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The Bill Lane Center's Fall Seminars on the West - "Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Rediscovering a 19th Century Account"

September 17, 2013, 11:25 am
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Date: Monday, October 7, 2013. 12:00 PM.
Location: Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) 473 Via Ortega, Room 105 Stanford, CA 94305

As part of our Fall Seminars on the West, the Bill Lane Center for the American West welcomes the scholars and translators of a remarkable 19th-century travelogue on Yellowstone National Park who will come talk about the account that became a sensation in Europe during the early years of the world's first national park, but is little known in the U.S. Janet Chapple and Suzanne Cane will introduce the judge and travel writer Jules Leclercq, whose book Yellowstone, Land of Wonders (La Terre des Merveilles) introduced readers in his native Belgium and the rest of Europe to the spectacular features of Yellowstone Park.
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From Gaudí to Masó: Mutation and Mimesis in Catalan Architecture between Modernisme and Noucentisme

September 17, 2013, 11:27 am
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Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013. 5:00 PM.
Location: Pigott Hall, Bldg. 260, Room 252

Dr. Jordi Falgàs, Director of the Fundació Rafael Masó in Girona, Spain, is an expert on turn-of-the-century Catalan art. 
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The Bill Lane Center's Fall Seminars on the West - "The Anza Expedition: Crossing the L.A. Basin"

September 17, 2013, 11:25 am
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Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013. 12:00 PM.
Location: Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) 473 Via Ortega, Room 105 Stanford, CA 94305

As part of our Fall Seminars on the West, the Bill Lane Center for the American West welcomes Christopher Richard who will give a talk about his research on Juan Bautista de Anza's legendary late-1700s colonizing expedition to found the Spanish outpost of San Francisco. Since his retirement from the Oakland Museum of California, Richard has been retracing Anza's steps from El Centro, Calif., to the San Francisco Bay. His research encompasses hydrology, geology, natural resources, city development, and the logistical challenges of moving hundreds of colonists and livestock across the northern frontier of New Spain. In this talk, he will focus on a portion of the southern route.
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China 2.0 Conference

September 17, 2013, 11:25 am
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Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013. 9:00 AM.
Location: McCaw Hall, the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street Stanford University

Come and be part of China 2.0, the largest annual China tech and business conference hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business. KEYNOTE ADDRESSESOpening keynote: Martin Lau, President, TencentAfternoon keynote: Gary F. Locke, U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of ChinaClosing keynote: Charles Chao, CEO and Chairman of the Board, SINA ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Focus: The drivers, dynamics and global implications of China’s rise in the digital innovation economy Speakers: Internet pioneers, trailblazer investors, executives, young entrepreneurs from China’s leading (and up and coming) firms, government leaders and Stanford faculty Industries: Internet, mobile, big data, and e-commerce Conference sessions: China’s role in the global innovation network, big data, entrepreneurial startups and China’s evolving venture capital landscape Student Sessions: China 2.0 and Greater China Business Club at Stanford Graduate School of Business are partnering to offer additional sessions for Stanford students Lunch and Networking Reception included
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Esther Duflo: Hope, Aspirations and the Design of the Fight Against Poverty

September 17, 2013, 1:43 pm
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Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013. 5:30 PM.
Location: Tresidder Oak West Lounge

The concept of the poverty trap has played a central role in the economics of poverty and development. Limited resources coupled with a low rate of return from investing (in food, in education, in a business) prevent the poor from being able to invest enough to improve their lot. Above a certain threshold, however, investment is productive, allowing those sufficiently rich at the outset to increase their income. The goal of this lecture is to systematically explore whether hope, or the lack of it, can be the source of a poverty trap. We proceed in three steps. First, we explore the implications of hope (or lack of hope) from the point of view of a rational decision-maker. We show that the anticipation of likely failure could lead an individual to rationally decide to hold back his or her efforts, avoid investment, and thus achieve even less then he or she could otherwise have attained. Second, we relax the assumption of perfect rationality and review some evidence from psychology and neuroscience about the impact of depression and pessimism on decision-making. This evidence suggests that depression can make us less effective at focusing on the long run and thus more prone to making decisions that are likely to keep us poor. Finally, we ask what happens in a world where people may have rational expectations, but may not behave in a fully rational, time consistent way: Does self-awareness ameliorate or worsen the potential for a hopelessness-based poverty trap? We conclude with a discussion of implications for economic policy.
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St. Lawrence String Quartet: Concert for the Community

September 17, 2013, 10:53 am
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Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013. 4:30 PM.
Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

This annual one-hour Educational Outreach Family Concert for the Community is especially tailored for young listeners.
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Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Presented by Diane Ravitch

September 17, 2013, 10:53 am
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Date: Monday, September 30, 2013. 5:15 PM.
Location: Memorial Auditorium

Join us for an evening with Diane Ravitch focusing on her just-released book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (Knopf, 2013). A moderated discussion will follow. The discussion features Ravitch; Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; and Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford and founding director of SCOPE. In Reign of Error, Ravitch argues against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve public education. In her lecture, she will discuss the topics she addresses in her book, including the strengths of U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how to effectively address the challenges. Ravitch will sign copies of her new book following the presentation. Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education; from 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board. She has authored numerous books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (2013), and The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010). She is an honorary life trustee of the New York Public Library and a former Guggenheim Fellow. She was a member of the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) from 1999 to 2009. She was a member of the board of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation from 1996 to 2009. She blogs at dianeravitch.net. Web site. Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she is Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research and policy work focus on issues of educational equity, teaching quality, and school reform. In 2008, she served as director of President Obama's education policy transition team. Her most recent book is Getting Teacher Evaluation Right:  What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement (2013). Full bio.  Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues with his work frequently entering into the design of national and international educational policy. His research spans such diverse areas as the impact of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, equity, and efficiency in school finance, and class size reduction along with the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development. His pioneering analysis measuring teacher quality through growth in student achievement forms the basis for current research into the value-added of teachers and schools. His most recent book, Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School (2013), describes the cost to the U.S. of not improving its schools. Web site. Directions and Parking info: http://live.stanford.edu/venues/memaud.php
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"Towards an anti-theological video artwork"

September 17, 2013, 10:52 am
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Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013. 6:30 PM.
Location: Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113

Guest: Barbad Golshiri Barbad Golshiri was born in 1982 in Tehran. He has worked both as an artist and a socio-political critic of art. His medium varies from video, installation, photography and performance to bande dessinnée and critical writing. Recently he creates only tomsbtones. He is also translator and editor of Samuel Beckett's dramatic works in Persian. Most of his works are language-based and contend with art and literature's plane of the feasible; the impossibility of quitting the possible field of expression; aporia of expressing not to express. Golshiri has also been portrayed as a critic of the current socio-political situation in Iran, hegemony of the new art market of the region and the living doxas. Some of his participations include: ‘Curriculum Mortis’, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY (solo exhibition 2013), ‘Lost and Found’, Palais de Tokyo, curated by Maud Lourau and Anissa Touati, Paris (2012), ‘Cura; The Rise and Fall of Aplasticism’, 4th Moscow Biennial (special project), Solyanka State Gallery (2011), And I Regurgitate and I Gulp it Down’, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran (solo exhibition 2011); The Language Show, Vivid, Birmingham (2010); Nothing Is Left to Tell, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY (solo exhibition 2010); Iran, new voices, Barbican Centre (2008); Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel (2009); Exhibition (together with Francis Bacon): A Twenty-one thousand, Eight hundred and Four-minute Unworsenable Aplastic, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden (2009); 'Unveiled; New Art from the Middle East', Saatchi Gallery, London, (2009); Masturpiece(s) Access Artist Run Center, Vancouver (Solo exhibition 2008); Camera Ardens; A Performance With the Blind and Those Who see, Bétonsalon, curated by Pulpart, Paris (solo exhibition 2008; ‘The First Contemporary Art Biennial of Thessaloniki’, curated by Syrago Tsiara and Areti Leopoulou, Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki (2007); The fifth Gyumri international biennial of contemporary art, curated by Arpine Tokmajian, Gyumri, (2006); ‘The 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial’, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Arts (Winner of the third prize); ‘Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene', curated by Amiel Grumberg, Apex Art, New York ( 2005)
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Stanford Med Writers Forum/Pegasus Physician Writers

September 18, 2013, 3:24 pm
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Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013. 5:30 PM.
Location: LKSC, Room LK320

Readings by medical student and physicians on "The Hidden Curriculum: Medical Essays on the Art of Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century," featuring Drs. Shaili Jain, Noga L. Ravid, and Margaret May, Casey Means, MS4 and guest speaker Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, UCSF physician and author of A History of The Present Illness. Light refreshments will be served.
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Art Meets Technology: Core Samples from Nine Archives

September 17, 2013, 5:45 pm
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Date: Ongoing every day from September 23, 2013 through January 15, 2014.
Location: Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Green Library Bing Wing

“Art Meets Technology” presents work by ten individuals whose accomplishments reside at the intersection of art, science, mathematics, and technology. The exhibition draws on manuscript collections in the holdings of the Stanford University Libraries and includes selections from the papers of physicist and music acoustician Arthur H. Benade; architect and visionary Buckminster Fuller; artist and computer scientist Rich Gold; eco-artists Helen and Newton Harrison; media artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson; artist and design theoretician György Kepes; computer scientist and typographer Donald E. Knuth; mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot; and computer music pioneer and engineer Max V. Mathews. 
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TAPS NSO Showcase: Why Perform?

September 16, 2013, 11:46 am
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Date: Friday, September 20, 2013. 7:00 PM.
Location: Pigott Theater; part of Memorial Hall Complex

Stanford TAPS welcomes the Class of 2017! Join us for our NSO showcase, featuring theater, dance, improv, musical performances, and more by Stanford students. Learn about our upcoming auditions and events, and more ways you can get involved in the performing arts on campus!
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Emily Ryo: Immigrant Detention Study

September 17, 2013, 5:45 pm
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Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013. 3:00 PM.
Location: Building 120, Room 215

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates the largest detention and supervised release program in the United States.  In 2011, over 400,000 immigrants were held in 250 detention centers around the country, at a cost of more than $2 billion.  Despite the vast magnitude and cost of this program and its deep impact on immigrants and their communities, social scientists have been unable to effectively study the immigrant detention and release processes.  A first of its kind, this study by Emily Ryo, Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Southern California, examines the legal, social, economic, and health consequences of prolonged detention on immigrants, and their families and communities.  
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Artist Lecture: Deborah Butterfield

September 19, 2013, 3:18 pm
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Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013. 6:00 PM.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium, 435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford Cummings Art Building

Critically acclaimed sculptor Deborah Butterfield, whose bronze horse graces the Cantor's main lobby, talks about her work.
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Artist Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems

September 19, 2013, 3:14 pm
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Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013. 6:30 PM.
Location: Cemex Auditorium, 641 Knight Way, Graduate School of Business

Acclaimed contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems discusses her art on the opening day of her retrospective, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video.
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The Bill Lane Center's Fall Seminars on the West - "Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides"

September 19, 2013, 3:09 pm
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Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013. 12:00 PM.
Location: Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) 473 Via Ortega, Room 300 Stanford, CA 94305

As part of our Fall Seminars on the West, the Bill Lane Center for the American West welcomes historian Matthew Booker as he discusses the role of nature in shaping Bay Area history. Dr. Booker is the author of the book Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History Between the Tides, which was published this year by the University of California Press.
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Diane di Prima: A Special Reading and “How I Write” Conversation

September 6, 2013, 12:18 pm
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Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013. 7:30 PM.
Location: Geology Corner (Building 320), Room 105

Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, a second-generation American of Italian descent. She began writing at the age of seven, and at the age of fourteen, decided to live her life as a poet. After attending Swarthmore College for two years, she moved to Greenwich Village, becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the literary magazine The Floating Bear, first with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) from 1961 to 1963 and then solo until 1969. She co-founded the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and founded Eidolon Editions and the Poets Institute. After joining Timothy Leary’s intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968. Di Prima has published more than forty books. Her poetry collections include This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards, Revolutionary Letters, the long poem Loba (hailed by many as the female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl), Seminary Poems, and Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems. She is also the author of the short story collection Dinners and Nightmares, the semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Beatnik, and the memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. A practicing Buddhist since 1962, she also co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts. Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009, and she was awarded the National Poetry Association’s Lifetime Service Award, the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement, and other honors. In this special event, Diane di Prima will read some of her poems and join Hilton Obenzinger in a “How I Write” conversation.
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DLCL Film Series on Crime and the City: In the Shadows (Thomas Arslan)

September 20, 2013, 10:18 am
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Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013. 7:00 PM.
Location: History Corner (Bldg. 200), Rm. 305

Film screening with an introduction and a discussion following the film. Trojan is released from jail and goes straight back to his profession as a criminal. He gets hold of a weapon and looks out for new jobs. In just a few takes, director Thomas Arslan sets up the anonymous world of his gangster protagonist by falling back on motifs and characters from the genre. The reduced and clear-cut images highlight the exact sequence of events. In the Shadows (Im Schatten) is a genre film that focuses consistently on the mechanics and external process of a crime.
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Richard Dawkins: "An Appetite for Wonder"

September 20, 2013, 11:15 am
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Date: Sunday, October 6, 2013. 7:00 PM.
Location: CEMEX Auditorium, 641 Knight Way

The Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA!) at Stanford will be hosting Professor Richard Dawkins for an interview about his new autobiographical memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, followed by a Q&A and book signing (books will be available for purchase at the event). Richard Dawkins is the former Professor For Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and the author of such best-sellers as The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
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28th Annual Johnson Symposium

September 20, 2013, 10:17 am
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Date: Friday, October 4, 2013. 9:00 AM.
Location: Braun Lecture Hall - Mudd Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Symposium SPEAKERS: Christopher Bielawski of the University of Texas at Austin Pat Confalone of DuPont Margaret Faul of Amgen Frank Glorius of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Brian Kobilka of Stanford University Tom Muir of Princeton University
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DLCL Film Series on Crime and the City: A Cop (Jean-Pierre Melville)

September 20, 2013, 10:17 am
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Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013. 7:00 PM.
Location: History Corner (Bldg. 200), Rm. 305

Film screening with an introduction and followed by a discussion. Un Flic (A Cop, also known as Dirty Money) is a 1972 French film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna. Four men rob a bank in Saint-Jean-de-Monts.  A detective (Delon) tries to catch the team responsible for the lethal bank robbery, foil a drug smuggling operation, and hold on to his mistress (Deneuve), whom he shares with a nightclub owner (Crenna), his friend and a prime suspect in the robbery.
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