For the past three years, the Women's Policy Summit has convened an exciting group of leaders to build networks, outline policy issues, and encourage elected officials and candidates for office to support the future of women and families in San Francisco. This year the Summit will unite an even larger group from the women's community and its allies to address gender parity in politics and business, affordable housing, education, safety, and how to build community through urban development.
The Archaeology Center will host an open house from 1-3 pm. Director of the Archaeology Center Lynn Meskell will give a talk titled, “Archaeology, heritage and global politics”.
This annual welcome dinner serves as the kick-off event for the Women's Community Center and a fantastic opportunity for Stanford's graduate women to make social and academic connections and learn about resources available at the WCC and across campus. This event is sponsored by the Women's Community Center. The Clayman Institute is a co-sponsor of this event.
Welcome back party for all faculty, students and staff affiliated with the Archaeology Center.
Barbara Strauch, New York Times health/medical science editor & author of The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain and The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids, will be the second speaker in the Stanford Center on Longevity Distinguished Lecture Series. The Center created the lecture series to spotlight the changes, challenges and opportunities of a rapidly aging population.
Join us for a reception featuring Heike Liss and her exhibit of photographs, "Home is When I Belong". Heike Liss is a German born artist who spends her time living, working, and traveling in California and Europe with her husband and children. She works in video, photography, site-specific installation, and public intervention to explore day-to day life, and recently she has also acted as a curator. Her work has been shown in museums, galleries, and film festivals across the United States...
A talk by Kratter Visiting Professor Johannes Dillinger, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Oxford Brookes University. Dillinger will discuss the three oldest Holy Blood shrines in long term perspective, comparing the legends and their origins, examining the forms the cults of the Holy Blood took (including pilgrimages), and discussing the interrelation of the shrines with each other, with critical theologians, and with the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome and the diocese of Constance.
A talk by Kratter Visiting Professor Johannes Dillinger, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Oxford Brookes University. Dillinger will explore the forms and conditions of political representation among the peasantry in a number of pre-revolutionary German principalities, adding a new dimension to the historiography of rural communalism and the role it played in the large-scale process of state building.
"Home is When I Belong" is an exhibition that brings together photographs from two series of works by Heike Liss, a German born artist who spends her time living, working, and traveling in California and Europe with her husband and children. The first series, "home/away" (since 2002), contains photographs taken in hotel rooms during the artist’s travels. Liss says: “I think of these images as portraits that speak of a sense of a lack of belonging: in a place, in a time, in the world.” The...
Classes Without Quizzes (CWOQs) are a unique academic highlight of Reunion Homecoming Weekend. Get back into the classroom with thought-provoking seminars and exploratory walking tours; bring your kids along to share the Stanford experience. CWOQ's are open only to those registered for Reunion Homecoming Weekend and not the general public.
