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Tue
April
21
Date
Tue April 21st 2026, 4:30pm - 5:50pm
Location
Bishop Auditorium
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Each year, our series “Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries" surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley…

Tue
April
28
Date
Tue April 28th 2026, 4:30pm - 5:50pm

In this Zoom-only session, Masashi Sato, Co-Founder, Director & Chief Strategy Officer for SPACETIDE Foundation, will share an overview of Japan’s rapidly evolving commercial space sector and…

Tue
April
28
Date
Tue April 28th 2026, 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Oshman Hall

Edhi Alice is a film project consisting of two feature-length documentaries that are both the same and yet different: Edhi Alice: Take and Edhi Alice: Reverse…

Thu
April
30
Date
Thu April 30th 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

From the 1940s to the 1960s, state-led soil and water conservation campaigns remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people.

Tue
May
5
Date
Tue May 5th 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Lathrop Library
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305
224

In both existing scholarship and popular accounts, in both China and elsewhere, the term "market reform" has been overwhelmingly deployed as the master conceptual device through which to…

Thu
May
7
Date
Thu May 7th 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Lathrop Library
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305
224

In 17th-century Japan, the rapid urbanization of Tokugawa society and the formation of a market economy led to the rise of a new social class of merchants and artisans: the “townsman” (chōnin…

Tue
May
12
Date
Tue May 12th 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Lathrop Library
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305
224

In a 2013 speech on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, President Xi Jinping suggested that China’s socialist revolution created the theoretical, material, and…

Wed
May
20
Date
Wed May 20th 2026, 4:30pm
Location
Encina Commons 123
615 Crothers Way Stanford, CA 94305

US-Asia Technology Management Center (US-ATMC) Director Dr.

Wed
May
20
Date
Wed May 20th 2026, 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Building 200, History Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305
303

Join us for a screening of "As the Water Flows (翠湖)," a 2025 Chinese feature film directed by Bian Zhuo.

Thu
May
21
Date
Thu May 21st 2026, 4:30pm - 5:50pm
Location
Bishop Auditorium
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Dominic McDonald, Founder & CEO of ULAP, will share his entrepreneurial journey building a global telecommunications platform, highlighting lessons on cross-border growth, leadership, and…

Thu
May
21
Date
Thu May 21st 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Lathrop Library
518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305
224

Under what conditions does compassion become altruism, a selfless act without any expectation for reward? Who is moved to share suffering, even when doing so comes at one’s own expense?