Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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We welcome volunteers 10 years old and older. Those between 10 and 14 years old are required to have a guardian actively volunteering alongside them for the duration of the volunteer session.

We reserve the right to cancel volunteer sessions up to two hours in advance. Possible reasons for cancelation are a change in COVID-19 guidelines as outlined by the University or County Officials, excessive heat (90 degree and above), poor air quality, rain or other inclement weather.

We encourage all volunteers to carpool, bike, ride public transportation; there is a charge for parking on all Stanford property. The farm is not responsible for any tickets incurred while volunteering.

UPON ARRIVAL: ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST COMPLETE A SAFETY WAIVER

WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE FARM: Complete Waiver Form

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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Public Tours: Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30am

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Tours do not require a reservation and are free of charge.

First come, first served!

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) often remarks that the exhibition was “thousands of years in the making.” Wabanaki baskets have existed for more than thirteen thousand years in what is today known as Maine. The tradition was under threat when Frey, who is Passamaquoddy (one of four federally recognized Wabanaki tribes), began making baskets out of ash and sweetgrass in the early 2000s, helping to revitalize the art form.

Frey learned to weave from his mother Frances “Gal” Frey, an accomplished artist, and from important workshops offered by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to facilitate an intergenerational transfer of this knowledge. He began to attract national recognition for fine weave baskets that involve whittling down ash to nearly thread-like widths and for baskets in the shapes of sea urchins. Known for making his own tools, Frey also harvests his materials—from identifying promising ash trees in the woods to chop down, to pounding logs with the blunt end of an axe to loosen the growth rings that form the strands of each basket.

Jeremy Frey: Woven traces the artist’s development from the early 2000s to the present day, demonstrating the extent to which he continues to expand the possibilities of this woven art form. More than 30 baskets come together in a single gallery to showcase Frey’s vibrant color palette, distinctive patterns, and tremendous technical skill and ingenuity. Braiding natural growth cycles with his own ancestral history, Frey continues to add new letters to an ancient language, helping to ensure its future.

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Public tours are free for all.

Image: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Observer (detail on the left), 2022, ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Collection of Carole Katz, California. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Eric Stoner

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Stanford students were invited to submit original written works—including short stories, essays, and poetry—inspired by the museum’s permanent collection.

After review by a small jury of esteemed writers, selected students will perform their work for a public audience at the Anderson Collection on Saturday, May 9, 2026.

RSVP for the event here!

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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Happening at the Stanford Red Barn on Sat., May 9 from 6-9pm, it’s sure to be a rootin’ tootin’ good time.

🤠 Let’s get two-steppin' 'round the room; we will be hosting line dancing all evening.
🐂Giddy up and step up to the challenge of the mechanical bull!
🐴The Stanford Equestrian team will be giving barn tours until 7:30pm, so come early to pet a horse on campus!
🥧Hungry for more? Enter our pie eating contest at 7:30pm - register here (limited spots available)

🌮Taco Bar
📸Photobooth
⁉️And more….

Are you choosin’ Cardinal Nights this week?

You must be a currently enrolled Stanford student to participate. SUID will be required.

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Program

Ivette Herryman-Rodriguez – Un danzón a mi maneraSean Tan ‘27, conductorJoel Love – Solace: A Lyric ConcertoZachary Lin ‘26, saxophone – 2026 Concerto Competition WinnerDmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5
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General – $37 | Seniors (65+) and Non-Stanford Students – $32
Price shown reflects total cost including $4 online/phone per-ticket fee.FREE admission for Stanford University students. One ticket per ID, available beginning one hour prior to curtain at the venue.This event will be livestreamed.

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How does one heal a world that is sick? From an ancient lighthouse in the desert to a raging inferno among the clouds, Moonchild tells the story of a young girl’s quest to rid a dark fantasy realm of its blight. Along the way, she and her fairy companion uncover an unsettling reality lurking beneath the magic. In this unique blend of visual metaphor, physical theater, and miniature puppetry, a live video camera onstage visually narrates the tale in real time, providing an intimate cinematic view of this small, but epic adventure through the impossible.

Written by K. Sid Zhang (‘25) and TAPS Graduate Student Connor Lifson

Directed by Connor Lifson

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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University Public Worship gathers weekly for the religious, spiritual, ethical, and moral formation of the Stanford community. Rooted in the history and progressive Christian tradition of Stanford’s historic Memorial Church, we cultivate a community of compassion and belonging through ecumenical Christian worship and occasional multifaith celebrations.

Doors open at 10:30 am.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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Free admission.

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The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) often remarks that the exhibition was “thousands of years in the making.” Wabanaki baskets have existed for more than thirteen thousand years in what is today known as Maine. The tradition was under threat when Frey, who is Passamaquoddy (one of four federally recognized Wabanaki tribes), began making baskets out of ash and sweetgrass in the early 2000s, helping to revitalize the art form.

Frey learned to weave from his mother Frances “Gal” Frey, an accomplished artist, and from important workshops offered by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to facilitate an intergenerational transfer of this knowledge. He began to attract national recognition for fine weave baskets that involve whittling down ash to nearly thread-like widths and for baskets in the shapes of sea urchins. Known for making his own tools, Frey also harvests his materials—from identifying promising ash trees in the woods to chop down, to pounding logs with the blunt end of an axe to loosen the growth rings that form the strands of each basket.

Jeremy Frey: Woven traces the artist’s development from the early 2000s to the present day, demonstrating the extent to which he continues to expand the possibilities of this woven art form. More than 30 baskets come together in a single gallery to showcase Frey’s vibrant color palette, distinctive patterns, and tremendous technical skill and ingenuity. Braiding natural growth cycles with his own ancestral history, Frey continues to add new letters to an ancient language, helping to ensure its future.

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Public tours are free for all.

Image: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Observer (detail on the left), 2022, ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Collection of Carole Katz, California. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Eric Stoner

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欢迎您参与对话，分享您对游览过程中所探讨主题的想法，或者按照自己的舒适程度参与互动。

导览免费，但需提前登记。请通过以下链接选择并 RSVP 您希望参加的日期。

February 8, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/February

March 8, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/March

April 12, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/April

May 10, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/May

June 14, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/June

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Explore the Cantor's collections with a museum engagement guide who will lead you through a selection of works from different cultures and time periods.

Participants are welcomed to participate in the conversation and provide their thoughts on themes explored throughout the tour but are also free to engage at their own comfort level.

Tours are free of charge but require advance registration. Please select and RSVP for your preferred date using the links below.

February 8, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/February

March 8, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/March

April 12, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/April

May 10, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/May

June 14, 2026: https://thethirdplace.is/event/June

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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The performance is free and open to the public.

About the Carillon

Named in honor of First Lady and Stanford alumna, Lou Henry Hoover, the carillon is composed of 48 bells located on the 14th floor of Hoover Tower. The carillon was a gift from the Belgian-American Education Foundation, which symbolizes an overall purpose to promote peace and personal freedom and to foster ideas that strengthen a free society.

For more on the history of the Hoover Carillon, click here.

If you are concerned about a scheduling conflict, please reach out to towercarillon@stanford.edu.

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In the 2025–2026 academic year, Branner Library’s exhibit series will explore Earth’s oceans’ complex biological and ecological systems that regulate climate and support life.

May’s exhibition explores the vital chemical processes that shape our marine environments, highlighting the ocean's role in regulating global climate and driving biogeochemical cycling.

Featured works delve into the fundamental chemistry of seawater, hydrothermal circulation, and the complex, evolving carbon cycle.This collection brings together scientific research that illuminates the complex, changing, and essential nature of ocean chemistry.

The exhibit is available for viewing Monday through Friday during regular library open hours.

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A current Stanford ID is needed to enter the library, visitors must present a valid, physical government-issued photo ID to sign-in at the front desk.

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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This workshop focuses on elements of good design and effective communication in cartography. We will learn how to use map symbology and the QGIS Print Composer to create maps that are easy to read and understand, as well as engaging to look at.

The workshop is broken into separate modules that cover a couple of different core use cases for GIS made maps:

Module 1 covers Map Figures for academic publication where the constraints of a small print space and limited color and resolution require extra attention in your map design in order for the maps to be useful.

Module 2 takes a typical poster or large print map example and dissects and corrects the most common layout issues that plague new GIS map makers.

Topics:

Establishing a good Visual Hierarchy.

How to use (and not abuse) color in maps.

Methods for simplifying busy or complex data.

QGIS map layout tools.

Adding and modifying map items (N arrows, Scale Bars, Legends).

Adding images.

Adding locators and inset maps.

Note: must be a current Stanford student, staff, or faulty to attend. Please have your Stanford ID ready when entering the library. Please bring a fully charged laptop (and mouse if you have one).

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The prospect of intelligent machines challenges our societal norms. Matters of debate over the past half century concerning digital networks – e.g. access, privacy, subjectivity, participation – must be reconsidered in the age of machine learning. More specifically, the proliferation of AI-based systems leads to new ways of understanding what normativity is. Social norms don’t change overnight; however, the mechanisms and processes that drive these changes are increasingly influenced by AI-based infrastructures, characterized by a heightened level of automation, while being opaque, inscrutable, and anthropomorphic.

Faced with such conditions, we have to ask, first, what it means to instill or break a norm and, second, what norms even mean or represent. This landscape presents both profound challenges to maintain just and stable means of interaction and, at the same time, novel and creative opportunities for alternative modes of being.

The question of AI normativity is not only about regulation, not only about AI amplification of existing norms or discrimination, not only about fairness, but about how the AI transforms our very relation to the norms, or even about what a “norm” could mean in the AI conditions of perpetual adjustment of all forms of social interactions.

The two conferences (December 4-5, 2025 at Stanford, May 11-12 2026 in Paris) will address the imbrication of two movements: how the evolution of social norms is reflected in new algorithmic practices, and how these algorithms influence social norms in various domains. It will also investigate the intricate relation between the rise of AI and the (post-)neo-liberalism.

It will bring together the humanities, social sciences, and STS to address issues of crucial contemporary importance.

The detailed Paris program with abstracts can be found here.

Day 1
Doors open 9:45
Introduction 10:00
Session 1 10:15 – 13:00 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)
Session 2 14:30 – 17:00 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)

Day 2
Session 3 10:00 12:45 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)
Roundtable 14:30 17:00

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Day 1 Morning
Practices, collectives, mediations
Michele Elam (Stanford) : Slow AI: Keeping Time in the Time of AI
Donato Ricci & Gabriel Alcaras (Medialab Sciences Po), Disqualifying Actions: Working with Artificial Intelligence within Professional Norms
Bilel Benbouzid (Eiffel) : Generative AI and the Student Role: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Accountability Regimes
Johan Fredrikzon (KTH Sweden), Human as Medium: Caring for Machines in the Age of AI

Day 1 Afternoon
Afternoon Pasts, futures, processes
Xiaochang Li (Stanford) : Historicizing AI Norms from the Body to the Black Box
Fanny Georges, Sorbonne Nouvelle, IRMECCEN-DICEN : The normative turn of Algorithmic Identity: Sociotechnological myths and the Calculated Self
Noel Fitzpatrick (TU Dublin) : Idioms, language norms and information.
Warren Sack (University California Santa Cruz) Signs Taken for Wonders: Artificial Intelligence Demos Between the Real and the Imaginary

Day 2 Morning
Morning Norms, spaces, risks
David Bates (UC Berkeley), Between Facts and Norms in the Age of AI: From Instrumental Reason to the Habermas Machine
Dan Zimmer (Stanford) : Meat Humans, Mind Children, and the Norms of AI Supersession
Armen Khatchatourov (Eiffel-DICEN) A Heuristic Approach to Post-neolibral AI Normativity: from optimization to rewardization.
Antoine Garapon (judge emeritus) & Jean Lassègue (CNRS/EHESS), The politics of platforms: sovereignty grounded in space versus sovereignty grounded in code

Day 2 Afternoon
Roundtable on Beliefs, Platforms, Governance
Olivier Alexandre, (GRD-CIS – CNRS)
Maryse Carmes (DICEN – CNAM)
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras (DICEN – CNAM)
Bernard Reber (CEVIPOF – Sciences Po)
Frantz Rowe (IUF – Nantes University)

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Supporters:
France-Stanford Global Studies
The CNAM
GP DIGIS, Graduate Program Digital Studies and Innovation for Smart Cities, Gustave Eiffel
Internet and Society Centre: GDR-CIS, CNRS
Digital Studies Review

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Over the course of three decades, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed world-wide, recorded more than 50 albums, and built a reputation as one of today's finest pianists. From the start of his career, he delighted in music beyond the standard repertoire, from jazz to opera, which he transcribed himself to play on the piano. His profound professional friendships crisscross the globe and have led to spontaneous and fruitful collaborations in film, fashion, and visual art.

Don't miss his performance

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Free admission, RSVP here.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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What are the internal borders of comparative literature and how do they shape literary histories and the disciplinary lay of the land? The present talk will focus on the edges of Europe and the modern Middle East, which was born a century ago, when the Ottoman Empire was carved up into racialized borders. The Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923-1925 was the final nail in the Empire's coffin, uprooting and swapping nearly two million Christians and Muslims between Greece and West Asia. What stories can we salvage from this devastating history, and how can we retell them today? The answer depends in large part on what we count as stories, who gets to record them, and how we curate them within the academy and commercial publishing. In both Greece and Turkey, philologists and publishers defined modern literature by picking apart, extracting, reformatting, or dispossessing refugee and diasporic texts across a racialized borderscape — a gray zone of semi-inclusion and semi-exclusion. Drawing from his book Literature's Refuge, William Stroebel will recover something of the rich refugee literatures that fell through the cracks of the modern border regime, straddling Greek Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam, Greek-script, Arabic-script, and Latin-script literary traditions.

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Workshop at 4pm: Materialist Methods for Comparative Research (please email Harry Carter (harrycar@stanford.edu) for the pre-reading.

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We find causal evidence of J-curve-shaped returns, where short-term performance losses precede longer-term gains. Consistent with costly adjustment taking place within core production processes, industrial AI use increases work-in-progress inventory, investment in industrial robots, and labor shedding, while harming productivity and profitability in the short run. These losses are unevenly distributed, concentrating among older businesses while being mitigated by growth-oriented business strategies and within-firm spillovers.

Dynamics, however, matter: earlier (pre-2017) adopters exhibit stronger growth over time, conditional on survival. Notably, among older establishments, abandonment of structured production-management practices accounts for roughly one-third of these losses, revealing a specific channel through which intangible factors shape AI’s impact.

Taken together, these results provide novel evidence on the microfoundations of technology J-curves, identifying mechanisms and illuminating how and why they differ across firm types. These findings extend our understanding of modern General Purpose Technologies, explaining why their economic impact—exemplified here by AI—may initially disappoint, particularly in contexts dominated by older, established firms.

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You will learn how to prepare a variety of simple, delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, all featuring ingredients shown to support brain health, such as omega-3-rich fish, antioxidant-packed berries, leafy greens, nuts, seeds, and spices known for their anti-inflammatory properties.

Throughout the demonstration, you'll gain practical tips for incorporating these nutrient-dense ingredients into your daily routine, along with strategies for efficient meal planning and preparation, making it perfect for even the busiest schedules. Whether you're cooking for yourself or your family, this class will leave you inspired to make choices that support mental clarity, memory, and overall well-being.

Recipes with detailed instructions, ingredients, and equipment lists will be provided after the class for you to recreate at home. Ingredient substitutions will be suggested to accommodate most dietary restrictions.

This class will be recorded and a one-week link to the recording will be shared with all registered participants. To receive incentive points, attend at least 80% of the live session or listen to the entire recording within one week. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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Light refreshments provided.

Co-Sponsored by the Stanford Law School Law & Policy Lab, Heterodox Academy, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

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As the global demand for alternative energy intensifies, there is ongoing research and development aimed at enhancing energy storage systems. Lithium metal batteries represent a promising technology for next-generation energy storage solutions. However, stabilizing the lithium metal anode in these batteries remains a significant obstacle to their commercial viability. Given the central role of interfaces in lithium metal batteries and other electrochemical energy storage systems, engineering and controlling electrode interfaces emerge as a promising strategy for achieving stable performance. During this talk, I will present our research on the layer-by-layer synthetic strategies used to coat interfaces in battery devices with nanoscale thin film materials, aimed at enhancing stability and performance. Our approach leverages atomic layer deposition (ALD), a synthesis method that offers precise control over the composition, structure, and thickness of thin films. We show that with the appropriate film properties, ALD interfacial layers deposited on the current collector can be used to regulate lithium metal morphology and the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), ultimately improving electrochemical performance in Li metal batteries. For example, ultrathin metal oxide interfacial films on the lithium anode's current collector can facilitate uniform and reversible Li plating, thereby enhancing battery cyclability. We also introduce a characterization method that enables us to probe the chemical composition of the pristine SEI without species loss by arresting chemical reactions and preserving volatile species at cryogenic temperatures. This new access to pristine interfacial composition allows us to correlate performance across various electrolyte chemistries.

Bio

Stacey F. Bent is the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor at Stanford University, where she is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Energy Science and Engineering, and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemistry, of Materials Science and Engineering, and of Electrical Engineering. She is currently serving as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and she previously held the position of Stanford's Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs. Bent obtained her B.S. degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford, and she was a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Bent’s research interests are in the understanding of surface chemistry and materials synthesis and the application of this knowledge to a variety of problems in semiconductor processing, sustainable energy, and nanotechnology. Her group’s current research activities range from fundamental studies of film growth, to area selective ALD and 2D electronics, to batteries and catalysis. Bent is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Related Publications

Electrical resistance of the current collector controls lithium morphology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31507-w

Cryogenic X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for battery interfaces
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09618-3

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Two events in spring will be hosted in-person only, and one event will be held online.

This series is part of AI meets Education at Stanford (AIMES), a VPUE effort to catalyze and support critical engagement with generative AI in Stanford teaching and learning contexts, coordinated by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Register separately for each session by clicking the date below:

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 1:30–3 p.m. Featuring:

Amit Kaushal, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Stanford/VA) and Adjunct Professor of BioengineeringKalee Tock, Sr. Science Instructor, Stanford Online High SchoolNissa Cannon, Lecturer, Program in Writing and RhetoricIn-person only at 408 Panama Mall, CTL Meeting Space (Room 116)

Monday, May 11, 2026, 1:30–3 p.m. Featuring:

Sho Takatori, Associate Professor, Chemical EngineeringAriel Stilerman, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and CulturesShima Salehi, Assistant Professor, EducationIn-person only at 408 Panama Mall, CTL Meeting Space (Room 116)

Friday, May 15, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12 noon. Featuring:

Jessica Feldman, Professor, Biology & Waheeda Khalfan, Lecturer, BiologyFaye-Marie Vassel, Research Fellow, Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)Sarah Levine, Director, Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET)Online only on Zoom: register for Zoom link

If you need accommodation or have questions, please contact Kenji Ikemoto at AcademicTechnology@stanford.edu.

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How is a text brought together? How is it taken apart? And between those two endpoints, how is it transited from one space to another? How is it marked up, worn down, set aside, displaced, or dispossessed along that journey? And perhaps most importantly, what stories can the material signs of that journey tell us about the human hands and handlers whose lives are bound up in a given piece of writing as it moves across physical geographies?

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Please email harrycar@stanford.edu for the pre-reading.

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Transform a photograph of a place you call home through the art of embroidery. In this workshop, you will learn basic stitches to highlight the physical and emotional layers of a place important to you.

This workshop emerges through Lucía Huerta's questions of what it means to grow up in and inhabit spaces affected by complex social and environmental issues. Through the practice of photo embroidery, we are invited to pause and look deeply at everything that constitutes a space—lines, shadows, colors, objects, etc. By using thread and needle to intervene in a photograph, we can highlight what is important to us, showcasing our own memories and hopes for that place.

This workshop invites you to make these deep observations of the spaces you call home, generating conversations around our experiences and perceptions.

Beginner-friendly: No embroidery experience required.

Materials will be provided. In advance of the workshop, please send the photograph you want to embroider to have it printed on photo paper.

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The meaning and perils of neural manifoldsAbstract

Neural manifolds, defined as the mathematical objects that capture the collective activity of populations of neurons, have become a mainstream topic in neuroscience. In this talk, I will discuss the idea that neural manifolds are meaningful to both neuroscientists and the organism under investigation: meaningful to neuroscientists, because they capture real patterns of brain activity in a way that affords understanding, and meaningful to the organism, because they shape behaviour at multiple timescales. Finally, I will discuss the perils that I believe we should be mindful of when using neural manifolds to understand the brain.

Juan GallegoPrincipal Investigator, Champalimaud Foundation

Dr. Juan Gallego is a Principal Investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation, which he joined in October 2025. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor at Imperial College London (since 2020), and held Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Northwestern University. He was awarded a PhD from CSIC and University Carlos III in 2013.

Dr. Gallego’s research focuses on understanding how animals including humans acquire, execute and adapt their movements. To this end, his lab combines behavioural experiments in mice and humans, large-scale neural recordings, closed-loop manipulations, data analysis techniques, and computational models. He is also interested in applying his lab’s findings to advance neurotechnologies to restore function to people with movement disorders. During his career, he has published around fourty journal articles on these topics. His research has been funded by the EU Commission, the UK Research Institutes, ARIA, and the ERC.

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About the Mind, Brain, Computation, and Technology (MBCT) Seminar SeriesThe Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Seminars explore ways in which computational and technical approaches are being used to advance the frontiers of neuroscience.

The series features speakers from other institutions, Stanford faculty, and senior training program trainees. Seminars occur about every other week, and are held at 4:00 pm on Mondays at the Cynthia Fry Gunn Rotunda - Stanford Neurosciences E-241.

Questions? Contact neuroscience@stanford.edu

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In today’s world, energy is a driver of security, prosperity, and strategic influence. As geopolitical shocks, market volatility, and technological change transform the global energy landscape, trusted partnerships are becoming essential to resilience and long-term stability.

Join Condoleezza Rice and Arun Majumdar, in conversation, moderated by Šumit Ganguly, on how energy is reshaping international cooperation. Drawing on lessons from the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Accord and the challenges of today’s security environment, the discussion will explore how the United States and its partners can strengthen energy security, advance innovation, and build a more stable global future.

This timely discussion will examine the intersection of energy, trust, and geopolitics—and what it will take to power cooperation in a rapidly changing world.

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Abstract: Before the dreadful church bombing that killed four young girls and brought national attention to civil rights actions in Birmingham, a campaign for employment and desegregation had been underway. The blind vocalist, Al Hibbler, was the first celebrity to join in the protests, using his fame to draw attention to the struggle in Birmingham and to raise money for the protesters. In this paper I will consider a single artifact from that campaign, a tape recording of a “mass meeting” where Hibbler speaks and sings for the protesters. I argue that Hibbler’s idiosyncratic use of the voice presents a challenge to the orthodoxies of “voice studies.” Where voice studies has tended to emphasize the sound of the voice and the site of vocal enunciation over the linguistic meaning of vocal utterances—encouraging attention to the saying over the said or the uniqueness of vocal emission—Hibbler’s voice, and the complex ways that he employs it, functions like a litmus test by which the robustness or shortcomings of any theory of the voice can be measured.

Brian Kane is Professor of Music and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. A scholar of jazz, philosophy of music, and sound studies, Kane is the author of Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Theory in Theory and Practice (Oxford, 2014) and Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture (Oxford, 2024). He heads the Yale’s Sound Studies Working Group and co-directs (with Prof. Daphne Brooks) the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group.

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Tribal Nations across California and the U.S. are increasingly asserting leadership in clean energy development—pursuing projects that advance energy resiliency, economic opportunity, and tribal sovereignty. Since many Tribes face unduly high energy costs, long outages and have long borne the brunt of fossil fuel extraction, such projects can have an outsized impact. In a dual role at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, Kelsey Freeman has been helping launch a landmark state policymaking effort to ensure that California Native American Tribes can benefit from the clean energy transition. Freeman will discuss how Tribes are leading the way to harness clean energy for the benefit of their people amidst legal, policy and practical challenges—and how the CEC is working to support.

Kelsey Freeman is an award-winning writer, policy researcher, and advocate focused on rural community development, Indigenous rights, migration and climate change.

She is currently a Social Science Research Scholar at Stanford University's Precourt Energy Institute, where her work focuses on supporting Native American tribes in their clean energy goals. Through this role, she is also seconded to the Tribal Affairs program at the California Energy Commission (CEC), where she is helping launch a landmark policy-making process in collaboration with California tribes to ensure they can participate in and benefit from the clean energy transition.

Kelsey draws on 10 years focused on tribal sovereignty and has a strong track record of building programming to support tribes. She previously worked at Central Oregon Community College, where she collaborated with tribes across Oregon to start a college-readiness program for Native American high school students. She also facilitated workshops on equity, advised the college’s Dreamers’ Club, and served on the City of Bend Accessibility Advisory Committee.

Her debut book No Option but North (IG Publishing) was published in 2020 and is based on her year on a Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico interviewing Central American migrants. It interweaves their stories with research into the policies that reveal the fundamental tensions involved in contemporary migration. It won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in creative nonfiction and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It also received acclaim in Publisher’s Weekly, The New York Journal of Books, Choice Reviews of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and many others. She has since spoken and interviewed across the U.S. on immigration policy. Kelsey has written for Stanford International Policy Review, UCLA’s Journal of Law and Environmental Policy, The Mantle, Complex(ion) Magazine, and is the recipient of a Steinberg Reporting Award.

From 2022-2025, Kelsey was a Knight Hennessy Scholar at Stanford studying international policy and environment and resources. During this time, she worked with Nevada’s green bank to help develop their tribal clean energy program, conducted research on international climate displacement and organized a course and conference on climate migration. She is the author of the report "Understanding Federal Indian Law for Renewable Energy," published by Stanford Law School.

Kelsey holds an MA in international policy and an MS in environment and resources from Stanford University and a BA in government and legal studies from Bowdoin College.

Anyone with an interest in energy is welcome to join! You can enjoy seminars in the following ways:

Attend live. The auditorium may change quarter by quarter, so check each seminar event to confirm the location. Explore the current quarter's schedule.Watch live in a browser livestream if available. Check each seminar event for its unique livestream URL.Watch recordings of past seminars Available on the Past Energy Seminars page and the Energy Seminars playlist of the Stanford Energy YouTube channel(For students) Take the seminar as a 1-unit class (CEE 301/ENERGY 301/MS&E 494)

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Alt Text: Flyer for a Stanford Asian American Activities Center wellness event titled “Yoga Time,” inviting students to an outdoor yoga session with no experience needed. It takes place Monday, May 11 from 5–6 PM at Meyer Green Lawn on Escondido Mall, with a QR code for more information.

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Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe is a Doctoral Candidate in Yoga Philosophy at the Graduate Theological Union, writing her dissertation on yoga and meditation for sleep. With nearly 30 years of teaching experience, she holds a Master’s in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University and completed three 500-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings. She is the Founding Director of YogaUSC, Co-Director of USC Yoga Teacher Training, and a recipient of USC's Sustainability Across Curriculum grant. In 2024, she began teaching at Stanford, focusing on movement, meditation, and sleep.

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Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan, senior research fellow at APRI Armenia, researches Armenian foreign policy and South Caucasus geopolitics. He has served as director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the Armenian Ministry of Defense, lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University, and research fellow at the American Studies Center of Yerevan State University. With a PhD in history from the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and a certificate in International Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he has authored more than 250 academic papers and op-eds.

APRI Armenia is an independent, nonpartisan think tank and policy accelerator focused on advancing regional security, sustainable prosperity, and civic engagement within Armenia and the broader region.

This event is a part of Armenian studies @ CREEES. Co-sponsors include Stanford CREEES, the Stanford Armenian Students Association, APRI Armenia, and AGBU Silicon Valley.

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What is an upstander?

Upstanders are individuals who witness a behavior that could lead to something high risk or harmful, and make the choice to intervene. Learn from fellow PEERs how you can create a culture of consent within and outside your communities! Upstander Trainings this quarter will take place in the Well House, from 7-8pm. Training dates during Fall 2025 will be:

Monday, May 11th, 2026 (7-8pm)Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 (7-8pm)RSVP Here! Drop-ins are also welcome but RSVP helps us know how much boba tea to bring.

Drop ins welcome!Open to all Stanford UndergraduatesIf you have any questions about this event or want to request a training please email peerprogram@stanford.edu

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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The prospect of intelligent machines challenges our societal norms. Matters of debate over the past half century concerning digital networks – e.g. access, privacy, subjectivity, participation – must be reconsidered in the age of machine learning. More specifically, the proliferation of AI-based systems leads to new ways of understanding what normativity is. Social norms don’t change overnight; however, the mechanisms and processes that drive these changes are increasingly influenced by AI-based infrastructures, characterized by a heightened level of automation, while being opaque, inscrutable, and anthropomorphic.

Faced with such conditions, we have to ask, first, what it means to instill or break a norm and, second, what norms even mean or represent. This landscape presents both profound challenges to maintain just and stable means of interaction and, at the same time, novel and creative opportunities for alternative modes of being.

The question of AI normativity is not only about regulation, not only about AI amplification of existing norms or discrimination, not only about fairness, but about how the AI transforms our very relation to the norms, or even about what a “norm” could mean in the AI conditions of perpetual adjustment of all forms of social interactions.

The two conferences (December 4-5, 2025 at Stanford, May 11-12 2026 in Paris) will address the imbrication of two movements: how the evolution of social norms is reflected in new algorithmic practices, and how these algorithms influence social norms in various domains. It will also investigate the intricate relation between the rise of AI and the (post-)neo-liberalism.

It will bring together the humanities, social sciences, and STS to address issues of crucial contemporary importance.

The detailed Paris program with abstracts can be found here.

Day 1
Doors open 9:45
Introduction 10:00
Session 1 10:15 – 13:00 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)
Session 2 14:30 – 17:00 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)

Day 2
Session 3 10:00 12:45 (4x 25 minutes + discussion)
Roundtable 14:30 17:00

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Day 1 Morning
Practices, collectives, mediations
Michele Elam (Stanford) : Slow AI: Keeping Time in the Time of AI
Donato Ricci & Gabriel Alcaras (Medialab Sciences Po), Disqualifying Actions: Working with Artificial Intelligence within Professional Norms
Bilel Benbouzid (Eiffel) : Generative AI and the Student Role: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Accountability Regimes
Johan Fredrikzon (KTH Sweden), Human as Medium: Caring for Machines in the Age of AI

Day 1 Afternoon
Afternoon Pasts, futures, processes
Xiaochang Li (Stanford) : Historicizing AI Norms from the Body to the Black Box
Fanny Georges, Sorbonne Nouvelle, IRMECCEN-DICEN : The normative turn of Algorithmic Identity: Sociotechnological myths and the Calculated Self
Noel Fitzpatrick (TU Dublin) : Idioms, language norms and information.
Warren Sack (University California Santa Cruz) Signs Taken for Wonders: Artificial Intelligence Demos Between the Real and the Imaginary

Day 2 Morning
Morning Norms, spaces, risks
David Bates (UC Berkeley), Between Facts and Norms in the Age of AI: From Instrumental Reason to the Habermas Machine
Dan Zimmer (Stanford) : Meat Humans, Mind Children, and the Norms of AI Supersession
Armen Khatchatourov (Eiffel-DICEN) A Heuristic Approach to Post-neolibral AI Normativity: from optimization to rewardization.
Antoine Garapon (judge emeritus) & Jean Lassègue (CNRS/EHESS), The politics of platforms: sovereignty grounded in space versus sovereignty grounded in code

Day 2 Afternoon
Roundtable on Beliefs, Platforms, Governance
Olivier Alexandre, (GRD-CIS – CNRS)
Maryse Carmes (DICEN – CNAM)
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras (DICEN – CNAM)
Bernard Reber (CEVIPOF – Sciences Po)
Frantz Rowe (IUF – Nantes University)

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Supporters:
France-Stanford Global Studies
The CNAM
GP DIGIS, Graduate Program Digital Studies and Innovation for Smart Cities, Gustave Eiffel
Internet and Society Centre: GDR-CIS, CNRS
Digital Studies Review

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​This is a hybrid event, to access the event virtually, please register the Zoom Link below:

​Zoom Link:https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7sFTZbIDS8i63sdrmL-Yrw

​​Panelists featured:

​Matthew Ard | PhD Candidate | Energy Science and Engineering | Doerr School of Sustainability

​Stephanie Caddell | PhD Candidate in Oceans | Doerr School of Sustainability

​Heather Harris | Disability Adviser | Office of Accessible Education

​Kathrina Welborn | PhD Student in Oceans | Doerr School of Sustainability

​If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact José Rubio-Zepeda at jdrubzep@stanford.edu. Requests should be made no later than Monday, May 11.

​Learn about ADA compliant resources and accommodations from Stanford's Office of Accessible Education.

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It is my pleasure to invite you to my upcoming PhD defense titled "The Statics and Dynamics of Underground Hydrogen Storage: Hydrogen Phase Behavior and Transport in Porous Media,” to be held next week Tuesday 12 May at 10:30 AM PDT. The defense will be held in Green Earth Sciences Building, Rm 365. There will also be an online option via Zoom (details below). The meeting details are summarized below. The attached flyer provides some information on the work presented, as well as the same meeting details.

Title: The Statics and Dynamics of Underground Hydrogen Storage: Hydrogen Phase Behavior and Transport in Porous Media

Date: Tuesday 12 May, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM PDT

Location: Green Earth Sciences Building, Rm 365 or via Zoom

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/4314584422?pwd=NWtzd1plVktUSDVZZ0tiSW9XK2FZZz09

Meeting ID: 431 458 4422

Meeting Password: 581646

I look forward to seeing you there in person or online.

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Thanks,

Jimin

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Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 11:40 AM for lunch, prior to the seminar. The Spring Seminar Series continues through May; see our Spring Seminar Series page for speakers and topics. Sign up for our newsletter for announcements.

About the Seminar:

As adolescence becomes increasingly digital, public discourse tends to focus on screen time, platform design, and online harms. Yet alongside these concerns, a parallel transformation has unfolded: the steady erosion of physical spaces meant for teens. What happens to youth social life when the outside world contracts? This talk argues that the rise of digital adolescence must be understood alongside the decline of third places—low-barrier environments beyond home and school that once supported informal peer culture and autonomy. Drawing on original statewide data from caregiver focus groups and a survey of more than 1,000 teens, we examine how young people navigate belonging amid shrinking real-world options. By reframing youth technology use as intertwined with social infrastructure, this research raises a new policy question: What would it mean to treat third places as essential civic infrastructure for youth in a digital age?

About the Speaker:

Jennifer Heifferon is the Child Well-Being Program Director at the California Partners Project, where she leads research and cross-sector initiatives focused on youth development in a digital age. Her work examines how technology, family systems, and community environments intersect to shape adolescent well-being, with an emphasis on translating lived experience and empirical research into insights for families, educators, and civic decision-makers. Jennifer’s background bridges K–12 education as a teacher, learning specialist, and equity leader, formal training and facilitation in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and ongoing leadership in youth sports coaching. Prior to her work in education, she worked in digital media as an interactive producer. She holds a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and an MA in Teaching from the University of San Francisco.

Alanna Powers-O'Brien is the Research Specialist for the Family Online Safety Institute, managing FOSI's research projects. She is passionate about creating safer experiences for kids and families online. Alanna has created several resources and managed research projects that focus on informing parents, educators and other stakeholders about concepts such as digital literacy, wellbeing and AI. Her prior experiences were in both media and education. Alanna has taught English and communications courses at both the high school and college level, and concentrated on the subject of media literacy education during her master’s program. Alanna has a master’s degree in Media Studies from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She also holds undergraduate degrees in both Public Relations and English from Penn State University, and is a Fulbright alumna.

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About the speaker: Dipin Kaur is an India-U.S. Security Studies Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University. Her research focuses on state strategy in the shadow of political violence, the politics of post-conflict transitions, and public opinion in polarized settings. Her book project draws on case studies from India and the British Empire to explain why states vary in their reliance on particular ethnic groups as counterinsurgents in response to conflict. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University (2022) and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Abstract

This lecture explores literature as a laboratory of the social imaginary, taking the impostor as its central case study. Across novels, self-help manuals, daily newspapers, psychology, sociology, and criminology, the figure of the con artist emerges as a pervasive presence in the Weimar Republic Tracing the conditions that enabled this proliferation, the lecture examines the role literature played in shaping and disseminating the impostor figure and explores its broader significance for the interwar period - an emblematic figure through which a crises-ridden society came to recognize itself.

RSVP for talk by Nicola Gess

Nicola Gess is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Basel and currently the 2026 Visiting Max Kade Professor at Columbia University. Her recent books include "Primitive Thinking: Figuring Alterity in German Modernity" (2022), "Halbwahrheiten: Zur Manipulation von Wirklichkeit" (2021), and "Staunen: Eine Poetik" (2019).

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The May 12th meeting will focus on Part One and Conversations 1-3 with the remaining chapters covered on May 26th. Participants are responsible for obtaining their own copy of the book and are welcome to attend one or both meetings

Facilitators:

Kelly Stone, MS

Joe Orovecz, PhD

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Craig Tighe, Attorney, DLA Piper LLP
"Determining the Legal and Financial Risks of Turning a Climate Technology into a Business"

Abstract:

Many great climate technologies are being developed in university labs and accelerators. Turning them into businesses that scale often can be a challenge, though.

Among other things, there can be legal restrictions and uncertainties that may stymie the deployment of what otherwise is an ideal solution to a climate problem.

Commercialization of a technology might also be impeded by problems in finding a suitable revenue model. These potential problems will be illustrated by a discussion of ocean alkalinity enhancement as a carbon dioxide removal strategy. The international and U.S. legal issues it presents will be described. The potential problems in relying on voluntary carbon credits to generate revenue from such carbon capture strategy will also be considered. Based on this example, the remainder of the lunch will be devoted to discussing the legal and financing issues that other climate technologies may face when they move from the lab to the marketplace.

Bio:

Craig is an attorney with DLA Piper LLP (US) based in Silicon Valley. His practice is focused on representing startups and the venture capital and other financing sources that support startups, with a focus on climate technology. He is 2024 Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow and a graduate of Stanford Law School

The topics of this seminar are broad but typically fall under technologies’ scaling potential and impact on (the system of) people, the environment and the economy. A particular focus is placed on the interaction potential of technologies with the energy, water, and material systems. Our goal is to create an intimate, collaborative space for students, postdocs, scientists, and PIs within Stanford across micro-level (material and technology) to macro-level (system) interests. These seminars will provide an opportunity to disseminate insights from your studies, connect with fellow researchers, and strengthen bonds across the community.

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About the speaker:

Diana S. Kim is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and core faculty member of the Asian Studies Program. Kim is the author of Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton University Press, 2020) and Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia: Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire (Cambridge University Press Elements Series, 2025). Her research addresses legacies of colonial rule, state-building, illicit economies and transnational history with focus on Southeast and East Asia since the late 19th century. Kim received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and was formerly a US-Korea NextGen Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Member at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Renowned experts in the field will share their latest research and help us better understand the remarkable resilience of the human brain.

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Poster Session and ContestWe encourage Stanford-affiliated attendees from all neuroscience disciplines and career stages to present research, including early-stage unpublished work, at the symposium poster session.

Knight Initiative Awardees and Brain Resilience Postdocs are expected to present a poster at the Symposium poster session by April 26.

📌 Posters may be registered or modified through the Symposium registration form.

Poster Session Contest Awards:

1st place - Travel award ($2500) and $500 cash2nd place - Travel award ($2000) and $300 cash3rd place - Travel award ($1500) and $100 cashPoster session information

Featuring the following speakers:Keynote speaker Nir Barzilai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Institute for Aging ResearchAnne Brunet, Stanford UniversityIvan Soltesz, Stanford UniversityKatrin Andreasson, Stanford UniversityTakeshi Uenaka, Stanford UniversityDeadlinesRegistration is required to attend this in-person only event.

Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

Poster Submission Deadline (in registration form): Sunday, April 26, 2026

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Stanford Web Services hosts office hours by appointment. During these half-hour appointments, we can assist you with editing existing content, creating new content, editing or adjusting site-wide options, and more!

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Drop by Hohbach 123 (Silicon Valley Archive classroom, Green Library) any time between 2-4 PM on Tuesday, May 12th to view items selected by curators from Humanities and Area Studies that fascinate and provoke in unique and special forms to say something about TRANSLATION.

And consider staying a few minutes longer for:

a demonstration of translation journal visualizing software being developed by Stanford Digital Humanists, Valeriia Korotkova and Georgii Korotkov
a hands-on activity led by DLCL Academic Technology Specialist Quinn Daedal on translating data into textiles
a bespoke transliteration/translation of your name into Greek, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish...or any other language that our curators work inGeorgii Korotkov is a PhD candidate in Slavic Studies with a Computer Science minor at Stanford University, where his research examines Soviet and Eastern European translation journals as sites of literary and cultural exchange. His recent publications include "Reader-scale Text Mining and Visualization in the Secondary ELA Classroom" (Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2025) and a co-authored book chapter on Internatsional'naia Literatura as a model of Soviet world literature. His work bridges computational methods—including NLP, network analysis, and full-stack web development—with humanistic inquiry into Cold War publishing history.

Valeriia Korotkova is a multilingual Digital Humanities specialist. Research assistant on the Sustaining Early Disciplinary Websites of Lasting Importance project, Stanford Libraries, focusing on digital preservation and accessibility. Data Specialist at the Tamizdat Project, contributing to the development of a digital archive of banned books and unofficial publications from the Cold War to the present. Currently working on the Vsesvit project — a digital initiative dedicated to the translation and publication of literature in Soviet Ukraine.

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Come celebrate Spring quarter, hang with your fellow Earth Systems peers, and take a well-deserved break from all your hard work.

We will have a buffet-style ice cream bar with many flavors, toppings, and more, in the Earth Systems Lounge (Y2E2 131) on May 12 from 2:30-4:30pm.

Please fill out the rsvp form with your favorite ice cream flavors and toppings!

Hope to see you there!

Your wellness liaison,

Sophia

Sophia Sanders (She/Her)

Stanford University

Center for Human and Planetary Health Communications

B.S. Earth Systems '25 | Land Systems

M.A. Earth Systems '26 | Environmental Communication

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Join Jonathan Levin (President and Bing Presidential Professor, Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Professor of Economics), Stephen Redding (Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics), Jonathan Rodden (Professor of Political Science), and Debra Satz (Vernon R and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society) for a wide-ranging discussion of these issues.

This event is part of the course “America at 250,” which reflects on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The class brings together 30 faculty from across the university for a series of roundtable discussions on how the concerns and values expressed in that document have played out across U.S. history. Members of the Stanford community (faculty, students, postdocs, staff) are welcome to attend individual sessions.

Sponsored by: Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Democracy Hub and Department of History

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Date: Tuesday, May 12Time: 3PM – 5PMApplication is requiredVisit the website for more information and to register.

This workshop is open to the Stanford research community.

About the Data Best Practices Workshop Series
The Data Best Practices workshop series aims to educate and empower the Stanford neuroscience and broader research communities to work with data in a more rigorous and reproducible manner. These recurring workshops provide attendees with hands-on introductions and training with essential tools.

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This is an open and ongoing group for students who live with OCD to support each other and have a safe space to connect. The group will focus on providing mutual support, sharing wisdom, increasing self-compassion, and enhancing overall coping and wellness.

Meeting with a facilitator is required to join this group. You can sign up on the INTEREST LIST_LIVING_WITH_OCD_IN-PERSON_SPRING_Q on Vaden Portal rosters, in the "Groups and Workshops" section. This group will take place in-person on Tuesdays from 3-4pm on 4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26.Facilitated by Jennifer Maldonado, LCSWAll enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. A pre-group meeting is required prior to participation in this group. Please contact CAPS at (650) 723-3785 to schedule a pre-group meeting with the facilitators, or sign up on the portal as instructed above.

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Shamit Kachru is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Stanford University, where he served on the faculty for 25 years, including terms as Chair of the Physics Department and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research in theoretical physics focused on string theory, quantum field theory, and applications to cosmology and condensed matter physics. His honors include a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, a Simons Investigator Award, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2023, he has been an Executive Director at PDT Partners, a quantitative investment firm, where his research applies ideas from theoretical physics, statistical learning, and control theory to problems in systematic trading.

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This event is organized by the Property, Territory, and Sovereignty on Indigenous Lands Research Workshop hosted by the Stanford Humanities Center.

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Horses help us develop these skills through their magnificent strength, grace, and reading of body language. They teach us to use all our senses plus breath and movement to release stress, heal, and invigorate the body. Using techniques from mindfulness meditation, tai chi, qigong, yoga, Reiki, and nature-based therapy, you will learn to ground, center, and relax by touching and breathing with horses. No horse experience needed. All activities are conducted on the ground. Meditation ride optional during the last class.

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi cites medical studies showing the value of tai chi and qigong on long-term stress reduction and improvement in cognitive function. Horse-assisted somatic or "of the body" learning, in combination with daily practices offered in class, will help you establish a lasting and healthy integration of your physical movements and senses with your intellect, emotions, and intuition.

This is an in-person class and will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points - at least 80% of 3 of the 4 sessions. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 4-5:30pm, Press Building

The accelerating impacts of climate change and other environmental changes on human and planetary health invite deeper engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems that center relationships, reciprocity, intergenerational responsibility, and care for the land. In this Spotlight on Human and Planetary Health Speaker Series event, Dr. Nicole Redvers – Associate Professor, Western Research Chair, and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health at Western University, and member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation (Northwest Territories, Canada) – will explore how Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, and community-centered approaches can enrich and transform how we understand and act on human and planetary health challenges.

Drawing from her interdisciplinary scholarship and global work with Indigenous communities, Dr. Redvers will discuss the interconnections between culture, land, health, and wellbeing, and illuminate how Indigenous perspectives can offer vital frameworks for climate resilience, health equity, and planetary stewardship. This event will explore how to bridge Indigenous and Western scientific paradigms, emphasizing values that are essential for sustainable and just health futures, while highlighting opportunities to center Indigenous Peoples, their leadership, and their knowledges in human and planetary health solutions.

Event program 4:00-5:00pm with a reception to follow. Please register below.

*Stanford students: register here for a lunch event with Dr. Nicole Redvers on Thursday, May 12, 12-1pm!

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Facilitated by Cierra Whatley, PhD & Katie Ohene-Gambill, PsyDThis group meets in-person on Tuesdays from 4-5pm on 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26All enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. A pre-group meeting is required prior to participation in this group. Please contact CAPS at (650) 723-3785 to schedule a pre-group meeting with the facilitators.

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The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center.

Dominic McDonald is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of ULAP Networks, a Singapore-headquartered sovereign communications infrastructure company delivering intelligent cloud connectivity and telephony solutions to enterprise clients across more than 114 countries. Founded in 2017, ULAP has grown from its Asia base into a globally recognized telecom infrastructure player, earning recognition as a Top Global SIP and Cloud Voice vendor by UC Today and becoming a service-provider member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from Brunei Darussalam.

Registration:

To attend in-person, please RSVP here.To attend by Zoom, please register here.Agenda:

4:30 pm – 5:50 pm Discussion and Audience Q&A5:50 pm – 6:30 pm Networking Reception over light refreshments---

The Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries series begins March 31, 2026 and continues until June 2, 2026. Seminars will be held in-person and on Zoom, Tuesdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM.

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Megan McArdle moderates a dynamic discussion with Hoover senior fellows John Cochrane, Valerie Ramey, and Ross Levine on a defining question of the American experiment: why has the United States been such an enduring outlier in prosperity, and can it remain so?

For more than a century, America has stood apart as the world’s most prosperous large economy. Yet today, confidence in the American Dream is wavering. What made this success possible, and are those foundations beginning to crack?

The conversation will examine the forces that powered American growth, from freedom and federalism to a culture that rewards risk-taking, and ask whether those strengths are now being undermined. What will it take to restore growth, mobility, and a renewed sense of economic possibility in the decades ahead?

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It traces the transformation of Mao-era industrial zones in Chengdu into market-oriented developments tied to the Belt and Road Initiative. It examines how the Chinese Communist Party has coordinated industrial, urban, and economic policy across multiple scales, from national strategy to factory restructuring. In so doing, I argue that reform-era developments adapt methods of governance cemented under socialism. By analyzing workers’ responses to industrial and urban reform, I also show how compliance with reform policies emerged from Mao-era institutional and political cultures. Bridging PRC (People’s Republic of China) history and the history of the economic reforms, the presentation reinterprets SOE (state-owned enterprise) reform as a series of state adaptations rooted in the socialist industrial regime.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here.

About the speaker:

Sarah Chang is an assistant professor of history at Miami University (Ohio). She holds a Ph.D. in history from UC Santa Cruz and a B.A. from Stanford University. Her research focuses on labor, gender, and the rural-urban divide in the context of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Her current book project examines how the rise and fall of two state-owned steel mills in Chengdu marked China’s changing urban regimes from socialism to the economic reforms. Chang has published works in Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, The Journal of Urban Affairs, and The PRC History Review.

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Breaststroke & Butterfly- Tuesday, May 12th 4:30 PM-6:00 PM (FULL)

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The 2026 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture

Frédérique Leichter-Flack, Full Professor of Literature and Political Humanities at the Centre for History at Sciences Po

Ethical Dilemmas and the Laboratory of Fiction

Ethical dilemmas are not simply hard choices: they are the pressure points where our deepest commitments collide. This lecture takes literary fiction as a laboratory of moral imagination — one where tragic choices are staged, revisited, and reinterpreted over time — and explores how even outdated or opaque dilemmas from the canon can still sharpen our perception of political nuance, expand our moral emotions, and nourish democratic deliberation.

The 2026 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture is sponsored by: French-Speaking Worlds: Then and Now, Philosophy + Literature, and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University.

Learn more about the Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture Series.

This event is free and open to the public.

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AJ Naddaff, from Dedham, Massachusetts, is pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. He graduated from Davidson College in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and received a master’s degree in Arabic literature and Near Eastern studies from the American University of Beirut in 2022. Through his writing and advocacy, AJ aspires to foster better understanding between the Middle East, Western Europe and the United States, with a focus on the public humanities, cultural entrepreneurship and academic industry building in Arabic. He worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in Lebanon, is working on his second Arabic book translation project, and has been published in the Washington Post, the Intercept, and Columbia Journalism Review among other outlets. He is a two-time Fulbright research grant recipient, a 2019 recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award, and was a 2019 fellow of the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad.

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Come learn about pleasure, bust some myths, and gain tools to connect with yourself!

Dinner provided! RSVP at this link!

Tuesday, 5/12 @5pm at the WCC

Facilitated by Weiland Health Initiative’s Dr. Marissa Floro, certified sex therapist

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This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Raed Rafei, moderated by Professor Usha Iyer and Grace Han.

“Tripoli – A Tale of Three Cities celebrates this enigmatic place and its people with an open mind and through a loving, compassionate lens, with nostalgia but also hope for the future, and with an exceptional eye for detail and the humanity in everyone.” – Business Doc Europe, 21 November 2024

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Director Bio
Raed Rafei is a filmmaker, researcher, and multimedia journalist. Rafei directed award-winning documentaries and experimental films. His films have screened at international film festivals and venues like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Doc Lisboa, IDFA, Visions du Réel, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

This event is generously co-sponsored by Stanford Film & Media Studies, Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Faculty Research Network on Arab Futures and Past: Palestine+, Stanford Cinematheque, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Queer Student Resources Center, Global Studies in Migration and Diaspora: A Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop.

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Diane Saenz (she/her) is a yoga instructor with more than 20 years of experience in the use of yoga and meditation to improve mental and physical well-being. Following a classical approach, she leans on asana and pranayama as tools to invite participants into the present moment. Diane completed her 500 hour level training with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Organization in South India, followed by specializations in adaptive yoga and yoga for kids. She has taught adult and youth audiences around the globe.

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En-ROADS is a world-renowned energy & climate action simulator developed by Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan. It enables users to apply hundreds of climate actions to construct scenarios in real time: from global temperature and extreme weather to energy use, public health, and economic outcomes.

This workshop will be led by Explore Energy Seminar participants who have completed the Mastering En-ROADS Training, offering a hands-on opportunity to engage with decision-support tools for energy transitions and climate action.

What: Energy Transitions Simulation Workshop

When: Tuesday, May 5, 6:00-7:20 PM

Where: Bollard Dining (see Google Maps)

Who: Open to all campus community members every week! Students are invited to dinner at Ricker Dining after the seminar.

This event can be shared broadly.

This session is part of Explore Energy Seminar: Propel (ENERGY / CEE 108X / 208X). To hear about a host of events, field trips, fellowships, and jobs, subscribe to the weekly Explore Energy Newsletter.

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- Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford Anthropology) on "Voices"

- Muhammad Khatib (Stanford Chemical Engineering) on "Fiber Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine"

- Nitya Thakkar (Stanford Medicine) on "AI for Precision Health"

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department whoserecent work has been on voices, visions, felt presence and other remarkable events in psychiatric illness and in religious experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, The Good Parsi, Of Two Minds, When God Talks Back, Our Most Troubling Madness (co-edited with Jocelyn Marrow), and How God Becomes Real.

Muhammad Khatib is an engineer and innovator in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University working at the intersection of technology and medicine. He specializes in bioelectronic devices that interact with the human body for sensing and stimulation, providing new opportunities in health monitoring and interventions. He develops high-density, soft bioelectronic fibers as thin as a human hair for biomedical applications.

Nitya Thakkar is a Computer Science PhD student at Stanford University, advised by James Zou. Her research focuses on developing AI and computational methods to advance precision medicine, with a focus on integrating multimodal data.

Detailed bios at: Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous LASER

The Stanford LASERs are co-sponsored by the deans of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and by Chemical Engineering.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Join us from 5 a.m. (PT) on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 until 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2026 when our community has the chance to show our collective support for the people, programs, and ideas that make Stanford so special.

There will be a 1:1 match doubling the impact of your gift, hidden prizes, games and puzzles, fun digital content, and challenges that unlock extra funds for causes you care about.

Explore the countless ways your support can make a difference during Stanford Day of Giving.

Learn more and get involved at dayofgiving.stanford.edu.

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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The Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosts "Can Civic Education be Liberal?" with Melinda Zook, Joseph Knippenberg, Benjamin Storey, and Dan Edelstein on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, from 9:00–10:00 a.m. PT.

The Civics in the Academy webinar series features in-depth discussions on the practice, pedagogy, and state of civics in higher education. Drawing on the diverse expertise and perspectives within the Alliance network, each session features topics and panelists sourced directly from our membership. The series aims to foster dialogue, share practical knowledge and best practices, and contribute to a shared, pluralistic framework in the evolving field of civics in the academy.

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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We welcome volunteers 10 years old and older. Those between 10 and 14 years old are required to have a guardian actively volunteering alongside them for the duration of the volunteer session.

We reserve the right to cancel volunteer sessions up to two hours in advance. Possible reasons for cancelation are a change in COVID-19 guidelines as outlined by the University or County Officials, excessive heat (90 degree and above), poor air quality, rain or other inclement weather.

We encourage all volunteers to carpool, bike, ride public transportation; there is a charge for parking on all Stanford property. The farm is not responsible for any tickets incurred while volunteering.

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To bring these discussions off the page, the Rhode Center has launched a four-part webinar series exploring various facets of the lawyers’ monopoly. Our first session sets the stage, considering diverse frameworks to guide how we think about the changing market for legal services. The second focuses on existing reforms in the market for legal services. This third session applies a comparative lens, focusing on lessons to be learned from other industries and other places, regarding both loosening restrictions on the legal services market and responding to the rise of new providers and technologies.

We invite you to register for the entire webinar series:

Lawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 1: Conceptualizing Legal Services RegulationLawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 2: Lessons from the Field: On-the-Ground Efforts to Effect Positive Regulatory InnovationsLawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 3: The Comparative LensLawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 4: Charting the Future of Legal Services

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Mikael Mazur

Member of Technical Staff | Nokia Bell Labs

Two seminars will be offered:

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

10:30am-11:20am (Mitchell 350/372)

1:30pm-2:20pm (Mitchell B04)

Host: Biondo Biondi, Ettore Biondi

Long-Reach Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing over Repeated Submarine Cables

Abstract: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has emerged as a versatile tool for seismic and geophysical studies due to its unprecedented sensor density, converting regular telecommunication fibers into distributed 1D strain sensors. DAS can achieve m-level spatial resolution and kHz sampling rates, enabling direct measurement of the coherent wavefield from seismic events. A key application is leveraging existing submarine telecommunication cables to create real-time oceanographic and seismic ocean bottom sensors. However, a major limiting factor of DAS is reach: unamplified links are limited to 100–200 km, while cables with in-line optical amplifiers are typically restricted to the first repeater (50–80 km). This fundamental constraint has prevented the use of the global submarine fiber network for deep-ocean sensing.

This presentation details recent progress on long-reach DAS, adapted for active submarine telecommunication cables. We demonstrate that the first-repeater limit is not fundamental and that by utilizing weak monitoring couplers, originally introduced for cable fault localization, distributed sensing over the entire cable length is feasible. A prototype system installed on a domestic telecom cable connecting California and Hawaii has transformed the 4,400 km cable into a distributed strain sensor with 44,000 100-meter-spaced sensor points. We present recent results from the M8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka, which include the first fiber-optic deep-ocean high-resolution seismic arrivals. Furthermore, we show the ability to accurately track the resulting tsunami wave as it passes over the cable, the first demonstration that standard telecom cables can detect and track tsunami waves in the deep ocean. Finally, we discuss recent system upgrades, resulting in a quasi-uniform noise floor of approximately 1 nε/s/√Hz for 50-meter spatial resolution. These results demonstrate the potential to use existing and future submarine cables, without modification and with negligible loss in throughput, to create a global deep-ocean sensing network.

Bio: Mikael Mazur received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2019. His dissertation focused on optical frequency combs in optical communications, specifically multi-wavelength signal processing schemes enabled by comb coherence. In January 2020, he joined Bell Labs, NJ, as a member of the technical staff in the advanced photonics research department. His current research focuses on developing novel fiber-optic sensing systems and real-time signal processing to seamlessly integrate sensing within optical data transmission infrastructure. With a particular focus on leveraging trans-oceanic submarine cables, he actively researches real-time deep-ocean monitoring for critical applications in environmental, oceanographic, and geophysical investigations, including the development of cutting-edge tsunami and earthquake early warning systems. He won the 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator award for "For seminal contributions to fiber sensing using submarine fiber-optic networks and real-time multiple-input-multiple-output digital signal processing". He is a member of IEEE, OPTICA, and the SSA, and an active member of the Joint Task Force on SMART Cables and the Suboptic working group on Sensing using Operational Subsea Cables.

Bio: Mikael Mazur received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2019. His dissertation focused on optical frequency combs in optical communications, specifically multi-wavelength signal processing schemes enabled by comb coherence. In January 2020, he joined Bell Labs, NJ, as a member of the technical staff in the advanced photonics research department. His current research focuses on developing novel fiber-optic sensing systems and real-time signal processing to seamlessly integrate sensing within optical data transmission infrastructure. With a particular focus on leveraging trans-oceanic submarine cables, he actively researches real-time deep-ocean monitoring for critical applications in environmental, oceanographic, and geophysical investigations, including the development of cutting-edge tsunami and earthquake early warning systems. He won the 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator award for "For seminal contributions to fiber sensing using submarine fiber-optic networks and real-time multiple-input-multiple-output digital signal processing". He is a member of IEEE, OPTICA, and the SSA, and an active member of the Joint Task Force on SMART Cables and the Suboptic working group on Sensing using Operational Subsea Cables.

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This presentation offers an accessible introduction to the Hoover Institution’s Africa-related archival holdings and to practical strategies for incorporating those materials into research, teaching, and public programs. Issayas & Bertrands will lead an overview of the collections, describing representative formats and thematic strengths, such as political, social, and cultural records from across the continent—and demonstrating search and access pathways for scholars and community researchers. The session will also address best practices for citing archival materials, navigating permissions, and requesting scans or reproductions.

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Speaker's biography:

Issayas Tesfamariam holds a PhD in Political Economy, an MA in Asia Pacific Studies, and a BA in Radio, Television, Video, and Film. He teaches Amharic and Tigrinya at Stanford University and serves as a logistics coordinator at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where he supports archival access, description, and preservation.

Bertrand Patenaude is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, where he is currently serving as Interim Head of Engagement at the Library & Archives. He is also a Lecturer for the International Relations Program at Stanford. His first book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and was made into a documentary film for the award-winning PBS history series American Experience. His 2009 book, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (Harper), was serialized on BBC Radio. His most recent book, co-authored with Joan Nabseth Stevenson, is Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 (Hoover Institution Press, 2023). Patenaude was educated at Boston College (BA, 1977) and at the University of Vienna, was a Fulbright Scholar in Moscow in 1982–83, and received his PhD in History from Stanford in 1987. He has contributed book reviews to the Wall Street Journal since 2004.

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Tom Barton (University of San Diego) presents, "The Anxiety of Sameness in Late Medieval Spain"

The CMEMS Workshop series meets most Wednesdays during the academic year. Lunch is provided. See the CMEMS website for the list of upcoming speakers.

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In this talk, I present an approach that moves away from direct prompting, instead using LLMs as program synthesizers to bridge the gap between natural language rules and symbolic world models. The LLM receives a game description and example trajectories, and outputs an executable, symbolic world model (CWM) represented in Python. The trajectories also ensure the rules are correctly captured and aid in refining the CWM if they are not. Note that even trajectories containing only a single player's observations and actions can be used to help validate and refine CWMs. Furthermore, partially observed trajectories also allow comparisons between CWMs via a bound on the likelihood.

Given a CWM, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) or Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods can play the game, and gameplay can be further enhanced by adding in LLM-derived synthesized value functions. Imperfect information games are handled by having the LLM synthesize inference functions to impute information sets, or by directly training reinforcement learning policies on top of the CWM.

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In this talk, I present an approach that moves away from direct prompting, instead using LLMs as program synthesizers to bridge the gap between natural language rules and symbolic world models. The LLM receives a game description and example trajectories, and outputs an executable, symbolic world model (CWM) represented in Python. The trajectories also ensure the rules are correctly captured and aid in refining the CWM if they are not. Note that even trajectories containing only a single player's observations and actions can be used to help validate and refine CWMs. Furthermore, partially observed trajectories also allow comparisons between CWMs via a bound on the likelihood.

Given a CWM, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) or Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods can play the game, and gameplay can be further enhanced by adding in LLM-derived synthesized value functions. Imperfect information games are handled by having the LLM synthesize inference functions to impute information sets, or by directly training reinforcement learning policies on top of the CWM.

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Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he directs the Institute's Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Previously, Levitt served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and before that as an FBI counterterrorism analyst, including work on the terrorist threat surrounding the turn of the millennium and the September 11 attacks. He also served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to Gen James L. Jones, the special envoy for Middle East regional security.

Levitt teaches at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Center for Jewish Civilization, as well as at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy. He previously taught at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory boards of several think tanks around the world. Widely published, Levitt is the author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown, 2013 & 2024) and Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale, 2006). Levitt hosts the podcast Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule and created open-access, interactive maps of Lebanese Hezbollah worldwide activities and Iranian external operations.

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RSVP for the the A.J. Naddaff talk (Please RSVP to receive pre-circulated reading)

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Steve Lee, PhD - Assistant Dean of Inclusion in the School of Humanities and SciencesvJoseph Brown, PhD - Assistant Dean of Inlcusion, Outreach, and Recruitment in the School of Humanities and SciencesAbout Quick Bytes:

Get valuable professional development wisdom that you can apply right away! Quick Bytes sessions cover a variety of topics and include lunch. Relevant to graduate students at any stage in any degree program.

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ReproducibiliTea at Stanford was launched at 26 October 2022 and welcomes new members. Information on upcoming meetings is presented below, and you can find us on our slack channel, and join our mailing list reproducibilitea@lists.stanford.edu. The meetings are held every second Wednsday of the month, at 12:00.

To help us prepare for the meetings, and order lunch for everyone (free lunches provided) please register for the next meeting using the registration form.

The next meeting is May 13th, 12:00 to 1 pm in LK306 Seminar Classroom (see map plan of the building).

Topic: Reproducibility of Social and Behavioral Research (SCORE project)

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Thinking Outside the Clinic: Bringing Brain Imaging Home

Dr. Hosseini will discuss how functional neuroimaging has improved our understanding of psychiatric disorders, why it has not been widely adopted in psychiatry practice, and how wearable neuroimaging opens new opportunities for advancing psychiatric research beyond labs/clinics. He will share his team’s journey in developing a wearable imaging platform for remote, at-home brain monitoring for advancing precision psychiatry.

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Free admissionParking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.

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The Moon is entering a new era of exploration, with dozens of commercial, national, and international missions planned for the coming decade. Supporting this activity will require robust Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) infrastructure—a "Lunar GPS"—capable of serving spacecraft, landers, and rovers across the cislunar domain. In this talk, I will present my research on building the algorithmic and systems foundations for a "Lunar GPS." First, I will outline the key challenges in enabling such a system compared to Earth, including precise orbit determination and time synchronization without surface stations, a unique dynamical environment, the definition of new coordinate and time frames, and tighter size, weight, and power constraints. Second, I will describe how terrestrial GNSS signals, including weak sidelobe transmissions that spill beyond Earth, can be leveraged for precise orbit determination and timekeeping of lunar satellites, with particular attention to ionospheric and plasmaspheric delay modeling as a critical bottleneck to achieving meter-level accuracy. Time permitting, I will broaden the perspective to extending satellite radionavigation beyond the Earth-Moon system, including collaborative work with NASA JPL on next-generation Mars navigation and communication relay networks, and emerging opportunities, such as precise timing for low-frequency radio astronomy arrays on the lunar farside, that a mature Lunar GPS infrastructure could uniquely enable.

Bio:

Keidai Iiyama is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he works in the Navigation and Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Lab under Professor Grace Gao. He received his M.E. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tokyo. His research centers on Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) for the lunar and cislunar environment, encompassing orbit determination and time synchronization algorithms, ephemeris design, constellation design, and integrity monitoring for lunar navigation satellite systems. His work has received the Best Presentation Award three times at ION GNSS+ conferences. He has also collaborated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on constellation design and orbit determination for next-generation Mars navigation relay networks. He will be joining Intuitive Machines to work on their lunar data relay and navigation satellites starting in June 2026.

Speaker Suggested Readings:

GNSS-based Lunar Orbit and Clock Estimation Stochastic Cloning UD Filter https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16393Precise Positioning and Timekeeping in a Lunar Orbit via Terrestrial GPS Time-Differenced Carrier-Phase Measurements https://navi.ion.org/content/71/1/navi.635Ionospheric and Plasmaspheric Delay Characterization for Lunar Terrestrial GNSS Receivers with Global Core Plasma Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10059

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You Are Here is an exhibition that explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. A transportation system can become synonymous with a city or nation, reflecting its change over time, spearheading cartographic innocations, or reifying an entirely new vision for space and place. The individual maps in the exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole.

Curated by the winner of the California Map Society Student Exhibition Competition Jayne Kilander, will be on view through Friday, August 21, 2026. It is also available to view digitally.

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This is for current Earth Systems undergrad and coterm students.

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While the in-person event is invite-only, everyone is welcome to join via livestream.

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Mikael Mazur

Member of Technical Staff | Nokia Bell Labs

Two seminars will be offered:

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

10:30am-11:20am (Mitchell 350/372)

1:30pm-2:20pm (Mitchell B04)

Host: Biondo Biondi, Ettore Biondi

Long-Reach Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing over Repeated Submarine Cables

Abstract: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has emerged as a versatile tool for seismic and geophysical studies due to its unprecedented sensor density, converting regular telecommunication fibers into distributed 1D strain sensors. DAS can achieve m-level spatial resolution and kHz sampling rates, enabling direct measurement of the coherent wavefield from seismic events. A key application is leveraging existing submarine telecommunication cables to create real-time oceanographic and seismic ocean bottom sensors. However, a major limiting factor of DAS is reach: unamplified links are limited to 100–200 km, while cables with in-line optical amplifiers are typically restricted to the first repeater (50–80 km). This fundamental constraint has prevented the use of the global submarine fiber network for deep-ocean sensing.

This presentation details recent progress on long-reach DAS, adapted for active submarine telecommunication cables. We demonstrate that the first-repeater limit is not fundamental and that by utilizing weak monitoring couplers, originally introduced for cable fault localization, distributed sensing over the entire cable length is feasible. A prototype system installed on a domestic telecom cable connecting California and Hawaii has transformed the 4,400 km cable into a distributed strain sensor with 44,000 100-meter-spaced sensor points. We present recent results from the M8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka, which include the first fiber-optic deep-ocean high-resolution seismic arrivals. Furthermore, we show the ability to accurately track the resulting tsunami wave as it passes over the cable, the first demonstration that standard telecom cables can detect and track tsunami waves in the deep ocean. Finally, we discuss recent system upgrades, resulting in a quasi-uniform noise floor of approximately 1 nε/s/√Hz for 50-meter spatial resolution. These results demonstrate the potential to use existing and future submarine cables, without modification and with negligible loss in throughput, to create a global deep-ocean sensing network.

Bio: Mikael Mazur received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2019. His dissertation focused on optical frequency combs in optical communications, specifically multi-wavelength signal processing schemes enabled by comb coherence. In January 2020, he joined Bell Labs, NJ, as a member of the technical staff in the advanced photonics research department. His current research focuses on developing novel fiber-optic sensing systems and real-time signal processing to seamlessly integrate sensing within optical data transmission infrastructure. With a particular focus on leveraging trans-oceanic submarine cables, he actively researches real-time deep-ocean monitoring for critical applications in environmental, oceanographic, and geophysical investigations, including the development of cutting-edge tsunami and earthquake early warning systems. He won the 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator award for "For seminal contributions to fiber sensing using submarine fiber-optic networks and real-time multiple-input-multiple-output digital signal processing". He is a member of IEEE, OPTICA, and the SSA, and an active member of the Joint Task Force on SMART Cables and the Suboptic working group on Sensing using Operational Subsea Cables.

Bio: Mikael Mazur received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2019. His dissertation focused on optical frequency combs in optical communications, specifically multi-wavelength signal processing schemes enabled by comb coherence. In January 2020, he joined Bell Labs, NJ, as a member of the technical staff in the advanced photonics research department. His current research focuses on developing novel fiber-optic sensing systems and real-time signal processing to seamlessly integrate sensing within optical data transmission infrastructure. With a particular focus on leveraging trans-oceanic submarine cables, he actively researches real-time deep-ocean monitoring for critical applications in environmental, oceanographic, and geophysical investigations, including the development of cutting-edge tsunami and earthquake early warning systems. He won the 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator award for "For seminal contributions to fiber sensing using submarine fiber-optic networks and real-time multiple-input-multiple-output digital signal processing". He is a member of IEEE, OPTICA, and the SSA, and an active member of the Joint Task Force on SMART Cables and the Suboptic working group on Sensing using Operational Subsea Cables.

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Please register to attend. Registration is exclusively open to current Stanford Affiliates and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Given the limited space, a waitlist will be available once all spots are filled. (Please cancel your registration if you can’t make it.)

For those attending the in-person event, please bring your Stanford ID card or mobile ID to enter the library.

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You will create an individualized plan for recognizing and working with stress and anxiety during this workshop.

Multiple dates and times available to attend this 2 hour workshop.Multiple CAPS therapists collaborate to provide these workshops.All enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. Connecting with CAPS is required to join this group. Please call 650.723.3785 during business hours (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. weekdays) to connect and meet with a CAPS therapist, or message your therapist/contact person at CAPS, to determine if this workshop is right for you, and be added to the workshop meeting that works best for your schedule. Workshops are in person.Access Anxiety Toolbox Workshop 2025-26 slides here.Anxiety Toolbox Dates

Friday, April 17, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 7, 2026 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

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The flaneur is a figure at the cusp of new conjunctures of capitalism, Walter Benjamin writes. If we follow her in and out of town halls and tech offices, new forms of capture and capital expansion come into view. In conversation with Charles Petersen, Katja Schwaller will discuss everyday life and urban struggles unfolding in the fragmented landscapes of the Silicon Valley region.

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Katja Schwaller is an Urban Ethnographer and a Public Knowledge Fellow at Stanford Public Humanities. Her work examines the spatial and cultural paradigms of digital capitalism through the built environment. She is the editor of Technopolis, a volume on Big Tech and urban struggles in the San Francisco Bay Area (Seismo/Assoziation A 2019). As a PhD Candidate in Stanford’s Modern Thought and Literature Program, she is currently working on a book on Silicon Valley urban formations.

Charles Petersen is the Harold Hohbach historian at Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford. He has served as an editor at n+1 magazine for more than 15 years and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Review of Books. He is currently working on a book around meritocracy in America, building on his Harvard doctoral research and his expertise on the history of Silicon Valley and the history of the U.S. political economy from the Gilded Age to the present.

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Professor Hsieh will discuss how Taiwan's Central Bank has had a longstanding unstated policy of keeping the exchange rate undervalued to boost exports. The rise of Taiwan as the center of the semiconductor industry, and more generally as the center of AI hardware, is making this policy untenable. The trade surplus reached 20% of GDP in 2025 and is likely reach an astronomical 35% of GDP this year. Furthermore, much of the surplus has been channeled into purchases of US treasury bonds by Taiwan's life insurance industry that face collapse when the Taiwan dollar appreciates.

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Professor Hsieh is the Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of Taiwan's Academia Sinica, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. He is also a two times recipient of the Sun Ye-Fang Award of China's Academy of Social Sciences.

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The family of Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh donated his personal archive to the Stanford University Libraries' Special Collections and endowed the Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture series to honor his legacy and to inspire future generations. Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh (1919-2004) was former Governor of the Central Bank in Taiwan. During his tenure, he was responsible for the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, and was widely recognized for achieving stability and economic growth. In his long and distinguished career as economist and development specialist, he held key positions in multilateral institutions including the Asian Development Bank, where as founding Director, he was instrumental in advancing the green revolution and in the transformation of rural Asia. Read more about Dr. Hsieh.

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This appearance by Ellen Ochoa is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Subscribe to our eCorner YouTube channel, where we bring founders, investors and industry influencers to center stage and invite them to share what it takes to become a disruptor.

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Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe, M.A., Ph.D., earned her doctorate in Yoga Philosophy from the Graduate Theological Union. Her dissertation, In Search of Sleep: A Comprehensive Study of Yoga Philosophy, Therapeutic Practice, and Improving Sleep in Higher Education, examines the integration of contemplative practices within university settings. She joined the Stanford community in Spring 2024, where she has taught Sleep for Peak Performance and Meditation through Stanford Living Education (SLED), and currently teaches Yoga for Stress Management in the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER). Dr. Ivanhoe is the Founding Director Emeritus of YogaUSC and previously lectured in USC’s Mind–Body Department, where she also served on faculty wellness boards. A practitioner and educator since 1995, she has completed three 500-hour teacher training programs. She has served as the Yoga Spokesperson for Weight Watchers: Yoga, Yoga for Dummies, and Crunch: Yoga, and was the yoga columnist for Health magazine for three years. Her work has appeared in nearly every major yoga and wellness publication. In 2018, she co-created Just Breathe, a yoga, breathwork, and meditation initiative in partnership with Oprah Magazine. She is a recipient of USC’s Sustainability Across the Curriculumgrant and the Paul Podvin Scholarship from the Graduate Theological Union. She currently serves as Interim Director of Events and Operations in Stanford’s Office for Religious and Spiritual Life, where she also teaches weekly contemplative practice classes.

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RSVP HERE for Medical Humanities Workshop Event

Zoom Link: Sent after completion of registration -- immediately before start of event

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We will do our best to accommodate all RSVP requests, however we cannot guarantee:

Consideration of food preferences for in-person RSVPs submitted after 9am the day before the event (Tuesday) Zoom requests submitted after 3pm on the day of the event
For questions, please contact the graduate co-chairs:

Kelsey Clough (kclough@stanford.edu) or Luo Jia (luojia@stanford.edu)

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About Gary Shteyngart: The author of Super Sad True Love Story and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Gary Shteyngart wins over readers and audiences with his blistering humor, his satirical takedowns of contemporary society, and his compassionate examination of modern love and loss. His newest book, Vera, or Faith, is a poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter. It demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of The New York Times, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers. For more information on the speaker, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.

About Molly Antopol: Professor Antopol's first book, The UnAmericans, won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award and France’s French-American Prize. The book was a longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the California Book Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, among others. Her debut novel, Saturn, is forthcoming next year from Norton.

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Written & Directed by TAPS Graduate Student Lucas Baisch.

ABOUT 404 NOT FOUND
We find ourselves at the back of a clay building that signals ‘stay away, stay awake.’ Slack has a bad habit of holding people captive. Now he’s the one shackled to a metal grate. Ro makes ends meet via drag-play for a truck-stop benefactor. She leverages her wages to travel down the neck of the Americas, making herself invisible along the way. Her cousin Cameo retreats to La Barranca, a digital landscape of his own invention, where he encrypts documentation for asylum-seekers. A twisting, twisted work of mischief and despair netted in kidnap, virtual utopias, upended borders, and Freddy Krueger cosplay.

404 Not Found has been developed with The Kennedy Center (2020), New Dramatists (2022), and the Magic Theatre (2025). It is available for purchase through 53rd State Press.

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Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Imperial Liquor (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), Darktown Follies (Tupelo Press, 2013), and Red Summer (Tupelo 2006). Born and raised in Compton, California, educated at Howard University and Cornell University, his honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Edna Meudt Poetry Award, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Stanford, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Academy of American Poets, Furious Flower, andBest American Poetry. He currently teaches at Pomona College, where he is the Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English.

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Open to Faculty, Students. Attendance is limited to 100 executives at VP-level and above from organizations with significant frontline workforces, plus 25 Stanford faculty and students. Registration closes April 1st or when capacity is reached.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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Together we’ll explore ways to navigate academic and professional stress, manage anxiety, reflect on identity-related experiences, and address impostor feelings- along with other student-led topics. The group also fosters moments of joy and connection as part of the healing process.

This group is held on Thursdays 8:30-9:30 AM, starting April 16, 2026. Meeting dates for spring quarter are 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, and 5/21. Sessions are both virtual and in-person. In-person dates are 4/23, 5/7, and 5/21.

A meeting with a facilitator is required to join this group. You can sign up on the on "*INTEREST_LIST_SOM_Students_of_Color_GROUP_SPRING_Q" on the Vaden Portal rosters, in the "Groups and Workshops" section. A facilitator will reach out to you to schedule a pre-group meeting.

Open to all registered BioSci PhD/MS, MSPA, and MD students in the School of Medicine.Facilitated by Isela Garcia White, LCSW and Mariko Sweetnam, LCSW

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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An interdisciplinary panel will investigate how gender both shapes and is shaped by AI Speakers will discuss how AI “learns” gender and replicates gender biases and norms, as well as the implications. The conversation will also explore alternative approaches for gender-equitable and transformative technologies, moving toward feminist AI futures.

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Speakers Include:

Angèle Christin is an associate professor of communication (and, by courtesy, sociology), Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Fellow, and HAI senior fellow at Stanford University, and a former faculty fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her research examines the social and cultural impact of digital technologies and AI through qualitative studies of professional sites transformed by digitization, computation, and automation, with a longstanding interest in AI ethics — including how ethical, accountable, and safe AI discourse emerged in Silicon Valley and the contradictions shaping "ethics entrepreneurs" in tech.

Her forthcoming book, Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2026), examines how platforms, brands, and audiences reproduce precarity and inequality in social media careers. Her award-winning book, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020), analyzed how journalists in U.S. and French newsrooms made sense of traffic numbers in distinct ways, shaping the news differently across the two countries. Her research spans additional sites including U.S. and French criminal courts, the ethics of predictive algorithms, and most recently, how astrophysicists and astronomers use AI for scientific discovery. At Stanford, she leads the Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series. She serves as co-editor of the Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology at Princeton University Press.

Catherine D’Ignazio is a hacker mama, scholar, and artist/designer who focuses on feminist technology, data justice, and civic engagement. She has run women’s health hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea-level rise. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her second book, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press, 2024) is an extended case study about grassroots data activism to end gender-related violence. D’Ignazio is an associate professor of urban science and planning at MIT, where she is the director of the Data + Feminism Lab, which uses data and computational methods to work toward gender and racial equity.

Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in Big Data & Society, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of ACM SIGCHI and ACM FAccT. Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org, and the Knight Foundation and have been exhibited at the Venice Bienniale and the ICA Boston.

Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at UCLA. She currently serves as a director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus.

Noble is the author of the best-selling book on algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her groundbreaking work on algorithmic discrimination.

Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment, and provides expertise to a number of civil and human rights organizations. She is a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, where she is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient.

Moderated by Genevieve Smith, Clayman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Smith completed her doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in September 2025, where she studied gender impacts of artificial intelligence in low- and middle-income countries. Smith founded the Responsible AI Initiative at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab and teaches at U.C. Berkeley on responsible AI She is a research affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at Cambridge University and at the Technology & Management Centre for Development at University of Oxford. Smith was recently the Responsible AI Fellow at the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to her doctoral work, Smith spent over a decade researching and working on topics of economic empowerment and inclusive technology with U.N. Women, the U.N. Foundation, and the International Center for Research on Women. She is driven by a commitment to critically examine impacts of AI on society, particularly related to gender, and explore alternative, equitable tech futures.

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This event will take place on Zoom and feature a conversation with Dr. Jamil Hasanli.

Dr. Jamil Hasanli is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (SAS) of the University of London. He was advisor to the president of Azerbaijan in 1993 and served two terms as a Member of Parliament of Azerbaijan in 2000-2010. In 2013, he was a candidate for the presidential election, representing the united opposition. Professor Hasanli was a History and Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2011, and 2020. He received the 2015 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 2016-2017 he was scholar at the Cold War Center at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Dr. Hasanli is the author of several books published in Azerbaijan, Russia, USA, UK, Turkey, Iran, Hong Kong (China) and other countries. Fouг of his monographs were published in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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In this empowering and practical webinar, you will learn four clear steps to begin reducing your debt and gain tools to organize your budget with confidence. We will also explore how to estimate how much you may need for retirement and how these pieces fit together to support your long-term financial well-being.

Designed with women’s unique goals and experiences in mind, this session will guide you through creating a personalized financial plan that reflects your priorities and values. You will take away clarity, confidence, and actionable steps to help you move forward with intention.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points - at least 80% of the live session. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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The Black Staff Alliance and the Faculty Staff Help Center extend the theme of wellness throughout the year with the offering of monthly, mental wellness drop-in groups that center the experiences of faculty, staff, retirees, and postdocs. This group aims to create a welcoming and inclusive space for employees of Stanford to share their experiences, strengths, and hope in managing some of the unique stressors of being Black. Join us as we discuss historical contexts of mental wellness in the community, systems of continued support and resources, and how to implement all of this. This group is open, and we encourage participation from all faculty, staff, retirees, and postdocs.

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May 14, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Y2E2, Room 299

Geeta Persad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin

“Climate Risk in a World of Rapidly Evolving Human Emissions”

Abstract
Addressing climate change and achieving cleaner air are two paramount—and intimately interlinked—challenges. The human health impacts of poor air quality make reducing aerosol pollution an imperative. With this, though, has come the removal and redistribution of aerosols’ unique climate effects. At the same time, the increased exposure of human systems is creating demand for impact-tailored characterization of climate change that is outpacing scientific understanding, particularly for aerosol-driven change. In this talk, I will highlight our recent work demonstrating how the shifting geography of aerosol emissions forces a reevaluation of historical attribution and near-term risks and lay out a roadmap for impact-tailored analysis that can both revolutionize our understanding of the climate system and build a much-needed bridge between scientific theory and real-world decision-making in the face of rapidly evolving human emissions.

Biography
Dr. Geeta Persad is an Assistant Professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where she leads a research team focused on mapping climate risks from our changing global mix of air pollution. Previously, she led science for the Western Water and Climate program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and conducted research on air pollution and climate change at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and the Carnegie Institution for Science. Dr. Persad holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, where she was also a Ford Environmental Policy Fellow, and a B.S. in Geophysics from Stanford University. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award, and in 2021 she was named one of eight Generation Climate Leaders by the Environmental Defense Fund. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, National Geographic, Nature Magazine, and NPR.

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Speaker-suggested reading: Maximum size and magnitude of injection-induced slow slip events, A. Sáez, F. Passelègue, and B. Lecampion, Science Advances, 11(19), May 2025. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq0662

Brice Lecampion is currently Associate Professor and the head of the Geo-Energy Lab at EPFL, Switzerland. His research aims at understanding the interplay between the growth of localized discontinuities (in the form of fractures and faults) and fluid flow in geomaterials with applications in the field of environmental, civil & resources engineering, and earth sciences at large. Prior to joining EPFL, Brice worked for Schlumberger in research and development from 2006 until May 2015 - serving in a variety of roles ranging from project manager to principal scientist in both Europe and the United States, working on CO2 storage as well as unconventional hydrocarbon well stimulation. Dr Lecampion received his PhD in mechanics from Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2002 and worked as a research scientist in the hydraulic fracturing research group of CSIRO division of Petroleum resources (Melbourne, Australia) from 2003 to 2006.

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Speaker: Eunkyeong Lee is a health economist and health policy researcher at the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), and a Visiting Scholar in the Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on health policy, with particular interests in policy evaluation, population aging, public health, and improving the efficiency of healthcare expenditure. Her academic work has been published in Applied Economics and Korean peer-reviewed journals. At Stanford, she examines the effects of long-term care insurance (LTCI) and dementia-related policy changes on healthcare utilization and costs in South Korea.

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Hosted by: Michelle James, PhD
Sponsored by: Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford & the Department of Radiology

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Michael Albertus is a CDDRL Visiting Scholar and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His research examines democracy and dictatorship, inequality and redistribution, property rights, and civil conflict. He has authored five books and over thirty peer-reviewed articles. His most recent book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, published by Basic Books in 2025, examines how land became power, how it shapes power, and how who holds that power determines the fundamental social problems that societies grapple with. Albertus' work has also been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Economics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and elsewhere.

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Beyond the inherited CAG: Decoding a neuronal-selective pathogenic cascade in Huntington's diseaseAbstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene, and disease onset as well as clinical progression are modified by multiple GWAS loci enriched for DNA repair genes, including multiple mismatch repair (MMR) genes and FAN1. Here, I will present a series of studies—primarily using mouse genetic models of HD—to illustrate key pathogenic steps that lead to selective pathogenesis of the striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs), the most vulnerable neuronal cell types in HD. Our studies show that a subset of HD GWAS/MMR genes (i.e.., Msh3 and Pms1) are key drivers of somatic CAG repeat expansion in the endogenous murine mutant huntingtin (mHtt), with MSNs showing the fastest rates of expansion. Consequently, these mice display somatic repeat length– and threshold-dependent, molecular and pathological phenotypes. Downstream of somatic repeat expansion, polyglutamine (polyQ)-expanded mHtt species accumulate in the nuclei of affected neurons, where they elicit proteotoxicity leading to profound chromatin defects. The latter include erosion of epigenomic signatures of MSN identity. Together, our studies reveal distinct pathogenic steps in HD pathogenesis and provide new insights and model platforms to develop therapies.

X. William Yang, MD, PhD Professor and Terry Semel Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatment
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles
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Dr. X. William Yang completed his undergraduate education at Yale University, earning combined B.S./M.S. degrees from the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1991 (Mentor: Joan A. Steitz). He then pursued M.D./Ph.D. training at Rockefeller University (Ph.D., 1998; mentor: Nathaniel Heintz) and Weill Medical College of Cornell University (M.D., 2000). He completed his internship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and is a licensed physician. Dr. Yang co-invented a powerful mouse genetic technology to engineer Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) and generate BAC transgenic mice. His laboratory has pioneered the development of BAC transgenic mouse models for human neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s diseases, leading to the discovery of novel disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets. The Yang lab has also applied novel genetic and systems biology approaches to decipher molecular networks in HD and AD. Importantly, they identified two genes (Msh3 and Pms1) in a distinct mismatch repair complex as key drivers of somatic CAG-repeat expansion and selective neuronal pathogenesis in HD. The lab also investigates basal ganglia circuitry in normal and pathological behaviors. They developed MORF mice for sparse, stochastic, and extremely bright labeling of single neurons and a pipeline for brain-wide mapping of dendritic morphology in genetically defined neuronal types (“dendritome mapping”). Dr. Yang is a recipient of three NIH BRAIN Initiative awards, the McKnight Foundation’s Brain Disorder Award, and the HDF’s 2014 Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize for Innovation in Science. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and serves as an associate editor for Molecular Neurodegeneration and the Co-Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Abstract: Embedded 3D printing is a versatile platform for fabricating soft matter, but its dominant paradigm - a single nozzle depositing a single material along a single path - is ill suited for branching architectures and high-throughput manufacturing and materials exploration. Branched architectures like vascular trees require repeated stops, revisits, and non-printing travel, which introduces disconnections that compromise fidelity and perfusability. Multinozzles exist in parallelizing throughput, however, existing designs are bulky, static, and constrained to extruding the same material through every tip. Furthermore, exploring material design spaces for soft matter often requires printing and testing dozens of formulations, each of which are prepared serially. In this thesis, I develop two multinozzle platforms that overcome these limits along two themes: geometric programmability, and compositional programmability.

Part one presents high-throughput dendritic robotic actuator (HYDRA), a shape-morphing dendritic printhead that deploys nested generations of nested generations of pre-curved nitinol tubes that dynamically splay and converge during a print, drawing on mechanics of concentric tube robots. Trifurcating (3²=9 terminal branches) and bifurcating (2³=8 terminal branches) designs achieve 0.3 mm of tip placement repeatability, with trifurcating achieving 99% fabrication efficiency versus 52% for single-nozzle strategies. I demonstrate HYDRA across three matrices, sacrificial writing into into HEK293-laden hydrogels, cardiac organoid fibrin constructs, and endotheliazable hierarchical channels in gelatin granular matrices producing connected vascular trees within engineered tissue and tissue-like constructs, and specifically in occluded spaces like molds.

Part two extends the gradient embedded multinozzle (GEM) printhead platform, previously developed in our lab, to three- and four-input combinatorial mixing through microfluidic-inspired Baker’s Map mixing elements that distribute mixed outputs across a parallel nozzle array. I derive both scaling and mixing theory governing GEM design - relating input number and outlet nozzle count and predicting the compositional blends achieved, and contextualize experimental results with modifications to the theory. Furthermore, using a three-way GEM Nozzle, I printed 10 compositions of di- and multi-functionalized poly(ethylene-glycol) diacrylate hydrogel tri-leaflet valves, optimizing over stiffness, swelling ratio, tensile strength, and toughness, and ultimately testing an optimal blend in an in-vitro heart simulator. These GEM multinozzles are compatible with either pressure- or volume-driven extrusion systems, and compresses the ink-formulation cycle from sequential to parallel.

Together, HYDRA and GEM reframe the multinozzle as an active, programmable instrument, rather than a passive manifold, advancing embedded 3D printing for soft matter towards scalable manufacturing and high-throughput materials exploration.

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Please ensure R and RStudio are installed on your computer before the workshop. You can download both here: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

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This launch event will bring together senior policymakers, scholars, and practitioners for a full-day program on the most pressing strategic questions facing the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific. Through panel discussions and keynote conversation, participants will examine U.S. national security strategy toward China, the implications of deepening China-Russia alignment, and the broader global consequences of China’s expanding power and partnerships. In bringing these conversations together, the program will reflect the lab’s mission to connect rigorous academic research with urgent policy challenges and strengthen ties between academia and the broader policy community.

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You Are Here is an exhibition that explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. A transportation system can become synonymous with a city or nation, reflecting its change over time, spearheading cartographic innocations, or reifying an entirely new vision for space and place. The individual maps in the exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole.

Curated by the winner of the California Map Society Student Exhibition Competition Jayne Kilander, will be on view through Friday, August 21, 2026. It is also available to view digitally.

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During the Obama Administration, he served as the Chief Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he proposed and then co-led the development of the United States Government’s social cost of carbon. He is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Carnegie Fellow (aka the “Brainy Award”), and a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Formerly, Greenstone was the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT and directed The Hamilton Project.

Greenstone’s research, which has influenced policy in the United States and globally, is focused on the global energy challenge that requires all societies to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable energy, protection of the public’s health from air pollution, and minimizing the damages from climate change. Recently, his research has helped lead to the United States Government quadrupling its estimate of the damages from climate change, the adoption of pollution markets in India, and the use of machine learning techniques to target environmental inspections. As a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change. He created the Air Quality Life Index® that converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy and co-founded Climate Vault, a 501(c)(3) that uses markets to allow institutions and people to reduce their carbon footprint and foster innovation in carbon dioxide removal.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

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If you’re enrolled this fall quarter, located inside the state of California, and in the process of writing (whether you are just starting, or approaching completion) please consider signing up.

Ideal for students who have already begun the dissertation writing process. All enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. A group facilitator may contact you for a pre-group meeting prior to participation in Dissertation Support space.

Facilitated by Cierra Whatley, PhD & Angela Estrella on Thursdays at 3pm-4pm; 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28; virtualJoin at any point in the Quarter. Sign up on the Graduate Life Office roster through this link.

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Abstract: What does it mean to exist and produce knowledge from what Sylvia Wynter terms the “demonic ground”—the constitutive outside of Western humanism? I argue that Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women transform this position of structural exclusion into a generative site of knowledge production, forging modes of knowing that fracture inherited grammars of race, gender, and the human while opening new possibilities for collective life. Bridging literary studies, visual art, performance, and Afro-diasporic philosophy, I propose epistemological marronage as a critical, interdisciplinary framework for understanding contemporary Black cultural production. I conceptualize epistemological marronage as a radical disengagement from systems of thought structured by coloniality and Eurocentric imaginaries—what I term the epistemological plantation. In tandem, I introduce paraontological self-birth to describe the processes through which Black women refuse imposed identities and invent themselves otherwise, beyond the limits of the human as currently defined. Drawing on Wynter’s theorization of the demonic ground and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s concept of blacklight, I show how archival absence, ancestral memory, and enfleshed experience converge to contest epistemic authority and reconfigure the conditions of intelligibility. In doing so, these practices articulate new configurations of the human that are diasporic, relational, and open-ended. At a moment when extractive capitalism, colonial afterlives, and the weaponization of knowledge aggressively coalesce to foreclose livable futures, these practices emerge as vital intellectual resources, inviting us to rethink the boundaries of the human and to imagine, with renewed urgency, more just and sustainable ways of inhabiting the world. Speaker bio: Odette Casamayor-Cisneros is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose work brings cultural analysis into dialogue with Black feminist thought, critical race theory, and the literary, visual, and performance arts. A Cuban-born scholar, writer, and art critic, she examines Afro-diasporic epistemologies and cultural practices across Latin America and the Caribbean, foregrounding lived experience, embodied memory, and creative expression as vital modes of theorization. Her transdisciplinary approach advances hemispheric understandings of Black cultural production and political imagination. She is the author of Utopía, distopía e ingravidez, a study of post-Soviet Cuban literature, and Una casa en los Catskills, a short story collection exploring displacement, intimacy, and belonging. Her forthcoming experimental memoir, In Black Ink: Writings from the Flesh of a Black Cuban Woman, offers an intimate meditation on Black womanhood and diasporic identity. Her work has received recognition, including awards from Radio France Internationale and the Cuban Writers and Artists Union, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, UNESCO, the Collegium Helveticum, and Harvard University. RSVP for the Race and Gender in the Global Hispanophone talk with Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

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This virtual Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group is a quarter-long workshop-style group on how to identify and work with intense emotions.

DBT addresses skills to understand and regulate emotion, tolerate distress, and be more effective in interpersonal concerns. Each group includes mindfulness practice.

This group will meet virtually in the Spring Quarter 2026 on 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, and 5/28. As a series, members are expected to attend all 6 sessions.A meeting with a facilitator is required before participation in this group. Please sign up on the Vaden portal rosters, and under Groups and Workshops find "INTEREST_LIST_WISE_MIND_VIRTUAL_SPRING_Q." Facilitated by Jade Seto, PhDAll enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. Please contact CAPS at (650) 723-3785 to schedule a pre-group meeting with the facilitators or sign up on the portal as instructed above.

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This salon will feature Michael Rau, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies; Patrick R. Crowley, Associate Curator of European Art, Cantor Arts Center; E’jaaz A. Mason, Lecturer in Earth Systems; and Kerri Conlon, Lecturer in Art and Art History. Presentations will include slides, talks, and an opportunity for hands-on making.

Presenter Bios

Michael Rau is a live performance director specializing in new plays, opera, and digital media projects. He has directed projects in Germany, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Australia and the Czech Republic, and in NYC at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Ars Nova, and The Bushwick Starr. His production of "temping" was selected by the Guardian and the Telegraph as one of the best productions of the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the piece was featured twice in New York Times. In the US, his work has been seen at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. His work with composer Kate Soper has been performed at the Seattle Symphony and The New York Philharmonic. He has developed new plays at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights Realm and the Kennedy Center. He is a recipient of a 2021 Artists + Machine Intelligence Research Award from Google, as well as fellowships from the Kennedy Center, the Orchard Project and Akademie für Theater und Digitalität. Rau is a Forward/Story fellow and a speaker at Ars Electronica, Books in Browsers, Performing Robots and StoryCode. He has been an assistant director for Francesca Zambello, John Turturro, Robert Woodruff and an associate director for Anne Bogart, Les Waters, and Ivo Van Hove. He is a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. At Stanford University, he is an Assistant Professor of Directing and Devising in the Theater and Performance Studies Department and he is an affiliate faculty member with the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence. MFA: Columbia University.

Patrick R. Crowley joined the Cantor Arts Center in 2020 and oversees the department of European art from antiquity through 1900. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Patrick is a historian of Roman art and visual culture and its afterlives in European classicisms, specializing in Roman portraiture, funerary art, and decorative arts, especially in precious stone. His research spans a broad range of questions about media, materiality, and the historical silences that imperceptibly, yet powerfully frame the ways in which we access the ancient past through its visual, material, and discursive residue. Patrick’s first book, The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2019), explores how the figure of the ghost makes visible ancient concepts of representation, conditions of visibility, and modes of embodiment. His second book project, Roman Portraiture: A Media Archaeology, grows out of his interests in the technical procedures of molding and casting, as well as the historical intersections between documentary photography and the production of knowledge in classical archaeology. His research has been generously supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Getty Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He holds a PhD in art history and archaeology from Columbia University.

E’jaaz A. Mason is a Lecturer in Earth Systems at Stanford University teaching courses about community-engaged multimedia environmental storytelling. He is also the Co-Founder of Lede New Orleans, a nonprofit fostering community engagement and young adult media production training. A filmmaker, educator, and community engagement specialist, Mason was a member of the 2023-2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford. From 2015 to 2020, he taught film and digital media in New Orleans public high schools, founding an award-winning film program at New Orleans Charter Math & Science High School. Mason has received numerous awards for his work in youth education. He was a cinematographer for the 2022 HBO/Time Studios documentary Katrina Babies and is the Story and Impact Producer for the 2025 documentary The River. He is also directing two documentary films: Black Suit: Sewing [Her]story, which highlights the importance of Black women in New Orleans’ Black Masking Indian culture and an untitled film about environmental and societal challenges facing residents of the Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood in San Francisco.

Kerri Conlon is an artist and educator living and working in San Francisco, CA. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Her large-scale sculptural installations fuse the ornamental with the structural to explore the intersections of construction, both architectural and cultural, investigating how identity and space are shaped by structures that are at once physical and ideological. She has exhibited nationally, with recent solo exhibitions including Upholding at Bass and Reiner in San Francisco, CA, and Throughway at Cube Space Gallery in Berkeley, CA. Her work has also been shown in New York, NY; Providence, RI; and Ferguson, MO. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Lighthouse Works Fellowship (2023) and the Fannie B. Pardee Prize for Excellence in Sculpture (2019). Conlon is currently a Lecturer in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She is also the co-founder of Hunt Projects, a shared studio space in San Francisco that provides artists with private studios and a communal wood and metal shop for material exploration and dialogue. She has managed and taught in academic shop spaces since 2007, teaching students the conceptual and technical skills necessary to translate ideas into physical form. She believes that making is a way of knowing and fosters agency in students through hands-on engagement with materials and processes. She continues to expand the impact of her work through immersive installations and a growing interest in public sculpture, using art to challenge and reimagine the built environment.

​All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for admission, but walk-ins are very welcome if space allows! RSVP here.

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News media have undergone massive change in recent decades. A variety of new information platforms have emerged, while traditional news outlets have at times struggled to make the transition into a digital-native era. These developments have been particularly acute at the local level, where many Americans now live in “news deserts.” Our eminent panelists will discuss how these developments have fundamentally altered American politics, including regional disparities in representation, the accountability of government officials, and electoral campaigns. Additionally, we will consider how the changes have shaped journalists’ responsibilities and media innovations.

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Built in 2018 specifically to house Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Denning House provides an inspiring venue for scholars, staff, and visitors, and a magnificent setting for art. A gift from Roberta Bowman Denning, '75, MBA '78, and Steve Denning, MBA '78, made the building possible. Read more about Denning House in Stanford News.

Tour size is limited. Registration is required to attend a tour of Denning House.

Note: Most parking at Stanford is free of charge after 4 pm. Denning House is in box J6 on the Stanford Parking Map. Please see Stanford Parking for more information on visitor parking at Stanford. Tours last approximately 30 minutes.

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In his book "City of Wood," architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote redwood forest and its urban core of San Francisco as two poles of a regional “city.” Buckley shows how the metropolis and the forest were connected within a far-reaching network of spaces that company owners and workers produced as they arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment.

James Michael Buckley is an urban planner and historian in San Francisco, CA. Jim holds a Master’s degree in urban planning and a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and he has taught planning and historic preservation at UC Berkeley, MIT, and the University of Oregon.

Join us for an engaging lecture and discussion that sheds new light on the environmental and urban history of California.

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In this seminar series, physicians, public health personnel, policy makers, and other specialists working in conflict zones will discuss some of the more prominent issues within humanitarian medicine today.

The first session will focus on the current state of humanitarian medicine, highlighting the experience in Gaza with experts who have worked in this space on the ground and in the academic setting.

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4:45-5:30PM: Light Appetizers and Activities

5:30-6:45PM: Panel Discussion

6:45-8:00 PM: Reception with Panelists, Students, and Faculty

Please RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl5lEvKOsrW6BXG-w6mGonp3w1ESc8lWQYJIBegX_tRGdi4Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=118430802604839889829

This event is organized by Stanford Rural Engagement Network with support from the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the Haas Center for Public Service, Energy Club, ePluribus, and Explore Energy House.

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This presentation is part of the monthly Diabetes Wellness Group webinar series from the Stanford Medicine Diabetes Care Program. Webinars are free and open to adults with diabetes and their families. You don’t need to be a Stanford patient to join.

Kristina Schmidt, PharmD, MS, BC-ADM, CDCES, is a clinical pharmacist and certified diabetes care and education specialist at Stanford Health Care.

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Abstract:

In this talk, cognate to her book in progress, Dr. Brioso Rieumont explores slavery as a formation that extends beyond the limits of life. Organized as two meditations—on the body of the enslaver and the body of the enslaved—it situates these figures as sites of the temporal and material extensions of slavery. The first movement turns to metaphysical and legal considerations of the unborn through debates surrounding gradual emancipation and the 1871 Free Womb Law in Brazil. The second turns to the remains of the formerly enslaved, tracing economic arguments shaped by the illegal slave trade and high mortality rates in nineteenth-century Cuba. In dialogue with two masterpieces of Latin American literature—Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) and Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés or El Ángel Hill (1882)—she analyzes how literary form registers an edge where legal and economic regimes fail.

Our Speaker:

Ingrid Brioso Rieumont (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, working at the intersection of transatlantic slavery, literary criticism, and philosophy, with a focus on the Hispanophone Caribbean and Brazil. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, Cuban Studies, Revista Casa de las Américas, and Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada.

RSVP for the Bioso Rieumont talk

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Open to Stanford Affiliates. Free, no pre-registration is required.

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Queer Yoga 🌈☀️

Join the Weiland Health Initiative in a queer community space of movement to not only move, but to be moved! All bodies and identities are welcome! This class will be for all levels of yoga experience and will provide variations for poses and props to meet ALL body needs. Potential things needed: a willingness to let your intuition guide your movements :) We have extra mats, blocks, straps, and blankets to borrow!

Thursdays 5:30-6:30 PM during weeks 4-9!

We will be outside Kingscote Gardens, by the water fountain facing Denning House, weather permitting!

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Written & Directed by TAPS Graduate Student Lucas Baisch.

ABOUT 404 NOT FOUND
We find ourselves at the back of a clay building that signals ‘stay away, stay awake.’ Slack has a bad habit of holding people captive. Now he’s the one shackled to a metal grate. Ro makes ends meet via drag-play for a truck-stop benefactor. She leverages her wages to travel down the neck of the Americas, making herself invisible along the way. Her cousin Cameo retreats to La Barranca, a digital landscape of his own invention, where he encrypts documentation for asylum-seekers. A twisting, twisted work of mischief and despair netted in kidnap, virtual utopias, upended borders, and Freddy Krueger cosplay.

404 Not Found has been developed with The Kennedy Center (2020), New Dramatists (2022), and the Magic Theatre (2025). It is available for purchase through 53rd State Press.

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All films submitted for the 14th annual Poetry Into Film Contest will be screened. Awards for Best Director, Best Sound, Best Original Poem, Best Adaptation, Jury Award, and "El Palo Alto" Award will be recognized.

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required; register here.

No personal recordings (audio or visual) are allowed. By attending, you consent for your image to be used for Stanford-related promotions and materials. If you have any questions, please contact ethics-center@stanford.edu

If you require disability-related accommodation, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu as soon as possible or at least 7 business days in advance of the event.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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In the 2025–2026 academic year, Branner Library’s exhibit series will explore Earth’s oceans’ complex biological and ecological systems that regulate climate and support life.

May’s exhibition explores the vital chemical processes that shape our marine environments, highlighting the ocean's role in regulating global climate and driving biogeochemical cycling.

Featured works delve into the fundamental chemistry of seawater, hydrothermal circulation, and the complex, evolving carbon cycle.This collection brings together scientific research that illuminates the complex, changing, and essential nature of ocean chemistry.

The exhibit is available for viewing Monday through Friday during regular library open hours.

Check out past exhibits and subscribe to the Branner Library Newsletter.

A current Stanford ID is needed to enter the library, visitors must present a valid, physical government-issued photo ID to sign-in at the front desk.

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Starting on Friday, May 1st, The Gear Hub will be
selling gear hub items for 20% off at the Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation.

SUID card and form of payment (credit card, debit, or ApplePay) is required at time of purchase.

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This program will be ongoing, so we will be accepting responses on a rolling basis. Fill out this form to register.

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The Art of Science Competition is a campus wide event to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of science. Last year we received nearly 100 submissions representing more than 40 departments across the university, encompassing the schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Sustainability, and Engineering. Join us to celebrate the 15th Art of Science this year!

An exhibition showcasing the best submissions will take place in Spring Quarter, opening on May 15th from 4 - 7 pm in the Huang Foyer. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 28th at 11:59 pm. We will award monetary prizes to the best submissions as determined by an independent panel of judges as well as a popular vote.

Check out prior years work: https://mrs.groups.stanford.edu/art-science

Submission form: tinyurl.com/aos2026

Submission guidelines:

All members of the Stanford community are invited to submit, and multiple submissions are allowed. Alumni are also allowed to submit. The focus of this competition is art, and thus the aesthetic rather than scientific quality of the image is key. Creativity and uniqueness will be considered favorably. Images produced in the process of performing research, such as photographs, micrographs, and simulation results, as well as art inspired by science, are gladly accepted. Lastly, think outside the box - every year we receive amazing paintings, mixed media and audio/visual works. All submissions should be made through the link above.

Questions? Contact: racrusso@stanford.edu and darshanm@stanford.edu

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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We kindly request that you register here in advance. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

The full day's agenda can be accessed here. The conference will close with a keynote address — "History and Nostalgia under Constitutional Breakdown" — delivered by Professor Aziz Rana (Boston College Law).

Legal History in Times of Crisis
Our contemporary world is in crisis—on this much, there is widespread agreement. But the nature, scope, and causes of our present crisis—indeed, crises—are subject to fierce debate, whether they be crises of democracy, technology, the rule of law, capitalism, public information and knowledge, local ecology, or global climate. Crisis is, at its roots, a historical concept, deriving from the Greek krisis: a turning point. The conference will bring together scholars of law and history to examine crises of the past across time periods and geographies, focusing, in particular, on political, economic, and environmental turning points. Topics spanning these three modes of crisis include: turbulent transitions and periods of marked instability, uncertainty, and/or violence; inequalities in the social distribution of crisis; perceptions of crisis; systems and institutions prone to crisis; typologies of crisis; seedbeds for future crises; generative possibilities of crisis; and the utility of history in times of crisis—that is, what good is history during a crisis?

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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You Are Here is an exhibition that explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. A transportation system can become synonymous with a city or nation, reflecting its change over time, spearheading cartographic innocations, or reifying an entirely new vision for space and place. The individual maps in the exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole.

Curated by the winner of the California Map Society Student Exhibition Competition Jayne Kilander, will be on view through Friday, August 21, 2026. It is also available to view digitally.

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This launch event will bring together senior policymakers, scholars, and practitioners for a full-day program on the most pressing strategic questions facing the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific. Through panel discussions and keynote conversation, participants will examine U.S. national security strategy toward China, the implications of deepening China-Russia alignment, and the broader global consequences of China’s expanding power and partnerships. In bringing these conversations together, the program will reflect the lab’s mission to connect rigorous academic research with urgent policy challenges and strengthen ties between academia and the broader policy community.

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You are invited to TETHICON 2026: Tech & Ethics Student Research Conference!

This one-day event brings together students, faculty, and industry professionals to engage in thought-provoking discussions and deep dives into critical topics related to technology’s influence on society, such as policy, privacy, and creativity. See brand new original research from students in the Bay Area, hear from tech ethics researchers in industry and academia, and meet with others working in the field of technology and ethics.

Agenda

10:30–10:50 am | Registration & Coffee

10:50–11:00 am | Opening Remarks

11:00–12:00 pm | Invited Panel: Tech Ethics in Practice

An expert discussion on tech ethics research in the age of AI

12:15–1:00 pm | Lunch Keynote: Chloé Bakalar, AI Ethics Lead at OpenAI

Chloé Bakalar is the AI ethics lead and a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, where she focuses on advancing applied approaches to responsible, ethics-informed AI development and deployment. She was previously the chief ethicist at Meta, where she worked from 2019 to 2025. Drawing on years of experience embedding ethics into large-scale AI systems, her keynote will explore how tech ethics research translates into industry practice.

1:15–2:15 pm | Research Lightning Talks

Students will present research on AI policy, ethics, and society — covering topics including state and federal AI legislation, AI in mental healthcare and clinical decision-making, algorithmic surveillance, ethics education in CS, digital language inclusion, synthetic biology, and AI governance in academic libraries.

2:15–4:15 pm | Research Poster Presentations

Featured topics include: AI bias, accountability, and governance; ethics in CS education; clinical AI tools; surveillance and civil liberties; consumer technology; and more.

4:15–5:00 | Boba and Breakouts

Register by Tuesday, May 12 to receive a printed nametag.

This event will have a photographer present to document the event. No personal recordings (audio or visual) are allowed. By attending, you consent for your image to be used for Stanford-related promotions and materials. If you have any questions, please contact ethics-center@stanford.edu.

If you require disability-related accommodation, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu as soon as possible or at least 7 business days in advance of the event.

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Learn more about the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

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Two events in spring will be hosted in-person only, and one event will be held online.

This series is part of AI meets Education at Stanford (AIMES), a VPUE effort to catalyze and support critical engagement with generative AI in Stanford teaching and learning contexts, coordinated by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Register separately for each session by clicking the date below:

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 1:30–3 p.m. Featuring:

Amit Kaushal, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Stanford/VA) and Adjunct Professor of BioengineeringKalee Tock, Sr. Science Instructor, Stanford Online High SchoolNissa Cannon, Lecturer, Program in Writing and RhetoricIn-person only at 408 Panama Mall, CTL Meeting Space (Room 116)

Monday, May 11, 2026, 1:30–3 p.m. Featuring:

Sho Takatori, Associate Professor, Chemical EngineeringAriel Stilerman, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and CulturesShima Salehi, Assistant Professor, EducationIn-person only at 408 Panama Mall, CTL Meeting Space (Room 116)

Friday, May 15, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12 noon. Featuring:

Jessica Feldman, Professor, Biology & Waheeda Khalfan, Lecturer, BiologyFaye-Marie Vassel, Research Fellow, Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)Sarah Levine, Director, Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET)Online only on Zoom: register for Zoom link

If you need accommodation or have questions, please contact Kenji Ikemoto at AcademicTechnology@stanford.edu.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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Tours are held every Friday* starting at 11 AM. Please meet in front of the church before the tour starts.

For large groups (more than 10 attendees), please notify us at stanfordorsl@stanford.edu at least 14 days in advance if you would like to attend our Friday 11:00 am tour so that we may schedule an additional docent. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate tour requests of any size outside of our regular Friday tour time. Your group is welcome to visit Memorial Church during open hours, Monday-Thursday 9:00 am-4:00 pm and Friday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.

*Tours are not held on University holidays, during church services, and during Winter Closure.

If you cannot make the tour, download the Memorial Church Self-Guided Tour Brochure for your visit.

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Public Tours: Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30am

Admission Info

Tours do not require a reservation and are free of charge.

First come, first served!

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Drawing on a wide range of archival and biographical sources, the lecture traces the group's trajectory from the interwar period and through World War II, when most of them spent time in the Soviet Union or in the communist underground in occupied Poland. It then moves on to post-war Stalinism and the 'Modest Stabilization' period of 1956–1966, before concluding with the events of March 1968. These historical moments shaped ethnic, cultural, and political identities, influencing social and political choices and affecting how the non-Jewish majority perceived the group. By examining this collective biography, the lecture challenges common stereotypes. It sheds light on the intricate relationship between personal identity and historical forces, offering new perspectives on twentieth-century Eastern European history.

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Dr. Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz is a historian specializing in Eastern European history. She focuses particularly on the experiences of Jewish communists. She is affiliated with both the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought. She is the author of Zabić smoka. Ukraińskie rewolucje [To Kill the Dragon: Ukrainian Revolutions; 2016] and Stygmat. Helena Wolińska i Włodzimierz Brus. Biografia [The Stigma, Helena Wolińska and Włodziierz Brus. Biography; 2026]. Her work has appeared in journals such as East European Politics and Societies, Rethinking History, and the Jewish History Quarterly. Dr. Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz has received research grants and fellowships from the National Science Center in Poland, the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews' Global Education Outreach Program, and other institutions. From 2023 to 2024, she was an NAWA Bekker Fellow in the Department of East European History at Heidelberg University.

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"Metabolic Drivers of Sleep Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease"

Friday, May 15th, 2026 at 12pm PST

Shannon L. Macauley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept of Physiology, University of Kentucky
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Med

Location: Li Ka Shing Center, Room LK120 (291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305)

Zoom link (if unable to attend in person): https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09

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Are you ready to take your meditation practice to the next level? This two-session online class is designed for everyone who has some experience with meditation and wishes to deepen their practice. This class extends mindfulness practice to emphasize cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity. These practices will help to enrich both your intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences.

Through guided practices and community sharing, you will broaden and strengthen your meditation practice and integrate its benefits into your daily life.

This class is open to everyone with some prior meditation experience. Also, if you are new to mediation, this class will build upon the foundational skills covered in our companion class, Building Your Meditation Practice. Both new and experienced practitioners are welcome to sign up for both classes for a comprehensive overview to the practice of meditation.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points - at least 80% of both sessions. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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Since 2016, Peru has had eight presidents. This is perhaps the clearest indicator of the depth and nature of its political crisis. Over the past decade, Peru has experienced severe democratic instability, marked by political hyperfragmentation, institutional conflict, and social unrest. Rather than following the classic pattern of democratic backsliding driven by the concentration of power, Peru illustrates a different pathway: democratic erosion through the dilution of power. This process, described as democratic hollowing, involves weak parties, fragmented political actors, and the erosion of representation, leading to governance paralysis, short-term political incentives, and an increasing reliance on coercion as a substitute for effective democratic authority. In this conversation with Alberto Vergara, we will explore Peru’s current political landscape, examine the characteristics of this pathway of erosion — described as democratic hollowing — and discuss the institutional interventions that could help steer the country toward democratic renewal.

The event will feature a conversation with Alberto Vergara and will bring together academic and policy perspectives to examine how democracies can decay even in the absence of a dominant authoritarian leader.

SPEAKER

Alberto Vergara - Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)

MODERATOR

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros — Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science, and Co-Director of DAL

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This event is designed to help students get to know faculty members, explore potential advising relationships, and learn more about research interests across the Earth Systems Program. Faculty will have the chance to meet and engage with students interested in their work.

Event Details:
Date: Friday, May 15
Time: 12:00–2:00 PM
Location: Y2E2 131 (Earth Systems Lounge)

Lunch will be provided, including tacos and refreshments, so we encourage you to stop by, enjoy a meal, and join the conversation.

Please RSVP using the link below so we can plan accordingly:
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"CRISPR-Sec-MS: peptide barcoding strategy for pooled CRISPR screens for protein secretion"

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Bio: Michael Gerli is Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic Studies, emeritus at UVa and visiting at Stanford. He is an expert on Western Mediterranean Intellectual and Cultural History from the Middle Ages through Early Modernity. He is the author of several books including two on Cervantes.

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The biogeography of species is shaped in part by physiological traits that govern tolerance to environmental conditions. The diversity of such traits should thus adapt to the range and relative frequency of abiotic conditions globally, but the slow imprinting of the environment on trait evolution is unobservable. In this talk, I’ll present a general model for predicting the interspecific frequency distributions of key traits for marine ectotherm fitness using climate niches that reflect the 3-dimensional covariation of environmental properties regulating organismal energy balance. The model allows large-scale patterns of species richness across latitude and depth to be predicted directly from a volumetric census of observed ocean conditions. These results provide a theoretical basis for inferring trait frequencies among species adapted to dramatically different climates in Earth’s history.

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Free admissionParking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) often remarks that the exhibition was “thousands of years in the making.” Wabanaki baskets have existed for more than thirteen thousand years in what is today known as Maine. The tradition was under threat when Frey, who is Passamaquoddy (one of four federally recognized Wabanaki tribes), began making baskets out of ash and sweetgrass in the early 2000s, helping to revitalize the art form.

Frey learned to weave from his mother Frances “Gal” Frey, an accomplished artist, and from important workshops offered by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to facilitate an intergenerational transfer of this knowledge. He began to attract national recognition for fine weave baskets that involve whittling down ash to nearly thread-like widths and for baskets in the shapes of sea urchins. Known for making his own tools, Frey also harvests his materials—from identifying promising ash trees in the woods to chop down, to pounding logs with the blunt end of an axe to loosen the growth rings that form the strands of each basket.

Jeremy Frey: Woven traces the artist’s development from the early 2000s to the present day, demonstrating the extent to which he continues to expand the possibilities of this woven art form. More than 30 baskets come together in a single gallery to showcase Frey’s vibrant color palette, distinctive patterns, and tremendous technical skill and ingenuity. Braiding natural growth cycles with his own ancestral history, Frey continues to add new letters to an ancient language, helping to ensure its future.

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Public tours are free for all.

Image: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Observer (detail on the left), 2022, ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Collection of Carole Katz, California. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Eric Stoner

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Date: Friday, May 15Time: 3PM – 5PMApplication is requiredVisit the website for more information and to register.

This workshop is open to the Stanford research community.

About the Data Best Practices Workshop Series
The Data Best Practices workshop series aims to educate and empower the Stanford neuroscience and broader research communities to work with data in a more rigorous and reproducible manner. These recurring workshops provide attendees with hands-on introductions and training with essential tools.

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Join us for a guided tour of the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries. Upon arrival, you'll be greeted by one of our knowledgeable staff members for an immersive experience.

30-Minute Overview: Dive deep into the history, collections, and special exhibitions of the David Rumsey Map Center, enriched with insights and stories from our passionate team.Interactive Experience: After the guided portion, we invite you to explore the digital collections on our state-of-the-art large touch screen monitors. Feel the past come alive at your fingertips!Exhibition Exploration: Take your time to peruse our rotating exhibition, showcasing rare and fascinating maps from various eras and regions.Connect with Experts: Our friendly staff will be around for a chat, ready to share their knowledge and answer any questions you might have.✍️ Registration Details

🔗 Register for the tour here

Deadline: Registration closes at 4:00pm on the Thursday before the tour.Note: Tours without registrants by the deadline will be canceled.Drop-in Visitors: Not registered? No problem! We welcome and encourage visitors to explore the David Rumsey Map Center, its exhibitions, and technology at their own pace.

🚫 Please Note

No food, drink, or pen/ink is allowed inside the Center to protect our collections.Photography: Feel free to capture your memories! Personal photography without flash is permitted.Discover the stories maps can tell at the David Rumsey Map Center. See you there!

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In most sessions, one faculty member shares the personal side of their individual journey through academia. Occasionally, PhD-holding speakers from outside the academic research environment may also speak. The stories focus on the struggles, doubts, weaknesses, and failures we all face as young scientists. GUIS aims to normalize discussing these personal and interpersonal challenges, and supporting one another through them. There will be no (or minimal) discussion of the speaker's research.

GUIS seminars are intended for current academic trainees, including undergraduates, post-bac technicians, graduate students, post-docs, lab managers, and other in-training research support staff.

Please note that all events in the Spring 2026 quarter will be held from 3-4pm in the first floor conference room of the Bass Biology Research Building, instead of our usual space in the Neuro/ChEM-H building. Bass is the first building across Campus Dr. from the Clark Center, and the conference room can be accessed by entering the doors on the left hand side.

AY2025-2026 Events:

November 7 - Paula Welander (Earth Science)

November 14 - Jennifer Brophy (Bioengineering)

December 12 - Laura Seeholzer (Neurobiology)

January 9 - Luis Hernandez-Nunez (Biology)

January 16 - Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez (Bioengineering)

April 17** - Marion Buckwalter (Neurology)

April 24** - Kabir Peay (Biology)

May 15** - Julie Kauer (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)

** Due to scheduling conflicts, events on 4/17, 4/24. and 5/15 will be held in Bass 121.

More information about this cross-university series can be found here. Contact Tim (currier@stanford.edu) and Mikaela (mikaelaw@stanford.edu) with any questions.

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Friday, May 15 4 pm | Stanford Memorial Church

An Interfaith Panel Discussion exploring the search for meaning trials and tribulations in our personal and public lives. Join our interfaith panel as we seek clarity in turbulent times

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What to Expect: Each week's program is freshly crafted by Zen master Rebecca D. Nie to meet you where you are. You'll move through restorative postures designed to open the body's energy channels, then settle into guided Zen meditation to quiet the mind. The session is gentle, grounding, and unhurried—a true midday pause designed to leave you refreshed and clear-headed for the afternoon ahead.

Who Is It For? This practice is for anyone navigating the pace of urban life. Whether you're new to yoga and meditation or returning to a practice you love, no prior experience…

For current Stanford students, faculty, and staff, the event is covered by the generosity of the university. If you are a member of one of those categories, please use the coupon code you get through the Stanford Buddhist communities' mailing list or WhatsApp group.

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Davesh Soneji is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the award-winning Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India (2012), and the forthcoming Unbounded Tunes: Ecologies of Musical Pluralism in Modern South India. He is also editor of Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India (2008); Bharatanatyam: A Reader (2010); Caste, Community, and the Performing Arts of Modern South India (forthcoming), and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Indian Music (with Anna Morcom).

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Friday, May 15 7:30 pm | Stanford Memorial Church

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Free admission

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Program

Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de CouperinLudwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C MinorAlex Tordjman, piano – 2026 Concerto Competition WinnerFelix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, “Italian”
Admission Information

General – $37 | Seniors (65+) and Non-Stanford Students – $32
Price shown reflects total cost including $4 online/phone per-ticket fee.FREE admission for Stanford University students. One ticket per ID, available beginning one hour prior to curtain at the venue.This event will be livestreamed.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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The Stat4Onc Annual Symposium is an NCI sponsored conference that fosters interdisciplinary discussions between clinical and quantitative scientists on cancer clinical trials. Researchers from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies are invited to share their latest research, explore novel ideas, and collaborate on solutions for enhancing trial design, drug development, and patient care.
Find more details here: The Stat4Onc Annual Symposium
Save big before 4/15!
Don't miss out on the opportunity to register early and take advantage of discounted rates.

Conference Registration Rates Early Bird before 4/15
For Stanford, U Chicago, U Conn, OHSU, and Government:

Before 4/15: $35.00After 4/15: $70.00For Academia and Non-Profit:

Before 4/15: $110.00After 4/15: $225.00Five short courses are offered on May 15 and May 18. Please visit registration link for short course registration fees.

REGISTER NOW!

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Registration includes exclusive swag and an event T-shirt (while supplies last). Spots are limited, so be sure to sign up early! The event is open to participants 18+.

Early Bird: $35 (through April 30)
Regular: $59 (starting May 1)
Day-of registration may be available if spots remain.

Event Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM (Competitive) | 9:00 AM (Non-Competitive)
Questions? Email srwcrecreation@stanford.edu.

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The day will include presentations from Stanford faculty as well as community college professors who have collaborated with Stanford University partners to integrate international topics into their curricula. Presentations will feature adapted lesson plans and course material as well as strategies for reaching diverse student populations. This event is free and open to all community college faculty, administrators, librarians, and counselors.

Register to attend the 2026 EPIC Symposium

This year's event will take place virtually. Registration is free but required for attendance.

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact us at stanfordglobalstudies@stanford.edu. Kindly note that requests should be made by May 1, 2026.

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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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Visionary scientists. Expert health care providers. Thought-provoking presentations. Hands-on activities. It’s all waiting for you at Health Matters, Stanford Medicine’s free community event.

Whether you’re looking for the latest insights to support your heart health or simple tips to improve your nutrition—and everything in between—we’ve got you covered. Join us on the medical school campus on Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT for wellness talks and exhibits, medical screenings and education, cooking demos, and more. Can’t join us in person? Our Health Talks will be livestreamed.

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We welcome volunteers 10 years old and older. Those between 10 and 14 years old are required to have a guardian actively volunteering alongside them for the duration of the volunteer session.

We reserve the right to cancel volunteer sessions up to two hours in advance. Possible reasons for cancelation are a change in COVID-19 guidelines as outlined by the University or County Officials, excessive heat (90 degree and above), poor air quality, rain or other inclement weather.

We encourage all volunteers to carpool, bike, ride public transportation; there is a charge for parking on all Stanford property. The farm is not responsible for any tickets incurred while volunteering.

UPON ARRIVAL: ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST COMPLETE A SAFETY WAIVER

WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE FARM: Complete Waiver Form

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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Public Tours: Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30am

Admission Info

Tours do not require a reservation and are free of charge.

First come, first served!

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) often remarks that the exhibition was “thousands of years in the making.” Wabanaki baskets have existed for more than thirteen thousand years in what is today known as Maine. The tradition was under threat when Frey, who is Passamaquoddy (one of four federally recognized Wabanaki tribes), began making baskets out of ash and sweetgrass in the early 2000s, helping to revitalize the art form.

Frey learned to weave from his mother Frances “Gal” Frey, an accomplished artist, and from important workshops offered by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to facilitate an intergenerational transfer of this knowledge. He began to attract national recognition for fine weave baskets that involve whittling down ash to nearly thread-like widths and for baskets in the shapes of sea urchins. Known for making his own tools, Frey also harvests his materials—from identifying promising ash trees in the woods to chop down, to pounding logs with the blunt end of an axe to loosen the growth rings that form the strands of each basket.

Jeremy Frey: Woven traces the artist’s development from the early 2000s to the present day, demonstrating the extent to which he continues to expand the possibilities of this woven art form. More than 30 baskets come together in a single gallery to showcase Frey’s vibrant color palette, distinctive patterns, and tremendous technical skill and ingenuity. Braiding natural growth cycles with his own ancestral history, Frey continues to add new letters to an ancient language, helping to ensure its future.

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Public tours are free for all.

Image: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Observer (detail on the left), 2022, ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Collection of Carole Katz, California. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Eric Stoner

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Fire on Fire is back at the Bechtel International Center on Saturday, May 16th starting at 3 PM! 🥳

Over 15 international student groups will be serving cuisines and sharing their cultures from around the world! 🌍 ✨

Food and drinks are free so come join the festivities! Sign up in our bio! 😀

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A decade of discovery, distilled into one unmissable event. Stanford alum and Hidden Brain host Shankar Vedantam is bringing his signature science and storytelling to the stage to share the insights that have captivated millions—and might just change how you see yourself.

Highlights

How to regain a sense of control when you feel overwhelmedWhy your approach to setbacks might be setting you back even furtherConnect with a curious community of fans and Stanford alumniBring your burning questions to a live Q&A with ShankarRegistration closes May 7, 2026

Program
2:30 p.m. - Doors open
3:00 p.m. - Hidden Brain: Live, Act 1
3:45 p.m. - Intermission
4:00 p.m. - Hidden Brain: Live, Act 2
4:45 p.m. - Q&A
5:15 p.m. - End of program

VIP Meet & Greet - 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Join us for an exclusive VIP meet and greet with Hidden Brain host Shankar Vedantam, where you'll have the opportunity to engage in conversation with one of today’s most insightful minds in behavioral science and storytelling. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Brought to you by the Stanford Alumni Association

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

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Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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Tickets Available Starting 11 AM PST on Thursday, January 22 via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE

General Onsale Begins 11 AM PST on Saturday, January 24 at LiveNation.com

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Stanford Live and Stanford Athletics, in conjunction with Live Nation, announce two performances on May 16, 17, and 19, 2026, by pop royalty BTS at Stanford Stadium. The Stanford dates are part of the group’s long-awaited return to the stage and largest world tour to date, spanning 34 regions with 79 shows. Notably, the tour will feature a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design. The immersive setup places the audience at the center of the experience while allowing for increased capacity at every venue.

These performances underscore Stanford’s commitment to the role of music in shaping global contemporary culture, and to the unique capacity of universities to convene transformative shared experiences for students and the broader community. The group will become just the second musical act to perform at Stanford Stadium, following Coldplay’s inaugural shows last year.

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Tickets for the Stanford dates will be available starting Thursday, January 22 at 11AM PST via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE. Remaining tickets will be available via general onsale beginning Saturday, January 24 at 11AM at LiveNation.com.

ARMY MEMBERSHIP holders (US or GLOBAL) must register for the Presale on Weverse by January 18 at 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST / 11:00 PM GMT / January 19 at 12:00 AM CET in order for their membership to be verified. For more information, see HERE.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
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Finely Printed Books tells the incredible story of Albert Bender and his remarkable gifts to Stanford that became the foundation of Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. It has been almost one hundred years since the first beautiful book came to the Green Library. From 1926 to 1941, Albert M. Bender personally donated more than five hundred volumes and encouraged his friends to contribute to the growing collection.

“This, my copy of the Laudes Creaturarum of S. Francis, I now give to the Leland Stanford Junior University through Albert M. Bender, in memory of my husband’s dearly loved sister Frances A. H. Sanderson Stewart.
–Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Stanford, June 27th, 1926.”

On Sunday, June 27, 1926, Anne Cobden-Sanderson made her way down the peninsula from San Francisco to the Stanford campus. The previous evening, she had attended a meal in her honor at Coppa’s restaurant in San Francisco, a haunt for Bohemians, artists, literati, and book people. The trip to Stanford came at the end of a week of celebration of the “book beautiful,” during which Cobden-Sanderson, was feted by the area’s printers, publishers, and book collectors. It was one of the final stops on a West Coast visit from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area, a tour punctuated by lectures on the suffragette movement, the labor movement in England, the Doves Press, and interviews and research on prison reform – all topics which had played key roles in Cobden-Sanderson’s life – with every event documented by the California newspapers as she worked her way north.

While we cannot know for certain what was discussed over dinner that Saturday evening nearly a century ago, we do know three things with some certainty: first, that Albert M. Bender was there; second, that he encouraged Cobden-Sanderson to travel from the city to a young campus near Palo Alto, pay a visit to the Stanford University Library in what is now the Green Library building, and inscribe her copy of a book from the Doves Press, founded by her husband T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and financed by Anne herself, to a nascent rare book collection; third, that this gift to the University, from a person who bridged the worlds of William Morris, Jane Stanford, and the burgeoning post-earthquake Bay Area book arts scene, was the first step in the transformation of a haphazard accumulation of old and rare books acquired in the first three decades of the University’s operations into a well-organized Department of Special Collections serving the faculty and students of a major research institution.

Albert M. Bender (1866–1941), the self-effacing catalyst who transformed Bay Area cultural life through his extensive philanthropy and enthusiasm for beauty in art, literature, and the book arts, shaped Stanford’s collections in ways that are still felt today. He encouraged dozens of his friends and acquaintances to give generously to help Stanford grow from a library that struggled to keep up with the demands of building a basic teaching collection to one that could also support access to rare, antiquarian, and unique materials for serious scholarship. By providing us with carefully selected examples of fine printing, illustration, type design, papermaking, and binding, ranging across all periods, he challenged the librarians at the time to rethink how Stanford viewed its role as a repository of research materials. No longer were our rare books defined just by how old they were or which texts they contained, but now there was a need to consider aesthetics, research importance, monetary value, book history, provenance, uniqueness, and, in short, all the myriad attributes that might make a book an object of scholarly inquiry.

This exhibition tells the story of Albert M. Bender’s remarkable gift to Stanford University. An inventory of the gifts that Bender helped bring to Stanford in 1926 and 1927, Finely Printed Books Presented to the Library of Stanford University: A Catalogue, has allowed us to identify and update the provenance for 179 volumes from that initial gift, recovering information that had been lost from our catalog decades ago in the conversion from card catalogs to online records. On display are highlights from this bountiful donation. The archival traces of Albert M. Bender, his circle of friends who made the initial donations possible, the librarians who helped shepherd in a new era of collecting for Stanford University, and the impact that this gift had on the Stanford community at the time. As we look ahead to a second century of rare book collecting, much has been done, and much remains to be done, to build a world-class resource to support Stanford scholarship.

This exhibition is curated by Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator for the Department of Special Collections. Produced and designed by Deardra Fuzzell, with assistance from Elizabeth Fischbach, Kylee Diedrich, and Pasha Tope.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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University Public Worship gathers weekly for the religious, spiritual, ethical, and moral formation of the Stanford community. Rooted in the history and progressive Christian tradition of Stanford’s historic Memorial Church, we cultivate a community of compassion and belonging through ecumenical Christian worship and occasional multifaith celebrations.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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Program

Franz Schubert – Overture to Rosamunde, D. 644Franz Schubert – Mass in A-flat, D. 678Soloists

Josephine YoonGeong Lee, sopranoMindy Ella Chu, altoJack Wilkins, tenorMichael Kuo, bassAdmission Information

General – $37 | Seniors (65+) and Non-Stanford Students – $32
Price shown reflects total cost including $4 online/phone per-ticket fee.FREE admission for Stanford University students. One ticket per ID, available beginning one hour prior to curtain at the venue.This event will be livestreamed.

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The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) often remarks that the exhibition was “thousands of years in the making.” Wabanaki baskets have existed for more than thirteen thousand years in what is today known as Maine. The tradition was under threat when Frey, who is Passamaquoddy (one of four federally recognized Wabanaki tribes), began making baskets out of ash and sweetgrass in the early 2000s, helping to revitalize the art form.

Frey learned to weave from his mother Frances “Gal” Frey, an accomplished artist, and from important workshops offered by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to facilitate an intergenerational transfer of this knowledge. He began to attract national recognition for fine weave baskets that involve whittling down ash to nearly thread-like widths and for baskets in the shapes of sea urchins. Known for making his own tools, Frey also harvests his materials—from identifying promising ash trees in the woods to chop down, to pounding logs with the blunt end of an axe to loosen the growth rings that form the strands of each basket.

Jeremy Frey: Woven traces the artist’s development from the early 2000s to the present day, demonstrating the extent to which he continues to expand the possibilities of this woven art form. More than 30 baskets come together in a single gallery to showcase Frey’s vibrant color palette, distinctive patterns, and tremendous technical skill and ingenuity. Braiding natural growth cycles with his own ancestral history, Frey continues to add new letters to an ancient language, helping to ensure its future.

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Public tours are free for all.

Image: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Observer (detail on the left), 2022, ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Collection of Carole Katz, California. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Eric Stoner

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Explora las colecciones del Cantor con un guía que te guiará a través de una selección de obras de diferentes culturas y épocas.

Los participantes están muy bienvenidos a participar en la conversación y aportar sus ideas sobre los temas explorados a lo largo de la visita si lo desean.

Las visitas no requieren reserva previa y son gratuitas. Se ruega registrarse en el mostrador de atención al visitante del vestíbulo principal del museo.

¡Esperamos verte en el museo!
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Come and visit the Cantor!

Explore the Cantor's collections with a museum engagement guide who will lead you through a selection of works from different cultures and time periods.

Participants are welcomed to participate in the conversation and provide their thoughts on themes explored throughout the tour but are also free to engage at their own comfort level.

Tours do not require a reservation and are free of charge. Please check-in at the visitor services desk in the main museum lobby.

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Public Tours: 3rd Sunday of each month 2 pm; meet in front of museum, rain or shine

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Explore the highlights of the Cantor's permanent collection on a public tour that leads you through a selection of works spanning varied cultures and time periods.

Admission Info

Please confirm all tours with our Visitor Services staff when you check in at the information desk. Tours may be subject to change or cancellation.

Scheduled Public Tours are first come, first served. They do not require separate advance registration.Scheduled Public Tours are between forty-five minutes and one hour long, free of charge, and meet in the lobby unless otherwise noted.

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Tickets Available Starting 11 AM PST on Thursday, January 22 via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE

General Onsale Begins 11 AM PST on Saturday, January 24 at LiveNation.com

For more details visit GOSTANFORD

Stanford Live and Stanford Athletics, in conjunction with Live Nation, announce two performances on May 16, 17, and 19, 2026, by pop royalty BTS at Stanford Stadium. The Stanford dates are part of the group’s long-awaited return to the stage and largest world tour to date, spanning 34 regions with 79 shows. Notably, the tour will feature a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design. The immersive setup places the audience at the center of the experience while allowing for increased capacity at every venue.

These performances underscore Stanford’s commitment to the role of music in shaping global contemporary culture, and to the unique capacity of universities to convene transformative shared experiences for students and the broader community. The group will become just the second musical act to perform at Stanford Stadium, following Coldplay’s inaugural shows last year.

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets for the Stanford dates will be available starting Thursday, January 22 at 11AM PST via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE. Remaining tickets will be available via general onsale beginning Saturday, January 24 at 11AM at LiveNation.com.

ARMY MEMBERSHIP holders (US or GLOBAL) must register for the Presale on Weverse by January 18 at 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST / 11:00 PM GMT / January 19 at 12:00 AM CET in order for their membership to be verified. For more information, see HERE.

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In the 2025–2026 academic year, Branner Library’s exhibit series will explore Earth’s oceans’ complex biological and ecological systems that regulate climate and support life.

May’s exhibition explores the vital chemical processes that shape our marine environments, highlighting the ocean's role in regulating global climate and driving biogeochemical cycling.

Featured works delve into the fundamental chemistry of seawater, hydrothermal circulation, and the complex, evolving carbon cycle.This collection brings together scientific research that illuminates the complex, changing, and essential nature of ocean chemistry.

The exhibit is available for viewing Monday through Friday during regular library open hours.

Check out past exhibits and subscribe to the Branner Library Newsletter.

A current Stanford ID is needed to enter the library, visitors must present a valid, physical government-issued photo ID to sign-in at the front desk.

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Registration is now closed Registration was open from March to April 21 via the Retreat Registration Site.

What to expectTalks from the Wu Tsai Neuro community, spanning discovery, engineering, and medicine (including talks from both faculty and trainees)Poster session featuring recent advances from the Wu Tsai Neuro communityTime to connect with colleagues across labs and disciplinesProgram includes catered meals and access to the museum's exhibitsA program overview and additional logistics will be posted on the Registration Site. The final agenda will be available the day of Retreat.

Interested in presenting? We're putting a special spotlight on trainees/junior researchers this year! Attendees can indicate interest in presenting via the registration form.

Poster Session: Open to students, postdocs, and staff. Spots are limited and are first-come, first-serve.

Oral Talks: Open to postdocs and PhD students only. Interested participants can submit an abstract via registration to be considered for one of the oral talks.

Who can attendActive Stanford faculty affiliated with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and members of their labs are invited to attend.

Not yet an affiliate? Faculty affiliation request formNot sure if you (or your PI) is affiliated? Check the Stanford Profile for the tag “Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute” under Academic Appointments.Attendance expectationParticipants are expected to attend the full program (9:30 AM–6:00 PM).

RegistrationRegistration is required. Registration will open on March 2 and close on April 21. Register here.

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A Live Scan unit will be on campus to provide fingerprinting service at no cost to the employee or the department. Please note, this Live Scan fingerprinting session can only process Live Scan application forms where results are submitted to Stanford. If you have previously cleared a Live Scan background check for Stanford and subsequently left the university, you may be required to complete a Live Scan background check again. Reach out to your youth program contact to confirm whether your results are on file.

All Program Staff will need to submit their completed Live Scan application forms to University Human Resources. Program Staff will not meet the university’s Live Scan requirement unless they have completed this step. Once Program Staff complete the fingerprint submission, they must submit their forms through this link. Please note if Program Staff complete Live Scan at a free on-campus session hosted by Stanford, a copy of their application form will be submitted to University Human Resources directly by the vendor.

Please complete these steps before going to a Live Scan event:

Please bring a completed Live Scan application form. If you are an Employee, identify the specific program/activity for which you are completing Live Scan in the field "Type of License/Certification/Permit OR Working Title." If you are a Volunteer, enter “Volunteer” in this field. Note that this field is limited to 30 characters. Bring a government-issued ID, such as a Driver's License or passport (with U.S. visa).

If you have any questions, please see the Protection of Minors website or download the FAQ. You can also contact University Human Resources—Employee & Labor Relations at 650-721-4272 or protectminors@stanford.edu.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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Maria Raimundo is a Visitor Experience Assistant and Museum Engagement Guide at the Anderson Collection. She brings a deep love of art, storytelling, and community to her work, and believes that every artwork — and every person — holds a story worth sharing. Outside the museum, she enjoys prioritizing wellness and slowing down with a good cup of tea.

No RSVP necessary, walk-ins welcome!

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A more forward-looking agenda is to theorize a world in which cognitive labor has been automated. This will allow us to develop hypotheses about what will still be scarce even in this world, and where the demand for labor may actually increase; how institutions that relied on certain kinds of scarcity might break; and what new social, ethical and political challenges may arise. This will give us a head start on developing policies for this future.

In short, I advocate for a two-track approach of developing better situational awareness of the unfolding transformation as well as better anticipation of what a new equilibrium might look like.

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Profiling figures from college idealists and anti-feminist leaders to Black conservatives, social media influencers, suburban activists, and “Mama-Bears” organizing at state capitols, Gaddini shows how these women mobilize faith, gender, and political strategy.

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The event will begin with a keynote lecture by Karina Skår von Remba, followed by a moderated panel discussion bringing together scholars and poets from Stanford University. Together, the speakers will explore questions of poetic language, difficulty, translation, participation, and the social role of literature in times of political and cultural transformation.

Resonance Poetry examines how language can respond to the complexities and fractures of the present by engaging expressive limits while creating spaces for participation and dialogue. Central to the concept is the critique of what Skår von Remba terms a “silentium democraticum” — a condition of democratic silence that contemporary poetry can challenge through renewed cultural and civic engagement.

The panel features:

Karina Skår von Remba (Keynote Speaker), whose work on Resonance Poetry explores literature as a form of democratic participation and cultural engagement.Gilad Shiram (Ph.D. Student in German Studies, Stanford University), whose research explores twentieth-century Jewish poetry across German, Polish, and Hebrew traditions, focusing on poetic responses to historical catastrophe and questions of humanity.Dr. Jana Pocrnja (Max Kade Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University), whose work in comparative literature examines poetic reasoning and the relationship between poetry and philosophy, particularly in the writings of María ZambranoJon Tadmor (PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Co-chair, Stanford Center for Poetics), whose research investigates poetic difficulty in American, Hebrew, and Yiddish modernisms and the evolving relationship between poets and readers.The event is open to all interested participants and especially welcomes students, scholars, poets, and practitioners working in literature, cultural studies, arts-based education, and related fields. The format encourages interdisciplinary exchange and transatlantic dialogue between Europe and Stanford University.

The event is initiated and moderated by Prof. Dr. Nicola Scherer (Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor, Spring Term 2026) and marks the beginning of a new online lecture series dedicated to cultural policy, contemporary art and culture, and transatlantic exchange.

RSVP for the poetry lecture and panel here.

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Join us for an engaging webinar that introduces a proven, science-backed approach to sustainable behavior change. You’ll learn how small shifts can lead to lasting results by following three simple principles: Make it fun. Make it easy. Make it you!

Through real-life examples and guided reflection, we’ll explore how the science of behavior change translates into practical strategies you can use right away. You’ll see how these principles work across different goals and situations, and how to adapt them to fit your own values, preferences, and lifestyle so your changes feel personal, meaningful, and achievable.

If you’re ready to end the start–stop cycle and create healthy changes that truly last, this session will give you a clear and flexible path forward.

This class will be recorded and a one-week link to the recording will be shared with all registered participants. To receive incentive points, attend at least 80% of the live session or listen to the entire recording within one week. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Olesya Vartanyan is a conflict analyst with over 15 years of experience specializing in research, advocacy, and conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. She has recently started her PhD studies at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Olesya also contributes to EVN Report analyzing regional dynamics in her column "Beyond Borders," and writes articles and analysis for leading think tanks, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ISPI, and others.

Previously, Olesya worked with leading international organizations, including the International Crisis Group, Freedom House, and the OSCE. She conducted field investigations and authored influential reports on conflict zones such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh, shaping policy recommendations for governments and international bodies while participating in confidential peace processes. Her efforts earned her the International Young Women’s Peace Award in 2024.

Before transitioning to conflict analysis, Olesya was an investigative journalist reporting on security issues in the South Caucasus. During the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, her field reporting contributed to The New York Times’ groundbreaking investigations into the conflict's origins. She also gained rare access to Abkhazia, covering crisis developments for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and producing an award-winning radio documentary on missing persons from the Georgia-Abkhazia war.

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This conversation, presented by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law's Program on Identity, Democracy, and Justice, brings together Katherine Tate, Corey Fields, and Hakeem Jefferson to consider how Black politics is understood in the present moment. Rather than treating Black politics as singular or static, the discussion will take seriously the diversity of views, experiences, and political commitments that exist within Black communities, and the ways those differences matter for how people understand political life.

The event will begin with brief opening reflections from Tate and Fields, followed by a conversation with Jefferson, and will conclude with a moderated Q&A with attendees.

SPEAKERS:

Katherine Tate is one of the foremost scholars of Black politics in the United States and a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.

Tate is the author of seven books, including the award-winning Black Faces in the Mirror and From Protest to Politics. Her most recent book, Gendered Pluralism (University of Michigan Press, 2023), is coauthored with Belinda Robnett. She is currently at work on a new manuscript focused on Black voters and the 2024 election. Her research and teaching focus on public opinion, government, and Black and women’s politics.

Corey D. Fields is a sociologist whose work examines how identity shapes social life at both the individual and collective level. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.

Fields is the author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African-American Republicans (University of California Press, 2016). His research draws on a cultural perspective to explore the relationship between identity, experience, and meaning across a range of domains, including politics, work, and relationships. This year, he is a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is currently at work on projects examining how social and professional identities are constructed and expressed, including a study of African Americans in the advertising industry.

Hakeem Jefferson is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University and faculty director of the Program on Identity, Democracy, and Justice at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.

His research centers on questions of race, identity, and political behavior in the United States, with a particular interest in the political and social lives of Black Americans. He is the author of Respectability Politics, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. The book examines disagreement among Black Americans about how members of their own group should behave, especially around issues of discipline and punishment, and develops a theory of ingroup social control that shows how stigma and status influence those judgments.

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Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford. She is the author of three multiple-prize-winning books: Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (2020); Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (2018), and Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008). Her academic and popular writing has appeared in American Historical Review, Technology & Culture, Financial Times, Slate, and The Nation, among others. She is currently writing a new book, The Lake of Liberation, on British colonialism in Punjab. Prof. Satia was Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center in 2028–19.

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Speaker: Ryan Chin, Managing Director, Sustainable Mobility Center, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy

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Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe is a Doctoral Candidate in Yoga Philosophy at the Graduate Theological Union, writing her dissertation on yoga and meditation for sleep. With nearly 30 years of teaching experience, she holds a Master’s in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University and completed three 500-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings. She is the Founding Director of YogaUSC, Co-Director of USC Yoga Teacher Training, and a recipient of USC's Sustainability Across Curriculum grant. In 2024, she began teaching at Stanford, focusing on movement, meditation, and sleep.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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Please register to attend. Registration is exclusively open to current Stanford Affiliates and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 11:40 AM for lunch, prior to the seminar. The Spring Seminar Series continues through May; see our Spring Seminar Series page for speakers and topics. Sign up for our newsletter for announcements.

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Although much of human morality evolved in an environment of small group living, the primary source of moral content for over 5 billion people now comes from social media. I argue that this technological transformation has created an entirely new moral ecosystem--driven by the attention economy--that is often mismatched with our evolved adaptations for social living. One means by which individuals and groups can capture attention and drive engagement on these platforms is by sharing moral-emotional and divisive content. Therefore, social media often acts as an accelerant for existing moral dynamics, amplifying outrage, status seeking, and polarization. I discuss the implications for our epistemic environment and democratic institutions.

About the Speaker:

Jay Van Bavel is a Professor of Psychology & Neural Science at New York University, an affiliate at the Stern School of Business in Management and Organizations, Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, and Director of the Center for Conflict & Cooperation. He is also an Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus. Jay completed his PhD at the University of Toronto and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Ohio State University. He studies how shared identities and beliefs can unite people—or drive them apart—and what this reveals about the human mind and society. Specifically, his research examines intergroup conflict and polarization, cooperation and collective intelligence, moral judgment and decision-making, belief formation and misinformation, and the impact of social media and artificial intelligence. His work uses a range of methods spanning social and political psychology, computational social science, cognitive neuroscience, and cross-cultural analysis.

Jay has published over 150 academic papers (including in Science, Nature, PNAS) and is a Clarivate highly cited researcher (in the top 1% of researchers worldwide). He co-authored The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony (winner of the APA William James Book Award). His work has also been cited in the US Supreme Court and Senate and he has consulted with the White House, United Nations, European Union, and World Health Organization.

Jay is an active science communicator with over 100,000 social media followers. He writes the Power of Us newsletter and has written for The New York Times, BBC, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, Guardian, LA Times, TIME, and The Washington Post. He has given talks at dozens of psychology departments and business schools, as well as academic conferences, professional events, and non-academic organizations (including the World Bank, World Science Festival, Aspen Ideas Festival, The Atlantic Festival, and TEDx).

Jay teaches courses on Social Psychology, Social Neuroscience, Attitudes and Evaluation, Intergroup Relations, Group Identity, Moral Psychology, Professional Development, and Introduction to Psychology. He received the NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award for teaching excellence. He also co-founded a mentoring column for Science Magazine and has created several educational videos (e.g., TED-Ed).

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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In this noontime webinar, we will explore how muscle tightness and soreness impact body movement and the benefits of incorporating self-myofascial release into your wellness routine. After an overview of muscle and fascial physiology, we will highlight the benefits of self-myofascial release for healthy adults. You will also have a chance to practice some simple techniques with guidance from the instructor.

This interactive webinar is ideal for individuals who work on a computer at home or in the office and want to learn how to reduce muscle soreness and tension, especially in the neck, shoulders, the low back and hips. By the end of the seminar, you will be more conscious of your body’s restrictions, and how to improve your body’s movement from within.

Please bring two tennis balls and a sock to use in the demonstration. This class may not be suitable for everyone, such as those with recent major surgeries or injuries to the neck, shoulders, low back and hips. If in doubt, please consult a medical professional for guidance.

This class will be recorded and a one-week link to the recording will be shared with all registered participants. To receive incentive points, attend at least 80% of the live session or listen to the entire recording within one week. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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Stanford Web Services hosts office hours by appointment. During these half-hour appointments, we can assist you with editing existing content, creating new content, editing or adjusting site-wide options, and more!

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You will create an individualized plan for recognizing and working with stress and anxiety during this workshop.

Multiple dates and times available to attend this 2 hour workshop.Multiple CAPS therapists collaborate to provide these workshops.All enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. Connecting with CAPS is required to join this group. Please call 650.723.3785 during business hours (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. weekdays) to connect and meet with a CAPS therapist, or message your therapist/contact person at CAPS, to determine if this workshop is right for you, and be added to the workshop meeting that works best for your schedule. Workshops are in person.Access Anxiety Toolbox Workshop 2025-26 slides here.Anxiety Toolbox Dates

Friday, April 17, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 7, 2026 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

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Join Emilee Chapman (Associate Professor of Political Science), Larry Diamond (Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution), and Anne Joseph O’Connell (Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law) for a wide-ranging discussion of these issues.

This event is part of the course “America at 250,” which reflects on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The class brings together 30 faculty from across the university for a series of roundtable discussions on how the concerns and values expressed in that document have played out across U.S. history. Members of the Stanford community (faculty, students, postdocs, staff) are welcome to attend individual sessions.

Sponsored by: Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Democracy Hub and Department of History

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This is an open and ongoing group for students who live with OCD to support each other and have a safe space to connect. The group will focus on providing mutual support, sharing wisdom, increasing self-compassion, and enhancing overall coping and wellness.

Meeting with a facilitator is required to join this group. You can sign up on the INTEREST LIST_LIVING_WITH_OCD_IN-PERSON_SPRING_Q on Vaden Portal rosters, in the "Groups and Workshops" section. This group will take place in-person on Tuesdays from 3-4pm on 4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26.Facilitated by Jennifer Maldonado, LCSWAll enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. A pre-group meeting is required prior to participation in this group. Please contact CAPS at (650) 723-3785 to schedule a pre-group meeting with the facilitators, or sign up on the portal as instructed above.

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Take time to reflect on your values and goals, and then envision pathways for your life after graduation; UADs will help you understand how your experiences in college can prepare you for your future.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

3:30pm

Virtual (Zoom)

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Facilitated by Cierra Whatley, PhD & Katie Ohene-Gambill, PsyDThis group meets in-person on Tuesdays from 4-5pm on 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26All enrolled students are eligible to participate in CAPS groups and workshops. A pre-group meeting is required prior to participation in this group. Please contact CAPS at (650) 723-3785 to schedule a pre-group meeting with the facilitators.

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Drawing on McCarthy’s recent projects including Follower, Surrogate, and AUTO, Adair and McCarthy will explore the relationship between artistic making and critical inquiry. Their dialogue will cover approaches to research, methodology, and project development at the intersection of art and technology. The conversation will also consider pedagogy in relation to critical AI studies and new media.

Based in California’s leading hubs of technology and entertainment—the Bay Area and Los Angeles—Adair and McCarthy will reflect on how local contexts connect with global conversations about algorithmic living and media practices.

This hour-long Zoom webinar will include time for audience Q&A, so please come prepared to engage directly with the speakers.

Please RSVP at this link to attend.

Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. Lauren is the creator of p5.js, an open-source creative coding platform that prioritizes inclusion and access with over 5 million users worldwide, a professor at UCLA Design Media Arts, and co-director of the UCLA Social Software Lab. She has been recognized by United States Artists, Sundance, Eyebeam, and Creative Capital, and is in the collection of LACMA and the Whitney Museum of Art.

Danielle Adair is a 2025-26 Public Knowledge Fellow and an Institute for Human-Centered AI Research Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her doctorate in Theater and Performance Studies this spring. Her scholarship examines the intersections of media and performance, with particular attention to artists’ experiments with new technologies, including smartphone platforms. She is also an artist-performer who holds an MFA in Studio Art and in Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts.

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Come unwind with Well-Being and the Weiland Health Initiative! Bri from Well-Being will lead you through a relaxing watercolor painting process. All supplies provided by us! You'll leave feeling a bit more at ease with a loose shoreline scene (that you painted!) and a free Micron pen!

TUESDAY MAY 19, 5-6PM in Kingscote Gardens 140

RSVP using this link so we can know how many pens to bring :)

Brought to you by Well-Being at Stanford and the Weiland Health Initiative!

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Diane Saenz (she/her) is a yoga instructor with more than 20 years of experience in the use of yoga and meditation to improve mental and physical well-being. Following a classical approach, she leans on asana and pranayama as tools to invite participants into the present moment. Diane completed her 500 hour level training with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Organization in South India, followed by specializations in adaptive yoga and yoga for kids. She has taught adult and youth audiences around the globe.

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Dr. Brooke Weigel is an Assistant Professor of Oceans at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University.

Registration required whether attending in person or via Zoom.

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Tickets Available Starting 11 AM PST on Thursday, January 22 via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE

General Onsale Begins 11 AM PST on Saturday, January 24 at LiveNation.com

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Stanford Live and Stanford Athletics, in conjunction with Live Nation, announce two performances on May 16, 17, and 19, 2026, by pop royalty BTS at Stanford Stadium. The Stanford dates are part of the group’s long-awaited return to the stage and largest world tour to date, spanning 34 regions with 79 shows. Notably, the tour will feature a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design. The immersive setup places the audience at the center of the experience while allowing for increased capacity at every venue.

These performances underscore Stanford’s commitment to the role of music in shaping global contemporary culture, and to the unique capacity of universities to convene transformative shared experiences for students and the broader community. The group will become just the second musical act to perform at Stanford Stadium, following Coldplay’s inaugural shows last year.

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Tickets for the Stanford dates will be available starting Thursday, January 22 at 11AM PST via ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE. Remaining tickets will be available via general onsale beginning Saturday, January 24 at 11AM at LiveNation.com.

ARMY MEMBERSHIP holders (US or GLOBAL) must register for the Presale on Weverse by January 18 at 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST / 11:00 PM GMT / January 19 at 12:00 AM CET in order for their membership to be verified. For more information, see HERE.

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The Stanford Mathematics Research Center presents Paper Geometry and Optimization, a lecture given by Richard Schwartz, Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, as part of the MRC Public Lecture series.

Paper geometry deals with folding or gently bending sheets of paper to make various kinds of objects in space. Once you are able to make a certain kind of object out of paper, like a Möbius band, a natural question arises: How geometrically simple can you make it? In this talk I will survey some results and unsolved problems in this area. In particular, I will sketch some of the ideas of my two main results about these things: the shortest strip of paper you need to make a paper Möbius band and the fewest number of folds you need to make an origami donut surface.

Richard Schwartz is the Chancellor’s Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. His research interests include geometry, topology, dynamics, and computing. He often likes to work on simply-stated geometric problems about which little is known, often with the help of graphical user interfaces he writes himself. He has been invited twice (a rare distinction) to address the International Congress of Mathematicians (2002 and 2022). In addition to his mathematical research, he has written and illustrated a number of picture books, including You Can Count on Monsters, Really Big Numbers (Winner of the 2015 MSRI Mathical Books for Kids Award), Gallery of the Infinite, Life on the Infinite Farm and Man Versus Dog.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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You can find more information about speaker Richard Schwartz on his webpage.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
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Li & Ma Science Library | Wednesday, May 20 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Drop by and grab a coffee and pastry, and try your hand at a ring toss! We will also have rock painting and other fun activities!

Branner Earth Sciences Library | Monday, June 1 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Paint a rock or simply stop by for coffee, tea, and snacks!

Green Library | Wednesday, June 3 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Cool off with some ice cream, de-stress with llamas, design a bookmark, and then pick up a new read! We'll also have a variety of arts and crafts out on the patio of Green Library, near Coupa Café.

Terman Engineering Library | Wednesday, June 3 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Come by the Y2E2 Courtyard to take a break, and pet a dog!

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Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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From Snapshots to Trajectories: Multimodal Longitudinal AI for Oncologic Imaging

Abstract: Current AI in oncologic imaging largely reads single time-point scans, while clinical decisions depend on how disease evolves: how lesions change in size, shape, density, and distribution across serial imaging, and how that aligns with the rest of a patient's record. In this talk, I will give an overview of how my group is working to close this gap.

I will cover three connected research lines. The first develops methods for longitudinal tumor assessment, combining lesion detection, segmentation, and image registration into validated pipelines for treatment response, with multi-reader studies showing reduced reading time and lower inter-reader variability. The second builds shared benchmarks through challenges such as Learn2Reg, ULS23, MAST, and UNICORN. The third tackles the annotation bottleneck by learning efficiently from clinical routine data, from LLM-Extractinator for turning radiology reports into structured labels, to weak-supervision and self-learning strategies that reduce reliance on dense manual annotation.

Together, these directions aim at AI that captures not just what a scan shows, but how disease is evolving.

Bio:
Alessa Hering is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Imaging at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She leads a research group on longitudinal and multimodal AI for oncologic imaging. Her work aims to develop reliable AI tools that support the assessment of cancer progression and treatment response in routine clinical care. This includes methods for image registration, lesion detection and segmentation, foundation model evaluation, and annotation-efficient learning from clinical routine data such as radiology reports.

She received her PhD from Radboudumc in 2022 and previously worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Germany. She is actively involved in international benchmarking initiatives for medical image analysis and foundation models, including Learn2Reg, ULS23, MAST, and UNICORN, and serves on the boards of the MIDL Foundation and the MICCAI Open Data Initiative.

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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We welcome volunteers 10 years old and older. Those between 10 and 14 years old are required to have a guardian actively volunteering alongside them for the duration of the volunteer session.

We reserve the right to cancel volunteer sessions up to two hours in advance. Possible reasons for cancelation are a change in COVID-19 guidelines as outlined by the University or County Officials, excessive heat (90 degree and above), poor air quality, rain or other inclement weather.

We encourage all volunteers to carpool, bike, ride public transportation; there is a charge for parking on all Stanford property. The farm is not responsible for any tickets incurred while volunteering.

UPON ARRIVAL: ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST COMPLETE A SAFETY WAIVER

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*** Ph.D. Thesis/ Oral Defense ***

Compost and Cover Crops for Nutrient Circularity

Anna Gomes

Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 9:30 AM

Turing Auditorium

Department of Earth System Science

Advisor: Dr. Scott Fendorf

Organic waste diversion policies and groundwater nitrate regulations are reshaping nutrient management in California agriculture, creating both new opportunities and new uncertainties for sustainable crop production. This dissertation examines how compost and non-legume cereal cover crops influence nitrogen (N) availability, nitrate-leaching risk, and soil health, with a focus on the “Salad Bowl of the World”, the Salinas Valley, California. Through laboratory incubations and field experiments, I evaluated whether these practices can improve N retention and recycling while remaining compatible with the agronomic and logistical constraints of high-value vegetable production. I investigated: (1) net N availability following co-application of compost and mineral fertilizer in soils differing in texture and fertility; (2) how cereal rye residue C/N ratio and temperature regulate N mineralization after fall incorporation; and (3) how fall versus over-winter cover crop systems affect soil moisture, soil temperature, and nitrate-leaching risk. A key contribution of this dissertation is challenging two common conceptions in nitrogen management: that compost has a predictable fixed N release, and that non-legume cover crops reliably reduce nitrate leaching no matter the management context. I also present the first Salinas Valley field trial focused on fall cover crops.

In Chapter 1, I investigated whether compost can be spread at elevated rates without reducing short-term plant-available N when applied with fertilizer or applied to soil with high residual N. In an 84 d incubation across soils differing in texture and fertility, compost applied alone consistently caused net N immobilization, but co-application with ammonium sulfate offset this effect at moderate compost rates and often supported sustained net mineralization. These responses were strongly shaped by soil type and compost source, with compost N mineralization occurring as transient pulses rather than as a static low release rate. In Chapter 2, I examined how cereal rye residue quality and temperature regulate N release after soil incorporation. A 112 d incubation showed that low C/N rye residues readily mineralized N, whereas high C/N residues immobilized N under cooler conditions and shifted toward mineralization only as temperature increased, demonstrating that residue-derived N supply is highly sensitive to environmental conditions.

For Chapters 3 and 4, I present results from field trials comparing short-duration fall cover crops with traditional over-winter cover crops. Our findings illustrate that fall cover crops can rapidly scavenge residual soil N and adapt more easily into intensive rotations, but their effects on nitrate-leaching risk were less consistent than over-winter cover crops. Timing of cover crop growth more consistently altered soil temperature than soil moisture, and nitrate outcomes depended on residue C/N, rainfall timing, weed pressure, soil type, and post-termination soil moisture and temperature. Overall, my dissertation shows that compost and non-legume cover crops can support improved N management in intensive vegetable systems, but their benefits depend on synchronizing N release with crop demand and hydrologic risk while accounting for soil type. These findings provide critical, data-driven guidance for growers and policymakers to refine nutrient management and cover crop timing, ultimately advancing both agricultural productivity and regional water quality objectives.

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Ceren Uçan is an Assistant Professor of History at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey, and currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. She received her PhD in History from Bilkent University and her MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She holds a BA from Bilkent University and a BSc in Global and International Affairs from Binghamton University, State University of New York. She has previously been a Visiting Scholar at University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies. Her research examines the Ottoman and British Empires, with a particular focus on World War I, propaganda, and the formation of public opinion.

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Katrina Olds (University of San Francisco) presents, "A Picaresque History of Ideas in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic"

The CMEMS Workshop series meets most Wednesdays during the academic year. Lunch is provided. See the CMEMS website for the list of upcoming speakers.

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Learn about the year’s major AI breakthroughs, changes in the workplace, policy shifts, and an evolving public sentiment for this technology. From technical advances to ethical considerations, education trends to economic impact—get the unbiased, data-driven insights that executives, policymakers, and global researchers rely on.The 2026 Index Report provides unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and the general public to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field of AI. Led by a steering committee of influential AI thought leaders, the Index is the world’s most comprehensive report on trends in AI. The 2026 report covers AI trends related to research and development, technical performance, technical AI ethics, the economy, education, policy and governance, diversity and public opinion.

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CME Activity ID: 56188

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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These free events are open to the public.

12:15 - 12:45 pm | Concert
12:45 - 1:15 pm | Tea & cookies

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Admission Information

Free admissionParking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.

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As Earth orbit grows more crowded, the risks we face from re-entering space debris are growing alarmingly. A key challenge that we face in understanding the hazards posed by these objects, and their impact on the environment, is that we cannot easily track them once they enter the terminal phase of disintegration within the atmosphere. In this talk I will discuss how seismic data from open-source networks can be used to offer unprecedented insight into the trajectories, speeds, and fragmentation patterns of items of debris as they re-enter the atmosphere, and the routes that we are taking to turn this finding into an operational pipeline to inform rapid responses to debris fall events.

Bio:

Ben Fernando is the Frederick Reines Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and was previously the Blaustein Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He completed his undergraduate degree at Imperial College London and his PhD at the University of Oxford. He is on the Science Teams for the NASA InSight, Dragonfly, VIPER, Curiosity, and Farside Seismic Suite missions, and is the Project Manager for the AxiSEM3D seismic modelling code.

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This event will be held on the upper level of the Li & Ma Science Library. Enter the library on the 3rd floor of the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning and take the stairs to the 4th floor. For elevator access, stop by the circulation desk to borrow an elevator access keycard or contact the organizers in advance.

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You Are Here is an exhibition that explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. A transportation system can become synonymous with a city or nation, reflecting its change over time, spearheading cartographic innocations, or reifying an entirely new vision for space and place. The individual maps in the exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole.

Curated by the winner of the California Map Society Student Exhibition Competition Jayne Kilander, will be on view through Friday, August 21, 2026. It is also available to view digitally.

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This is for current Earth Systems undergrad and coterm students.

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This series is in collaboration with Prof. Michele Elam’s graduate course on Sylvia Wynter, AFRICAAM 249C, and honors the political, creative, and intellectual legacy of Sylvia Wynter, a former Stanford faculty member in the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese, and former Director of the Program in African and Afro-American Studies.

Key Goals:

1. Showcasing one of Stanford’s most powerful intellectual scholars and cultural critics of the 21st century.

2. Leveraging renewed academic interest in Wynter’s scholarship and writings.

3. Providing a platform for junior scholars and Ph.D students to present their work and network with senior scholars in their field.

Speaker Line-up:

May 6 : "Sylvia Wynter and Black Study: Experiments in Transscalarity" – Umniya Najaer, Ph.D.

Umniya Najaer is an interdisciplinary poet, essayist and Black Studies scholar of Sudanese origin. She is serving as the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder and will start as an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and African and African American Studies in August 2026. Umniya’s writing is invested in activating the human ability to feel what each other feels. Her work is guided by a profound reverence for our planetary home, a duty to protect all lifeforms, and a commitment to oppose all systems of dehumanization, brutality, and death making. Umniya is at work on a scholarly monograph about the Jamaican critical theorist Sylvia Wynter. Umniya’s recent publications include "For My Sisters Who Entered The Nile With Open Eyes," “Disarm Humanity: Meditations from the Third Decade of the Third Millenium,” “Dear Alice: for the Murder of {your} Bastard Child of the Starry-Eyed Tribe Born to Children,” and “Spinning: Zuihitsu Fragment on Ecological and Cosmic Consciousness.” Her poetry chapbook Armeika was published by Akashic Press as part of the First-Generation African Poets series in 2018.

May 20: "Outside our Present Conception of the Human" – Dr. Che Gossett, Ph.D in conversation with Seyi Osundeko (English Ph.D. Student)

Che Gossett is a non-binary writer and critical theorist specializing in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. Their forthcoming work includes a special issue of Social Text, co-edited with Tavia Nyong’o on Sylvia Wynter and the question of technology, and a special issue of Trans Studies Quarterly, co edited with Sora Han, on blackness, transness and psychoanalysis. They also host a podcast, titled FQT podcast, where they are in dialogue with artists, scholars, poets, physicists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers. They hope you will check it out!

May 27: " Reflections on Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology.” – Professor Tavia Nyong’o in conversation with Kay Barrett (English Ph.D. Student & Knight-Hennessey scholar.

Tavia Nyong’o studies Black queer performance, speculative aesthetics, and affective historiography. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (New York University Press, 2018). He co-edited José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown (Duke University Press, 2020) with Joshua Chambers-Letson. His current work spans the performative turn in museum practice, the re-examination of “race” and racism in performance and aesthetics, racial and sexual dissidence in art, and the self-conscious end of unaugmented thought. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Nyong’o is the author of Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World (University of California Press, 2025), which reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore Black speculative thought at the edge of planetary crisis. He continues work on two additional books: a cultural history of race, sex, and gender in postwar Downtown New York, and a public-facing study of the racial reckoning in contemporary art and performance.

(All talks-1.30-2.3pm; Q&A, refreshments-2.30-3.00pm)

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Co-sponsors:
The series is co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Department of English, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), and Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC). Additional support is provided by the Department of Anthropology, the Humanities Center, and the Center for the Study of the Novel.

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Student Grief Gatherings are held 3x/quarter and are facilitated by staff from ORSL, Well-Being, CAPS and GLO. This event is free and open only to Stanford students.

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Our keynote speaker this year is Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt, Dept. of Materials Science Engineering, Stanford University, on “Materials Science @ Stanford: The Last (1919 – 2019) and Next Century”.

We’ll also hear from US-ATMC Visiting Scholars as they present brief remarks on their activities and research findings over the past year.

Agenda:

4:30 PM US-ATMC Update and Strategic Overview from Dr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-ATMC4:50 PM Keynote from Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt, Dept. of Materials Science Engineering, Stanford University on “Materials Science @ Stanford: The Last (1919 – 2019) and Next Century”5:25 PM Break5:35 PM Introductions to research by current US-ATMC visiting scholarsRegistration:

For in-person attendance, please RSVP here.For Zoom, please register here.About Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt:

Reinhold Dauskardt is the Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and has additional appointments as Professor in Mechanical Engineering, the Biodesign Institute and the Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine.

The underlying theme of his research is to enable innovation and design of high-performance materials and devices by exploiting the fundamental connection between material structure and resulting thermomechanical function and reliability. His research group studies the chemistry and molecular structure of materials in bulk form or thin films and their thermo-mechanical behavior, adhesive and cohesive fracture properties, and behavior under complex loading and environmental conditions. Materials include thin-film and layered structures for nanoscience and energy technologies, high-performance laminates, biomaterials and soft tissues.

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About the Film

As the Water Flows (2025, dir. Bian Zhuo, 119 min) is set in Kunming, Yunnan, and follows a retired intellectual and his three daughters' families across three generations. The film offers a portrait of how rapid urbanization and social stratification have reshaped family life and intergenerational relations in contemporary China.

The film has received strong recognition:

• Best Film, Asian New Talent — 27th Shanghai International Film Festival (2025)

• HKAFF New Talent Award — Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

• Official Selection — Vancouver International Film Festival, Alula Film Festival, Silk Road International Film Festival (Best Film & Best Actor)

For more on the director's vision, here is an English-language interview: https://viewofthearts.com/2025/10/23/alula-film-festival-in-conversation-with-bian-zhuo-director-of-as-the-water-flows/`

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This appearance by Jake Miller is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Subscribe to our eCorner YouTube channel, where we bring founders, investors and industry influencers to center stage and invite them to share what it takes to become a disruptor.

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Join us for this free webinar to connect with a supportive community, share experiences, and gain practical advice for achieving lasting diet and lifestyle changes. The Nourish to Flourish monthly webinar series, hosted by the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center, is open to all adults seeking to enhance their knowledge and tools for effective weight management and improved well-being. You don’t need to be a Stanford patient to participate—everyone is welcome!

This webinar will be presented by Kelsi Buckley, MS, RD, CSOWM, who is a registered dietitian and certified specialist in obesity and weight management at Stanford Health Care.

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Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe, M.A., Ph.D., earned her doctorate in Yoga Philosophy from the Graduate Theological Union. Her dissertation, In Search of Sleep: A Comprehensive Study of Yoga Philosophy, Therapeutic Practice, and Improving Sleep in Higher Education, examines the integration of contemplative practices within university settings. She joined the Stanford community in Spring 2024, where she has taught Sleep for Peak Performance and Meditation through Stanford Living Education (SLED), and currently teaches Yoga for Stress Management in the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER). Dr. Ivanhoe is the Founding Director Emeritus of YogaUSC and previously lectured in USC’s Mind–Body Department, where she also served on faculty wellness boards. A practitioner and educator since 1995, she has completed three 500-hour teacher training programs. She has served as the Yoga Spokesperson for Weight Watchers: Yoga, Yoga for Dummies, and Crunch: Yoga, and was the yoga columnist for Health magazine for three years. Her work has appeared in nearly every major yoga and wellness publication. In 2018, she co-created Just Breathe, a yoga, breathwork, and meditation initiative in partnership with Oprah Magazine. She is a recipient of USC’s Sustainability Across the Curriculumgrant and the Paul Podvin Scholarship from the Graduate Theological Union. She currently serves as Interim Director of Events and Operations in Stanford’s Office for Religious and Spiritual Life, where she also teaches weekly contemplative practice classes.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Pooja Rangan is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and currently a Visiting Scholar at Visualizing Abolition, UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the ethics and politics of justice-driven documentary. Rangan is the author of The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025), Thinking with an Accent (coedited, University of California Press, 2023), and Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017). She is currently co-authoring a book with filmmaker Brett Story on documentary as a site of carceral world-building and abolitionist struggle. Rangan is the recipient of the Harry Levin and René Wellek book prizes and co-edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia.

Brett Story is an Emmy nominated and Oscar shortlisted filmmaker and writer whose work pushes the formal boundaries of political cinema. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including at Sundance, New York Film Festival, CPH-DOX, and IDFA. She is the director of four feature films, including The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019), and the author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. The Hottest August was a New York Times Critics’ Pick and was called one of the best documentary films of 2019 by Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, among others. Her most recent feature documentary, Union (2024), co-directed with Stephen Maing, premiered at Sundance 2024 where it won the Special Jury Prize for Art of Change. Union has screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Room 115 is located in the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne White at jgwhite@stanford.edu. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public.

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Stanford acquired Hernandez’s archive (Special Collections, M1301) in 2001.

Archive Room: Ester Hernandez is curated by Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Curatorial Assistant. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Hockwald Fund.

IMAGE: Ester Hernandez, Sun Mad, 1982. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. © Ester Hernandez

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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Stanford acquired Asawa’s archive (Special Collections, M1585) in 2007 with additional materials arriving in subsequent years. To explore Asawa’s archive online, please visit Stanford Libraries’ website.

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa is curated by Kathryn Cua, Curatorial Assistant, Asian American Art Initiative. We gratefully acknowledge sustained support provided by The Robert Mondavi Family Fund.

IMAGE: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.

MUSEUM HOURS
Wed & Fri: 11 AM–6 PM
Thurs: 11 AM–8 PM
Sat & Sun: 10 AM–5 PM
CLOSED: Mon and Tues
We’re always free! Come visit us, https://museum.stanford.edu/visit

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https://events.uconn.edu/event/1540229-conference-refusals-and-kurdish-literature

About This Event

Following the 2025 conference “Kî ne em? Kurdish Literature and Its Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference” at Stanford University, this second edition, Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature, will take place virtually on May 21–22, 2026, hosted by the University of Connecticut.

This interdisciplinary gathering will explore how aesthetic, literary, ethical, and political acts of refusal animate Kurdish literature and its studies. Participants will consider the intersections of literature, resistance, and human rights, and how Kurdish cultural expression engages with or departs from frameworks of empathy, representation, and legibility.

Conference Program

The full conference program is available here.

Please note that the conference begins at 10am EDT (or 7am PDT / 4pm CEST / 5pm Diyarbakir) both days.

Registration

The conference will be held online via Zoom.
Free and open to the public.
The conference runs across two virtual rooms. Please register separately for each room via Zoom to ensure access to all sessions you wish to attend.

Register for Virtual Room 1Register for Virtual Room 2

Keynote Speakers and Creative Roundtable

We are thrilled to announce that the conference will feature keynote presentations by Joanna Bocheńska and Aynur Ünal, as well as two creative roundtables with Selîm Temo, Choman Hardi, and Zêdan Xelef and with Jason Rodriguez Vivrette and Ali Yağız Şen.

Event Sponsors

UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI)UConn Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI)UConn Department of Literatures, Cultures, and LanguagesPATH+ Focal Group, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford UniversitySohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Global Studies, Stanford University

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Did you know that advisors from Fidelity Investments and TIAA provide free individual financial counseling on campus at your convenience? They can offer guidance on the best strategy to meet your retirement goals through Stanford's retirement savings plans.

Contact Fidelity directly to schedule an appointment with a representative to review your current and future retirement savings options:

Fidelity appointment scheduler(800) 642-7131

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Together we’ll explore ways to navigate academic and professional stress, manage anxiety, reflect on identity-related experiences, and address impostor feelings- along with other student-led topics. The group also fosters moments of joy and connection as part of the healing process.

This group is held on Thursdays 8:30-9:30 AM, starting April 16, 2026. Meeting dates for spring quarter are 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, and 5/21. Sessions are both virtual and in-person. In-person dates are 4/23, 5/7, and 5/21.

A meeting with a facilitator is required to join this group. You can sign up on the on "*INTEREST_LIST_SOM_Students_of_Color_GROUP_SPRING_Q" on the Vaden Portal rosters, in the "Groups and Workshops" section. A facilitator will reach out to you to schedule a pre-group meeting.

Open to all registered BioSci PhD/MS, MSPA, and MD students in the School of Medicine.Facilitated by Isela Garcia White, LCSW and Mariko Sweetnam, LCSW

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Curated by Amelie Pak. Library hours: M-Th 9-7pm; Friday 9-5pm; Sunday 12-6pm. Opening reception April 30, 4-5pm.

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RegistrationRegistration for all practitioners - free

To register for this activity, please click HERE.

CreditsAMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ACPE Contact Hours (1.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (1.00 hours), APA Continuing Education credits (1.00 hours), ASWB Continuing Education (ACE) credits (1.00 hours), CDR Continuing Professional Education Units (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours), Occupational Therapy Contact Hours (1.00 hours), Physical Therapy Contact Hours (1.00 hours)

Target AudienceSpecialties - Adolescent Medicine, Family Medicine & Community Health, Genetics & Genomics, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Behavioral SciencesProfessions - Fellow/Resident, Non-Physician, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist, Physician, Psychologist, Registered Dietitian, Registered Nurse (RN), Social Worker ObjectivesAt the conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:
1. Describe how parents of children with medical complexity and rare conditions engage with social media.
2. Identify potential risks of sharing information on social media.
3. Review potential benefits of seeking support through social media.

AccreditationIn support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation
American Medical Association (AMA)
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Stanford Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours.

Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
Stanford Medicine designates this knowledge-based activity for a maximum of 1.00 hours. Credit will be provided to NABP CPE Monitor within 60 days after the activity completion. Pharmacist UAN: JA0000751-0000-26-007-L99-P

ASWB Approved Continuing Education Credit (ACE) – Social Work Credit
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Stanford Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this activity receive 1.00 general continuing education credits.

American Psychological Association (APA)
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU).
If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1CPEU)
RD’s and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy (PT, OT)
Stanford Health Care Department of Rehabilitation is an approved provider for physical therapy and occupational therapy for courses that meet the requirements set forth by the respective California Boards. This course is approved for 1.00 hour CEU for PT and OT.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative. From 2022 to 2023, he was the Director of the N7 Initiative.

In his most recent government service, Shapiro was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from 2024 to 2025, and prior to that was Senior Adviser on Regional Integration in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is a former US ambassador to Israel, serving from 2011 to 2017. Prior to his appointment, he worked as senior director for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council at the White House, following his role as senior policy adviser in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

From 2001 to 2007, Shapiro worked as legislative director and later as deputy chief of staff for then-U.S. Senator Bill Nelson. From 1999 to 2001, he was director for legislative affairs at the National Security Council, serving as congressional liaison for National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. Shapiro also previously served as a staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East and as a senior foreign policy adviser to US Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Shapiro has served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and in 2007, he was named vice president of Timmons & Company. Shapiro was a distinguished visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv from 2017 to 2021. Concurrently, he was a principal at WestExec Advisors.

Virtual Event Only.

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The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1,000 Ways to Hold: A new work by Erika Chong Shuch is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. Thank you to the core team of individuals whose dedication and expertise were essential to the realization of this project, as well as to the incredible community whose hands shaped the work in this exhibition. We gratefully acknowledge generous support provided by the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, The Draper Foundation, Melissa and Trevor Fetter, Carloyn and William Langelier, William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, and the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life.

This exhibition was made possible through the significant commitment of the following individuals: Ellen Oh (producer), Edi Dai (producer), Hideo Mabuchi (ceramics management), Sean Riley (machine design), Crow Cianciola (machine fabrication), Werd Pace (sound design), Tiffany Steinwert (dialogic facilitator), Taylor Jones (videographer), Niharika Gunturu (lead electronics design), Eito Murakami (sound design), Xinyuan Pu (facilitation), Caitlin Main (dramaturg), Yinuo Yu (data specialist), Jason Wilson Navarro-Lopez (data specialist), Heechan Lim (videographer assistant), Miley Sinantha-Hu (project assistant), Jacob Eldred (mechanical design), and Lily Thai (electronics design assistant).

Ceramics production: Sally Jackson, Ryan Schnirel, Grace Potter, Sarah Logan, Scott Parady, Casey Beck, Joan Lin, and Phil Park.

Workshop coordination: Claudia Dorn, Tyler Brooks, Claire Kuan, Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ken N. Lee, Jessica Castillo, Amara Tabor-Smith, Jazlyn Patricio-Archer, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, Kim Beil, Michaela Hulstyn, Jessi Pipert, Jessica Gonzales Chu, Mushi Wooseong James, Craig Adams, Natasha Noel, Sophina McDaniel, Karina Kloos, and Ken Becker.

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Discover an alternative to the paradigm of restrictive eating in this four-session online class series. You will learn the principles of intuitive eating to break free from the illusion of diets, reconnect with your body’s hunger and fullness cues, and adopt self-care practices that truly nourish you. We will explore what has you stuck in a diet mentality and provide practical tips and tools on how to change your thoughts about diets, food, and your body for good.

You will experience small group sharing and discussion, thought provoking self-reflection, and effective home practice which will start you down the road to making peace with your body and rediscovering the joy of eating without depriving yourself. Please be prepared to actively participate in breakout rooms and class discussions.

Note: This course is intended for general health education and an introduction to the Intuitive Eating approach and is not intended to diagnose or treat eating disorders.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points - at least 80% of 3 of the 4 sessions. Request disability accommodations and access info.

Class details are subject to change.

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Speaker-suggested reading: : Tsai VC, Smith LC, Gardner AS, Seroussi H (2022). A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding. Journal of Glaciology 68(268), 390–400. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.10

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The title points to two related ideas. “Second hole” suggests making another way through. If the first opening was made by someone else, under someone else’s rules, then a second hole is a new opening made out of need, pressure, or refusal. Across the exhibition, the artists test existing forms and create alternatives; new routes, new performances, and new ways of holding space.

“Second wave” suggests arriving after something has already begun. These artists are not working from a blank slate. They enter a world shaped by earlier traditions, systems, and expectations. Their work asks what it means to inherit those structures, especially when they have not served everyone equally.

The works do this through a wide range of materials and gestures. Silver gelatin photographs and projected video are obscured, glitched, reflected, and filtered through water and light. Picket signs become bodies. Garments become structures. Debris becomes a foundation. Sculptural elements stretch across the space, creating lines of connection, tension, and interruption. Some works rise, hang, bind, or suspend; others create openings that suggest movement between past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks viewers to move through the space with attention. Some works are loud, direct, and forceful. Others are quieter but no less intense. Sound, reflection, movement, and scale shape how viewers look, pause, and respond. The works invite us to notice our own position in relation to what we see.

These works mark the end of two years of intensive research, experimentation, and art making. They do not present easy conclusions. They hold open questions about history, identity, performance, access, and repair. Together, they imagine other ways of moving through the world, other openings, other futures, another way through.

Jonathan Calm
Curator

On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

VISITOR ADVISORY: Some installations contain loose or small components that may pose a choking hazard. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and should remain closely supervised throughout the exhibition. To protect the artwork and ensure a safe experience for all visitors, touching of artworks is strictly prohibited.

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Rebecca Saxe is the John W. Jarve (1978) Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Associate Dean of Science at MIT. She studies the development and neural basis of human cognition, focusing on social cognition. Saxe obtained her Ph.D. from MIT and was a Harvard Junior Fellow before joining the MIT faculty in 2006. She has received the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MIT Committed to Caring Award for graduate mentorship and is a member of American Academy of Arts and Science.

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Sociologists have produced an impressive body of research explaining how the status quo is reproduced. Yet we have developed far fewer theories that explain how to disrupt the status quo. I argue that we need more research that is solutions-focused, research that develops and evaluates theories of change, not just theories of the status quo. I highlight the benefits of building research partnerships with stakeholders outside the academy when conduction solutions-focused research. Drawing on research on gender biases in the tech industry, I demonstrate how these collaborations can generate new insights onto entrenched social problems while also identifying concrete, theoretically grounded pathways to change.

Shelley Correll is the Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor of Women's Leadership at Stanford University and co-founder and director of the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab. She also serves as associate director of Stanford Impact Labs and president of the American Sociological Assocation. A career highlight was interviewing Ruth Bader Ginsberg about her career, feminism, and women's leadership. She enjoys travel, her dog Sammie, and watching baseball.

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Join us for a conversation with Writer in Residence Moira Donegan and sociologist Katie Gaddini as they discuss how and why right-wing, Christian women have risen to the forefront of American politics.

The 2024 election of Donald Trump was the culmination of the strategic efforts of Christian women over six decades. Gaddini was with them as they organized, rallied, and celebrated. As a former evangelical, Gaddini speaks the language of the Christian Right fluently. In Esther’s Army, she profiles six distinct archetypes: college idealists, anti-feminist powerhouses, Black conservatives, MAHA social media influencers, white suburbanites, and “mama bears” marching on state capitols to ban books and influence gender policy. Observing Christian women’s activism from grassroots networks to conservative academies and law school to public politics and jobs at the White House today – as they borrow feminist rhetoric to “lean in” to their executive skills while rejecting liberal feminism – Gaddini reveals how these women have turned being underestimated into a strategic force.

Gaddini is a visiting scholar at Stanford University; an associate professor of sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London; and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. Her book, Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, on Christian women and conservative politics from 1970 to present is based on more than 10 years of ethnographic research. Her debut book, The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women are Leaving the Church, was based on more than four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single, evangelical women in the U.S. and U.K. She is the co-host of the podcast Blessed & Stressed: Religion and Politics Across the Pond. Katie holds master’s degrees from Boston College and the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Sociology from University of Cambridge. She currently lives in California.

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You Are Here is an exhibition that explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. A transportation system can become synonymous with a city or nation, reflecting its change over time, spearheading cartographic innocations, or reifying an entirely new vision for space and place. The individual maps in the exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole.

Curated by the winner of the California Map Society Student Exhibition Competition Jayne Kilander, will be on view through Friday, August 21, 2026. It is also available to view digitally.

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Low birth rates in the U.S. (and elsewhere) have become a hot topic of conversation – and a cause for major concern among many, including the current Presidential administration. These concerns have given rise to strong claims about the causes and consequences of low birth rates as well as several potential policy responses to reverse recent declines. In this talk, I will provide background on U.S. birth rate trends, review what research shows is likely driving low birth rates, and discuss the population consequences. Further, I will provide an overview of the current U.S. rhetoric around low birth rates, review proposed formal and informal responses to raise birth rates, and discuss whether such responses are likely to be effective. I argue that the current alarmist discussion around low birth rates is, to a large extent, misdirection aimed at obscuring a larger effort to (re)create a hierarchy in the U.S. along sex/gender, race and ethnicity, ability, religion, nativity, and other axes of marginalization. Finally, I conclude with evidence-based suggestions for addressing the impacts of low birth rates for population structure and composition.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo is a family demographer and sociologist. She serves as Director of the Carolina Population Center and is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Guzzo’s research has been funded by multiple grants from federal agencies, including the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch (PDB), the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Science Foundation. She has served on the Boards of the Population Association of America and the National Council on Family Relations. She has been a Deputy Editor for Demography since 2017 and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Transitions, and Journal of Family Theory and Review. She is the chair of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Population section. Dr. Guzzo’s research has been published in top demography and family science journals, and she frequently appears in major news outlets, such as NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal, to provide insight into contemporary childbearing patterns in the U.S.

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Emily Grubert is associate professor of sustainable energy policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is a core faculty affiliate of the Keough School's Pulte Institute for Global Development.

Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the U.S. energy system. Specifically, she studies life cycle socioenvironmental impacts associated with future policy and infrastructure and how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into multicriteria policy and project decisions. Her major methods include scenario analysis, life cycle assessment, survey and interview research, and text mining.

Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Grubert was an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and, by courtesy, public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2019-2022) and the deputy assistant secretary for carbon management at the United States Department of Energy (2021-2022). She holds a Ph.D. in environment and resources from Stanford University.

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This lecture commemorates the 10th anniversary of the David Rumsey Map Center. We are excited to mark our 10th anniversary with discussion of a project that weaves archives and technology together, much in the spirit of the Rumsey Center.

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Designed for researchers considering LLMs for text-intensive work, this workshop will help you understand AI capabilities and limitations to achieve more insightful results.

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"Drupallers Drop-in Web Help" is held every month on the Third Thursday for people to drop in and be helped with any Drupal, Stanford Sites, or other website questions they have (or to drop in and help others). We usually have helpers with experience of:

Stanford SitesDrupalBackdrop CMS (a fork of Drupal 7)React/Next.jsFlaskDjangostraight up HTML, CSS, PHP, and PythonWe meet using Zoom (SUNet or personal Zoom account login required). If we have more than one experienced person helping, we'll make use of Zoom's rooms feature to split into groups. As always, we encourage those waiting to be helped to listen in to others' questions & answers.

Everyone, novice or expert, is welcome to these free sessions. The idea is to help one another: learn from people more expert and help people less expert. So log in any time between 3 and 5 pm to help and/or be helped! Or just drop in to work on web stuff in congenial (virtual) company…

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About the speaker: Philip H. Gordon is the Payne Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. He has served in a number of senior national security decision-making positions in the U.S. government, including as Assistant to the President and National Security Adviser to the Vice President in the Biden Administration and as White House Coordinator for the Middle East and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the Obama Administration. He is the author of numerous books about U.S. foreign policy and international relations including most recently, Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East which was named a "Book for the Century" by Foreign Affairs and writes regularly for the New York Times, Financial Times, Politico, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and other publications.

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This workshop is geared towards parents of children in elementary school, though all are welcome to attend. This session will not be recorded.

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Frontline Lessons from NATO’s Eastern Flank: Deterrence, Resilience, and the Future of Transatlantic Security

Drawing on the firsthand experiences of the Baltic countries on NATO’s Eastern flank, Ambassador of Estonia to the US Kristjan Prikk and former Foreign Minister of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis will explore how the era of renewed great-power competition affects the modern deterrence and resilience of frontline states in Europe.
The discussion will examine the practical integration of military readiness, cyber defense, and societal resilience in response to hybrid threats. How are small countries readying their defense? What lessons from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have we already learned, and what still remains a challenge? And what happens to NATO's credibility when its leading power signals it may no longer treat European defense as a core interest?
Ultimately, the speakers will argue that the future of transatlantic security will be decided not only on the battlefield but also by the choices allied societies make about how they anticipate, withstand, and rapidly recover from complex, multi-domain challenges, and what their societies are willing to endure to ensure freedom.
The discussion will be moderated by Rose Gottemoeller, William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO (2016 to 2019).

Estonia's Ambassador to the U.S. Kristjan Prikk started his mission in Washington, D.C. in May 2021. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and has served as the National Security Coordinator to the Prime Minister. Prior to arriving in D.C., he was the Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defense. Among his previous assignments are two other tours in Washington as an Estonian diplomat and work on NATO-Russia and NATO-Ukraine topics at a time when these relationships were considerably less charged than today.

Gabrielius Landsbergis served as minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania from 2020 to 2024, a pivotal period for the region. He led Lithuania’s diplomatic service guided by the principle of values-based foreign policy. During his tenure, Lithuania emerged as one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine, Taiwan, and freedom fighters worldwide. Before that, he served in the Parliament of Lithuania from 2016, was chairman of the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives), and was elected to the European Parliament in 2014. Prior to entering politics, Gabrielius Landsbergis was a career diplomat. He currently serves as Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Opening remarks will be delivered by University Librarian Michael Keller.

The in-person event is free and open to the public. RSVP is requested.

This event is part of Global Conversations, a series of talks, lectures, and seminars hosted by Stanford University Libraries and Vabamu with the goal of educating scholars, students, leaders, and the public on the benefits of but also challenges related to sustaining freedom.

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How do scholars conceive the relation of their intellectual work to the present moment? How does research in the humanities make a difference in society, in the broader culture, or over the longer term? And especially now, as we experience one crisis after another in the world, what brings one back to the practice of interpretation, argument, and analysis?

Please join us for brief responses to these questions by current fellows, followed by a general discussion with Q&A moderated by SHC Director Roland Greene.

About the Speakers

Amanda Joyce Hall is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a scholar of global anti-apartheid, Black internationalism, and twentieth-century Black world social movements. She earned her doctorate in history and African American Studies from Yale University where she won Fulbright, Ford Foundation, and Newcombe Foundation fellowships to assist her research.

Jesuseyi Osundeko is a PhD Candidate in English at Stanford University. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation investigates practices of self-mourning in women through African and Black diasporic literature. Other areas of interest include postcolonial feminism and creative writing.

Timothy Pantoja is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford. He is a minister and scholar of literature whose research is invested in exploring the ways Black art and literature render the social, relational, and emotional conditions upon which theories and performances of art rely.

Mudit Trivedi, assistant professor of Anthropology at Stanford, is an archaeologist with interests in religious subjectivity, materiality, craft and historical anthropology. His first book project, An Archaeology of Virtue, considers the archaeology of conversion to Islam through the results of an ongoing long-term archaeological project he has co-directed at the site of Indor in Rajasthan, North India. This research bridges archaeological and anthropological conceptualizations of tradition.

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To complement this event, we have asked our fellows to contribute this forthcoming Colloquy. It aims to capture a tumultuous year in public life as seen through the perspectives of fields, methods, and disciplines as well as the personal experiences of those who hold them. Check back for essays, reflections, videos, and more.

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Following a keynote address by US-ATMC Director Dr. Richard Dasher, panelists will discuss how Silicon Valley can add value to its innovation ecosystem through engagement with Japan. Specific topics will include distinctive characteristics of Japan’s innovation ecosystem, domains of particular Japanese science, technology, and innovation strength that offer opportunities for Silicon Valley investors and business partners, and ways to overcome the challenges of partnering with Japan for value creation.

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To attend in-person, please register here.To attend online, please register here.Agenda:

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Registration4:15 PM – 4:20 PM Opening Remarks from Larry Greenwood, Chairman of the Board, Japan Society of Northern California4:20 PM – 4:50 PM Keynote from Dr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-ATMC4:50 PM – 5:30 PM Panel Discussion and Q&APanelists:Ray Hatoyama, Venture Partner, Sozo VenturesEmiko Higashi, Council Member, Industrial Structure Council of Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI)Allen Miner, Founder & Chairman, SunBridge CorpDr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-ATMC (Moderator)5:30 PM – 7:30 PM US-ATMC Spring Reception

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