su zanne Marrs to talk about Welty and her legacy. Marrs’ 2005 biography\, entitled simply Eudora Welty\, is regarded as the definitive life story\ , and one that the Dallas Morning News said “captures the humorous and u nconventional spirit of one of the South’s greatest writers.”\n\nOur eve ning celebration also features readings of some of Welty’s most popular short stories (“Why I Live at the P.O.\,” “A Worn Path\,” “Old Mr. Marbl ehall”) and a scene from the play based on her novella\, The Ponder Hear t\, which drew critical praise on Broadway in 1956. These performances—b y Courtney Walsh\, Aleta Hayes\, and Rush Rehm—will be supplemented by p rojections of Welty’s extraordinary photographs\, many of them made whil e she worked for the WPA in the 1930s\, bearing clear-eyed witness to th e human and architectural landscape of the South.\n\nSUZANNE MARRS\nProf essor of English\, Millsaps College\nSuzanne Marrs’ research centers on the American South and especially on Eudora Welty. She has lectured wide ly on Welty’s fiction\, serving as consultant for the 1987 BBC documenta ry on the writer. In addition to numerous articles\, Marrs has published The Welty Collection\, Welty and Politics\, One Writer’s Imagination: T he Fiction of Eudora Welty\, and the biography Eudora Welty. Recipient o f the 1998 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Eudora Welty Sch olarship\, Professor Marrs is currently Welty Foundation Scholar in Resi dence.\n\nRUSH REHM\nProfessor of Drama and Classics\; Artistic Director \, Stanford Summer Theater (SST)\nRush Rehm has written extensively on G reek tragedy\, including Greek Tragic Theatre\, Marriage to Death\, The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy\, and Radical The atre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World. Rehm has taught several course s for Continuing Studies and the Master of Liberal Arts program. Last ye ar he directed “The Time of Your Life: A William Saroyan Evening” and th is past Summer he directed The Electra Festival for Stanford Summer Thea ter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20035 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium\, School of Education END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091203T153000 SUMMARY:Recent Developments in Laser Weapons and the Assessment of Their Implications for Space Security UID:events_stanford_edu_20889 DESCRIPTION:The term laser weapon implies the use of a laser as part of a so-called directed energy weapon (DEW). In that case\, the laser energy is causing the target damage. Military research led to the development of experimental lasers with continuous output powers up to 140 kW in 196 6 and two Megawatts in 1980. However\, those systems were huge and not p art of laser weapon systems.\n\nSince the 1980s the development in the m ilitary continued. Remarkably\, civilian lasers\, developed for industri al machining\, have now reached output powers\, which can be useful for DEW applications\, too. Recently\, several prototypes came into operatio n. On the one hand\, there are industry-funded projects that use civilia n of-the-shelf industrial lasers. On the other hand\, there is governmen t-funded research\, which aims at high power laser systems. Major defens e companies in the United States and elsewhere are working on both track s.\n\nAnti-satellite (ASAT) laser engagements would be a revolutionary l aser application\, as they would in principle enable an option of attack s on satellites with only minor debris. At the moment\, attacking satell ites implies the use of missiles with kinetic or explosive warheads. A k inetic impact creates debris\, which would be harmful to the attacker's space assets\, too. For that reason\, space faring nations are discourag ed from using kinetic energy attacks.\n\nThis fact enacts a kind of "nat ural" arms control. Lasers could change this situation\, if they are use d to heat up satellites just to a point where their electronics are dama ged or only to impair their sensors. Hence\, attacks on satellites would be more likely\, if laser DEW with anti-satellite capabilities are fiel ded in peacetime. In a time of crisis\, this would create additional pol itical instabilities\, as satellites are important early warning and rec onnaissance assets. A deployment of laser ASATs could eventually lead t o an arms race in space. In order to make this scenario less likely arms control mechanism could be implemented.\n\nThis talk will focus on the technological background of laser ASATs. After a short introduction into recent technological developments\, it will be examined whether current laser technology has the ability to endanger satellites. To achieve thi s\, a physics-based method has been devised to assess laser DEW engageme nts. Damage mechanisms as well as possible distinctions between industri al laser setups and laser weapons will be examined in greater detail. O ptions for controlling laser ASATs and obstacles for the implementations of such controls will be introduced.\n\nSpeaker: Jan Stupl\, CISAC Post doctoral Fellow URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20889 LOCATION:CISAC\, Encina Hall 2nd Floor\, 616 Serra St.\, Stanford\, CA 94 305 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091203T161500 SUMMARY:Symbolic Systems Forum: Jim Gemmell UID:events_stanford_edu_21015 DESCRIPTION:Jim Gemmell\nMicrosoft Research URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21015 LOCATION:380-380C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091203T190000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Enrique Chagoya UID:events_stanford_edu_19595 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . \n\nLecture by artist Enrique Chagoya begins at 7pm. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/195/19595 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091204T120000 SUMMARY:Ethics@noon: William Hurlbut (Neuroscience Institute) UID:events_stanford_edu_20351 DESCRIPTION:Title and abstract to be posted shortly. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/203/20351 LOCATION:Bldg 110\, 1st floor seminar room (main quad) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091204T120000 SUMMARY:Linking Global Change and Ecological Response: Dynamics and Impa cts of Declining Ocean pH on a Coastal Ecosystem UID:events_stanford_edu_20259 DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Tim Wooten\nUniversity of Chicago URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/202/20259 LOCATION:Hopkins Marine Station\, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall\, Pacif ic Grove END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091204T121500 SUMMARY:Biofilms in water distribution and microbial source tracking UID:events_stanford_edu_20637 DESCRIPTION:Stefan Weurtz\, Professor\, UC Davis URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/206/20637 LOCATION:Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building\, Room 111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091204T140000 SUMMARY: TECH BRIEFINGS: Drupal Workshop\, Part Two: Basic Configuration UID:events_stanford_edu_20921 DESCRIPTION:This is the second in a series of hands-on workshops covering Drupal installation and development at Stanford. Bring a laptop and fol low along!\n\nPart 2 - Basic Configuration\, Continued will pick up wher e Part 1 - Installing Drupal left off\, going step-by-step through addit ional basic configuration of a new Drupal site.\n\nPlease Note: In order to follow along during the workshop\, you will need to have ALREADY ins talled and configured a Drupal site in group or departmental AFS space f ollowing the directions from Drupal Workshop\, Part 1 — Installing Drupa l (http://drupaltraining.stanford.edu/workshop1/handout) BEFORE the work shop. This takes about 90 minutes if you already have -admins privileges for the relevant group/dept AFS account. (If you need to request a new AFS group/dept account or get added to an existing account's -admins PTS group\, it will take longer.)\n\nThere will be a limited number of temp orary accounts available for use by attendees who cannot get access to a department/group AFS account. Please let us know if you will need acces s to a temporary account via this contact form: http://drupaltraining.st anford.edu/contact . Select the category "Need Temporary AFS Account Acc ess for Tech Briefing" and include your SUNet ID in your message. Rememb er to request this far enough in advance to allow both time for account access to be granted (which may take up to 24 hours) and time to complet e the preliminary installation and configuration (http://drupaltraining. stanford.edu/workshop1/handout).\n\nAttendees who were given a temporary account for the Part 1 - Installing Drupal workshop may continue to use the same Drupal installation for Part 2. Remember\, if you changed anyt hing after the first workshop\, make sure to reconfigure your Drupal sit e according to the Part 1 handout (http://drupaltraining.stanford.edu/wo rkshop1/handout)! URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20921 LOCATION:Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall\, Room 111) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091207T163000 SUMMARY:Herant Katchadourian on Guilt UID:events_stanford_edu_20911 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Emeritus Herant Katchadourian will speak about his new book GUILT: THE BITE OF CONSCIENCE published by Stanford University Pres s. Reception to follow. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20911 LOCATION:McCaw Hall\, Arrillaga Alumni Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091208T120000 SUMMARY:Psychological Secrets of Generation Y (Tweens\,Teens & 20-somethi ngs) UID:events_stanford_edu_21089 DESCRIPTION:Psychologist & author Kit Yarrow offers insights about the un ique psychology of Generation Y. Dr. Yarrow will share findings from he r research that go beyond the labels\, accusations & accolades to a deep er understanding of the "why" of Gen Y. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21089 LOCATION:Mariposa House\, 1st floor conference room END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091208T161500 SUMMARY:"Plutonium Metallurgy: From 5f Electrons to Bombs" UID:events_stanford_edu_21007 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Siegfried Hecker of Stanford University's Dept. of Mgmt . Science & Engineering will give a colloquium entitled\, "Plutonium Met allurgy: From 5f Electrons to Bombs" URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21007 LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center\, Rm. 201 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091209T073000 SUMMARY:Stanford Breakfast Briefings: Long Life in the 21st Century UID:events_stanford_edu_21081 DESCRIPTION:Presents: Laura Carstensen\nProfessor of Psychology\, Stanfor d University\n\nWe are approaching a watershed moment in human history. In just a few years\, the number of Americans over 60 will surpass the n umber of children under 15. By the time our children reach old age\, liv ing to 100 will be commonplace.\n\nRather than perceiving this as good n ews\, most people respond to extended longevity with discussions about c oping with or halting the aging process. Yet\, to the extent that people arrive at old age mentally sharp\, physically fit\, and financially sec ure\, long-lived societies will thrive.\n\nProfessor Carstensen argues t hat among the most pressing needs of the modern world is the development of “longevity science.” Science and technology offer alternatives to ca tastrophic predictions about societies that are overburdened by frail el ders. Advances in science can form the basis of a culture in which we im prove quality of life at all ages\, and psychological science must be an essential part of that process. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21081 LOCATION:Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Ave END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091210T120000 SUMMARY:Building Your Child's Self-Esteem and Personal Power UID:events_stanford_edu_20713 DESCRIPTION:Parents are the most influential people in a growing child’s life. Your children’s feelings of self-esteem and personal power are bas ed on beliefs and actions that they learn from you and society! Hear fro m Parent Educator\, Cynthia Klein on how to avoid the parental communica tion blocks that may hinder your child’s personal power development.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20713 LOCATION:Cypress Lounge\, Tresidder END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091210T180000 SUMMARY:“Writing a Persian Novel in America” UID:events_stanford_edu_19843 DESCRIPTION:Guest: Shahryar Mandanipour\nShahryar Mandanipour is an award -winning Iranian and is now a well-known International Writer. He won th e Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel of 2004\; the Gol den Tablet Award for best fiction of the past 20 years in Iran\, 1998\; and Best Film Critique at the Press Festival in Tehran (1994).\n\nShahry ar was the founder of Asr-e Pandjshanbeh (Thursday Evening)\, a monthly literary journal published since 1999 in Shiraz. He was also director of the Hafiz Research Center in Shiraz and was previously director of the National Library of Fars and director of the Bureau of Fars Province Pub lic Libraries in Shiraz. He holds a BA in political science from Tehran University. For the past two years\, he has been Artist in Residence at Braun University and Harvard University. His new novel is published by A lfred Knoff in the US in seven different languages around the world. ” \ n\nMap: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-200 \nClosest pa rking is at the Oval. Look for Lasuen Mall (located to your left\, if f acing Memorial Church).\n\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/198/19843 LOCATION:Lane History Corner\, Building 200\, Room 030 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091211T120000 SUMMARY:You don't know what you've got til it's gone: The Ecological Imp ortance of and Acidification Threats to Crustose Coralline Algae UID:events_stanford_edu_20261 DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Bob Steneck\nUniversity of Maine URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/202/20261 LOCATION:Hopkins Marine Station\, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall\, Pacif ic Grove END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091215T160000 SUMMARY:Annual Dorfman Lecture UID:events_stanford_edu_20147 DESCRIPTION:pending URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/201/20147 LOCATION:pending END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100121T171500 SUMMARY:"From Vairocana to Aksobhya: The Early Development of Alchi Monas tery\, Ladakh." UID:events_stanford_edu_20439 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Christian Luczanits (Religious Studies). “From Vairocana to Akṣ\;obhya: The Early Development of Alchi Monastery\, Ladakh.” 5:15 p.m.\, Encina Hall West 208. Tibetan Studies Initiative. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20439 LOCATION:Encina Hall West\, Room 208 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100125T120000 SUMMARY:The Regional Context of Turkey’s Foreign Policy UID:events_stanford_edu_20971 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ahmet Evin\, Sabanci University (Turkey)\; Trans-Atlant ic Academy Fellow\n\n“The Regional Context of Turkey’s Foreign Policy"\n \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20971 LOCATION:Encina Hall East\, E008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100126T180000 SUMMARY:"The Social Contact in Iran" UID:events_stanford_edu_19831 DESCRIPTION:Guest: Paul Rivlin\nPaul Rivlin is an economist and senior re search fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Stud ies at Tel Aviv University. He studied at Cambridge\, London and Harvard Universities and is the author of four books: The Dynamics of Economic Policy Making in Egypt\; The Israeli Economy\; Economic Policy and Perfo rmance in the Arab World\, and Arab Economies in the Twenty First Centur y as well as monographs\, papers\, reports and contributions to books on economic development in the Middle East\, international energy markets\ , defense and trade economics. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Middle East economics at Tel Aviv\, London and Ben Gurion Uni versities and has been a visiting professor at Emory University.\n\n\nMa p: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-260\nClosest parking is at the Oval. Look for Lasuen Mall (located to your left\, if facing Memorial Church).\n\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/198/19831 LOCATION:Pigott Hall\, Building 260\, Room 113 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100130T130000 SUMMARY:"The Tibetan Buddhist Mandala and Its Evolution." UID:events_stanford_edu_20441 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Christian Luczanits (Religious Studies). “The T ibetan Buddhist Mandala and Its Evolution.” 1:00-4:00 p.m.\, location to be announced. TT & WF Chao Lectures on Buddhist Art (co-sponsored by St anford Continuing Studies and TSI). URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20441 LOCATION:TBA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100201T170000 SUMMARY:Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor Lecture by Frederick Coo per UID:events_stanford_edu_19415 DESCRIPTION:About Frederick Cooper\nFrederick Cooper is Professor of Hist ory at New York University. He is the author of a trilogy of books on la bor and society in East Africa and more recently of "Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa" (1996) \, "Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present" (2002)\, and "Colonialis m in Question: Theory\, Knowledge\, History" (2005).\n\nHe is also co-au thor with Thomas Holt and Rebecca Scott of "Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race\, Labor\, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies" (2000 )\, and co-editor with Ann Stoler of "Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultu res in a Bourgeois World" (1997)\, with Randall Packard of "Internationa l Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politic s of Knowledge" (1997)\, and with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore of "Less ons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power" (2006).\n\nHis boo k co-authored with Jane Burbank\, "Empires in World History" is currentl y in press\, and he is working on the history of citizenship in France a nd French West Africa between 1945 and 1960.\n\nAbout this Lecture Serie s\nA gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19415 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100202T160000 SUMMARY:Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor Seminar by Frederick Coo per UID:events_stanford_edu_19417 DESCRIPTION:About Frederick Cooper\nFrederick Cooper is Professor of Hist ory at New York University. He is the author of a trilogy of books on la bor and society in East Africa and more recently of "Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa" (1996) \, "Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present" (2002)\, and "Colonialis m in Question: Theory\, Knowledge\, History" (2005).\n\nHe is also co-au thor with Thomas Holt and Rebecca Scott of "Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race\, Labor\, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies" (2000 )\, and co-editor with Ann Stoler of "Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultu res in a Bourgeois World" (1997)\, with Randall Packard of "Internationa l Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politic s of Knowledge" (1997)\, and with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore of "Less ons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power" (2006).\n\nHis boo k co-authored with Jane Burbank\, "Empires in World History" is currentl y in press\, and he is working on the history of citizenship in France a nd French West Africa between 1945 and 1960.\n\nAbout this Lecture Serie s\nA gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19417 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100203T170000 SUMMARY:Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor Lecture by Frederick Coo per UID:events_stanford_edu_19419 DESCRIPTION:About Frederick Cooper\nFrederick Cooper is Professor of Hist ory at New York University. He is the author of a trilogy of books on la bor and society in East Africa and more recently of "Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa" (1996) \, "Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present" (2002)\, and "Colonialis m in Question: Theory\, Knowledge\, History" (2005).\n\nHe is also co-au thor with Thomas Holt and Rebecca Scott of "Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race\, Labor\, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies" (2000 )\, and co-editor with Ann Stoler of "Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultu res in a Bourgeois World" (1997)\, with Randall Packard of "Internationa l Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politic s of Knowledge" (1997)\, and with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore of "Less ons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power" (2006).\n\nHis boo k co-authored with Jane Burbank\, "Empires in World History" is currentl y in press\, and he is working on the history of citizenship in France a nd French West Africa between 1945 and 1960.\n\nAbout this Lecture Serie s\nA gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19419 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100203T171500 SUMMARY:"On Reading the Lives of the Jinas: Questions and Answers of Medi eval Monks" UID:events_stanford_edu_20435 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Phyllis Granoff (Yale). "On Reading the Lives o f the Jinas: Questions and Answers of Medieval Monks." Saints and Sages Colloquium. (Co-sponsored by Religious Studies.) URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20435 LOCATION:Encina Hall West\, Room 208 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100204T160000 SUMMARY:Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor Seminar by Frederick Coo per UID:events_stanford_edu_19421 DESCRIPTION:About Frederick Cooper\nFrederick Cooper is Professor of Hist ory at New York University. He is the author of a trilogy of books on la bor and society in East Africa and more recently of "Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa" (1996) \, "Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present" (2002)\, and "Colonialis m in Question: Theory\, Knowledge\, History" (2005).\n\nHe is also co-au thor with Thomas Holt and Rebecca Scott of "Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race\, Labor\, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies" (2000 )\, and co-editor with Ann Stoler of "Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultu res in a Bourgeois World" (1997)\, with Randall Packard of "Internationa l Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politic s of Knowledge" (1997)\, and with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore of "Less ons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power" (2006).\n\nHis boo k co-authored with Jane Burbank\, "Empires in World History" is currentl y in press\, and he is working on the history of citizenship in France a nd French West Africa between 1945 and 1960.\n\nAbout this Lecture Serie s\nA gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19421 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100204T171500 SUMMARY:"Fotudeng's 'Magic': Dharani Practice and the Narrative of Omnisc ience." UID:events_stanford_edu_20443 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker Koichi Shinohara Koichi (Yale). "Fotudeng's 'Ma gic': Dharani Practice and the Narrative of Omniscience." 5:15 p.m.\, En cina Hall West 208. Saints and Sages Colloquium. (Co-sponsored by Religi ous Studies.) URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20443 LOCATION:Encina Hall West\, Room 208 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100402T153000 SUMMARY:Ian Duncan Book Discussion UID:events_stanford_edu_20981 DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of the Novel is proud to host Profes sor Ian Duncan of UC Berkeley\, who will be discussing his new book "Sco tt's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh" in conversation with Profe ssor Margaret Russett (USC) and Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford). URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20981 LOCATION:English Department Terrace Room (Bldg. 460\, Room 426) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100412T190000 SUMMARY: Presidential Lecture by Mary Robinson\, former President of Irel and (1990 - 1997) UID:events_stanford_edu_19397 DESCRIPTION:About Mary Robinson\nMary Robinson\, the first woman Presiden t of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002)\, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. Born Mary Bourke in Ballina\, County Mayo (1944)\, she was ed ucated at the University of Dublin (Trinity College)\, King’s Inns Dubli n and Harvard Law School to which she won a fellowship in 1967.\n\nAs an academic (Trinity College Law Faculty 1968-90)\, legislator (Senator 19 69-89) and barrister (1967-90. Senior Counsel 1980\, English Bar 1973) s he has always sought to use law as an instrument for social change\, arg uing landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights as well as in the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxembourg. In 1988 Mary Robinson and her husband founded the Irish Centre for European Law at th e Trinity College. Ten years later she was elected Chancellor of the Uni versity.\n\nNow based in New York\, Mary Robinson is currently the Presi dent of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its miss ion is to make human rights the compass which charts a course for global ization that is fair\, just and benefits all.\n\nAbout this Lecture Seri es\nThe Stanford Presidential and Endowed Lecture Series in the Humaniti es and Arts brings the most distinguished scholars\, artists\, and criti cs of our time to the Stanford University campus for lectures\, seminars \, panel discussions\, and a variety of related interactions with facult y\, students and the community at large. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/193/19397 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium\, School of Education\,\n485 Lasuen Mall\,\ nStanford University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100422T170000 SUMMARY:Garrett Stewart Book Discussion UID:events_stanford_edu_20983 DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of the Novel is proud to host Profes sor Garrett Stewart of the University of Iowa\, who will be discussing h is new book "Novel Violence: A Narratology of Victorian Fiction" in conv ersation with Professor Robert Polhemus (Stanford) and Professor Alex Wo loch (Stanford). URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20983 LOCATION:English Department Terrace Room (Bldg. 460\, Room 426) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100503T170000 SUMMARY:Harry Camp Memorial Lecture by Tzvetan Todorov UID:events_stanford_edu_19401 DESCRIPTION:About Tzvetan Todorov\nTzvetan Todorov is a philosopher\, the orist\, and literary critic. Born in Sofia\, Bulgaria\, he has lived in France since 1963. Since 1968\, he has been a researcher at the Centre N ational de la Recherche Scientifique\, Paris\, where he has been Directe ur de recherche honoraire since 2005. He is author of numerous books\, m any of which have been translated into English\, including "The Poetics of Prose" (1977)\, "Introduction to Poetics" (1981)\, "The Conquest of A merica" (1984)\, "Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle" (1984)\, "F acing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" (1996)\, "On H uman Diversity" (1993)\, "Hope and Memory" (2003)\, and "Imperfect Garde n: The Legacy of Humanism" (2002)\, and "The New World Disorder: Reflect ions of a European" (2005). He is member of many scholarly organizations and recipient of numerous prizes\, including the Prix Jean-Jacques Rous seau (1991)\, the Spinoza (2004)\, and the Prince of Asturias (2008).\n\ nAbout this Lecture Series\nThe Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessma n and philanthropist in San Francisco\, Camp was described as "a gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the Uni versity for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of th e dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are prese nted every other year. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19401 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100504T160000 SUMMARY:Harry Camp Memorial Seminar by Tzvetan Todorov UID:events_stanford_edu_19409 DESCRIPTION:About Tzvetan Todorov\nTzvetan Todorov is a philosopher\, the orist\, and literary critic. Born in Sofia\, Bulgaria\, he has lived in France since 1963. Since 1968\, he has been a researcher at the Centre N ational de la Recherche Scientifique\, Paris\, where he has been Directe ur de recherche honoraire since 2005. He is author of numerous books\, m any of which have been translated into English\, including "The Poetics of Prose" (1977)\, "Introduction to Poetics" (1981)\, "The Conquest of A merica" (1984)\, "Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle" (1984)\, "F acing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" (1996)\, "On H uman Diversity" (1993)\, "Hope and Memory" (2003)\, and "Imperfect Garde n: The Legacy of Humanism" (2002)\, and "The New World Disorder: Reflect ions of a European" (2005). He is member of many scholarly organizations and recipient of numerous prizes\, including the Prix Jean-Jacques Rous seau (1991)\, the Spinoza (2004)\, and the Prince of Asturias (2008).\n\ nAbout this Lecture Series\nThe Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessma n and philanthropist in San Francisco\, Camp was described as "a gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the Uni versity for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of th e dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are prese nted every other year. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19409 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100505T190000 SUMMARY:Harry Camp Memorial Lecture by Tzvetan Todorov UID:events_stanford_edu_19411 DESCRIPTION:About Tzvetan Todorov\nTzvetan Todorov is a philosopher\, the orist\, and literary critic. Born in Sofia\, Bulgaria\, he has lived in France since 1963. Since 1968\, he has been a researcher at the Centre N ational de la Recherche Scientifique\, Paris\, where he has been Directe ur de recherche honoraire since 2005. He is author of numerous books\, m any of which have been translated into English\, including "The Poetics of Prose" (1977)\, "Introduction to Poetics" (1981)\, "The Conquest of A merica" (1984)\, "Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle" (1984)\, "F acing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" (1996)\, "On H uman Diversity" (1993)\, "Hope and Memory" (2003)\, and "Imperfect Garde n: The Legacy of Humanism" (2002)\, and "The New World Disorder: Reflect ions of a European" (2005). He is member of many scholarly organizations and recipient of numerous prizes\, including the Prix Jean-Jacques Rous seau (1991)\, the Spinoza (2004)\, and the Prince of Asturias (2008).\n\ nAbout this Lecture Series\nThe Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessma n and philanthropist in San Francisco\, Camp was described as "a gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the Uni versity for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of th e dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are prese nted every other year. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19411 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\nStanford University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100506T160000 SUMMARY:Harry Camp Memorial Seminar by Tzvetan Todorov UID:events_stanford_edu_19413 DESCRIPTION:About Tzvetan Todorov\nTzvetan Todorov is a philosopher\, the orist\, and literary critic. Born in Sofia\, Bulgaria\, he has lived in France since 1963. Since 1968\, he has been a researcher at the Centre N ational de la Recherche Scientifique\, Paris\, where he has been Directe ur de recherche honoraire since 2005. He is author of numerous books\, m any of which have been translated into English\, including "The Poetics of Prose" (1977)\, "Introduction to Poetics" (1981)\, "The Conquest of A merica" (1984)\, "Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle" (1984)\, "F acing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" (1996)\, "On H uman Diversity" (1993)\, "Hope and Memory" (2003)\, and "Imperfect Garde n: The Legacy of Humanism" (2002)\, and "The New World Disorder: Reflect ions of a European" (2005). He is member of many scholarly organizations and recipient of numerous prizes\, including the Prix Jean-Jacques Rous seau (1991)\, the Spinoza (2004)\, and the Prince of Asturias (2008).\n\ nAbout this Lecture Series\nThe Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessma n and philanthropist in San Francisco\, Camp was described as "a gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the Uni versity for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of th e dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are prese nted every other year. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19413 LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\,\n424 Santa Teresa Street\,\nStanfor d University\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100513T180000 SUMMARY:"Iran-Iraq War on screen" UID:events_stanford_edu_19833 DESCRIPTION:Guest: Agnes Devictor\n\nAgnès Devictor is associate Professo r at Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse. She is member of the Laboratory of Research Culture and Communication. She wrote her Phd. in comparative political science on "The Public policy of culture of the Is lamic Republic of Iran\, example of cinema (1979-1997)" and stayed 4 yea rs in Iran (1994-1998) to study in the most important institutions of th e Iranian cinema. She organized different programs on Iranian cinema in Europe\, such as the first integral of Kiraostami’s films in Locarno in 1995\, "Une modernité à l'iranienne" in Festival d'Automne à Paris\, 200 0\, "The Iranian cinema go to war" in Fribourg International Film Festiv al (Suiss)(2006)…. In Iran\, she is in charge of the Program “Cinema – I mages” in the French Institute of Research in Iran (IFRI) since 2006. \n \n\nMap: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=02-100 \n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/198/19833 LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Levinthal Hall END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR