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Book: "Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past", written by Amir Eshel

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Bringing together postwar German, Israeli, and Anglo-American literature, Professor Amir Eshel (German Studies and Comparative Literature) traces a shared trajectory of futurity in world literature.

For a full synopsis, please visit the publication website by clicking on the book title below.

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Globalization's Losers Responding? Foreign Direct Investment and Voting in Israel's Development Towns

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When do people perceive themselves to be losing out from international economic integration?  Do these perceptions translate into vote change? Existing literature studies gain and loss from economic integration as a function of its objective material effect and political preferences that follow are assumed to reflect concerns about a broader set of social outcomes that they associate with economic openess, particularly reentment about relative deprivation.

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SPRIE hosts Innovation Talent Roundtable

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Roundtable participants from Chile, China, Denmark, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States. 
From executive boardrooms to national capitols, leaders are debating the relative merits of contending models and strategies for attracting, developing, and empowering innovation talent--the people who drive economic growth and value creation through innovation.
 
On June 28, 2013, the Silicon Valley Project of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) convened a circle of over 50 policymakers, executives and Stanford community members from 12 countries for an interactive roundtable on innovation talent at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 
Professor Baba Shiv sharing insights from the field of neuroeconomics in “The Rx for Innovation.”
The roundtable featured six sessions, giving participants the opportunity to explore various aspects of the topics, including learning about "Accelerating the Next Generation of Innovation Talent" from Cameron Teitelman, Founder and CEO of StartX, and Divya Nag, the Founder of StartX Med. Participants also learned about the role of neural structures and their implications for marketing, innovation, leadership and decision making from Baba Shiv, the Sanwa Bank, Limited Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 
Topics of discussion included:
  • What are key data and trends for innovation talent in Silicon Valley?
  • What strategies are places such as London, Taiwan and Israel employing to become hotbeds of innovation that attract innovation talent?
  • How can companies successfully manage and empower their innovation talent? What best practices have been learned?
  • What insights and implications into innovation talent can be gathered from recent research?
  • How are universities innovating through programs such as Stanford's StartX and the d.school?
Evan Wittenberg (center), the Senior Vice President of People at Box, speaking on optimizing the management of innovation talent with moderator Greg McKeown (right), CEO of THIS, Inc., and Kyung H. Yoon (left), the CEO of Talent Age Associates.
The panelists and speakers included professors, senior executives, and representatives from the diplomatic missions of Israel and the United Kingdom. In a panel moderated by Greg McKeown, CEO of THIS Inc., Evan Wittenberg, Senior Vice President of People at Box, and Kyung H. Yoon, CEO of Talent Age Associates, spoke about their experiences effectively hiring and managing innovation talent. One participant at the roundtable reflected that "it was quite a remarkable group of speakers and I was able to grasp many important insights that could be applied."
 
For more information, including the agenda and the slides from many of the presentations, please visit the event website.
 
SPRIE gratefully acknowledges the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as a partner and generous supporter.
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A Confiscated Memory – Wadi Salib and Haifa's Lost Heritage

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Haifa, the so-called "mixed city" of Jews and Arabs during the British Mandate period, also called the city of "co-existence" in the minds of its Jewish residents today, this city real and imagined will be the focus of this lecture, which suggests an archeology of memory of a conflict which is over and a conflict which still lingers.

Yfaat Weiss is professor in the department of the History of the Jewish People and Head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various studies on German and Central European History, as well as on Jewish and Israeli History.

 

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Yfaat Weiss Professor of History and Head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History Speaker the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Innovation Talent Roundtable

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From executive boardrooms to national capitols, leaders are debating the relative merits of contending models and strategies for attracting, developing, and empowering innovation talent--the people who drive economic growth and value creation through innovation.
 
On June 28, 2013, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) convened a circle of over 50 policymakers, executives and Stanford community members from 12 countries for an interactive roundtable on innovation talent at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 
Topics of discussion included:
  • What are key data and trends for innovation talent in Silicon Valley?
  • What strategies are places such as London, Taiwan and Israel employing to become hotbeds of innovation that attract innovation talent?
  • How can companies successfully manage and empower their innovation talent? What best practices have been learned?
  • What insights and implications into innovation talent can be gathered from recent research?
  • How are universities innovating through programs such as Stanford's StartX and the d.school?
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8:30 – 8:45

   Registration
     
8:45 – 9:00   Welcome & Opening Remarks
     
9:00 – 10:15   “The Right Talent, Essentially”
Evan Wittenberg, Senior Vice President, People, Box
Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates
Moderator: Greg McKeown (MBA '08), CEO, THIS, Inc.
     
10:15 – 11:10   “The Rx for Innovation”
Baba Shiv, Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business
     
11:10 – 11:30   Break
     
11:30 – 12:30   “Innovation Talent Spanning Boundaries”
Chunyan Zhou, Director, International Institute of Triple Helix (IITH)
Morten Petersen, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University
Kung Wang, Chair Professor, China University of Technology
Moderator: Henry Etzkowitz, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University
     
12:30 – 1:30   Lunch
     
1:30 – 2:10   “Accelerating the Next Generation of Innovation Talent”
Cameron Teitelman (BS '10), Founder & CEO, StartX
Divya Nag, Founder, StartX Med
     
2:10 – 2:40   “Silicon Valley Perspective”
Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley
     
2:40 – 3:00   Break
     
3:00 – 4:30   “Global Policy Perspectives”
Sigal Admony-Ravid, Consul for Economic Affairs to the West Coast, State Of Israel
Chao-Han Liu, Vice President, Academia Sinica
Priya Guha, British Consul General in San Francisco
Angus Lapsley, Director European & Global Issues, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
     
4:30 - 5:15   Closing Remarks & Networking Reception

For more information please contact Rustin Crandall at: rustin.crandall@gsb.stanford.edu

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Following her undergraduate studies in journalism and Spanish at U.C. Berkeley, Brunner spent six years in the professional arena, first as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and then in public relations/marketing for two nonprofit organizations. She came to Stanford University this fall to undertake her master’s degree in international policy studies, concentrating in global justice. Her professional pursuits have long been coupled with passionate activism in the arenas of human rights advocacy, conflict resolution in Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and poverty reduction. Brunner was an active participant in the winter quarter’s Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series: The International Criminal Court: The Next Decade. Brunner recently returned from a study trip to Rwanda where she delved into issues of human rights, governance, and economic development through meetings with government officials, NGOs, and the business community.

Shadow or Shade – The Roles of International Law in Palestinian-Israeli Peace Talks

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About the Speaker: Omar Dajani is one of the nation's foremost experts on the legal aspects of the conflict in the Middle East.  His scholarly work explores the links between international law, legal and political history, and contract and negotiation theory.  He also has considerable experience advising governments and development organizations in the Middle East and elsewhere.  Professor Dajani joined the McGeorge School of Law in 2004.  Previously, he was based in the Palestinian Territories, where he served first as legal advisor to the Palestinian team in peace talks with Israel and, subsequently, as an advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen.  Prior to working in the Middle East, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and was a litigation associate at the Washington office of Sidley & Austin.  He received his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1997 and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, and Middle Eastern and Asian History from Northwestern University.

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Stanford scholar argues that time is running out for a two-state solution

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CDDRL Director Larry Diamond argues in The Atlantic that there is no greater imperative for American interests in the Middle East- and no higher act of friendship that the U.S. can perform for Israel - than to help it find a way to a two-state solution before the option disappears.
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