Selected Lectures
An Overview of Asian Health in America with Dr. Malathi Srinivasan
May 12, 2025
Join us for an important discussion led by Dr. Malathi Srinivasan, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Associate Director at the Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE). Dr. Srinivasan will provide an overview of key health risks that disproportionately impact Asian American communities. She will also share practical strategies for how individuals can engage their physicians and communities to proactively address these risks and improve health outcomes.
Teach-In on Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment, Stanford School of Medicine
March 8, 2025
Featured: (MC) Lauren Toomer lectures in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford, and holds an appointment in the Department of Surgery, Division of Clinical Anatomy, and is a member of the School of Medicine Art Committee. Gordon Chang is a Professor in the Department of History, and an Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities. Henry T. "Hank" Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. The storytellers are Chali Lee, Boluwatife (Bolu) Aminu, and Bryant Lin. Thank our event sponsors: the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Medical Humanities and the Arts, the Asian American Research Center at Stanford, and the Stanford Storytelling Project.
Image courtesy of Stanford CARE
Stanford CARE Monthly Community Health Talk Series
On-going
Please join us for a monthly series of Community Health Talks by our very own Stanford CARE Faculty and Global Faculty! Community Health Talks present an exciting opportunity for anyone to learn about cutting-edge medical technology, social disparities in health, precision medicine, and much more.
Speaking Out of Place podcast
On-going
Podcast hosted by David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji.
Speaking Out of Place is dedicated to highlighting voices confronting systems of colonial, carceral, economic, heteropatriarchal, racial, and ecological violence; and to building relations and conversations to advance justice and liberation across intertwined struggles, including through politics, culture, and art.
Photo courtesy of Usha Iyer
A Pedagogy of Reparations | Usha Iyer | TEDxStanford
Aug 14, 2023
Usha’s talk discusses the epistemic violence enacted by hegemonic Euro-US canons and curricula and proposes strategies for repair that may foster genuinely intersectional, global, and decolonial approaches to university education. Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, is the author of the award-winning book, Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema. Their research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of cinema, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality studies. They are currently working on a book titled, Jammin’: Black and Brown Media Intimacies between India and the Caribbean.
Spring 2023 Colloquia Dr. Jennifer Pan - How Information Flows from the World to China
Aug 1, 2023
HEATHEN | Seminar in American Religion with Kathryn Gin Lum
April 15, 2023
Kathryn Gin Lum (Stanford University) discussed her book Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press, 2022) at the Cushwa Center's spring 2023 Seminar in American Religion. Commentators for this seminar were Emily Clark (Gonzaga University) and Korey Garibaldi (University of Notre Dame).
Race and National Security in the Courts with Shirin Sinnar
November 8, 2022
Shirin Sinnar, JD '03, is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford University. Her scholarship focuses on the legal treatment of political violence, the procedural dimensions of civil rights litigation, and the role of institutions in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context. Sinnar teaches courses in civil procedure, advanced civil procedure, terrorism, and the intersection of race and identity with national security. In 2016, Sinnar was selected by the graduating class as the recipient of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her recent work assesses legal responses to hate crimes and domestic and international terrorism under U.S. law. She has also written on the capacity of courts, Inspectors General, and civil rights offices to monitor and oversee national security conduct. In March 2021, she testified on anti-Asian hate violence before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.
IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America
October 28-29, 2022 | Recorded Symposium
On October 28-29, 2022 Stanford University hosted IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America. This two-day convening brought together artists, curators, and scholars to rethink and reimagine the histories and futures of artists of Asian descent.
PRC Friday Seminar: Jackelyn Hwang from Stanford University
Oct 10, 2022
Over the last two decades, gentrification has spread to more neighborhoods across more cities at an unprecedented pace. Yet, racial residential segregation remains a defining feature of the U.S. landscape. In this talk, I draw from multiple analyses to demonstrate the pernicious ways in which gentrification perpetuates racial inequality, even in the absence of increased displacement. The results underscore the fundamental role of structural racism that is deeply inscribed in the US housing market, perpetuating segregation despite widespread changes. I argue for an expanded framework of segregation that considers how and why some places change and the emergent consequences of such changes to advance understanding of its persistence in the twenty-first century.
Some Histories of Asian American Art by Marci Kwon
Jun 27, 2022
This lecture by Marci Kwon is part of the Navigating Change in Museums lecture series. Learn more about the ASU-LACMA Master's Fellowship in Art History at https://art.asu.edu/lacma.
North Korea, K-pop, and the Korea Program at Stanford
May 19-20, 2022
The Korea Program at Stanford marks its 20-year anniversary with a conference focused on North Korean issues and South Korea’s pop culture wave (Hallyu), two aspects of Korea that continue to intrigue the public, exploring how to translate this public attention into an increased academic interest in Korea.
Anti Asian Violence and America-China Relations with Guest Speaker Professor Gordon Chang
May 5, 2022
Anti-Asian violence, today and in the past, is closely associated with international conditions. This talk will offer historical perspectives on anti-Asian violence in America and their connections to events far from the formal borders of the country.
Gender Equity in Higher Education: Korea's Experience in Global Context
April 21, 2022
Since 2013, women's higher education enrollment rate has outpaced men's enrollment rate in South Korea. Despite this increase in educational attainment, gender inequalities remain deeply rooted in Korean higher education, including gender gaps in STEM, doctoral program enrollment, and faculty diversity. Universities have also fallen short in including gender-related topics in curricular content and ensuring safe campuses for women. The panel reflects on these educational disparities and the social, cultural, and economic forces shaping Korean women's lives during and after higher education. It also places Korea's experience in a comparative context by discussing global trends in gender and higher education.
Roanne Kantor: South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
March 7, 2022
Lalita du Perron talks to Roanne Kantor, assistant professor of English (and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature) at Stanford, about her new book, Macaulay’s shelf, Global Anglophone literature, magical realism, and other matters related to South Asia and Latin America.
How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why it Matters) with Jeanne Tsai
Dec 15, 2021
Which culture(s) do you identify with and how does that shape your mood, decision-making and emotions? Psychology Professor Jeanne Tsai, ’91, discusses how culture influences our feelings, particularly the emotions we want to feel. She also explores how these cultural differences affect how we perceive and treat others in an increasingly multicultural world.
Beyond #StopAAPIHate | Challenging Stereotypes and Confronting Racism in Schools
Oct 12, 2021
An expert panel of academics and activists, including Dr. Stacey Lee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rapper Lyrics Born, Dr. OiYan Poon of Colorado State University, and Dr. Eujin Park of Stanford University will discuss everything from the harmful "model minority" stereotype to concrete actions educators and others can take to move beyond mere tolerance to confront Anti-Asian racism.
Chang-rae Lee and Viet Thanh Nguyen: National Book Festival 2021
Sep 17, 2021
Chang-rae Lee, author of “My Year Abroad” (Riverhead), and Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of “The Committed” (Grove), discuss their early experiences as immigrants to the United States, the complexities of displacement and belonging, and the various ways their novels confront history and culture, with Elizabeth Blair, senior producer/reporter on the NPR News arts desk.
Shelley Fisher Fishkin on Chinese immigrants in the U.S. on CGTN
June 5, 2021
CGTN's Gerald Tan speaks with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, the director of American Studies at Stanford University and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, about the history of Chinese immigrants in the U.S.
Asian Health: Past, Present, and Future by Dr. Palaniappan & Dr. Lin -Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds
May 5, 2021
Dr. Latha Palaniappan and Dr. Bryant Lin present their talk titled "Asian Health: Past, Present, and Future" at the May 5th, 2021 Stanford Department of Medicine Grand Rounds.
Confronting the Past: Stanford University and Its Fraught History with the Ohlone and Chinese
Apr 21, 2021
This session will present new insights into the lands of Stanford, the Stanford family and early University, and the institution’s relationship with Native peoples, Chinese, and other communities that were long excluded from the traditional narrative of the rise of the University.
Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses the Golden Spike on CGTN
May 9, 2019
CGTN's Elaine Reyes spoke with Shelley Fisher Fishkin about the Golden Spike Conference and the contributions of Chinese-Americans.
The State of Asian American Studies
July 10, 2015
This talk was part of Stanford Pilipino Alumni Network's 25th Anniversary Celebration at Stanford University.
Photo of Professor Stephen Sano (Credit: Hannah Shu/The Stanford Daily)
Music from the Taro Patch | Stephen M. Sano | TEDxStanford
Jun 25, 2015
Sano discovered his connection to the music of Hawai'i many years ago. He approaches his relationship to slack key with the care and responsibility he believes is demanded of all practitioners but particularly those who approach it from outside the Island community. Acknowledging the powerful spirit of those who have gone before him, Sano's goal is to always approach the art form and its masters with the greatest reverence and respect. It is his hope that all students of slack key share these sensibilities - creating a community of players worthy of the powerful Hawaiian roots of ki ho'alu.