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FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.

The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.

Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.

Shui Yung Chang

Encina Hall
616 Serra Street,
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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Shui Yung Chang (張水庸) is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan). 

Mr. Chang is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has served in various capacities in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America. His overseas posts for the Foreign Service include Vice Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa; First Secretary in New Delhi, India; and Director in Miami, Florida, United States. In Taipei he held the positions of Desk Officer of African Affairs; Section Chief of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs (formerly known as Foreign Service Institute); Secretary of the Coordination Council of North American Affairs; Director of the Public Diplomacy Coordination Council on home assignment and served as the External Affairs Officer and translator to the Premier Office of Executive Yuan, R.O.C.

Mr. Chang graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1991. He continued his education on History of Art at University of Pretoria, South Africa 1996-1997, and obtained Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from Australian National University, Australia in 2005. He also received his certificate on diplomacy from Oxford University, United Kingdom in 1995. 

Mr. Chang speaks fluent Taiwanese, Mandarin and English. His research interests include Asia studies, International Affairs, Taiwan Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, Democracy and Development. In his career he also actively involved in the promotion of culture, academy and humanitarian work for Taiwan. Over the years, Mr. Chang has travelled widely across countries and continents on his official trips and personal tours with family. He is married to Ms Maya Chen and has two children, Sonia and Sophia Chang. They currently reside in Taiwan.

Dynamics of the Korean American Experience

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More than one million Korean Americans currently reside in every corner of the United States, forming one of the largest Asian American communities in the United States. This unit presents a thematic overview of the diverse Korean American experience in order to expand students’ understanding of a community that constitutes an increasingly important part of contemporary U.S. society. A CD-ROM of projections and handouts accompany the unit, as well as a variety of class, group, and individual activities.

Rustin Crandall

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Knight Management Center
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
McClelland Building
Stanford, CA 94305-7298 USA

(650) 725-3703 (650) 721-2198
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Rustin Crandall joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a full-time Administrative Associate in February 2013. Prior to coming to Stanford, he worked as an IT Coordinator for the Peace Corps in Guyana, a Program Coordinator for an international education and technology non-profit in New York, and a Product Manager for an Internet firm in the Philippines. Rustin will be supporting the Silicon Valley and China 2.0 projects through his communications, organization, and IT expertise.

Rustin holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from George Mason University.

Administrative Associate

Partitions: Towards Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism

 

Please note that only Day 1 is open to the public.  
Day 2 is open only to Stanford University faculty and students.


Day 1:  "Partitions in/and Literature"
Thursday, April 18th
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Free and open to the public

Chair and commentator:  Vered K. Shemtov (Stanford University)

Speaker: Hannan Hever (Hebrew University)
"Zionist Literature: The impossibility of the Rhetoric of Partition"

 

Day 2:  "Partitions in History:  Genealogy and Implementations of a Political Idea"
Friday, April 19th
10:00am - 6:00pm
Open to Stanford University faculty and students only

PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR PANEL TITLES AND PARTICIPANTS

 

Sponsored by:
The Europe Center, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, Hebrew Literature and Culture Project, Stanford Department of History (Kratter Fund), The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for East Asian Studies and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

 

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April 18th: Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center (Open to the public)
April 19th: The Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center (Open to Stanford faculty and students only)

Hannan Hever Keynote Speaker Hebrew University
Vared K. Shemtov Commentator Stanford University

Edith Sheffer

Department of History 200-120

(650) 724-0074
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Former Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
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Edith Sheffer joined the History Department faculty in 2010, having come to Stanford as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities in 2008.  Her first book, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford University Press, 2011), challenges the moral myth of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War’s central symbol. It reveals how the barrier between East and West did not simply arise overnight from communism in Berlin in 1961, but that a longer, lethal 1,393 kilometer fence had been developing haphazardly between the two Germanys since 1945.

Her current book, Soulless Children of the Reich: Hans Asperger and the Nazi Origins of Autism, investigates Hans Asperger’s creation of the autism diagnosis in Nazi Vienna, examining Nazi psychiatry's emphasis on social spirit and Asperger's involvement in the euthanasia program that murdered disabled children. A related project through Stanford's Spatial History Lab, "Forming Selves: The Creation of Child Psychiatry from Red Vienna to the Third Reich and Abroad," maps the transnational development of child psychiatry as a discipline, tracing linkages among its pioneers in Vienna in the 1930s through their emigration from the Third Reich and establishment of different practices in the 1940s in England and the United States. Sheffer's next book project, Hidden Front: Switzerland and World War Two, tells an in-depth history of a nation whose pivotal role remains unexposed--yet was decisive in the course of the Second World War.

Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center
Edith Sheffer Commentator
Reece Jones Panelist University of Hawaii, Manoa
Lucy Chester Panelist University of Colorado, Boulder
Priya Satia Commentator

Arie M. Dubnov

450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 200
Stanford, CA 94305

(650) 723-1585 (650) 804-6932
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Arie Dubnov is an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s Department of History. Dubnov holds a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a past George L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history, with a subsidiary interest in nationalism studies. He is the author, most recently, of Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). In addition, Dubnov has published essays in journals such as Nations & Nationalism, Modern Intellectual History, History of European Ideas, The Journal of Israeli History and is the editor of the collection [in Hebrew] Zionism – A View from the Outside (The Bialik Institute, 2010), seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory. At Stanford Dubnov teaches courses in European intellectual history alongside Jewish and Israeli history.

 

Arie M. Dubnov Panelist
Motti Golani Panelist University of Haifa
Gershon Shafir Commentator UC San Diego
Adi Gordon Panelist University of Cincinnati / Amherst College
Joel Beinin Panelist Stanford University
Robert Crews Commentator Stanford University
Faisal Devji Panelist St. Anthony's, Oxford
Leena Dellashah Panelist Columbia University
Conferences

Conscious Capitalism & Social Innovation Salon

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The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) 
with the Center for Social Innovation
invite you to a Stanford salon on Monday, March 11th on

Conscious Capitalism & Social Innovation

with John Montgomery, Jeff Klein & you!

John Montgomery, Silicon Valley Corporate attorney and author of Great from the Start, and Jeff Klein, a director of Conscious Capitalism and producer of Conscious Capitalism 2013, will share their insights and facilitate inquiry and conversation with salon participants.

This salon is designed to provide a taste of the Conscious Capitalism 2013 experience, and to engage participants in a conversation about the emerging Conscious Capitalism movement and Social Innovation.

For more details and to register, please visit the event page on Eventbrite:

http://ccstanford.eventbrite.com/

This event is for Stanford students, alumni, faculty, and staff only.

About the speakers:

John Montgomery

John Montgomery

John Montgomery is a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, executive coach and writer. He is the founder of Montgomery & Hansen, LLP, a Silicon Valley based corporate law firm. He is also the founder of Startworks, a technology incubator. He works primarily with high-potential entrepreneurial teams to help them translate their visions into successful companies.

John recently received a California Lawyer of the Year award from California Lawyer magazine for his work as a co-chair of the legal working group behind California’s new benefit corporation law. A frequent speaker on venture capital, he has produced professional education programs for the State Bar on benefit corporations and for SmartPros/Cognistar: Understanding the Venture Capital Term Sheet Process and Introduction to Venture Capital Financing Agreements. Prior to founding Montgomery & Hansen in 2003, John was co-chairman of the venture capital practice at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP. John is a student of non-dual philosophical systems, neuroscience, developmental theory and organizational development. In 2010, he co-founded Chrysallis, a human development company that aims to change the human development paradigm and support healthy, full, productive lives for billions of people.  His book, Great from the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success, was published in May 2012. Montgomery has a BA (Studio Art) from Stanford University and a JD from Northwestern College of Law.

Jeff Klein

Jeff Klein

As CEO of Working for Good, Jeff Klein activates, produces and facilitates mission-based, Stakeholder Engagement Marketing™ campaigns and Conscious Culture development programs.

Jeff is a trustee and member of the executive team of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and producer of Conscious Capitalism events. He authored the award-winning book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living and hosts a weekly radio program called It's Just Good Business. Jeff serves as Executive Director of BeingHuman.org and producer of Being Human events.  

He loves surfing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, ChiRunning and moving in general. He is an actively engaged father of a teenage daughter, and lives in San Rafael, Calif.

For more information visit workingforgood.com

Room Z-301
Knight Management Center
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-7298

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