Events
Upcoming Events
Thursday, March 17, 2016 – Saturday, March 19, 2016
Eccles Family Rural West Conference
Fourth Annual Conference – University of Montana in Missoula
University of Montana
This year’s conference will be focused on defining people and place in the rural American West, through panels addressing public health and access, housing and homelessness, natural resource use and allocation, and Indian policy.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Drawing Lessons from Regulatory and Collaborative Approaches to Water Management in Western United States and Canada
Paper Sessions at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
San Francisco Hilton Hotel
Union Square 18, 4th Floor
This two-part session of paper presentations asks: how have western water institutions and management practices adapted? What new techniques have been developed to support alternative resource management goals?
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Sunday, July 24, 2016 – Friday, July 29, 2016
The California Local Governance Summer Institute @ Stanford
Professional Seminar for Western Local Government Officials
Stanford University
This week-long summer institute at Stanford University is open to city managers, county executives, regional directors, and other senior local government officials from throughout the West. They will have the opportunity to exchange and acquire tools for improving local government performance and ways of enhancing prospective analytical capacity to innovate and anticipate societal change.
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Recent Events
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
An Agenda Beyond Immigration: Latinos and the Politics of Climate Change
Lunchtime talk by Stella Rouse, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Brandon Room
Black Community Services Center
Professor Rouse will discuss a new paper which analyzes survey data from 2014 and 2015 on the opinions of Latino Millennials with respect to climate change policies and how personal experience with weather and disaster events may affect their attitudes. Lunch will be provided.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Tracking a Lost Voice: The Chinese Workers on the Transcontinental Railroad
Talk by Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin
Jordan Hall Auditorium
Building 420, Room 40
Stanford University
The history of Chinese railroad workers in the West is a transnational story, told from both U.S. and Chinese perspectives, that the Chinese Railroad Workers Project tries to document and share. As co-directors of the project, Prof. Chang and Prof. Fishkin will talk about how the project gives a voice to these Chinese migrants through an online digital archive available to all, along with books, digital visualizations, conferences, and public events.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Knight-Risser Prize Symposium: Oil Production and Air Pollution in Texas
Award Presentation and Panel Discussion on the report "Big Oil, Bad Air"
Oak Lounge, Tresidder Memorial Union
Stanford University
Please join us in celebrating 2015 Knight-Risser Prize winners Jim Morris, Susan White, and their colleagues at the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and the Weather Channel, for their report "Big Oil, Bad Air." Along with the award presentation and reception, the event will feature a panel of journalists and educators assessing the state of enviromental investigative journalism.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Energy 360: California’s Groundbreaking New 2015 Energy and Climate Laws
Panel discussion on what new laws mean for California and beyond
Stanford Law School, Room 190
The California Legislature has just passed an extraordinary set of new energy and climate-related laws. This session will be a lively discussion of what passed and what did not, why, and what this means for California and beyond, especially for the international COP21 in Paris in December.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Does Digital Humanities Scholarship Count?
Panel discussion at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Wallenberg Hall
Fourth Floor, Room 433A
Digital humanities scholars from the fields of English literature, geography, and history discuss the challenge of finding a place in academic publishing for digital publications. Participating in the panel will be Nicholas Bauch, a former Center postdoctoral fellow who produced the first digital scholarly work accepted for publication by the Stanford University Press.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Navigating Uncharted Territory: Mel Lane and the Formative Years of the California Coastal Commission
Lunchtime talk by Historian and Center Researcher Todd Holmes
Lane History Corner
Room 200-205
Todd Holmes, a Center researcher and historian, will discuss the formative years of the California Coastal Commission and the important roles that Chairman Mel Lane and other key staff members played in this state agency after its creation in 1972.
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