New FSI/SHC International Scholars Chosen for 2010-11
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The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2010-11 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year.
- Anies Baswedan, currently President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, is a leading intellectual figure in Indonesia. In 2008, the editors of Foreign Policy named him one of the world's "top 100 public intellectuals." As an advisor to the Indonesian government, he is a leading proponent of democracy and transparency in Indonesia, a creative thinker about Islam and democracy, as well as a charismatic leader in the educational field. He was nominated by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
- Stephane Dudoignon is a political scientist/senior research fellow at the EHESS in Paris. He is one of the world's leading scholars of Muslim politics and societies from the Caucasus to Central Asia. He is the author of pioneering work on Muslim movements, including the historical study of Sufi networks from the Volga River to China, Muslim intellectuals' debates about gender, and modern Sunni revivalist movements in Eastern Iran. While on campus, he will give lectures on Islam in Eurasia and Iran, among other things. He was nominated by CREEES, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
- Monica Quijada is a high-profile public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain as well as on the relationship between nineteenth-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies.
- Patrick Wolfe is a historian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a premier historian of settler colonialism, currently working on a comparative transnational history of settler-colonial discourses of race in Australia, Brazil, the United States, and Israel/Palestine. While at Stanford, he will give lectures based on his core work on Australia and also on his forthcoming book Settler Colonialism and the American West, 1865-1904 (Princeton University Press). He was nominated by the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
While at Stanford, the scholars will offer informal seminars and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
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Remembering the Gulag: Varlam Shalamov's Poetics of Memory
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In the Soviet Union speaking about the Gulag was forbidden until the period of perestroika. Nevertheless survivors of the Stalinist concentration camps wrote about the Stalinist practices of terror against the official politics of forgetfulness. Varlam Shalamov’s (1907-1982) prose, especially his “Kolyma Tales”, must be named along with Primo Levi or Jorge Semprun. But his texts rested unpublished for a long time and his aesthetic position is not as well-known as Solshenicyn.
Shalamov understood his own writing as an effort to find a new aesthetic after Kolyma, Auschwitz and Hiroshima. From his point of view, the author should be like Pluto, who came out of the Hades and told the truth about the fragility of man and civilization. The seminar will discuss Shalamov’s strategy of literary memory.
Dr. Franziska Thun-Hohenstein is a researcher at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL, Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies), Berlin. Since 2008, she has been head of the East Europe department at ZFL, and manager of projects on "The Topography of Europe's Plurale Cultures in View of its Eastward Shift," and "Aporias of Forced Modernization: Figurations of the National in the Soviet Empire." Her research topics include memory and autobiographical writing in 20th century Russian literature, cultural topographies, secularization and resacralization between East and West, and figurations of the national in the Soviet Empire. Dr. Thun-Hohenstein studied Russian language and literature at Lomonossow University Moscow.
Her publications include Gebrochene Linien: Autobiographisches Schreiben und Lagerzivilisation (Broken lines: Autobiographical writing and camp-civilisation, Berlin Kadmos 2007). She is editor of the Collected Works of Varlam Shalamov; and, with W. St. Kissel, of Exklusion: Chronotopoi der Ausgrenzung in der russischen und polnischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (München 2006).
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Pigott Hall, Building 260
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Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Researcher, Center for Literature and Culture, Berlin
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Seminars
Nuclear Nonproliferation in Central Asia
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Sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
Jeff Richardson recently retired after 35 years at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory. At LLNL he held a variety of
program management positions, including Division Leader of Chemistry
and later of Proliferation Prevention. He spent two tours in
Washington DC, supporting NNSA in Nonproliferation R&D and DoD in
the USAF Directorate of Nuclear Operations, Plans and Requirements.
His most recent paper, Shifting from a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear
Dyad, explores an alternate future strategy for the US nuclear
arsenal. At CISAC he will focus on science diplomacy, using
science as a tool for international engagement and promoting regional
security. He will also be working on developing the concept of cyber
openness (i.e., how the information revolution will change
international security).
Jeff earned his BS degree in chemistry from CalTech and his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University. His work at
LLNL including chemical and materials science research, energy
research, materials development for nuclear weapons programs,
radiation detection for border security, nuclear materials protection,
and proliferation detection, science cooperation for international
security, and support for the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Bekhzod Yuldashev is a CISAC Visiting Scholar. He served as a consultant-advisor at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2006-2007. Prior to that, he was director-general of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Science from 1990 to 2006. From 1984 to 1990, he served as head of the laboratory in the Physical Technical Institute in Tashkent, where he had been a senior researcher since 1972.
Yuldashev has published about 300 scientific papers dedicated to various subjects of particle and nuclear physics in the wide range of primary energies. His experimental research has revealed or proven important concepts in nuclear energy, and he holds more than 20 patents on nuclear applications.
He is a full member of the Academy of Science of Uzbekistan and served as the academy's president from September 2000 through November 2005. In 2000-2004 he was elected a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and in 2004-2005 was elected a Senator.
He is a fellow of Islamic Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Physical Society. From 1992 to 2002, he was an elected member of the Scientific Council of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, in Dubna, Russia, one of two international nuclear centers in the world. He is also a member of the IAEA's Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Applications, a fellow of the Islamic Countries Academy, and foreign member of the National Academy of Kazakhstan. He is an honorary professor of Samarkand State University and honorary doctor of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (2004). He won the 2004 Economic Cooperation Organization's excellence award in science and technology and the 1983 Uzbekistan State Prize for Science and Technology.
Yuldashev graduated from Tashkent and Moscow Universities in 1968. He earned his PhD in physics and mathematics from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, in 1971.
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Jeffery H. Richardson
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Jeff Richardson is an affiliate and former visiting scholar at CISAC. He came to CISAC after a 35-year career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At LLNL he held a variety of program management positions, including Division Leaders of Chemistry and later of Proliferation Prevention. He spent two tours in Washington DC, supporting NNSA in Nonproliferation R&D and DoD in the USAF Directorate of Nuclear Operations, Plans and Requirements. He recently completed 4-year assignment working for CRDF as the U.S. Science Advisor for the ISTC program, administered by the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction, State Department. At CISAC he is focused on science diplomacy, using science as a tool for international engagement and promoting regional security.
Jeff earned his BS degree in chemistry from CalTech and his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University. His work at LLNL included chemical and materials science research, energy research, materials development for nuclear weapons programs, radiation detection for border security, nuclear materials protection, and proliferation detection, science cooperation for international security, and support for the Chemical Weapons Convention. He has authored over 100 papers. More recent papers include LLNL and WSSX, a contribution to Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian scientists joined forces to avert some of the greatest post-Cold War nuclear dangers, and Shifting from a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad, which explored an alternate future strategy for the US nuclear arsenal.
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Bekhzod Yuldashev
CISAC Visiting Scholar; Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan
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Lectures
The Security Implications of Information Technology
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Abstract
Information
access and distribution is expanding exponentially. Recent technological advancements have created a state of
information openness where the general public has easy access both to a wealth
of information previously available only for select government agencies and to
a large array of communication-collaboration tools that can further develop and
disseminate content. This information, or cyber, openness is having a profound
impact on society at large and has equally profound, if not greater,
implications for international and national security in terms of both
capabilities and vulnerabilities. Nevertheless, many of the potential expanded
capabilities have yet to be realized and many of the new vulnerabilities have
yet to be fully understood. This project aims to illuminate the emerging cyber capabilities from
various viewpoints: users and developers, operational impacts and
vulnerabilities in conflict and crisis management, enhancement and suppression
of democratic development, and future trends: what issues will face society in
the cyber world of 2050?
Alistair Dawson is the Executive Assistant to CISAC’s co-director,
Professor Siegfried Hecker. Prior to her arrival at CISAC, she served
as an Administrative Assistant at the UC Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation in San Diego, California. She obtained a BA in
International Studies with an emphasis in Political Science along with
a minor in European History from the University of California San
Diego. Alistair received additional training in European Politics and
Government while participating in the Education Abroad Program at the
University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
Jeff Richardson recently retired after 35 years at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory. At LLNL he held a variety of
program management positions, including Division Leader of Chemistry
and later of Proliferation Prevention. He spent two tours in
Washington DC, supporting NNSA in Nonproliferation R&D and DoD in
the USAF Directorate of Nuclear Operations, Plans and Requirements.
His most recent paper, Shifting from a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear
Dyad, explores an alternate future strategy for the US nuclear
arsenal. At CISAC he will focus on science diplomacy, using
science as a tool for international engagement and promoting regional
security. He will also be working on developing the concept of cyber
openness (i.e., how the information revolution will change
international security).
Jeff earned his BS degree in chemistry from CalTech and his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University. His work at
LLNL including chemical and materials science research, energy
research, materials development for nuclear weapons programs,
radiation detection for border security, nuclear materials protection,
and proliferation detection, science cooperation for international
security, and support for the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
Alistair Dawson
Executive Assistant to CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker
Speaker
Jeffery H. Richardson
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jeffrichardson@alumni.stanford.edu
Affiliate
Jeff Richardson is an affiliate and former visiting scholar at CISAC. He came to CISAC after a 35-year career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At LLNL he held a variety of program management positions, including Division Leaders of Chemistry and later of Proliferation Prevention. He spent two tours in Washington DC, supporting NNSA in Nonproliferation R&D and DoD in the USAF Directorate of Nuclear Operations, Plans and Requirements. He recently completed 4-year assignment working for CRDF as the U.S. Science Advisor for the ISTC program, administered by the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction, State Department. At CISAC he is focused on science diplomacy, using science as a tool for international engagement and promoting regional security.
Jeff earned his BS degree in chemistry from CalTech and his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University. His work at LLNL included chemical and materials science research, energy research, materials development for nuclear weapons programs, radiation detection for border security, nuclear materials protection, and proliferation detection, science cooperation for international security, and support for the Chemical Weapons Convention. He has authored over 100 papers. More recent papers include LLNL and WSSX, a contribution to Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian scientists joined forces to avert some of the greatest post-Cold War nuclear dangers, and Shifting from a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad, which explored an alternate future strategy for the US nuclear arsenal.
CV
Document
jeffery_richardson_cv.pdf
(114.66 KB)
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