Laura Hubbard and Richard Roberts provide an introduction for the day-long human rights symposium to discuss, share, and learn about teaching human rights in a wide range of world areas, academic disciplines, and classroom settings. (June 9, 2012)

Making the Global Local: Introduction

A panel of speakers discuss teaching about the rights of environmental refugees, the Just War Theory, and human trafficking. (June 9, 2012)

Environmental Refugees, Just War Theory, and Human Trafficking

Felisa Tibbits speaks on human rights education in a globalizing world and the responsibility of higher education in fostering human rights. (June 9, 2012)

Human Rights Education in a Globalizing World

Tim Maxwell and Enrique Luna present a curriculum project started by Professor Maxwell and developed during the fellowship year. (June 9, 2012)

The Manifestation Project: A Transformational Approach to Human Rights

Sadie Reynolds gives an example of implementing human rights education into a community college classroom using the rights of the detained. (June 9, 2012)

United Nations Policy Commission: Rights of the Detained

Lindsay Padilla delivers the closing remarks for the 2012 SHREI Symposium, encouraging instructors to teach human rights with intent in community colleges. (June 9, 2012)

2012 SHREI Symposium Closing Remarks

Laura Hubbard presents the 2012 SHREI Outstanding Student Project Award to Khin Thiri Nandar Soe for her inspiring work in addressing human rights issues in Burma and the Burmese diaspora. (June 9, 2012)

SHREI Outstanding Student Award Presentation

Steven Pinker argues that, contrary to popular belief, violence has declined over long stretches of time and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our specie's existence. (June 29, 2012)

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Kevin DiPirro leads a discussion on his belief in student-centered teaching and discussing an article that looks deeply at this issue. The talk looks at the situation from many different aspects and he discusses the problems that come. (February 11, 2011)

Revising/Devising Student-Centered Pedagogies/Performances: Taking a Performative Turn

Program in Writing and Rhetoric Professor Kelly Myers discusses the Greek story of the God Kairos and Metanoia as a literary representation of opportunity and regret. (October 1, 2010)

Visualizing Metanoia in Rhetorical Theory

School of Humanities and Sciences

Princeton University History Professor Anthony Grafton discusses the role of Jewish and Greek texts and individuals in shaping Renaissance thinkers' version of the ancient world. (April 2, 2009)

Encountering Antiquity in Renaissance Europe: Greeks, Jews, and Humanists

Lewis H. Lapham

Stanford's MLA Program hosts American writer Lewis H. Lapham to join a discussion on writing and current events. He is the author of 13 books and the editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine. (March 23, 2011)

A Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham

Dr. Kathleen Frankovic discusses the development of exit polls and their impact on understanding elections and projecting outcomes -- including the run-up to and results of the 2010 United States' mid-term elections. (November 15, 2010)

The Rise of the Exit Polls - What (If Anything) Happens Next?

Martin Evans discusses Europe's preoccupation with America and how they view America. He tells the audience that Europeans are "obsessed" by America. He offers his ideas for why Europeans care so much about the United States of America.

America the View from Europe

Professor Martin Evans discusses the similarities and differences between Stanford University and Oxford University and the British and America university systems. (April 21, 2010)

Steeples of Excellence: Oxford and Stanford

Martin Evans, Stanford Professor of English, gives a brief history of the way in which wine and its effects have been treated in western literature from Homer's "Odyssey" and Virgil's "Georgics" through Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." (October 19, 2002)

Bacchus, Books, and Bards

Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics, argues that the Romans' contribution to our politics should be seen not in their abstract concepts but in their adversarial practices of civic speech. (May 5, 2010)

Cicero at the Tea Party: Conflict in Republican Politics, Then and Now

George Schaller, a Senior Conservationist, discusses the pressing need to conserve the world's natural environments by sharing his discoveries about the animals and habitats that he has researched throughout his career. (February 17, 2010)

A Naturalist in the World's Wilderness

Ian Hideo Levy discusses language and identity of a writer as well as the difficulties and rewards of gaining the privilege of writing in the Japanese language as a culturally foreign writer. (February 11, 2010)

The World in Japanese

Victor Fuchs facilitates a discussion with students on the healthcare systems of other nations and the historical roots of the obstacles facing healthcare reform in the United States today. (December 4, 2009)

International Health Policy: Comparative Health Care Systems

Sir Geoffry Lloyd analyzes the social and intellectual institutions that favored or inhibited innovation in the study of science, medicine and religion in ancient Greece, China and Mesopotamia. (November 18, 2009)

The Importance of Understanding the Past: Greece, China, Mesopotamia

Matthieu Ricard, a monk of the Nyingma order, based at the Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal, is well known as an author, photographer, and lecturer.  He has been labeled as the "Happiest Man in the World." (October 13, 2009)

The Roots of Altruism (Video)

The Roots of Altruism (Audio)

As we’ve evolved, the human stress response has saved our lives. Today, we turn on the same life-saving physical reaction to cope with intense, ongoing stressors - and we can’t seem to turn it off. (September 19, 2008)

Stress Response: Savior to Killer

Third of three sessions in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks, followed by a brief commentary by a Stanford faculty member and questions from the audience. (April 10, 2008)

Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy: Lecture 3

First of three sessions in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks, followed by a brief commentary by a Stanford faculty member and questions from the audience. (April 8, 2008)

Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy: Lecture 1

Buddhism in the Modern World is a joint program of the Buddhist Community at Stanford, the Office for Religious Life and the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies. (January 31, 2008)

Being Buddhist in America

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