The Program on American Democracy in Comparative Perspective hosts diverse events, including workshops and seminars, to engage the scholarly community in specific aspects of American governance. These events bring speakers and academics to Stanford, particularly to introduce reports and findings in the reform community.
The United States’ strategy for the storage and disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste is at a stalemate: spent nuclear fuel accumulates at nuclear power plants, yet there is no long-term, national strategy for spent fuel management and disposal. A federal commission emphasized the urgency of finding a geologic repository, but work on the proposed site -- Yucca Mountain – has stopped and its fate is unclear. The political impasse has overwhelmed meaningful discussion of technical, risk management and other policy questions.
To inform efforts to reset the U.S. nuclear waste program, CISAC, with the support of FSI and the Precourt Institute for Energy, has convened a group of international experts to examine nuclear waste management strategies with fresh eyes.
Speakers include:
CISAC Central Conference Room
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street,
Stanford, CA 94305
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) are offering an exciting K–5 workshop focusing on strategies to incorporate Latin American and Latino children’s literature into the elementary school classroom.
Featured speakers include Duncan Tonatiuh, author of Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote (2013, Abrams Books for Young Readers) and Tomás Jiménez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Stanford’s Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.
Registration is $25 and includes breakfast, lunch, and a copy of the book Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh. Register for the workshop at http://tinyurl.com/ncks8sf by January 12, 2015.
TBA
Stanford University
In an effort to infuse Asian studies in the social studies and literature curricula, the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), in cooperation with the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA), is offering a professional development opportunity at Stanford University.
This all day workshop will focus on teaching about issues Asian American face in contemporary society. This is the fourth workshop in a four part series.
Encina Basement Conf. Room, Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305
Sponsored and organized by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) in Association with U.S.-Japan Council
The Japan Program at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University is continuing the "New Channels" dialogue which started in 2013 with support from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. The project was launched to create new channels of dialogue between experts and leaders of younger generations from the United States, mostly from the West Coast, and Japan under name of "New Channels: Reinvigorating U.S.-Japan Relations," with the goal of reinvigorating the bilateral relationship through dialogue on 21st century challenges faced by both nations.
Last year, in its inaugural year, the Stanford-SPF New Channels Dialogue 2014 focused on energy issues. This year's theme is innovation and entrepreneurship, which will take place on January 22 at Stanford University with participants that include business leaders, academia and experts from both the United States and Japan. On January 23, a closed dialogue among participants will be held at Stanford.
Shorenstein APARC will be tweeting about the conference at hashtag, #StanfordSPF. Join the conversation with the handle, @StanfordSAPARC.
Brief Agenda
9:15-9:30
Welcome:
Gi-Wook Shin, Director, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Yuji Takagi, President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
9:30-10:50
Panel Discussion I: Current State of Silicon Valley Innovations
Chair: Kazuyuki Motohashi, Sasakawa Peace Fellow, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Panelists:
Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University
Tak Miyata, General Partner, Scrum Ventures
Patrick Scaglia, Consultant and Technology Advisor, Startup Ventures and former senior executive, Hewlette Packard
Norman Winarsky, Vice President, SRI Ventures, SRI International
11:10-12:30
Panel Discussion II: Current State of Innovations in Japan
Chair: Kenji Kushida, Research Associate, Japan Program, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Panelists:
Yusuke Asakura, Former CEO, mixi
Takuma Iwasa, CEO, Cerevo
Yasuo Tanabe, Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi Ltd.
Hiroaki Yasutake, Managing Executive Office and Director, Rakuten
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:50
Panel Discussion III: Taking Silicon Valley Innovations to Japan
Chair: Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University
Panelists:
Jeff Char, President, J-Seed Ventures, Inc. and Chief Mentor, Venture Generation
Akiko Futamura, President and CEO, InfiniteBio
Allen Miner, Founder, Chairman & CEO, SunBridge Corporation
John Roos, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
15:10-16:30
Panel Discussion IV: The Japanese Innovation Ecosystem and Silicon Valley: Bringing them Together (How Japanese firms can make use of SV?)
Chair: Takeo Hoshi, Director, Japan Program, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Panelists:
Robert Eberhart, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University and STVP Fellow, Stanford University
Gen Isayama, CEO and Co-Founder, WiL (World Innovation Lab)
Naoyuki Miyabe, Principal, Miyabe & Associates, LLC
Hideichi Okada, Senior Executive Vice President, NEC Corporation
Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., 1st floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Shorenstein APARC's center overviews provide detailed information about Shorenstein APARC's mission, history, faculty, financial support, organizational structure, projects, and programs.
Is democracy heading toward a depression? CDDRL Director Larry Diamond answers in a recent Foreign Policy piece, assessing the challenges of overcoming a global, decade-long democratic recession. With much of the world losing faith in the model of liberal democracy, Diamond believes the key to setting democracy back on track involves heavy reform in America, serious crackdowns on corruption, and a reassessment of how the West approaches its support for democratic development abroad.
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Japan has long been known as a technology giant, and remains highly entrepreneurial, despite slowed competiveness in the years following the financial crisis of the 1990s. How can Japan continue to reinvigorate its economy? What steps can Japanese and Silicon Valley-based actors take to facilitate long-term, beneficial partnerships?
Ambassador John Roos, who served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2009-13, will explore trends of entrepreneurship in Japan, and compare it to those in Silicon Valley. Roos will address the networks, knowledge sharing patterns, and key challenges, such as political and societal barriers to growth, that both Japan and the United States face. During his tenure as ambassador, Roos focused on innovation and trade issues, including Japan’s announcement to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). He built many relationships and established constructed dialogue surrounding those issues.
This event will feature Roos in conservation with Ambassador Michael H. Armacost, a Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, who also served as a U.S. ambassador to Japan (1989-1993).
Ambassador John Victor Roos was the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from August 2009-13, a pivotal period in U.S.-Japan relations. Shortly after presenting his credentials to Japan's emperor, power shifted from the Liberal Democratic Party to the Democratic Party of Japan for essentially the first time in 50 years, and Roos played a key role in managing the U.S.-Japan relationship through the transition. Three and a half years later, power shifted back to the LDP, and once again, Roos was called upon to help manage the relationship through a major shift in government.
During his almost four years in Japan, Roos built relationships and established a rich and active dialogue with government leaders, businesspeople, media, and students over the course of his travels through all 47 of Japan's prefectures. In addition to addressing the security, economic, and global challenges that Japan and the United States faced, Roos put specific focus on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as trade issues, including Japan's announced intent to join the TPP. Roos' work with the business sector resulted in his being recognized, along with his wife Susie, as the 2012 American Chamber of Commerce Japan's Persons of the Year.
Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, Roos served as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, & Rosati, a leading law firm in the United States in the representation of technology, life sciences, and emerging growth companies. There he helped lead his firm through multiple waves of innovation in Silicon Valley, from the growth of software and communications, to the Internet Age, to the emergence of biotechnology, clean technology and renewable energy, and to the social media revolution.
Roos is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School.
Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., 1st floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
