As part of its educational and outreach mission to encourage thoughtful consideration of international issues and challenges, the Freeman Spogli Institute hosts public events, discussions and lectures on pertinent international issues involving Stanford faculty, as well as prominent outside politicians, officials, and academics.
The FSI Stanford events calendar provides a consolidated listing of events sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute and its centers.
Jan 8, 2008
Jan 9, 2008
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Franklin M. Orr
- The Overlooked Orphans: The Size of the Impact of AIDS on the Orphaned Elderly in sub-Saharan Africa
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Tim Kautz; Jay Bhattacharya; Grant Miller
Jan 10, 2008
- Curbing the Epidemic: a view from the World Bank
CDDRL Lecture Series
Joy de Beyer, Former World Bank Tobacco Control Coordinator; Senior Knowledge Management Officer, Human Development Network, Global HIV/AIDS Program with Specialization in the Economics of Tobacco - China's Harmonious Society: Village Democracy, Development and "Pork Barrel Politics"
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SCP Seminar Series
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
- US-Japan Relations with the US Ambassador to Japan, Tom Schieffer
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
John Thomas Schieffer, United States Ambassador to Japan
- The Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
FCE Seminar
Stephen Braun, Author and LA Times correspondent
flyer available
Jan 11, 2008
- Just Supply Chains
CDDRL, PGJ Conference
Joshua Cohen; Richard Locke
January 11, 2008 - January 12, 2008
4 papers, conference agenda available - Protest and Repression in South Korea (1970-1979)
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Seminar Series
Paul Y. Chang, Ph.D. candidate in sociology, Stanford University
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- Kosovo: The End of Yugoslavia's Disintegration or The Spark of New Conflict?
FCE Seminar
Elez Biberaj; Obrad Kesic
Audio transcript available 
Jan 15, 2008
- Does Education Change Political Attitudes? Evidence from a Kenyan School Experiment
CDDRL Research Seminar
Ted Miguel, Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
- The Many, not the Few: Pluralism about Distributive Justice
CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Helena de Bres
Jan 16, 2008
- Integrated Assessment of Energy Technologies and Climate Impact
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
John P. Weyant - Anatomy of a Guideline: The Making (and Remaking) of the New American College of Physicians' Guideline on Screening Mammography in 40- to 49-year-old Women
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Douglas K. Owens - Fighting for the Seats: Gender Quota and State Feminism in South Korea and Taiwan
CDDRL Research Seminar
Chang-Ling Huang, Associate Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University
presentation available
Jan 17, 2008
- The Shape of Things to Come: New Patterns and Paradigms in Global Innovation Networks
Shorenstein APARC, SPRIE Forum
conference agenda available - New Poland in the New Europe
FCE Seminar
Maciej Kozlowski, Deputy Director, Department of Africa and Middle East, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Audio transcript available 
- State Sovereignty and Security in East Asian International Relations
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Seo-Hyun Park; Phillip Lipscy
Jan 18, 2008
- The Shape of Things to Come: A Global Perspective on Regional Innovation Indicators
Shorenstein APARC, SPRIE Forum
conference agenda available - Equal by Nature?
CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Brad McHose, Ethics in Society, Stanford University
paper available
Jan 22, 2008
- The Spirit of Democracy
CDDRL Research Seminar
Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and CDDRL
- How Governance Influences Health and Technology in Myanmar, Mexico, China, Iraq and the Progressive Era in the U.S.
CHP/PCOR, CDDRL Workshop
Grant Miller; Matthew Kohrman; Krista Donaldson; Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Jan 23, 2008
- Energy Security for Developing Countries
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Mark C. Thurber
- The Prevalence, Correlates, and Persistence of Maternal Depression: A Services Failure?
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Sarah (Sally) M. Horwitz - The Korean Presidential Election: A Special Edition of the Contemporary Asia Seminar Series
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
Hyuk-Baeg Im; Robert Carlin; Nae Young Lee; Shin Wha Lee; Gi-Wook Shin; David Straub; Alexander Vershbow
Jan 24, 2008
- US-Korea Relations: the Ambassadors' Dialogue Program
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
Lee Tae-Sik; Alexander Vershbow - The Political Representation of the Poor: How Electoral Rules Affect Poverty Responsiveness
FSI Stanford, CDDRL, FCE, PGJ Seminar
Karen Jusko, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University - Military-to-Military Contacts as Channels of Democratic Norm Diffusion: A Quantitative Analysis of a Constructivist Theory of Power
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Carol Atkinson; Frank Smith - China's Harmonious Society: Two Overviews--Health Systems Reform and the HIV Epidemic
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SCP Seminar Series
Karen Eggleston; Nancy Shulman - 2008 Payne Lecture Series: Can the Poor Afford Democracy? A Presidential Perspective (Lecture 1)
Lecture Series
Alejandro Toledo, Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, CDDRL Visiting Scholar, and Former President of Peru
presentation available
Jan 25, 2008
Jan 29, 2008
Jan 30, 2008
- The Collapse of the Euro Area
FCE Seminar
Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
flyer available
- Understanding Japan's Changing National Security Strategy
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Reliably Detecting Nuclear Weapons in Transit
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna; Thomas A. Tisch; Narasimha Chari - Implementation Research: Finding Out What Actually Works in Translating Research into Practice
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Mary K. Goldstein
Jan 31, 2008
- German-Jewish Relations Today
FCE Seminar
Rolf Schütte, Consul General, the German Consulate General, San Francisco - Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey
Lecture
Steven A. Cook; Scott D. Sagan
- The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; Pavel Podvig - The Jewel, the Sky, and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control-TTCs in Asia
CDDRL Lecture Series
Mary Assunta, Resarch Fellow, Tobacco Documentation Project, School of Public Health, Faculty Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia

