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As global audiences and digital platforms reshape cultural exchange, APARC’s Japan Program convened leading creators, producers, and scholars at Stanford to examine the creative ecosystems driving the international success of Japan’s content industries and their growing influence on innovation, fandom, and international collaboration.
More than 200 academics and political leaders met last week at Stanford for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv,” a groundbreaking conference organized by CDDRL's Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program.
South Koreans have elected Lee Jae-myung president. Will he be a pragmatic democratic reformer? Or will he continue the polarizing political warfare of recent South Korean leaders?
Shinichi Kitaoka, a visiting scholar at APARC and Japan Program fellow, teaches a spring quarter seminar that brings students and scholars together to examine Japanese political history from the Yedo period to the present through a global and comparative lens.
Joan Benedict, an undergraduate student at Waseda University, reflects on her experience participating in the SPICE/Stanford–Waseda intensive course.
Dr. Natalia Forrat, a comparative political sociologist and lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, explores how authoritarian regimes are maintained not only through top-down coercion but also through everyday social dynamics at the grassroots level.
Dr. Ryan Moore successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on using short educational videos to improve older adults’ digital literacy and resilience to online deception at scale.
Peter Piot tells annual Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium that being a young researcher among the group of scientists who discovered Ebola led him to a life on the road tackling some of the world's deadliest viruses.
A comprehensive review of rapidly aging South Korea’s efforts to mitigate the social and economic costs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, co-authored by Stanford health economist Karen Eggleston, provides insights for nations facing policy pressures of the demographic transition.
Journalist Describes Surviving October 7 Hamas Attack and Analyzes Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Journalist Amir Tibon shared his family’s story of survival, betrayal, and hope for peace with a Stanford audience, while also offering insights on contemporary Israeli politics.
Leading researchers, practitioners, and policy experts to explore the current landscape of AI audits and chart a path forward during a closed-door conference in Spain this June.
Seniors Alex Borthwick, Adrian Feinberg, Malaina Kapoor, and Avinash Thakkar (Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025), and junior Emma Wang (Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2026) are among the newest members of this prestigious academic honors society.
Two Stanford researchers are working on projects to fight antimicrobial resistance and colorectal cancer in Mexico.
The second annual SCCEI China Conference, held at Stanford University on May 14, brought together leading scholars and policy experts. Panelists offered a candid, multifaceted view of China's global economic position, exploring its technological prowess, industrial diplomacy, and the increasingly complex global responses to its expanding influence.
In a keynote address during the 2025 SCCEI China Conference, U.S.-China Business Council President Sean Stein cautioned that strategic miscalculations and trade tensions have left the U.S. economy with lasting setbacks—and few clear gains.
At the 2025 SCCEI China Conference, Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, outlined China’s ambitious bid to reshape the global order—and urged the U.S. to respond with vision, not just rivalry, during a Fireside Chat with Professor Hongbin Li, Senior Fellow and SCCEI Faculty Co-Director.
Insights from Educators, Platforms, Law Enforcement, Legislators, and Victims
University of California, Berkeley Distinguished Professor Paul Pierson explores the risks of democratic backsliding in the United States in the face of rising polarization and inequality.
Learning Through the Five Senses: A Reflection on the Japantown Study Tour in Downtown San Jose
Yuri Tsutsumi, a graduate of the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, shares her reflections following a study tour of San Jose Japantown, led by Dr. Gary Mukai, Director of SPICE.
The award, decreed by President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, is Mongolia’s highest state honor and recognizes Fishkin for his pioneering contributions to deliberative democracy.
SPICE collaborates with 2019 CatchLight Global Fellow Sparsh Ahuja, Founder and CEO of Project Dastaan.
With funding from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, students at Stanford University are making connections, learning, and listening to their counterparts in Japan, China, India, and Pakistan.