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 1, 2012
- Making Democratic Governance Work: How Regimes Effect Prosperity, Welfare and Peace
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar
Pippa Norris; Francis Fukuyama
- Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: A General-Audience, Non-Technical Narrative with Analysis and Recommendations
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Kenji E. Kushida, Takahashi Research Associate in Japanese Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
- US Power, the Emerging Economies, and International Order
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Bruce Jones; Stephen J. Stedman
Audio transcript available 
- Rumor as Resistance
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar
Jun Liu, Visiting Researcher, Stanford University
Video available 
- Film Screening and Discussion Jai Bhim Comrade
CDDRL, PHR Special Event
Anand Patwardhan, Filmmaker
Nov 2, 2012
- Memory and National Identity in North Korean Cultural Production
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Conference
conference agenda available
- Caste and the Meaning of Freedom
CDDRL, PHR Special Event
Anand Patwardhan; Gopal Guru; Aishwary Kumar
Nov 5, 2012
Nov 6, 2012
Nov 7, 2012
- Prioritizing Quality Improvement Efforts in Surgery
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD - "My Neighbor, My Killer" (2009, 80 min.; dir. by Anne Aghion)
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Special Event
Anne Aghion, Film maker and writer
Nov 8, 2012
- Stanford Interdisciplinary Conference on Conscience
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Conference
November 8, 2012 - November 9, 2012
- Is Burma Transitioning to Democracy?
CDDRL, Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Research Seminar
Larry Diamond; Min Zin - The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 Years Later
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Barton Bernstein; Scott D. Sagan - Writing Under Seige
CDDRL, PHR Special Event
Basharat Peer; Sugi Ganeshananthan; Tsering Wangmo; Pireeni Sundaralingam - Reaping the Dividends of M-PESA: Mobile Money and its Applications in East Africa
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar
Tavneet Suri, Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
- First Annual Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Exchange
CDDRL, Program on Social Entrepreneurship Special Event
Nov 9, 2012
Nov 12, 2012
- The Ninth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Forum
November 12, 2012 - November 13, 2012
paper available
- Assessing the Quality of Governance in China (Sonoma)
CDDRL, Governance Project Workshop
Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, FSI Stanford University
November 12, 2012 - November 13, 2012
flyer available
- Escalatory Models, Norms, Assurance, and Deterrence
CISAC Science Seminar
John C. Mallery, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Intergenerational Living Arrangements in South Korea: Health and Economic Implications
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar
Young Kyung Do, Assistant Professor, the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS)
Audio transcript available
presentation available
- A Bridge between East and West? Czechoslovakia's Road to the Soviet Bloc
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Vit Smetana, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History – Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Visiting Scholar at The Europe Center
Audio transcript available 
- Screening of "A Whisper to A Roar"
CDDRL Special Event
Larry Diamond, Director, CDDRL
Nov 14, 2012
- Human Rights Defenders on the Front Line: Voices from the Congo
CDDRL, PHR Special Seminar
Abbé Benoît Kinalegu; Ida Sawyer
Video available
flyer available
- Using Legal Frameworks to Foster Social Change: A Panel Discussion with the Fall 2012 Social Entrepreneurs in Residence at Stanford
CDDRL, Program on Social Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion
Mazibuko Jara; Emily Arnold-Fernandez; Zainah Anwar - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Military Sexual Trauma and Preterm Birth
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jonathan Shaw - Panel and Special Reception to Meet the Social Entrepreneurs in Residence at Stanford
CDDRL, Program on Social Entrepreneurship Special Event
Zainah Anwar; Mazibuko Jara; Emily Arnold-Fernandez; Deborah L. Rhode
Nov 15, 2012
- Social Foundations of Institutional Order in Latin America
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar
Marcus Kurtz; Francis Fukuyama
- How do States Pursue the Bomb? Determinants of Nuclear Acquisition Strategies
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer; Lynn Eden
- Turkey and the Arab Spring: Between Ethics and Self-Interest
CDDRL, ARD Panel Discussion
Ziya Öniş, Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM), Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey
paper available - Weapons of the Geek
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar
Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, McGill University
Nov 16, 2012
Nov 26, 2012
- Global Health Diplomacy in North Korea: the Stanford Tuberculosis Project in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
CISAC Science Seminar
Gary K. Schoolnik, Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Senior Fellow, Institute for the Environment - How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy: Aid Dependence in Cambodia
Shorenstein APARC, CDDRL, SEAF Seminar
Sophal Ear, Assistant Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, US Naval Postgraduate School
Audio transcript available
presentation available
Nov 27, 2012
Nov 28, 2012
- How U.S. Health Policy, Health Care, and Health Outcomes Differ From Other Countries -- and Why?
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Victor R. Fuchs, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Emeritus; FSI Senior Fellow and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty Member - From the Egyptian Revolution Until Now: was Social Media Really Significant?
CDDRL Special Event
Dr. Rasha Abdullah, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communicatioin, The American University in Cairo - Advocating for Women's Rights in Islam
CDDRL, Program on Social Entrepreneurship Special Event
Zaniah Anwar, Visiting Social Entrepreneur, CDDRL - Stanford Faculty Discussion: Salman Rushdie's "Joseph Anton: A Memoir"
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Special Event
Amir Eshel; Abbas Milani; Tobias Wolff
Nov 29, 2012
- Maritime Issues in East Asia: Finding Peaceful Solutions
CDDRL Research Seminar
Edward I-Hsin Chen; Yann-huei Song
2 presentations available - The Crisis in Japanese and Chinese Public Opinion: Can Soft Power Soften an 'Enemy Image'?
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Christian Collet, Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
- Mobilizing Public Law: The Lost Wartime Origins of American Administrative Law
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar; Shiri Krebs
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- Cash Rules Everything Around Me: The Commercialization of Online Spying
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar
Bill Marczak; Morgan Marquis-Boire
Nov 30, 2012


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