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.
Nov 3, 2009
Nov 4, 2009
- Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps Toward Early Detection and Effective Action
CISAC Seminar
David Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Audio transcript available 
- Bearing the Risks of Prescription Drugs
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Donald Light, Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor, Human Biology, Stanford
Nov 5, 2009
- Between Moscow and Brussels: Emerging States, East or West?
FCE Workshop
November 5, 2009 - November 6, 2009 - Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe
CDDRL Research Seminar
Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
flyer available
- Options for European Ballistic Missile Defenses
CISAC Research Seminar
Dean Wilkening, Senior Research Scientist, CISAC
Audio transcript available 
- Mobile Technology: Empowering the grassroots
CDDRL Research Seminar
Ken Banks, Founder, kiwanja.net
- Russia, Its Neighbors, and the US Since 1991
FCE Lecture
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Lecturer in Government, Harvard University; Consulting Professor in 20th-Century International History, Stanford University
Nov 6, 2009
Nov 10, 2009
- The United States' Nuclear Weapons Stockpile and Complex: Past, Present and Future
CISAC Seminar
Joseph C. Martz, CISAC Consulting Professor
Audio transcript available 
- Russian Science and the Current Crisis
FCE Seminar
Irina Dezhina, Head of Division at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences; Leading Research Fellow, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow; Consultant, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
- New Challenges for Anglo-American Law and Policy on Business, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility
CDDRL, Human Rights Research Seminar
Bryan Horrigan, Louis Waller Chair of Law and Associate Dean (Research), Monash University’s Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia
Nov 11, 2009
- The Social Determinants of Health: Application to Developed and Developing Asia
CHP/PCOR, Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Special Event
Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the International Institute for Society and Health and MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London
paper available
- How I Write
CISAC Conversation
Philip Taubman, CISAC Consulting Professor
Nov 12, 2009
- Russia's Negative Influence on Democracy in the Post-Soviet Space
CDDRL Research Seminar
Jakob Tolstrup, Visiting Researcher, CDDRL
Audio transcript available
paper available
- Bankruptcy, Guns or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories
CISAC Research Seminar
Sarah Zukerman Daly, Predoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar, CISAC; PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
CDDRL Research Seminar
Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Nov 13, 2009
- Leading value improvement in healthcare
CHP/PCOR Lecture
John Ovretveit, Director of Research and Professor of Health Innovation and Evaluation, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Myth of the Social Volcano
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar
Martin K. Whyte, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
- Special IPS-CISAC Seminar - A Realistic Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
CISAC Seminar
Achilles Zaluar, Minister-Counselor, Political Affairs, Brazilian Embassy to the United States, Washington
- Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The "International Community" and Mass Atrocities
CDDRL, PGJ, Human Rights Workshop
Rajan Menon, Professor, International Studies, Lehigh University
paper available
Nov 17, 2009
Nov 18, 2009
- Knowledge Generation Within Korea's Bipolarized National System of Innovation
Shorenstein APARC, SPRIE Seminar
Chaisung Lim
- Vaccinate Early and Often: Health Benefits and Costs of Pandemic Response Strategies for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and Influenza A (H5N1, or "Avian Flu")
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Douglas K. Owens; Alan M. Garber; David Hutton; Nayer Khazeni - Global Demographics: Importance, Impact and Implications
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Amlan Roy, Head of Global Demographics and Pensions Research, Investment Banking Division, Credit Suisse, London - How Happy Are the Germans Twenty Years After the Fall of the Wall?
FCE Lecture
Peter Schneider, Author, "The Wall Jumper" and "The German Comedy"
flyer available
Nov 19, 2009
- Out of (Civilian) Control: The Pakistani Military and Politics in South Asian Perspective
CDDRL Research Seminar
Aqil Shah, Hewlett Fellow, CDDRL
- Bridging the (liquid) rift - International Oceanographic Studies of the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat)
CISAC Research Seminar
Stephen G. Monismith, Senior Fellow - Woods Institute; Director, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab; Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, (by courtesy) Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
- The Impact of Technology Access on Protest Frequency in Authoritarian Regimes
CDDRL Research Seminar
Patrick Meier, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University
paper available
Nov 20, 2009
- Strait Talk: US-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China
CDDRL Special Seminar
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Professor of History, Georgetown University
- The Need for Sectoral Reform of the South Korean Economy
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Seminar Series
Byongwon Bahk, 2009-2010 Koret Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center
- Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya
CHP/PCOR Seminar
Jill Luoto, University of California at Berkeley
Nov 26, 2009

