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International Diplomacy Lecture Series: Cultural Diplomacy in East Asia and US-China Relations

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TERRY LAUTZ, Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, and former Henry Luce Foundation Vice President

As the world has become more interconnected, modern governments have recognized the need for soft power and the value of cultural diplomacy. For these reasons, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have established active cultural diplomacy programs to enhance the study of Asia in other countries.  China now provides significant support for Chinese language and cultural studies overseas.  This talk, from an American perspective, will evaluate China’s soft power push and compare the practice of cultural diplomacy in East Asia and the United States. 

Terry Lautz graduated from Harvard College and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.  He is a trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served as trustee and board chair of the Lingnan Foundation and the Yale-China Association. His recent publications deal with U.S.-China educational and cultural relations. 

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Terry Lautz Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, and former Henry Luce Foundation Vice President Syracuse University
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International Diplomacy Lecture Series: Post-Karzai Afghanistan

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KARL EIKENBERRY -  William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Distinguished Fellow with the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University

The 2014 presidential election, if successfully concluded, will mark the first democratic transition of power in Afghanistan's political history.  The new president and his administration will face a daunting set of security, governance, and economic challenges, even as the U.S.-led NATO coalition continues the drawdown of its combat forces.  Karl Eikenberry, who previously served as U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan and commanded international military forces in that country, has just returned from travel to Islamabad and Kabul, and will discuss Afghanistan's future prospects as well as possible areas for Sino-American cooperation. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry is an affiliated faculty member with Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, and researcher with The Europe Center. Prior to his arrival at Stanford, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 until July 2011, where he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama to reverse insurgent momentum and set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. Before appointment as Chief of Mission in Kabul, Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General. 

 

 

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Karl Eikenberry William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Distinguished Fellow with the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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Climate Policy Scenarios - Past, Present and Future

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John P. Weyant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Deputy Director of Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency Stanford University
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Good Governance in South Korea: Mobilizing Citizens through Engaged Communication

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The Honorable Park Won Soon is the 35th mayor of Seoul, South Korea. He was initially elected in Oct. 2011, and recently reelected for another four-year term in June 2014. Park was elected as an indepedent candidate, with the support of the Democratic Party and Democractic Labor Party.

In his keynote speech, Mayor Park will share his philosophy on civic participation and local governance, reflecting on his career in- and outside government. He will explore communication strategies that local government can employ to better engage citizens and motivate collective action, using best practices from Seoul to illustrate his point.

Before assuming office, Park was a human rights lawyer and passionate activist who founded several NGOs. In his early university years at Seoul National University, Park was arrested and expelled for participating in a student rally against the military dictatorship of President Park Chung Hee, and was subsequently imprisoned for four months.

Park passed the state bar exam in 1980, and worked as a public prosecutor in the Daegu District Court in Gyeongsang Province (1982–3), afterward launching a private law practice in Seoul. In 2006, Park founded the Hope Institute, a think tank that aims to apply policy alternatives based on ideas generated by Korea’s citizens.

He also founded the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy in 1994, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting justice and human rights in Korean society through civic participation.

In 2000, Park founded the Beautiful Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to promote a culture of philanthropy and a just society in Korea, and in 2002, the Beautiful Store, a secondhand store that raises funds for the Foundation’s initiatives.

Park holds a diploma in international law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in history from Dankook University. In 1993, he was a visiting research fellow in the Human Rights Program at the School of Law at Harvard University and from 2005-6 he was a distinguished practitioner at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.

This event is part of the Asia-Pacific Leaders Forum.

The video of this presentation is located on the Shorenstein APARC YouTube channel.

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在匠人和思想者之间：一个艺术家的创作实践 Between Craftsman and Thinker: My Practice as An Artist

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在匠人和思想者之间：一个艺术家的创作实践
Between Craftsman and Thinker: My Practice as An Artist
讲者Speaker：谢晓泽 XIE XIAOZE  艺术家、斯坦福大学美术教授 Artist, Professor of Art, Stanford University
主持 Chair:     丁宁     DING NING   北京大学艺术学院教授 Vice Dean, School of Arts, Peking University
 
日期 Date：    2014年9月15日  Sep 15, 2014   
时间 Time:      17:00 - 18:15
地点 Venue： 北京大学斯坦福中心 Stanford Center at Peking University
 
谢教授将以大量幻灯介绍他20年来穿越绘画、装置和录像等媒介丰富的创作，
并探讨他的艺术理念、创作方式与过程、以及艺术品作为形式要素和劳动过程
的有机结合。名艺术家谢晓泽现担任斯坦福大学美术系教授。他的作品在休斯
顿美术馆、斯科茨代尔当代美术馆和圣何塞艺术博物馆永久收藏；曾获得琼·
米切尔基金会和波洛克和克伦瑟基金会的资助，及凤凰城美术馆和达拉斯美术
馆等艺术大奖。
 
In this richly illustrated lecture, Xiaoze Xie will introduce his diverse 
bodies of work including painting, installation, video and photography over 
the past 20 years. The artist will share his creative process and discuss his 
ideas about the making of art as a unique combination of conceptual basis, 
formal elements and the process of labor. Xiaoze Xie is an internationally 
recognized artist who has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. His 
work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 
the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the San Jose Museum of 
Art. Xie received the Painter and Sculptor’s Grant from the Joan Mitchell 
Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and artist awards from 
Phoenix Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Art. Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis 
Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University.
 
 
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Hitler - Beneš - Tito: Conflict, War and Genocide in East Central and South East Europe

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*Please note the date has changed from September 23 to September 22*

A talk by Arnold Suppan, author of Hitler - Beneš - Tito: Conflict, War and Genocide in East Central and South East Europe. The monograph explores the development of the political, legal, economic, social, cultural and military “communities of conflict” within Austria-Hungary (especially in the Bohemian and South Slav lands); the convulsion of World War I and the Czech, Slovak and South Slav break with the Habsburg Monarchy; the difficult formation of successor states and the strong discussions at Paris 1919/20; the domestic and foreign policies of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and the question of national minorities (Sudeten Germans, Magyars in Slovakia and the Vojvodina, Danube Swabians, Germans in Slovenia); Hitler’s destruction of the Versailles order; the Nazi policies of conquest and occupation in Bohemia, Moravia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia; the genocide committed against the Jews in the Protectorate, Slovakia, the Ustaša-state and Serbia; the collaboration of the Tiso­- and Pavelić-regime with Nazi Germany; the retaliation against and expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; and finally the issue of history and memory east and west of the Iron Curtain as well as in the post-communist states at the end of the 20th century.

Sponsored by The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by The Europe Center and the Department of History.

Free and open to the public.

 

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Arnold Suppan Professor of History University of Vienna
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Electron Superhighway: A Quantum Leap for Computing

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Speaker: Shoucheng Zhang - JG Jackson and CJ Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford University

For the past 60 years, progress in information technology has been governed by Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors on a semiconductor chip doubles every 18 months. However, this remarkable trend is drawing to a close, mostly because the electrons that carry current in chips move like cars driving through a crowded marketplace, swerving around obstacles and dissipating too much of their energy as heat. The recent discovery of a new state of matter, the topological insulator, may lead to a new paradigm of information processing, in which electrons moving in opposing directions are separated into well-ordered lanes, like automobiles on a highway. This talk will explain the basic principles behind this amazing discovery.

Shoucheng Zhang was born in Shanghai and received his BS degree from the Free University of Berlin in 1983 and PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1993. He is a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, spintronics and high temperature superconductivity. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Guggenheim fellowship in 2007, the Alexander von Humboldt research prize in 2009, the Johannes Gutenberg research prize in 2010, the Europhysics prize in 2010, the Oliver Buckley prize in 2012, the Dirac Medal and Prize in 2012 and the Physics Frontier Prize in 2013 for his theoretical prediction of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators. 

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Abortion in Late Imperial China

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Speaker:  Matthew H. Sommer - Associate Professor in History, Stanford University

In late imperial China, a number of purported methods of abortion were known; but who actually attempted abortion and under what circumstances? Some historians have suggested that abortion was used for routine birth control, which presupposes that known methods were safe, reliable, and readily available. This paper challenges the qualitative evidence on which those historians have relied, and presents new evidence from Qing legal sources and modern medical reports to argue that traditional methods of abortion (the most common being abortifacient drugs) were dangerous, unreliable, and often cost a great deal of money. Therefore, abortion in practice was an emergency intervention in a crisis: either a medical crisis, in which pregnancy threatened a woman's health, or a social crisis, in which pregnancy threatened to expose a woman's extramarital sexual relations. Moreover, abortion was not necessarily available even to women who wanted one.

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Using Smartphones as Medical Devices: Innovation in Mobile Healthcare

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Speaker:  Robert Chang - Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University Medical Center

 

More patients are living longer and developing chronic diseases, often managed with increasingly expensive technology.  Both healthcare providers and hospital systems are struggling to keep up.  Modern smartphones can be converted into powerful, inexpensive portable medical devices to improve the delivery of healthcare, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Professor Chang will talk about his experience in developing a simple adapter to turn an iPhone into an “Eye-Phone” Camera. Chang is an ophthalmologist with a special interest in healthcare startups and online medical education. His clinical research focus revolves around understanding the association between high myopia and glaucoma. He is currently co-developing “EyeGo,” an iPhone imaging adapter system for remote eye care triage.

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