As part of its educational and outreach mission to encourage thoughtful consideration of international issues and challenges, the Freeman Spogli Institute hosts public events, discussions and lectures on pertinent international issues involving Stanford faculty, as well as prominent outside politicians, officials, and academics.
The FSI Stanford events calendar provides a consolidated listing of events sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute and its centers.
May 16, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Cost of Inaction on HIV/AIDS: Case studies from Angola and Rwanda
CDDRL, PHR Seminar
Nadejda Marques, Manager, Program on Human Rights at CDDRL
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Education And Employment Among Muslims In India - An Analysis Of Patterns And Trends
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series (
RSVP required)
Rakesh Basant, Professor of Economics & Chairperson, Center for innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
How Neglected Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases? A systematic review of the randomized evidence
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Shanthi Kappagoda - 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
WAR: Ethical Challenges on the Horizon
CISAC Stanford Ethics and War Series
Charles Dunlap; Scott D. Sagan; Debra Satz; Scotty McLennan
flyer available
May 17, 2012
- History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Conference
May 17, 2012 - May 18, 2012
conference agenda available - Research Presentations (2 of 3) - Fukai, Hirano, Kamimai and Miyashita
Shorenstein APARC, Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliates Research Presentation (
RSVP required)
Kazuma Fukai; Katsunori Hirano; Yuji Kamimai; Masami Miyashita - The Uses and Limitations of Forensic DNA Typing
CISAC Science Seminar
Bruce Budowle, Director, University of North Texas Health Science Center Institute of Investigative Genetics - A Tale of Three H-Bombs: The Thermonuclear Turning-Point of the 1950s
CISAC Social Science Seminar
David Holloway; Theodore Postol
- 2012 Robert G. Wesson Lecture - Michael Manley: Decolonization and the International Politics of Sovereignty
Lecture Series
Anthony Bogues, Harmon Family Professor, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
- 2011-2012 Year End Celebration
Shorenstein APARC Special Event (
RSVP required) - A New Approach for a New Africa: Featuring former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Special Event
May 18, 2012
- Public Goods Provision and the Efficacy of Governance
CDDRL, Program on Poverty and Governance Conference (
RSVP required)
Beatriz Magaloni
May 18, 2012 - May 19, 2012
paper, conference agenda available
- Peacemaker
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Seminar Series (
RSVP required)
Dong-won Lim, former Minister of Unification, South Korea
May 21, 2012
- What is the Contemporary?
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Conference
Lionel Ruffel; Julio Premat; Diego Vecchio; Alejandro Zambra; David William Foster; Idelber Avelar; Odile Cisneros; Paola Cortes-Rocca; Valeria de los Rios
May 21, 2012 - May 22, 2012 - Managing Uncertainties in the Regulation of Nuclear Facilities and Materials
CISAC Science Seminar
George Apostolakis, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Battle Against HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Successes and Challenges
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar (
RSVP required)
Siyan Yi, 2011-12 Developing Asia Health Policy Fellow, Stanford University
- Insider Activists: Personal Connections and Political Action in China
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar (
RSVP required)
Lily Tsai; Francis Fukuyama
flyer available
May 22, 2012
- Chief Middle East Advisor To Three Presidents Reflects on Strategies To Peace
CDDRL Special Event
Ambassador Dennis Ross, Chief Middle East Advisor To Three Presidents
flyer available - Colonial Melancholia and Critical Nostalgia. The Visuality of Empire in Portuguese Culture
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar (
RSVP required)
Isabel Gil, Professor of Cultural Theory, Catholic University of Portugal - Research Presentations (3 of 3) - Kakemizu, Koda, Li and Waseda
Shorenstein APARC, Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliates Research Presentation (
RSVP required)
Yasunori Kakemizu; Hideaki Koda; Haiming Li; Yoshimasa Waseda - The Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?
REAP Lecture (
RSVP required)
Scott Rozelle
May 23, 2012
- Discourses of Defiance: Framing Muslim Self-Determination in Thailand and the Philippines
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series (
RSVP required)
Joseph Chinyong Liow, Professor of Comparative and International Politics, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
- Screening and surveillance of abdominal aortic aneurysms in the US Medicare population
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Matthew Mell, MD, Assistant Professor – Vascular Surgery, HSR MS Candidate
May 24, 2012
- Conceptualizing and Measuring the Rule of Law
CDDRL Research Seminar (
RSVP required)
Alejandro Ponce; Juan Botero - The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Proliferation
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Alexandre Debs; Nuno P. Monteiro; Alexander Montgomery
May 25, 2012
May 29, 2012
- The Next Phase of China’s Health System Reforms
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar (
RSVP required)
Gordon Liu, Professor of Economics, Peking University Guanghua School of Management
- The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election and U.S. Foreign Policy
FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Coit D. Blacker; Michael H. Armacost; David Brady; David Kennedy
May 30, 2012
- The Chinese Naval Role In The Pacific And The American Response
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series (
RSVP required)
Gary Roughead; Christopher Twomey; Thomas Fingar - Conceiving NATO as a democracy promoter: A Realist Foreign Policy Explanation
CDDRL Research Seminar (
RSVP required)
Henrik Larsen, Visiting researcher 2011-2012, CDDRL
- The Effect of Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing on Generic Substitution
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Patricia Foo, MD Candidate, PhD Candidate – Stanford Dept of Economics
May 31, 2012
- Democracy, Dictatorship and Demophily
CDDRL Research Seminar (
RSVP required)
M. Steven Fish, Political Scientist, UC Berkeley
- Does Repression Reduce Terrorist Attacks? Evidence from Israel
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Erica Chenoweth, Visiting Scholar, CISAC; Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
- “Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism”
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Special Event (
RSVP required)
Adrian Daub; Elisabeth Krimmer
Jun 1, 2012
- Humanitarism to Human Rights
CDDRL, PHR Workshop
Davide Rodono; Barbara Metzger; Keith David Watenpaugh; J. P. Daughton - The Eighth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Forum
Jun 4, 2012
Jun 6, 2012
Jun 7, 2012
- The Tortuous Trajectories of Democracy and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Africa
CDDRL Research Seminar (
RSVP required)
Landry Signé, Postdoctoral Scholar 2011-2013, CDDRL
- Forecasting Drug Violence in Guatemala: An Application of a Probabilistic Tactical Warning Model
CISAC Social Science Seminar
David Blum, Predoctoral Fellow, CISAC; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Oct 11, 2012
Nov 7, 2012


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conference agenda available
Cancelled: Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A 'Control Rights' Theory