lectures / readings / talks

Archaeology Exhibit~ From "Curios" to Ambassadors: Changing Roles of the Daggett Collection from Tribes of the Lower Klamath River

Ongoing every day from June 4, 2015 through June 1, 2016.  08:30 AM.
Archaeology center, bldg. 500, room 106


Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — and the World

Thursday, October 8, 2015.  4:15 PM.
Women's Community Center


"Re-Thinking American Jewish Zionist Identity" with Shaul Magid

Thursday, October 8, 2015.  4:15 PM.
Margaret Jacks Hall - Terrace Room


India's Information and Technology Growth - A Personal Story

Thursday, October 8, 2015.  4:30 PM.
Skilling Auditorium


Andrew J. Bacevich / America's War for the Greater Middle East: Consequences (Tanner Lecture #2)

Thursday, October 8, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Room


Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert

Thursday, October 8, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church


Scientific Exploration in the Northern Amazon: Destination Roraima, Biodiversity Unknown!

Friday, October 9, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row


The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

Friday, October 9, 2015.  4:15 PM.
Florence Moore Hall Main Lounge


Trees of Stanford: A Walk through Time

Saturday, October 10, 2015.  9:00 AM.
Jordan Hall Room 40


Stanford Bookstore Star Wars Reads Day

Saturday, October 10, 2015.  2:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore


The Role of the Military in the Political Evolution in Postwar Greece and Turkey (1914-2015)

Monday, October 12, 2015.  3:30 PM.
Encina Hall West, Room 219 (616 Serra Street)


SciFinder - Advanced Search Tips

Monday, October 12, 2015.  4:00 PM.
Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library Training Area


Susan Rice: Climate Change and National Security

Monday, October 12, 2015.  4:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center in Encina Hall


Katrin Trüstedt, “A Deeper Gaze into the Human Heart: Schiller's 'Pitaval' and the 'Code Napoleon'”

Tuesday, October 13, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Pigott Hall (Bldg 260), room 252


Literature and Gaming: Exploring the Role of Story in Interactive Media

Tuesday, October 13, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Herrin T175


Lessons from the Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Trial with Lynne Hermle, Kleiner's Lead Trial Counsel

Tuesday, October 13, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Room 290, Stanford Law School


Stanford Breakfast Briefings

Wednesday, October 14, 2015.  7:30 AM.
Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Dr.


Medieval Matters: Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism Medieval and Modern

Wednesday, October 14, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Bishop Auditorium, Lathrop Library


SciFinder - Advanced Search Tips

Thursday, October 15, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library Training Area


Clinton Fellowship for Service in India Information Session

Thursday, October 15, 2015.  4:00 PM.
Conference Room, 1st Floor


GUEST LECTURE: Steve Wilmer on "Refugees on the Berlin Stage Today"

Thursday, October 15, 2015.  4:00 PM.
Room 125, Memorial Hall


Stanford Bookstore Meet the Author Event: Andy Weir

Thursday, October 15, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore


No Childhood Here: Why Salvadoran Children are Fleeing Their Homes

Friday, October 16, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row


One-Day MFA

Saturday, October 17, 2015.  9:00 AM.
Location included in registration confirmation


Jazz Talk: "New World A-Coming: Jazz and Civil Rights"

Monday, October 19, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Stanford alumni reception at Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Conference

Monday, October 19, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Hilton New Orleans Riverside


Reaxys Xcelerate - Advanced Search Tips

Monday, October 19, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library Training Area


View From The Top: Sir Alex Ferguson

Monday, October 19, 2015.  6:00 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium


Another Look Book Club - A Month in the Country

Monday, October 19, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street


Reaxys Xcelerate - Advanced Search Tips

Tuesday, October 20, 2015.  11:00 AM.
Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library Training Area


Nicole Sütterlin, “Poetics of the Wound: A New Take on German Romanticism”

Tuesday, October 20, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Pigott Hall (Bldg 260), room 252


UK London University - Graduate Programs Information Session

Tuesday, October 20, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Conference Room, 1st Floor


The Power of Interactive World-Building to Illuminate Reality

Tuesday, October 20, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Herrin T175


Meet CodeX: Find out how to join the legal innovation boom

Tuesday, October 20, 2015.  12:45 PM.
Room 180, Stanford Law School


Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability, and Law

Wednesday, October 21, 2015.  12:45 PM.
Room 290, Stanford Law School


Sasha Abramsky: The House of Twenty Thousand Books

Wednesday, October 21, 2015.  4:30 PM.
History Corner, Bldg. 200 Room 307


Johanna Hanink (Brown): What exactly is reperformance, and what might it mean for classicists?

Wednesday, October 21, 2015.  5:15 PM.
Stanford Classics Department


Stanford Bookstore Meet the Author Event: Linda Lee Peterson

Wednesday, October 21, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore


San Francisco Stories: Judy Yung

Wednesday, October 21, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Cubberley Auditorium


CodeX Speaker Series: Justice Thomas Lee

Thursday, October 22, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Room 290, Stanford Law School


Educational Neuroscience: Your Child's Brain and Early Literacy, Bruce McCandliss

Thursday, October 22, 2015.  1:30 PM.
Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Center


Update on Migraine

Thursday, October 22, 2015.  7:00 PM.
Stanford Health Library, Hoover Pavilion, Suite 201, 211 Quarry Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94304


Revolution of Forms, Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools

Friday, October 23, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row


Stanford Bookstore Meet the Author Event: Will Chancelor

Friday, October 23, 2015.  2:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore


Thomas Piketty / Capital in the 21st Century

Friday, October 23, 2015.  3:30 PM.
Memorial Auditorium


Good to Great: The Stanford GSB at 90

Friday, October 23, 2015.  3:30 PM.
Cemex Auditorium


School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Reunion Homecoming Alumni Reception

Friday, October 23, 2015.  04:00 PM.
Mitchell Earth Sciences Building - Terrace


Founders' Celebration

Sunday, October 25, 2015.  11:00 AM.
Cantor Arts Center


The Power of Letting Go: How Forgiveness Can Improve Your Health and Happiness, Fred Luskin, PD '99, PhD '99

Sunday, October 25, 2015.  1:00 PM.
Graduate School of Education, Cubberley Auditorium


Black Holes in the Universe (and Hollywood), Roger Blandford

Sunday, October 25, 2015.  1:00 PM.
Main Quad, Bldg 20 (History corner), Room 002, lower level


What's Next for The Affordable Care Act?, Lanhee Chen, JD '06

Sunday, October 25, 2015.  1:00 PM.
Bishop Auditorium


Craig Santos Perez: A Poetry Reading

Monday, October 26, 2015.  5:15 PM.
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, 4th floor


Art, Race, and Citizenship: Anna Deavere Smith in conversation with Frank Rich

Monday, October 26, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Mendeley for Geoscientists

Tuesday, October 27, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Branner Earth Sciences Library Teaching Corner, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building


Play Ethics: Values, Virtues, and Videogames

Tuesday, October 27, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Herrin T175


Constitutional Conversation with Nate Persily- The Campaign Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Legal Implications of Politics On-Demand

Tuesday, October 27, 2015.  5:45 PM.
Student Lounge, Stanford Law School


Stanford Bookstore Meet the Author Event: Tina Seelig, "Insight Out"

Tuesday, October 27, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore


Anna Deavere Smith: Storytelling and Healing

Tuesday, October 27, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Auditorium


Between Two Worlds: An Evening with Mira Nair: Film Screening and Conversation

Wednesday, October 28, 2015.  5:00 PM.
Cubberley Auditorium


Piranesi Panel Discussion: "Drawn to Build: Architectural Representation in the Digital Age"

Wednesday, October 28, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Boren Awards Information Session

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  4:00 PM.
Conference Room, 1st Floor


Ananya Roy, "From South to North: Struggles for Land and Housing in Unequal Cities."

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  4:30 PM.
Building 200, Room 203


LECTURE: Steven Ostrow "Zurbarán's cartellino: Artistic Presence and Metapictorial Device"

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building


Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist, Marilynne Robinson, Speaks on "The American Scholar Now"

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  6:00 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium, 641 Knight Way


Thursday Nights at the Anderson: Artist Talk: Morelab

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  6:30 PM.
Anderson Collection at Stanford University


Afshin Naghouni: Odyssey of an Artist

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  6:30 PM.
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113


Meet the Makers: REACTION Disaster Housing

Thursday, October 29, 2015.  7:00 PM.
Peterson Building 550, 416 Escondido Mall, Stanford University


Stanford Alumni Reception at GSA Conference in Baltimore

Monday, November 2, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Hilton Baltimore - Chase Room


Venerable Ajahn Viradhammo: "Reflections on a Monastic Life"

Monday, November 2, 2015.  6:00 PM.
STANFORD HUMANITY CENTER, LEVINTHAL HALL


Rolf-Peter Janz, “Laughter – Promoted and Verboten: With Particular Reference to Nietzsche, Heine and Kafka”

Tuesday, November 3, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Pigott Hall (Bldg 260), room 252


Immersive Virtual Reality and 3D Interaction for Task Performance and Embodiment

Tuesday, November 3, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Herrin T175


Virgins to Villains: My Journey with Shakespeare's Women

Tuesday, November 3, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Dinkelspiel Auditorium


CBD 2015: Contemplation By Design

Ongoing every day from November 4, 2015 through November 12, 2015.
TBD


CBD 2015: Introduction to Contemplation: The Power of the Pause for Calm, Compassionate Competence

Wednesday, November 4, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Education Building (Cubberly), Auditorium


Technology Adoption in African Agriculture

Wednesday, November 4, 2015.  3:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall


CBD 2015: Book Discussions of Jack Kornfield's "A Path With Heart"

Wednesday, November 4, 2015.  5:30 PM.
TBD


CBD 2015: Compassion in Management & Leadership

Thursday, November 5, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Building 320, Rm 105 (Main Quad)


CBD 2015: Walking Meditation and Contemplation of Memorial Church Inscriptions

Thursday, November 5, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Memorial Church


Julie Lythcott-Haims / How to Raise an Adult

Thursday, November 5, 2015.  7:00 PM.
TBA


Opening the Medicine Box in the Mind: The Psychology of Pain

Thursday, November 5, 2015.  7:00 PM.
Stanford Health Library, Hoover Pavilion, Suite 201, 211 Quarry Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94304


Eitner Lecture by Dr. Tony Freeth (University College London): The Antikythera Mechanism: A Shocking Discovery from Ancient Greece.

Friday, November 6, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Stanford Humanities Center


Cardinal Nights: Comedic Guest

Friday, November 6, 2015.  9:00 PM.
Cemex Auditorium


Stanford Fall Splash

Ongoing every day from November 7, 2015 through November 8, 2015.  9:00 AM.
Main Quad


CBD 2015: Hourly Nature Hikes: Docent Tours of Jasper Ridge Preserve

Saturday, November 7, 2015.  9:20 AM.
Jasper Ridge Nature Preserve


CBD 2015: University Public Worship Sermon: Contemplation, Meditation and Spiritual Freedom

Sunday, November 8, 2015.  10:00 AM.
Memorial Church


CBD 2015: Labyrinth Walk at Memorial Church (12pm)

Sunday, November 8, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Memorial Church


CBD 2015: Contemplation & Compline in Memorial Church

Sunday, November 8, 2015.  9:00 PM.
Memorial Church


CBD 2015: Guided Meditation in Windhover: Contemplating the body and the breath (10am)

Monday, November 9, 2015.  10:00 AM.
Windhover contemplative center


CBD 2015: The Role of Contemplation in Teaching & Learning

Monday, November 9, 2015.  12:30 PM.
Braun Music Center, Campbell Recital Hall


CBD 2015: Guided Meditation in Windhover: Contemplating emotions, opening to compassion and forgiveness (4pm)

Monday, November 9, 2015.  4:00 PM.
Windhover contemplative center


CBD 2015: Labyrinth Walk at Windhover (9pm)

Monday, November 9, 2015.  9:00 PM.
Windhover contemplative center


CBD 2015: Om Under the Dome (yoga)

Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Memorial Church


SEG Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Dan Whitmore, Petroleum Geo-Services - "Full-waveform inversion: Challenges, Opportunities, and Impact"

Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  2:30 PM.
Hartley Conference Room, Mitchell Building


Visiting Artist: Ursula von Rydingsvard

Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Barbara and M. Kenneth Oshman Lecture Hall & Presentation Space in the McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University


Earth Matters Denver

Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  6:00 PM.
2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205


CBD 2015: Inner Strength & Kindness: Practices for a Wise Life with Jack Kornfield

Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  7:00 PM.
Memorial Church


Stanford Breakfast Briefings

Wednesday, November 11, 2015.  7:30 AM.
Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Dr.


Fresh Perspectives on Diversity – Freeman A. Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Wednesday, November 11, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center


CBD 2015: Children's Health & Well-being: Contemplation in Schools

Wednesday, November 11, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Clark Center Auditorium


CBD 2015: Storytelling Workshop: Authentic Expression & Deep Listening

Wednesday, November 11, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Alway, Rm M112


Art is My Occupation: Kickstart Your Art! A conversation with Kickstarter Co-Founder Yancey Strickler

Wednesday, November 11, 2015.  6:00 PM.
Cemex Auditorium


CBD 2015: Silent Yoga in Windhover

Thursday, November 12, 2015.  8:15 AM.
Windhover contemplative center


CBD 2015: Contemplative Concert in Bing Concert Hall

Thursday, November 12, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Animation Trends in Iran after the Revolution

Thursday, November 12, 2015.  6:30 PM.
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113


Only The Dead See The End Of War: Film Screening and Discussion

Thursday, November 12, 2015.  7:30 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium, Knight Management Center


CYBER DAY: Cybersecurity for Directors and C-Level Executives

Friday, November 13, 2015.  7:00 AM.
Room 290, Stanford Law School


Robert Wardy (Cambridge): Philosophical ekphrasis'

Monday, November 16, 2015.  5:15 PM.
Stanford Classics Department


Guns & History: Did Guns Make the Modern World?

Tuesday, November 17, 2015.  4:15 PM.
Lane History Corner, room 307


Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes

Tuesday, November 17, 2015.  07:00 PM.
Kissick Auditorium in the Arrillaga Family Sports Center


Studio Art Faculty Talk: Enrique Chagoya, “The Unpredictable Road to Creation”

Wednesday, November 18, 2015.  5:30 PM.
Cantor auditorium


Learning Goals, Teaching Excellence, and Course Evaluations

Thursday, November 19, 2015.  12:00 PM.
Paul Brest Hall


View From The Top: Kent Thiry

Thursday, November 19, 2015.  12:10 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium


Wei-Cheng Lin: "Broken Bodies: The Death of Buddhist Icons and Their Changing Ontology in 10th-12th Century China"

Thursday, December 3, 2015.  6:00 PM.
450 SERRA MALL BLDG., 70, ROOM 72A1 STANFORD, CA 94305


Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran

Thursday, December 3, 2015.  6:30 PM.
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113


American Geophysical Union (AGU) Alumni Reception

Monday, December 14, 2015.  5:30 PM.
San Francisco, CA


Barney Frank / To Govern is to Choose: Policing the Globe Versus Improving the Quality of Our Lives

Monday, February 8, 2016.  7:00 PM.
TBA


Stanford Alumni Reception at NAPE Expo in Houston

Thursday, February 11, 2016.  5:00 PM.
TBD


Tracking a Lost Voice: The Chinese Workers on Governor Stanford's Transcontinental Railroad

Thursday, February 18, 2016.  5:00 PM.
History Corner (Building 200, Room 2)


The Grandest Child Care Experiment in History and Bing Nursery School

Wednesday, March 2, 2016.  6:00 PM.
Cubberley Auditorium