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, 2013
- Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
CISAC Seminar
Feroz Khan, Brigadier (Retired), Pakistan Army; Lecturer, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Audio transcript available 
- The International Criminal Court: The Next Decade
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
Helen Stacy; Richard Steinberg
Jan 9, 2013
- Health and Aging in Japan
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP, Japan Studies Program Seminar
Hidehiko Ichimura, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo
Audio transcript available
presentation available
- RIP Seminar: Grant Writing - An Overview
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Mark A. Hlatky, MD - Asia’s Role in the Global Economy and Challenges in 2013
Shorenstein APARC Seminar
Jan 10, 2013
- Managing the Risk of Pandemic Influenza Amidst Weak Government Institutions
CDDRL Research Seminar
Stephen P. Luby, Senior Fellow, FSI and the Woods Institute; CDDRL Affiliated Faculty; Research Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health; Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
- Globalizing Nuclear Emergency Response: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Sonja Schmid; Chaim Braun
- Not Free to Be You and Me: Equivocation and Internet Freedom in Azerbaijan
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Katy Pearce, Assistant Professor, Dept of Communications, University of Washington
Jan 11, 2013
Jan 14, 2013
- Ensuring Hardware Cybersecurity
CISAC Science Seminar
John Villasenor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Audio transcript available - Will Xi Merely Follow? Cross-Straits Policy Succession Under China's New Leaders
CDDRL Seminar
Bruce Gilley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Amir Rubin; Lloyd Minor; Sang-ick Chang
flyer available
Jan 15, 2013
- How to Engage Iran: Abe Sofaer in conversation with Allen Weiner on Diplomacy and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
CISAC Seminar
Abraham Sofaer; Allen S. Weiner
Audio transcript available - ICC Speaker Series-Richard Dicker
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
Jan 16, 2013
Jan 17, 2013
- The Eurocrisis and Opportunities for further EU Integration
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Rudi Veestraeten, Consul General to the US, the Consulate General of Belgium in Los Angeles
Audio transcript available 
- Old Regime Conservative Parties and their Surprising Contributions to Democratization: Lessons from the Historical Rise of Democracy in Europe
CDDRL Research Seminar
Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Windows of Volatility?: Unpacking the Relationship Between Nuclear Proliferation and Time
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Vipin Narang; Scott D. Sagan
- The United Nations and a World in Transition
FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Video available 
- Intermediaries are Liabilities: The New Technologies of Liberation
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Daniel Siders, Co-founder, Tent
Jan 22, 2013
- The Politics of Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Lessons from Anti-Base Protests on Jeju Island
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, KSP Seminar
Dr. Andrew Yeo, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America
- ICC Speaker Series- Jim Fearon
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
James D. Fearon
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Tom Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UCSF
flyer available
Jan 23, 2013
- Data-driven medicine in the age of electronic health records
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Nigam Shah, PhD - How can trade improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa?
FSE, FSI Stanford Symposium
Kym Anderson; Johan Swinnen
Video available
presentation available
Jan 24, 2013
- Visualizing Political Struggle in the Middle East
CDDRL, ARD Research Seminar
Lina Khatib, Program Manager for the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, CDDRL
- Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion Forums
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Thomas Hegghammer; Timothy Junio
- The 18th Party Congress and Institutionalization in Chinese Leadership Politics
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series
Alice Miller, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution - The Folly of Technological Solutionism
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Evgeny Morozov, Author and former Stanford Visiting Scholar
- Rapture at Depth: The rhetoric of enchantment in dive documentation
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Margaret Cohen, Professor of Comparative Literature, and research affiliate, The Europe Center
Jan 25, 2013
- Teaming Up to Learn How to Overcome Anemia: Nutritional Education and Mobile Messaging Design for Household Engagement
FSI Stanford, FSE, REAP Seminar Series
Scott Rozelle; Dan Schwartz
- Crossing the Border from "Chōsen" to "Kankoku" in Japan
Shorenstein APARC, KSP, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Younghae Han, 2012-2013 Visiting Professor at Shorenstein APARC
Jan 28, 2013
- Can a scholar change society’s collective memory? Jan Gross’ Writings and Holocaust Memory in Poland
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Barbara Tornquist-Plewa; Norman M. Naimark
Audio transcript available 
- Contending with Dual-Use Science
CISAC Science Seminar
Penrose C. (Parney) Albright, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Mark Smith, MD, MBA, President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation
flyer available
Jan 29, 2013
Jan 30, 2013
- The Impact of Water Quality on Health and Youth Education in Rural China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar
Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China
Audio transcript available
presentation available
- Improving Care for Children with Chronic Conditions: The Need for Systemic Innovation
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Lee M. Sanders, MD, MPH
Jan 31, 2013
- The 'Tax-Welfare Mix' : the Welfare State and Extractive Capacity in Japan and Sweden
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Gene Park, Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
- The World Bank and IFC's Doing Business Project: A Template for Promoting Economic Reforms?
CDDRL Research Seminar
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director of Global Indicators and Analysis, The World Bank-IFC
- CISAC-SCICN Special Seminar: Investigating Post-Conflict Violence at the Micro-Level: Accounting for Patterns among Victims of Past Atrocities in Liberia
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Anupma Kulkarni; Shiri Krebs - Can You Hear Me Now? Law Enforcement Surveillance of Internet and Mobile Communications
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist, ACLU


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