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.
May 16, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Cost of Inaction on HIV/AIDS: Case studies from Angola and Rwanda
CDDRL, PHR Seminar
Nadejda Marques, Manager, Program on Human Rights at CDDRL
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Education And Employment Among Muslims In India - An Analysis Of Patterns And Trends
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series (
RSVP required)
Rakesh Basant, Professor of Economics & Chairperson, Center for innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
How Neglected Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases? A systematic review of the randomized evidence
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Shanthi Kappagoda - 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
WAR: Ethical Challenges on the Horizon
CISAC Stanford Ethics and War Series
Charles Dunlap; Scott D. Sagan; Debra Satz; Scotty McLennan
flyer available
May 15, 2012
May 14, 2012
- Taiwan’s Maturing Democracy
CDDRL Seminar
Larry Diamond, Professor of Political Science; Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
5 presentations available - Defending Critical Infrastructure Systems
CISAC Science Seminar
Dave Alderson, Assistant Professor, Operations Research Department Director, Center for Infrastructure Defense, Naval Postgraduate School - Business as Usual: Fukushima in Light of the Great Cold War Plutonium Disasters
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar Series
Kate Brown, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Cancelled: Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A 'Control Rights' Theory
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar
Xueguang Zhou; Francis Fukuyama
2 papers, flyer available
- China's Military Modernization and National Security Strategy
Shorenstein APARC Lecture
Karl Eikenberry, Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
May 11, 2012
- ICC Turns Ten: Reviewing the Past, Assessing the Future
CDDRL Conference
Helen Stacy, Senior Fellow, CDDRL; Affiliated Faculty, Stanford School of Law; Europe Center Research Affiliate and Director, Program on Human Rights, Stanford University - Insights into North Korea
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Seminar Series
Katharina Zellweger, 2011-2012 Pantech Fellow
Audio transcript available 
May 10, 2012
- The United States and the Arab Awakening -- An Early Assessment
CDDRL Research Seminar
Tamara Wittes, Director, Middle East Democracy and Development (MEDD) Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution
- Chernobyl's Death Toll: What We Know for Sure, and Why It Must be Wrong
CISAC Social Science Seminar
John Downer; Toshihiro Higuchi
- Structural Change and the Future of Indian Agriculture
FSE, FSI Stanford Symposium
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize; Marianne Banziger
2 presentations available - The Paradigm Shift and the Rise of East Asia
Shorenstein APARC Seminar Series
Young-jin Choi, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
- "The Other Town" (2011; dirs. Nefin Dinç and Hercules Millas; 45 min.)
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Nefin Dinç, Film director and Associate Professor, State University of New York at Fredonia
May 9, 2012
- Research Presentations (1 of 3) - Aosaki, Pandya and Ramanathan
Shorenstein APARC, Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliates Research Presentation
Minoru Aosaki; Prashant Pandya; Ramnath Ramanathan - Energy Working Group: Shale Gas in China: Hype and Reality
PESD Research Seminar
Joe Chang; Jonathan Strahl - Choosing and Using Measures of Governance
CDDRL, Governance Project Seminar
Robert Klitgaard; Francis Fukuyama
Audio transcript available
flyer available


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