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"In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir" — Book Launch & Discussion with Francis Fukuyama
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific)
Bechtel Conference Center at Encina Hall
Event update: Our in-person event has reached capacity. We invite you to join the event virtually via live stream on Zoom. Registration is required.
Emily Russell — Policing the Plantation: Repressive Institutions and Labor Control in Assam, India
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall, Center may attend in person.
Masua Sagiv — Israel's 2026 Elections: Make or Break?
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Registration required. Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456.
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Encina Hall E208 (Reuben Hills Conference Room) may attend in person.
- Masua Sagiv
Frances Cayton — Civic Consciousness and the Limits of Attacks on Civil Society
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Conference Room E-008 in Encina Hall, East, may attend in person.
Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room (C330)
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Susan H. Whiting , Professor, University of Washington
Enemies in Agreement: Political Volatility and the Design of Arms Control | Jane Vaynman
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
William J. Perry Conference Room
- Jane Vaynman
National Security Career Fair
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pacific)
Encina Hall Lawn, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94306
Israel Insights Webinar with Amos Harel — Three Years Since October 7: Causes and Consequences
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Pacific)
Seeing Like a State: The Organizational Logic of China’s Corporate Social Credit System with Lauren Yu-hsin Lin, Curtis Milhaupt, and Scott Rozelle
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Goldman Conference Room, Encina Hall, E409
- Lauren Yu-hsin Lin, Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong,
- Curtis J. Milhaupt, Professor of Law, Stanford University,
- Scott Rozelle, Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Aleksandar Matovski — The Kremlin’s Pressure Cooker: Restraint and Escalation in Russia’s War on Ukraine
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person.
- Aleksandar Matovski
Film Screening: Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM (Pacific)
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business
655 Knight Way, Stanford
- Ben McKenzie
- Dylan Ackerman, MBA ’26
Two Routes to Scale: Innovation Clusters in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Greater Bay Area
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM (Pacific)
Okimoto Conference Room (E307)
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Andreas Göthenberg, Executive Director, STINT,
- Laura Barbieri, Science Fellow in Japan and South Korea, STINT; Visiting Scholar, GRIPS,
- Erik Forsberg, Representative in China and ASEAN, STINT; Associate Professor, Zhejiang University
Drell Lecture 2026 | The Science of Nuclear Winter: What We Know and What We Don't Know about the Consequences of a Nuclear War
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Only those with an active Stanford ID and access to the William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. Others may attend virtually, via Zoom.
Registration required.
- Alexandra Vacroux,
- Yevhenii Malik
Book Talk: How to Survive Authoritarianism
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Only those with an active Stanford ID and access to the William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. Others may attend virtually, via Zoom.
Registration required.
- Maria Kuznetsova,
- Dan Storyev
The Rise and Future of the Korean Semiconductor Memory Industry: Perspectives and Insights from 1983 to 2026 and Beyond
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room (C330)
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- C.S. Park, former Chairman and CEO, Hynix Semiconductor (now SK hynix)
Chris Dann — Building Dictatorships: Legitimacy & Large-Scale Infrastructure
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Conference Room E-008 in Encina Hall, East, may attend in person.
How Americans Enforce the Law: Book Talk with Diego Zambrano
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific)
Stanford Law School Room 280B
Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford (map)
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall
- Guojun He, Professor in Economics, University of Hong Kong
S.T. Lee Lecture featuring Former Congressman and Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Encina Hall, First floor, Central, S150
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Jeff Flake
Strategic Stability during the Cold War and Beyond | Robert Litwak
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
William J. Perry Conference Room
- Robert Litwak
2026 Shorenstein Journalism Award: Shibani Mahtani on Attacks Against the Free Press and Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall Central (First Floor)
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Shibani Mahtani,
- Anna Fifield,
- Oren Samet
- James Hamilton
Israel Insights Webinar with Dahlia Scheindlin — To Bibi or Not to Bibi? Scenarios for Israel's Crucial Elections
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Pacific)
Virtual Only Event.
- Dahlia Scheindlin
Milada Vachudova | REDS Seminar: Europe in the Face of War
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina
- Anna Grzymała-Busse, Kathryn Stoner
Directional AI Advice: Experimental Evidence from Healthcare
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Pacific)
Zoom
- Lingsheng Meng, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI)