School of Humanities and Sciences

Laura Hubbard and Richard Roberts provide an introduction for the day-long human rights symposium to discuss, share, and learn about teaching human rights in a wide range of world areas, academic disciplines, and classroom settings. (June 9, 2012)

A panel of speakers discuss teaching about the rights of environmental refugees, the Just War Theory, and human trafficking. (June 9, 2012)

Felisa Tibbits speaks on human rights education in a globalizing world and the responsibility of higher education in fostering human rights. (June 9, 2012)

Tim Maxwell and Enrique Luna present a curriculum project started by Professor Maxwell and developed during the fellowship year. (June 9, 2012)

Sadie Reynolds gives an example of implementing human rights education into a community college classroom using the rights of the detained. (June 9, 2012)

Lindsay Padilla delivers the closing remarks for the 2012 SHREI Symposium, encouraging instructors to teach human rights with intent in community colleges. (June 9, 2012)

Laura Hubbard presents the 2012 SHREI Outstanding Student Project Award to Khin Thiri Nandar Soe for her inspiring work in addressing human rights issues in Burma and the Burmese diaspora. (June 9, 2012)

Steven Pinker argues that, contrary to popular belief, violence has declined over long stretches of time and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our specie's existence. (June 29, 2012)

Kevin DiPirro leads a discussion on his belief in student-centered teaching and discussing an article that looks deeply at this issue. The talk looks at the situation from many different aspects and he discusses the problems that come. (February 11, 2011)

Program in Writing and Rhetoric Professor Kelly Myers discusses the Greek story of the God Kairos and Metanoia as a literary representation of opportunity and regret. (October 1, 2010)

Stanford's MLA Program hosts American writer Lewis H. Lapham to join a discussion on writing and current events. He is the author of 13 books and the editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine. (March 23, 2011)

Dr. Kathleen Frankovic discusses the development of exit polls and their impact on understanding elections and projecting outcomes -- including the run-up to and results of the 2010 United States' mid-term elections. (November 15, 2010)

Martin Evans discusses Europe's preoccupation with America and how they view America. He tells the audience that Europeans are "obsessed" by America. He offers his ideas for why Europeans care so much about the United States of America.

Professor Martin Evans discusses the similarities and differences between Stanford University and Oxford University and the British and America university systems. (April 21, 2010)

Martin Evans, Stanford Professor of English, gives a brief history of the way in which wine and its effects have been treated in western literature from Homer's "Odyssey" and Virgil's "Georgics" through Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." (October 19, 2002)

Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics, argues that the Romans' contribution to our politics should be seen not in their abstract concepts but in their adversarial practices of civic speech. (May 5, 2010)

George Schaller, a Senior Conservationist, discusses the pressing need to conserve the world's natural environments by sharing his discoveries about the animals and habitats that he has researched throughout his career. (February 17, 2010)

Ian Hideo Levy discusses language and identity of a writer as well as the difficulties and rewards of gaining the privilege of writing in the Japanese language as a culturally foreign writer. (February 11, 2010)

Lorrey Lokey Visiting Professor, Donald Light, discusses his thesis that the way drugs are tested, approved, marketed, and regulated routinely causes widespread injury and death, with little off-setting benefit. (November 4, 2009)

Victor Fuchs facilitates a discussion with students on the healthcare systems of other nations and the historical roots of the obstacles facing healthcare reform in the United States today. (December 4, 2009)

Sir Geoffry Lloyd analyzes the social and intellectual institutions that favored or inhibited innovation in the study of science, medicine and religion in ancient Greece, China and Mesopotamia. (November 18, 2009)

Lorrey Lokey Visiting Professor, Donald Light, discusses his thesis that the way drugs are tested, approved, marketed, and regulated routinely causes widespread injury and death, with little off-setting benefit. (November 4, 2009)

Shoucheng Zhang discusses a new class of topological states that have been experimentally realized. These topological insulators have an insulating gap in the bulk, but have topologically protected edge or surface states. (September 10, 2009)

Matthieu Ricard, a monk of the Nyingma order, based at the Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal, is well known as an author, photographer, and lecturer. He has been labeled as the "Happiest Man in the World." (October 13, 2009)

Matthieu Ricard, a monk of the Nyingma order, based at the Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal, is well known as an author, photographer, and lecturer. He has been labeled as the "Happiest Man in the World." (October 13, 2009)

In a conversation moderated by political scientist James Taylor, democratic strategist and political commentator Donna Brazile discusses the first months of the Obama administration and the implications of his presidency for Africa. (April 6, 2009)

Princeton University History Professor Anthony Grafton discusses the role of Jewish and Greek texts and individuals in shaping Renaissance thinkers' version of the ancient world. (April 2, 2009)

Amina Mama addresses the central role of militarism in the history of nation-statehood in specified African context, developing a feminist analysis of colonial rule, military rule, and democratic transitions. (January 27, 2009)

As we’ve evolved, the human stress response has saved our lives. Today, we turn on the same life-saving physical reaction to cope with intense, ongoing stressors - and we can’t seem to turn it off. (September 19, 2008)

Third of three sessions in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks, followed by a brief commentary by a Stanford faculty member and questions from the audience. (April 10, 2008)

Second of three sessions in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks, followed by a brief commentary by a Stanford faculty member and questions from the audience. (April 9, 2008)

First of three sessions in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks, followed by a brief commentary by a Stanford faculty member and questions from the audience. (April 8, 2008)

The fiction of a “private” religious sphere separable from a “public” political sphere becomes particularly problematic in the context of demographic competition between different religious and ethnic groups involved in national struggles. (March 11, 2008)

Stanford Political Science Professor Jeremy Weinstein describes a series of behavioral economics experiments he conducted in Uganda and what the resulting data suggests about the relationship between ethnicity and public goods provisions. (January 22, 2008)

UC San Diego Psychology Professor Mark Appelbaum discusses the challenges presented when large samples cannot be obtained. Decisions during data collection become increasingly important. (January 29, 2008)

Arma Virumque is Professor Dan Edelstein (guitar/vocals), Professor Robert Harrison (guitar), Professor Thomas Harrison (bass), and Alex Harrison (vocals on "Another Brick"). (March 10, 2008)

Buddhism in the Modern World is a joint program of the Buddhist Community at Stanford, the Office for Religious Life and the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies. (January 31, 2008)

The second annual Howard M. Garfield Forum for Undergraduates presents Ethical Responses to Genocide which addresses such questions as "how should we respond to the worst crime known to human beings? (February 27, 2007)

The UN estimates that nearly 250,000 children are participating in war, serving as soldiers, spies and sex slaves. Human Rights Watch expert Jo Becker and Invisible Children filmmakers Laren Poole and Jason Russell speak of their experiences. (3-20-07)

An annual program to honor recently published authors from the Stanford community. From various disciplines, authors present their stories and speak of the creation of their books. (April 21, 2007)

Peter Calthorpe is an award winning urban planner and architect who has been selected by the State of Louisiana to lead their long-term growth and redevelopment planning following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

A special event with former CIA operatives in Tibet during the 1950s.