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Stanford Medicine | AIF Symposium

We have received significant interest in the March 8 event, in addition to several recent ideas for how to expand the symposium for even greater impact. We are therefore postponing the symposium until October 14, 2016.

The extended timeframe will allow us to implement these new ideas and accommodate additional participants, ensuring that the symposium achieves the highest levels of success.

MATERNAL AND NEWBORN SURVIVAL: Research, Technology Driven Innovation, and Action

Date and Time: 
Friday, October 14, 2016 - 13:00
Location: 
Berg Hall, LKSC
Event Sponsor: 
Office of the Dean, School of Medicine
Contact Email: 
medevents@stanford.edu

Admission

Last modified Wed, 9 Mar, 2016 at 14:18

Cardinal Course Workshop - Teaching for Broader Impact

Part of a 6 Part Series - The Cardinal Course Workshop Series is open to all Stanford instructors, as well as representatives from community organizations partnering with Stanford courses. Attend one or all in the series, attending all is highly recommended.

Date and Time: 
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 12:00
Location: 
CSRE Conference Room (Building 360, Room 361J)
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Haas Center for Public Service
Contact Email: 
paitra@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
650-498-9352

Last modified Wed, 9 Mar, 2016 at 14:18

Cardinal Course Workshop - Teaching for Broader Impact

Part of a 6 Part Series - The Cardinal Course Workshop Series is open to all Stanford instructors, as well as representatives from community organizations partnering with Stanford courses. Attend one or all in the series, attending all is highly recommended.

Date and Time: 
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 12:00
Location: 
CSRE Conference Room (Building 360, Room 361J)
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Haas Center for Public Service
Contact Email: 
paitra@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
650-498-9352

Last modified Wed, 9 Mar, 2016 at 14:18

Conversations on Compassion

In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask worldwide meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played. This event is an hour-long dialogue followed by questions from the audience. 

Sharon Salzberg has been a student of meditation since 1971, and leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas).

Date and Time: 
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 18:00
Location: 
Cubberley Auditorium
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Contact Email: 
ccare_info@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
(650) 723-8599

Admission

FREE admission. Registration is required for access to seating before the event starts. Non-registrants are still welcome to attend. Any available seats will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis once the event begins. 

Last modified Tue, 14 Apr, 2015 at 7:26

Conversations on Compassion with Jeff Weiner

In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Jeff Weiner about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played. This event is an hour-long dialogue followed by questions from the audience. 

Date and Time: 
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 18:00
Location: 
Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Contact Email: 
ccare_info@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
(650) 723-8599

Admission

This event is free. Register for guaranteed seating here

Last modified Wed, 14 Jan, 2015 at 10:51

Kindness is Contagious Film Screening

Kindness Is Contagious is a feel-good documentary, narrated by Catherine Ryan Hyde, the best selling author of the novel (and film) Pay It Forward. It's a film all about being nice and the benefits of being nice. Kindness Is Contagious profiles cutting-edge scientists and best-selling authors from Berkeley to Harvard and everywhere in between as well as real life people from all walks of life whose lives illustrate their incredible discovery:

NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST!

Date and Time: 
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 18:00
Location: 
Cubberley Auditorium
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Contact Email: 
ccare_info@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
(650) 721-6142

Admission

Free. Register here for guaranteed and early access to seating.

Last modified Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 at 0:45

Conversations on Compassion with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

CCARE along with I Thrive@StanfordHealth Promotion Services at VadenThe Happiness Collective, and The Hindu Students Council are proud to host Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Conversations on Compassion.

Date and Time: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 18:00
Location: 
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Hindu Students Council at Stanford
Contact Email: 
ccare_info@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
(650) 721-6142

Admission

Tickets are required and may be purchased through the Stanford Ticket Office starting Fri, June 13 2014 at 10AM. See full details here.

Last modified Wed, 18 Jun, 2014 at 9:56

Philosophy Department Colloquium Series: Sharon Street

“How to Be a Relativist about Normativity”

Sharon Street is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at New York University.

Date and Time: 
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 15:15
Location: 
Building 90, room 92Q, Main Quad
Event Sponsor: 
Department of Philosophy
Contact Email: 
jillj@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
650 723 2547

Admission

All events are free and open to the public.

Last modified Wed, 23 Apr, 2014 at 8:00

Conversations on Compassion with Sadhguru

Sadhguru is a realized yogi and mystic – a man whose passion spills into everything he encounters. With a keen mind, balanced by a heart that knows no boundary, his presence creates an extraordinary opportunity to break through limitations into one’s natural state of freedom, love and joy.

Date and Time: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 18:00
Location: 
Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford Medical School Stanford, CA 94305
Event Sponsor: 
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Contact Email: 
ccare_info@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
(650) 721-6142

Admission

Register for guaranteed seating here.

Last modified Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 at 17:00

Philosophy Department Colloquium Series: Martin Davies

"Cognitive theories of delusion"

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Martin Davies is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford Fellow, Corpus Christi College

Date and Time: 
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 15:15
Location: 
Building 90, room 92Q, Main Quad
Event Sponsor: 
Department of Philosophy
Contact Email: 
jillj@stanford.edu
Contact Phone: 
650 723 2547

Admission

All events are free and open to the public.

Last modified Wed, 26 Mar, 2014 at 16:00