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FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.

The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.

Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.

Forum on Regulatory Science and Biomedical Innovations —Real-World Evidence in Biomedical Product Development and Regulatory Science

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斯坦福大学创新设计研究中心将于 2019 年 6 月 6 日至 8 日在北京大学斯坦福中心 (Stanford Center at Peking University)举办“监管科学与生物医学创新论坛”。 该论坛是一个 高端的国际讨论会议，今年的主题是 — 如何更好的使用真实世界证据对监管决策形成帮助，找 出医学创新产品的安全性和有效性评价中的挑战以及达成需要优先研究的一些共识，同时探索 政府监管部门、大学研究机构、工业界共同合作以应对这些挑战的机制。

Over the last decade, significant strides have been made in medical research, which leads to great improvement in human health. During this period, Chinese government has made important progress in promoting and managing medical innovations. Chinese FDA is now a formal agency member of the international council for harmonisation of technical requirements for pharmaceuticals for human use (ICH). With further integration of China into the global pharmaceutical research and development, how government regulatory agencies, the related law and regulations can promote industry innovation, while enhance their accountability and responsibility remains an important question. This forum is organized to address this need.

This forum provides a platform for high-level discussions on this topic by Chinese and US scholars from academia, experts from the Chinese Food and Drug Administrations, and R&D experts from biomedical industries. On June 7-8, 2019, the forum will host keynote speech sessions, invited talks, and panel discussion sessions. With collaborations from Chinese evidence based medicine association, we will discuss methods and policy related to monitoring drug safety, novel clinical trial design, and applications of modern statistical, AI and machine learning methods in drug development. On June 6, 2019, a one-day short course will be offered on "Statistical Methods for Medical Product Safety Evaluation."

Through this brainstorming and exchange, we want to identify research priorities and collaborative mechanisms for international scholars from academia, regulatory agencies and industry working together to promote biomedical innovations in an efficient and orderly manner.

 

 

SCPKU 

Yiheyuan Road No. 5, Beijing, China

 

Conferences

SCPKU Design Your Life: A 3-day Intensive Program

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One of Stanford’s Best-known Program now in Beijing! The SCPKU Design Your Life Program offers an immersive and transformative experience by applying design principles and design thinking process on our lives and careers. This is an opportunity to approach these lifelong questions with a structured framework to work out your ideas in an interactive, creative, and productive process, which can ultimately lead to a life that is truly meaningful and fulfilling for you.

Give yourself 3 days to figure out what you want to grow into next. 

The Stanford Life Design Lab was founded by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, two Silicon Valley Veterans and authors of No.1 New York Times Bestseller “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life”. The Lab applies design thinking to tackling the "wicked" problems of life and vocational wayfinding. Since its inception in 2006 Life Design classes have quickly become among the University’s best-known programs.

 

PROGRAM LEARNINGS AND OBJECTIVES: 

1) Explore personal & professional aspirations

2) Plot a meaningful and successful life

3) Investigating different/multiple careers

4) Practice design thinking

5) Discuss important issues and questions in a constructive community

 

APPLICATION FROM ALL ARE WELCOMED. This program is particularly useful for:

  • Life and vocational wayfinders, and those are considering changing or advancing careers

  • Executives at start-ups and other companies

  • Headhunters and human resource managers

  • Middle school and higher institution educators

  • Students in their senior years

 

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

Aug 16 (Fri)

17:00 – 18:00

Dinner

18:00 – 20:30

Introduction, Wayfinding Map and Visual Thinking

Aug 17 (Sat)

8:15 – 9:00

Breakfast & morning reflections

9:00 – 12:30

Intro to Design Thinking, Storycrafting, 36 Questions, 3 Archetypes and Workviews

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:45

Impact Map, Iceberg Problem and Info Interviewing

15:00 – 18:30

Elevator Conversation & Urm Experiences Connection, Ode, Coherence, Worldview/Workview Integration

18:30 – 19:30

Dinner

Aug 18 (Sun)

8:15 – 9:00

Breakfast and morning reflections

9:00 – 12:30

Practices and Ways of Knowing, Flow, Brainstorming & Wild Ideas, Odyssey Planning

12:30 – 14:00

Luncheon Talk with Prof. WANG Ge

14:00 – 15:15

Gummy Challenge + Prototyping and Decision-Making 

15:30 – 17:30

Learnings and Unlearnings, 25 Reunions, Awarding Certificate of Completion

 

APPLICATION: http://web.stanford.edu/~lapli/designyourlife.fb

VENUE: Stanford Center at Peking University

LANGUAGE: In English with Chinese translation

TUITION FEE: 12,000 RMB (1,780 USD) class materials and meals included

INQUIRY: lapli@stanford.edu (Eng) or sanjiu39@stanford.edu (86) 10-62744163 (Chin)

 

 

Stanford Center at Peking University
The Lee Jung Sen Building
Langrun Yuan
Peking University
No.5 Yiheyuan Road
Haidian District
Beijing, P.R.China 100871

 

Workshops

Can Nationalism Be A Resource for Democracy? Lessons From Asia

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Inequality has long been widely and rightly seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy. For political scientists, the most lethal kind of inequality for democracy is some form of economic inequality. In this project, I adopt a more historical and ideological approach to the question of how inequality threatens democracy. Specifically, focusing on twentieth-century post-colonial contexts, I argue that inequalities of citizenship that are historically grounded in founding narratives of nationalism are also detrimental to a country’s democratic prospects across time.

 

Speaker Bio:

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Maya Tudor is Associate Professor in Politics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Her research investigates the historical origins of stable, democratic and effective states across the developing world, with a particular emphasis upon South Asia. She was educated at Stanford University (BA in Economics) and Princeton University (MPA in Development Studies and PhD in Politics and Public Policy). She has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy and currently, at Stanford University's Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is the author of “The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan.” She is currently writing a comparative study of nationalisms and democracy.

Maya Tudor Associate Professor in Politics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan

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EMERGING ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA

A Special Seminar Series

RSVP required by Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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ABSTRACT: Why have the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - all expanded their activism since the late 1970s despite the unfavorable domestic political environment? My investigation into the history of the three groups finds an answer in the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Drawing on interviews and archival data, I document the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists, which changed the prevalent understanding about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time, catalyzing substantial gains for the minority movements. Having benefited from global human rights, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of international human rights principles and instruments. The in-depth historical comparative analysis offers rare windows into local, micro-level impact of global human rights - complementing my other projects on the relationship between international human rights and local politics, which employ cross-national quantitative analyses - and contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions, social movements, human rights, ethnoracial politics, and Japanese society. 
 
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
PROFILE:   Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018), and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Science Foundation grants, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010, 2013), Human Rights (2017), Asia and Asian America (2018), and Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018).
 

 

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Kiyoteru Tsutsui Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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SCPKU announces its newest fellows

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Faculty Fellow:

  • Gerald Fuller - Professor, School of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, July-August, 2019

Pre-Doctoral Fellows:

  • Yunxin Li - History, August – September, 2019
  • Kyueun Lee – Medicine/Health Research and Policy, July – September, 2019
  • Jaemin Jee – Political Science, March 2019 – March 2020
  • Robert Xu - Linguistics, March – April, 2019

 

Graduate Seminars:

Title: " Chinese Corporations:  A Case Study Workshop "

  • Dates: June 17-July 5, 2019
  • Instructor: Andrew Walder, Professor of Sociology and FSI Senior Fellow
  • Eligibility: Enrolled Stanford University students in good academic standing
  • Stanford student application deadline: April 15, 2019
  • Read more and apply here

 Title: " Rheology of Complex Liquids"

  • Dates: July 15- August 2, 2019
  • Instructor: Gerald Fuller, Professor of Chemical Engineering, the School of Engineering
  • Eligibility:  Enrolled Stanford University students in good academic standing (class is full)
  • Read more here
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Marriage, Fertility and Rapid Population Aging: Japan’s Distinctive Demographic Landscape

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EMERGING ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA

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RSVP required by Friday, April 29, 2019

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ABSTRACT:  Japan’s population is the oldest in the world and will continue to shrink for the foreseeable future. My first goal in this talk is to provide an overview of Japan’s distinctive demographic landscape, focusing on rapid population aging and its policy implications while also emphasizing the role that declining rates of marriage have played in accelerating population aging via their impact on fertility. After describing the centrality of marriage behavior to our understanding of demographic and societal trends in Japan, my second goal is to present results of new research documenting an unexpected reversal in educational differences in women’s marriage. For decades, highly-educated women have married later and more often remained unmarried than their less-educated counterparts – a pattern thought to reflect the high opportunity costs of marriage in Japan’s gender inegalitarian society. However, my analyses of recent data show that women with a university degree are now more likely than high school graduates to marry, a shift that hints at the possibility of changing norms and expectations regarding women’s employment and economic contributions to the family. Concurrent trends toward continued decline in marriage among low-educated men and women are consistent with emphases on the deteriorating economic circumstances of this group.
 
James Raymo
PROFILE:   Jim Raymo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the current Director of Graduate Training of the Center for Demography of Health and Aging and the former Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology. Raymo’s research focuses primarily on evaluating patterns and potential consequences of major demographic changes in Japan. He has published widely on key features of recent family change, including delayed marriage, extended co-residence with parents, and increases in premarital cohabitation, shotgun marriages, and divorce. In other lines of research, he has examined health outcomes at older ages in Japan and their relationship with family, work, and local area characteristics and has examined multiple dimensions of well-being among the growing population of single mothers and their children in Japan. He is currently involved in a new project that explores explanations for low fertility in Japan and another that examines inequalities in children’s development in Japan. His research has been published in top U.S. journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, and Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences as well as in Japanese journals. 
 
 

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China Scholars Program online course now accepting applications for Fall 2019

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Applications opened yesterday for the China Scholars Program, an intensive, college-level online course on contemporary China for U.S. high school students. The China Scholars Program is offered by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Stanford University, and is open to rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. The Fall 2019 online course will run from late August through December. Applications are due June 15, 2019.


Stanford University China Scholars Program for high school students
Fall 2019 session (late August through December)
Application period: April 15 to June 15, 2019
 

Accepted applicants will engage in a rigorous academic exploration of key issues in China, spanning politics, economics, social issues, culture, and the arts, with an emphasis on the relationship between the United States and China. In real-time conversations with leading scholars, experts, and diplomats from Stanford University and other institutions, participants will be exposed to the cutting edge of U.S.–China relations and scholarship. Students who complete the online course will be equipped with a rare degree of expertise about China and international relations that may have a significant impact on their choice of study and future career.

As in previous sessions of the China Scholars Program, the Fall 2019 cohort will comprise high school students from across the United States. Participants in the current cohort represent states across the nation, including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona, California, and Hawaii. The immense diversity of student backgrounds and experiences within each online course allows for an especially rich exchange of ideas and perspectives among the young scholars—a crucial and invaluable component of the learning experience.

“It’s been one of the most fascinating, valuable, and formative classes I have ever taken,” says Rebecca Qiu, a recent alum of the program. “Every week, you discuss pressing topics—from technology censorship to the urban-rural divide—with your motivated peers. During virtual classes, you have the opportunity to ask questions and speak with some of the most influential experts and researchers on modern China—I cannot emphasize how valuable this is. [The China Scholars Program] provides you with a huge breadth and depth of knowledge on China and U.S.–China relations that you cannot find in any typical high school class.”

More information on the China Scholars Program is available at http://chinascholars.org. Interested high school students can apply now at https://spicestanford.smapply.io/prog/china_scholars_program/. The deadline to apply is June 15, 2019.

To be notified when the next China Scholars Program application period opens, join our email list or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The China Scholars Program is one of several online courses for high school students offered by SPICE, Stanford University, including the Reischauer Scholars Program (on Japan), the Sejong Scholars Program (on Korea), and the Stanford e-Japan Program (on U.S. society, offered to high school students in Japan).

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Fertility Behavior and Fertility in China: Past, Present and Near Future

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China possesses a large amount of historical demographic data showing that it has been a population giant in the world for at least two thousand years. Partly for this reason, a number of conclusions or suggestions about China’s past fertility regime have been widely accepted. Recent historical demographic investigations, however, have shown that many of these conclusions or suggestions are incorrect and need further consideration. This presentation reports these research findings and briefly examines China’s recent fertility changes. On the basis of that it makes some comments on major characteristics of China’s current fertility patterns and factors affecting fertility changes in the near future.

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Zhongwei Zhao graduated from University of Cambridge with a PhD in 1993. Since then he has worked at the East-West Center, Hawaii, University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and University of Cambridge. Since 2008, he has been a professor at the School of Demography at the ANU. Zhao has been doing research in the following research areas: Historical demography, Computer microsimulation, Fertility, Mortality, Changes in kinship structure and household composition, Famine demography, Inequality in population health, Environmental impacts on mortality changes, and Population changes in Asia. He has co-edited three books (including recent Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography) and published many articles and book chapters by leading demography journals and academic publishers.  

Zhao, Zhongwei Professor, The School of Demography at the Australian National University
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Social Voting in Semi-Authoritarian Systems

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In dominant-party states, why do individuals vote in elections with foregone conclusions when they are neither bought nor coerced? I propose that a social norm of voting motivates turnout in these least-likely contexts. Motivated by the belief that regimes reward high turnout with public goods, citizens view elections as an opportunity for community-wide benefit and use social sanctions to enforce the norm. Using lab-in-the-field voting experiments together with survey data, I document the strong influence of a social norm of voting in two semi-authoritarian states in east Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. I find that norm compliance is driven by those most dependent on their local community. This project helps to explain high turnout in elections, individual-level variation in voting behavior, and authoritarian endurance. The results suggest that rather than government accountability, elections may instead be about local accountability to one's community.

 

Speaker Bio:

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Leah is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France and a research affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB. She received her PhD in political science from MIT in 2018. Leah studies political behavior in sub-Saharan Africa and examines questions of citizen engagement, compliance, and government accountability. Her current book project investigates how social norms of voting help to explain high turnout in dominant-party states in East Africa. She is also working on a project on urban informality in Lagos, Nigeria. Before starting graduate school, Leah worked as the program manager at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in Nigeria.

 

Leah R. Rosenzweig

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CDDRL Postdoctoral Scholar, 2020-21
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My research centers on topics in comparative politics and the political economy of development. I focus on the micro-foundations of political behavior to gain leverage on macro-political questions. How do autocrats survive? How can citizen-state relations be improved and government accountability strengthened? Can shared identities mitigate out-group animosity? Adopting a multi-method approach, I use lab-in-the-field and online experiments, surveys, and in-depth field research to examine these questions in sub-Saharan Africa and the US. My current book project reexamines the role of elections in authoritarian endurance and explains why citizens vote in elections with foregone conclusions in Tanzania and Uganda. Moving beyond conventional paradigms, my theory describes how a social norm of voting and accompanying social sanctions from peers contribute to high turnout in semi-authoritarian elections. In other ongoing projects, I study how national and pan-African identification stimulated through national sports games influence attitudes toward refugees, the relationship between identity, emotions, and belief in fake news, and how researchers can use Facebook as a tool for social science research.

postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France
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