Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford Health Policy
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Forum on Contemporary Europe
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language StudiesFSI Stanford Calendar of Events
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.
Feb 1, 2008
- New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Conference
Michael H. Armacost; Stephen W. Bosworth; Robert Carlin; Victor Cha; Thomas C. Hubbard; Don Oberdorfer; Charles L. Pritchard; Evans J.R. Revere; Gi-Wook Shin; Daniel C. Sneider; David Straub - Last Rights: International Forensic Investigations and the Claims of the Dead
CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Adam Rosenblatt, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
paper available
Feb 4, 2008
Feb 5, 2008
Feb 6, 2008
- Improving the Quality of Heart Failure Care: Interventions to Increase Beta-Blockers Use
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Paul A. Heidenreich - 2008 Year Ahead Part I: Japanese Society and Culture
Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Mariko Fujiwara; Roland Kelts
Feb 7, 2008
- Memory Unbound: Human Rights and the Question of Cosmopolitan Memory
FCE Seminar
Natan Sznaider, Associate Professor, Academic College of Tel-Aviv
Audio transcript available 
- U.S. Foreign Policy and International Order After George W. Bush
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Stephen J. Stedman; Stephen D. Krasner - Dying for God? Suicide Terrorism and Militant Islam
Lecture
Dr. John Esposito, Founding Director, the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Professor of Religion and International Affairs; and Professor of Islamic Studies
- Diplomacy: Humanitarianism in Action
Lecture
The Honorable Richard L. Armitage, Former Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Feb 8, 2008
Feb 11, 2008
Feb 12, 2008
- Space, American Exceptionalism, and the Next Cold War
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Mike Moore, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute - Do Islamists have a commitment problem? Islamic political parties and Signalling democratic sincerity
CDDRL Research Seminar
Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
- City of Angels: Barcelona and its cemeteries (1819-1919)
FCE Seminar
Elisa Marti-Lopez, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature, Northwestern University - Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance
CISAC, CDDRL Special Seminar
J. Stephen Morrison, Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Task Force and Director, Africa Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Feb 13, 2008
- Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
CDDRL Research Seminar
Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute, Professor, Georgetown University
- The Airborne Laser - Assessment of a Directed Energy Weapon Project
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Jan Stupl, Doctoral Scholar, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg - Economic Incentives, Diffusion of MRI and CT, and Social Welfare
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Laurence C. Baker
Feb 14, 2008
- Organizing the World: Flexible Contracting? Or Consolidation and Predation?
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Charles Perrow - A Proposal to Transform the Basque Conflict
FCE Seminar
Juan Jose Ibarretxe, President of the Basque Government Audio transcript available 
Feb 15, 2008
- Why Pyongyang Invited the New York Philharmonic
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Seminar
Robert Carlin, Pantech Fellow, Shorenstein APARC Audio transcript available flyer available - Savings, Sustainability and Equity
CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Kirsten Oleson, Public Policy, Stanford University paper available
Feb 19, 2008
- Oil, Islam, and Women?
CDDRL Research Seminar
Michael Ross, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles paper available
- 2008 Year Ahead Part II: Politics and Diplomacy in Japan
Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Andrew Oros; Yuki Tatsumi; Robert Weiner
Feb 20, 2008
- A Trip Report from North Korea
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Siegfried S. Hecker 2 papers available
- What Can Be Done With $15 Billion? An Evaluation of PEPFAR in Africa
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Eran Bendavid
Feb 21, 2008
- The Impact of the European Commission and External Changes on the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: Insights from Theory
FCE Seminar
Jo Swinnen, Professor of Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- A New Look at 9/11 Intelligence Failures: American Institutions and Embodied Knowledge
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Lynn Eden; Brent Durbin - The Spoiled Identity of Smoking, Smokers and the Tobacco Industry
CDDRL Lecture Series
Simon Chapman, Professor, Director of Research, and Fellow, University Sentate, School of Public Health A27, University of Sydney - China's Harmonious Society: Between Han Chauvinism and Local Nationalism--Ethnic Iconography in China
FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series
Thomas S Mullaney, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University - Asian Alternatives: What the West can Learn - 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award
Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College Audio transcript available 
- The Future of Democracy in Southeast Asia
Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Special Event
Kishore Mahbubani; Larry Diamond; Donald K. Emmerson
Feb 22, 2008
Cancelled: Russia's Elections: An Insider's Perspective
CDDRL Research Seminar
Vladimir Churov- Death of the Foreign Correspondent: An Exaggerated Demise? - 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award Panel Discussion
Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Ian Buruma; Susan Chira; Orville Schell; Daniel C. Sneider Audio transcript available - Caring About Systemic Military Atrocity in Iraq and Afghanistan
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Neta Crawford, Political Science, Boston University paper available
Feb 25, 2008
- Is "Eastern Europe" Disappearing?
FCE Seminar
Klaus Segbers, Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universitat, Berlin, and Visiting Scholar, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) - Los Trabajos de la Literatura
FCE Seminar
Bernardo Atxaga, Author - The Center on Ethics Arrow Lecture Series: Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Lecture
Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Feb 26, 2008
- The Link between Migration and Health: A Longitudinal Analysis in Indonesia, and A New National Survey on Migration and Health in China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar Series
Yao Lu, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles
- The Neo-Taliban and Iran
CDDRL Research Seminar
Amin Tarzi, Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University.
- Rediscovery of India by the American Academy
Shorenstein APARC Lecture
Robert P. Goldman, Professor of Sanskrit, University of California-Berkeley
Feb 27, 2008
- Institutional Biosafety Committees: A System in Need of Overhaul
CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Margaret Race, SETI Institute - Japan's Nationalism: Myth and Reality
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
Mitsuru Kitano, Minister for Public Affairs, Embassy of Japan in the United States
- The Benefits and Costs of Health Plan Choice: The Case of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
M. Kate Bundorf
Feb 28, 2008
- Romania and Bulgaria: One Year of EU membership
FCE Seminar
Timo Summa, Director, Enterprise Directorate-General, European Commission
- Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Elizabeth Levy Paluck; Desha Girod - Beyond Borders: Global Entrepreneurship
Shorenstein APARC, SPRIE Special Event
William F. Miller; William Chen; Dr. Robert P. Lee; Gadi Maier Audio transcript available flyer available - China's Harmonious Society: Political Cross Currents in China's Corporate Restructuring
FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series
Jean C. Oi, William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at FSI, and Director, Stanford China Program, Stanford University
Feb 29, 2008
- Why only Nintendo?--Challenges Facing the Japanese Software Industry
Shorenstein APARC, Corporate Affiliates, SPRIE Seminar
Shinya Fushimi Audio transcript available presentation, flyer available
- What Does the Ideal of Deliberative Democracy Demand?
CDDRL, PGJ Workshop
Jane Mansbridge, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University paper available
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