Delphine Red Shirt is a lecturer at the Special Language Program of Stanford University.  She served as the Chairperson of the United Nations NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, and as the United Nations Representative for the Four Directions Council: International Indigenous Organization with access to the UN. She received her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in Creative Writing from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. from Arizona University. She is the author of Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood, Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter, and George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition, which has been translated into Chinese for distribution in November 2018. Delphine is dedicated to the historical narrative and promotion of oral literature.

Registration:

http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/delphineredshirt.fb

Sociologists have struggled to come up with systematic ways of thinking about, and defining, the important concept of taken for grantedness. It remains unclear what exactly gets taken for granted and what this means. A recent theoretical work, Concepts and Categories: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis, proposes a new approach tied closely to research on cognition. Hannan will discuss how the new line of research builds on a probabilistic notion of concepts, and how people use their concepts to form expectations about what kinds of features an instance of a concept is likely to have. He will also examine the use of concepts to make judgements about individual objects, whether an object is or is not an instance of the concept.

REGISTRATION LINK:     

http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/michaelhannan.fb

After a successful launch of the first “Essential Interpersonal Dynamics” (EID) China program in July 2018, we are pleased to announce that the 3rd session will take place in December 27-30, 2018, at the Stanford Center at Peking University. The program aims to help increase our ability to forge strong relationships with others, to improve emotional intelligence and leadership through better communications with self and others. The program is adapted from Interpersonal Dynamics, one of most acclaimed and long-running programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, known to many as “Touchy Feely”. 

The program is being launched following a 2-year pilot overseen by Interpersonal Dynamics faculty member Leslie Chin in which the program design was adapted to Chinese culture and context. Participants will be awarded a certificate issued jointly by Dr. David Bradford, Stanford Graduate School of Business Eugene O’Kelly II Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Leadership and Co-founder of the Interpersonal Dynamics Program, and Leslie Chin, Interpersonal Dynamics faculty member and lecturer in Management. 

Program dates:  December 27 – 30, 2018

Venue:               Stanford Center at Peking University, Beijing

Language:          English

Program fee:      RMB 18,600

Deadline for registration: November 30, 2018

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Schedule:

Dec 27              17:00 – 22:00 (dinner included, from 17:00 – 17:30)

Dec 28              9:00 – 21:00 (lunch & dinner included)

Dec 29              9:00 – 21:00 (lunch & dinner included)

Dec 30.             9:00 – 16:00 (lunch included)

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Given the small group size and interactive nature of the program, successful applicants must commit to staying throughout the program. Interviews are required for admission. For more information, please contact lapli@stanford.edu. 

To register, please fill in the form by November 30^th:

http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/EIDP2018Dec.fb

After a successful launch of the first “Essential Interpersonal Dynamics” (EID) China program in July 2018, we are pleased to announce that the 2nd session will take place in August 23-26, 2018, at the Stanford Center at Peking University. The program aims to help increase our ability to forge strong relationships with others, to improve emotional intelligence and leadership through better communications with self and others. The program is adapted from Interpersonal Dynamics, one of most acclaimed and long-running programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, known to many as “Touchy Feely”. 

The program is being launched following a 2-year pilot overseen by Interpersonal Dynamics faculty member Leslie Chin in which the program design was adapted to Chinese culture and context. Participants will be awarded a certificate issued jointly by Dr. David Bradford, Stanford Graduate School of Business Eugene O’Kelly II Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Leadership and Co-founder of the Interpersonal Dynamics Program, and Leslie Chin, Interpersonal Dynamics faculty member and lecturer in Management. 

Program dates: August 23 – 26, 2018

Venue: Stanford Center at Peking University, Beijing

Language: English

Program fee: RMB 18,600

Deadline for registration: August 2, 2018

Schedule:

August 23        17:00 – 21:00 (dinner included, from 17:00 – 17:30)

August 24        9:00 – 21:00 (lunch & dinner included)

August 25        9:00 – 21:00 (lunch & dinner included)

August 26        10:00 – 14:00 (lunch included)

Given the small group size and interactive nature of the program, successful applicants must commit to staying throughout the program. Interviews are required for admission. For more information, please contact lapli@stanford.edu. 

To register, please fill in the form by August 2^nd:

http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/essentialAug2018.fb

There are many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, a healthcare system in crisis, and educational systems that are failing to produce creative, innovative thinkers to solve tomorrow’s problems. Technology influences behavior, and I believe when we balance it with revolutionary design, we can reduce a family’s energy and water use by 50%, double most people’s daily physical activity, and educate any child anywhere in the world to a level of proficiency on par with the planet’s best students. I will illustrate how we are addressing these grand challenges in our research by building systems that balance innovative user interfaces with intelligent systems. I will close with a description of our recent work in creating a new engineering discipline of hybrid physical+digital spaces, buildings that sense and infer the state of people – their behaviors, emotions, health and learning – and in response dynamically adapt the information technology and the non-structural materials in these spaces to enhance human wellbeing in sustainable ways.

James Landay is a Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He specializes in human-computer interaction. He is the founder and co-director of the World Lab, a joint research and educational effort with Tsinghua University in Beijing. Previously, Landay was a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech in New York City and prior to that he was a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. From 2003 through 2006 he was the Laboratory Director of Intel Labs Seattle, a university affiliated research lab that explored the new usage models, applications, and technology for ubiquitous computing. He was also the chief scientist and co-founder of NetRaker, which was acquired by KeyNote Systems in 2004. From 1997 through 2003 he was a professor in EECS at UC Berkeley. Landay received his BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1990, and MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His PhD dissertation was the first to demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools. He was named to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2011 and as an ACM Fellow in 2017. He formerly served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee.

To register, please fill in the form below: 

http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/jameslanday.fb

Date:        July 3^rd, 2018

Time:        17:00 – 17:45 Performance; 17:45 – 18:20 Sharing and discussion 

Registration link: https://yoopay.cn/event/78672656 

The Theora Trio is a dynamic group of Stanford students who share a deep love and appreciation for classical music. They are the first prize winners of the 2013 American Protégé International Competition (Chamber Music Division) and the 2013 Schoenfeld International String Competition (Youth Chamber Music Division).

“We are a group of Stanford students who keep finding ourselves coming back to classical music. Admist the iPhones and the Fitbits, we keep hammering away alone in dimly lit practice rooms on these clunky instruments made of wood.

Why? A computer could effortlessly produce the sounds we labor so intensely to make. Maybe we’re crazy. Maybe we’re onto something. We don’t have definite answers. But we’re still playing, so join us as we wonder aloud, through music and words, about what in this centuries-old art keeps speaking to us in these fast-moving times.”

Danna Xue, Cello

Danna is a junior student at Stanford University studying Mechanical Engineering. She has previously researched with Stanford’s Computer Science Department and worked at StartX.  Danna studied with her mother Pin Fei Tang, professor at La Sierra University, and Cal state LA for nine years. She currently studies with professor Christopher Costanza at Standford , cellist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Danna  received first prize in the 2017 Stanford Concerto Competition, 2013 ASTA-LA competition, the 2014 Colburn Music Academy Concerto Competition, the 2013 American Protégé International Music Talent Competition, and the 2013 Schoenfeld International String Competition at Youth Chamber Music Division and Youth Aficionado Division.

Niuniu Teo, Piano

Niuniu Teo studied piano with Yoshikazu Nagai at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for six years, and continued her studies under Thomas Schultz at Stanford. She has participated in competitions at state and national levels, winning first place at the Pacific Musical Society’s Centennial Competition, as well as first place at the MTAC 2015 Concerto competition, among others. At Stanford, she participated in several chamber music groups and won first place in the Stanford Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerto competition in 2015, and performed as their soloist in 2016 in Bing Concert Hall. She graduated from Stanford in 2016 with a major in History and minors in Creative Writing and Economics. She recently earned her Master’s in China Studies from Peking University and will continue her study as a History PhD student at the University of Chicago next year.

Shannon Xue, Violin

Shannon Xue graduated from Stanford with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and from the Stanford School of Medicine with a Masters in Science in Community Health and Prevention Research in 2018. She is the founder of former director of SHIFT and health++ and the General Director of ImpactMed. In fall 2018, Shannon will be joining McKinsey’s healthcare team in Silicon Valley. Shannon has studied violin with her father, professor Suli Xue, violinist at the Los Angeles Philharmonic since the age of seven. She has been studying her violin at Stanford with Professor Geoff Nuttall, the first violinist of St. Lawrence String Quartet.  In 2013 Shannon won first prize in Solo and Chamber Music at American Protégé International Music Competition, and Schoenfield International String Competition in Youth Chamber Music Division and Youth Aficionado division in Hong Kong.

Program

1)  Piano Trio No.4 in Bb Major Op. 11                                                    L.V. Beethoven

         3rd Movement (Theme and Variation)           

2)  Theme from The Butterfly Lovers                                      He Zhanhao, Chen Gang

                                                                                                      Arr.  Jiang Yan / Jiang Yin

3)  Five Pieces for violin, Cello and Piano                                         Dmitri Shstakovich              

4)  Trio No.1 in B Major,   Op.8                                                             Johannes Brahms

        1st Movement  ( Allegro con brio)

5)  Jasmine Flower (Chinese Folk Tune)                                             Arr.  George  Chen

6)  Invierno Porteno   (Winter)                                                                   Astor Piazzolla

7)  Primavera Portena   (Spring)                                                                 Astor Piazzolla

The United States is in the midst of a profound paradigm shift in racial demographics: the latest Census revealed that over 12 million Americans identify as being multiple races and political scientists estimate that a full 20% of the population will identify as multiracial by 2050. Multiracials are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S. along with Latinos and Asian Americans (especially those of Chinese, Korean and Filipino descent) and very soon Whites will no longer be a majority.

This talk addresses some of the most pressing question:Why is this change happening? How are ideas about race and ethnicity changing in the U.S.? What are the political and cultural impacts of these changing demographics, and especially of what some have called the rise of “Generation Ambiguous”?

This event is co-organized with the Peking University School of Foreign Languages.

REGISTRATION:

https://www.eventbank.cn/event/15706

Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 05:00 PM until 06:00 PM

Peking University
Atrium M11
Beijing 100871
China

This event is intended for students and recent alumni of this university. If this doesn't sound like you, find an event that's open to the public or hosted by your school by visiting our events calendar.

Please join us to learn more about the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program at Stanford University. Each Knight-Hennessy Scholar will receive full financial support to pursue a degree in any of the 145+ graduate programs at Stanford - from PhDs in education, engineering, humanities, and sciences to professional degrees like JD, MBA, MD, or MFA.

Our application will open on May 1, 2018 for enrollment in fall 2019. You are eligible to apply if you earned (or will earn) your bachelor's degree in 2014 or later.

The event will include a presentation covering Stanford University, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, and the admission process. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions of an Admission Officer. 

REGISTRATION: https://apply.knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/register/Peking2018