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, 2013
Feb 4, 2013
- Next Steps for U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy: Implementing the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission
CISAC Science Seminar
Per Peterson, William and Jean McCallum Floyd Endowed Chair, UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering - Information Session - CDDRL Senior Honors Program 2013
CDDRL Special Event
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Susan Smith, MD, Regional Medical Director, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group
flyer available
Feb 5, 2013
- Symposium on Northeast Asia Security
Symposium
transcript, paper, presentation available - Uncertain Times Ahead: Changing Principles
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, MD, President, Science Council of Japan (2003-06)
- Africa's Food Systems in 2030
FSE, FSI Stanford Symposium
Paul Collier; Derek Byerlee
Video available
presentation available
- Apprehension and Surrender Challenges for the International Criminal Court
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
Ambassador David J. Scheffer, Special Expert to the Secretary General, U.N Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trails
Feb 6, 2013
- Economic Development in Laos and Vietnam: Growth, Reform, and the WTO
Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Seminar
Steve Parker, Project Director and Resident Trade Advisor, U.S.-Laos International and ASEAN Integration Project (LUNA-Lao) Managed by Nathan Associates Inc.
presentation available - Never Waste a Crisis: the European Left Holds the Key to Solving Common Challenges
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Pia Olsen Dyhr, Minister for Trade and Investment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Audio transcript available - Studying whole genome methylation patterns in the Khomani San populations of the Kalahari
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Oana Carja, PhD in Biology (CDEHA Grant Project)
Feb 7, 2013
- Ethnicity and Political Responsiveness in China
CDDRL Research Seminar
Greg Distelhorst, Pre-doctoral Fellow (The Governance Project), 2012-2013, CDDRL
- The Problem of Emergence
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Woody Powell; Deborah Gordon; Amir Goldberg - Can Liberation Technology Save Lives? Addressing State Failure in the Provision of Public Goods
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Paul H. Wise
Feb 8, 2013
Feb 11, 2013
- The Egyptian Revolution, Two Years Later: A Civil Society Perspective
CDDRL, ARD Special Event
Esraa Abdel Fattah, Egyptian Political Activist
- (Un)Covering North Korea
Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Audio & Video transcripts available 
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Erika Schillinger; Erica Weirich
flyer available
Feb 12, 2013
Feb 13, 2013
- Building Peace One Entrepreneur at a Time
Shorenstein APARC Seminar
Vivek Garg, Fellow, Sloan Master's Program, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
- Determinants of TB and Drug Resistance in India and Their Implications for Better Epidemic Control
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD - Technology in the US Presidential Elections
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Special Event
Nathaniel Lubin; Zac Moffatt; Sasha Issenberg
Video available
Feb 14, 2013
- Nationalism and the Rise of Public Protests in Russia
CDDRL Research Seminar
Alexander Verkhovsky, Founder and Director of the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow based NGO
- "Abenomics" -- Japan's Economic Policies Under the Abe Administration
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Panel Discussion
Motoshige Itoh; Hideaki Miyajima; Takeo Hoshi
Audio transcript available - Protecting Rights from Within? Inspectors General and National Security Oversight
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Shirin Sinnar; David Lazarus - China's Maritime Periphery: Heading Toward Conflict
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series
Michael Swaine, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
- Understanding the Pax Technica: Social Media, Big Data, and the New Rules of Global Power Politics
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Philip Howard, Fellow, Professor (on leave UW Seattle), Princeton University
Feb 15, 2013
- The 5th Annual Koret Conference: North Korea Policy
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Conference
conference agenda available
- "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It"
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Keynote Address
Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Video available
transcript available
Feb 19, 2013
- “Let’s Talk! Facilitating Track Two Dialogue between India and Pakistan”
CISAC Seminar
Peter Jones, Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution - Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A 'Control Rights' Theory
CDDRL, Shorenstein APARC, Governance Project, SCP Seminar
Xueguang Zhou; Francis Fukuyama
2 papers, flyer available
- ICC Speaker Series- William Pace
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
William Pace, Covenor, International NGO Coalition for the ICC (CICC)
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Kevin Grumbach, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UCSF
flyer available
Feb 20, 2013
- Drawing Lines in the Water: A Multimedia Presentation and Prognosis on the South China Sea
Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Seminar
Gregory Poling, Research Associate, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
Audio transcript available 
- RIP Seminar: Changing Antihypertensive Medication Prescribing for the Elderly
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Veronica Yank, MD (CDEHA Grant Project)
Feb 21, 2013
- Challenges of Private Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa
CDDRL, ARD Research Seminar
John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
paper available
- Gender Imbalance and Social Network Pressures in Rural China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar
Xi Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management Yale School of Public Health
Audio transcript available
presentation available
- Democracy in 'New Europe': Reversed Consolidation
CDDRL Round Table
Grigore Pop-Eleches; Jason Wittnberg; Milada Vaduchova; Patricia Young; Kathryn Stoner - Special TEC-CISAC Seminar: Cooperating to Compete: The Role of Regional Powers in Global Nuclear Governance
CISAC, The Europe Center Social Science Seminar
Francesca Giovannini; Andrew K. Woods
Audio transcript available 
- Imagining Confucian Democracy: Institutional Challenges
CDDRL, Governance Project Special Seminar
Francis Fukuyama; Tu Weiming
- Internet Regulation in Latin America: Are we Moving in the Right Direction?
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Eduardo Bertoni, Director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Palermo University School of Law, in Buenos Aires
Feb 22, 2013
Feb 25, 2013
- Can Nuclear Power Evolve Beyond Light Water? An Examination of the US and China
CISAC Science Seminar
Edward Blandford, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico - The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
Shorenstein APARC Seminar
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor, Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore
- The Future of Primary Care Lecture Series
CHP/PCOR Lecture
Kathleen Clanon, MD, Interim Chief Medical Officer, Alameda County Medical Center
flyer available
Feb 26, 2013
- Muslim Politics and Popular Culture in Malaysia: PAS, Hudud, and Rock 'n' Roll
Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Seminar
Dominik Müller, Visiting Scholar APARC, Stanford University
presentation available
- Arrière-garde as avant-garde: The Paradox of Interwar Realism
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Devin Fore, Associate Professor of German, Princeton University
flyer available - ICC Speaker Series- Shamila Batohi
CDDRL, PHR Lecture Series
Shamila Batohi, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, ICC
Feb 27, 2013
- Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar
Nicolas Berggruen; Nathan Gardels; Francis Fukuyama
flyer available
- Financial Assistance Programs to Promote Institutional Deliveries (and Improve Health?) among India's Poor
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Grant Miller, PhD
Feb 28, 2013
- The Gathering Storm: Cloud Computing and Implications for Japan and Asia
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Kenji E. Kushida, Takahashi Research Associate in Japanese Studies, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
- Delivering Justice to the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia
CDDRL Research Seminar
Bilal Siddiqi, Post-doctoral fellow, CDDRL
- Why Rebels Return: The Micro-Foundations of Surrender in Civil War
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Joseph Felter, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC - Pending Financial Reforms in China: Two Bankers' Perspectives
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Seminar Series
James Chen; Carl Walter - Moving From Access to Disclosure in the Information Age
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Nicklas Lundblad, Senior Policy Counsel and Head of Public Policy, Google
- The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image: Walter Benjamin’s image based epistemology and its preconditions in visual arts and media history
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Special Event
Sigrid Weigel; Robert Harrison - The Robert G. Wesson Lecture
CDDRL Interview
Pankaj Mishra; Steve Stedman - 2013 Wesson Lecture "Pankaj Mishra"
Lecture


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