Past CDDRL Events
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Syria Today: Where Was It? Where Is It Right Now? And Where Is It Heading?
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific)
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford
S.T. Lee Lecture featuring Former Congressman and Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Encina Hall, First floor, Central, S150
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
- Jeff Flake
A Captured Field, an Open Contest: Serbia’s Upcoming Elections
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Online panel on Zoom; registration required.
How Americans Enforce the Law: Book Talk with Diego Zambrano
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific)
Stanford Law School Room 280B
Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford (map)
Chris Dann — Building Dictatorships: Legitimacy & Large-Scale Infrastructure
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Conference Room E-008 in Encina Hall, East, may attend in person.
Only those with an active Stanford ID and access to the William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. Others may attend virtually, via Zoom.
Registration required.
- Alexandra Vacroux,
- Yevhenii Malik
Film Screening: Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM (Pacific)
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business
655 Knight Way, Stanford
- Ben McKenzie
- Dylan Ackerman, MBA ’26
REDS Seminar: Aleksandar Matovski — The Kremlin’s Pressure Cooker: Restraint and Escalation in Russia’s War on Ukraine
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person.
- Aleksandar Matovski
Israel Insights Webinar with Amos Harel — Three Years Since October 7: Causes and Consequences
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Pacific)
Book Talk: How to Survive Authoritarianism
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Only those with an active Stanford ID and access to the William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. Others may attend virtually, via Zoom - join with passcode: 123456.
Registration required.
- Maria Kuznetsova,
- Dan Storyev
Frances Cayton — Civic Consciousness and the Limits of Attacks on Civil Society
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Conference Room E-008 in Encina Hall, East, may attend in person.
Masua Sagiv — Israel's 2026 Elections: Make or Break?
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Registration required. Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456.
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Encina Hall E208 (Reuben Hills Conference Room) may attend in person.
- Masua Sagiv
Emily Russell — Policing the Plantation: Repressive Institutions and Labor Control in Assam, India
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall, Center may attend in person.
"In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir" — Book Launch & Discussion with Francis Fukuyama
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific)
Bechtel Conference Center at Encina Hall
Event update: Our in-person event has reached capacity. We invite you to join the event virtually via live stream on Zoom. Registration is required.
Three Authors Discuss Egypt’s Security State, Media, and Judiciary
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific)
2026 Global Development Postdoctoral Fellows Conference
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Koret-Taube Conference Center, Gunn SIEPR Building
366 Galvez St, Stanford
Democratic Backsliding and Resistance: Poland’s Civil Society, Electoral Strategies, and Institutional Levers
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM (Pacific)
Online via Zoom. Registration is required.
For questions, please contact ecornellinfo@cornell.edu.
2026 CDDRL Fisher Family Honors Program Award Winner Presentations
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
In-person only.
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to room E008 in Encina Hall may attend in person.
Hauck Auditorium, David and Joan Traitel Building of the Hoover Institution
435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford (map)
Film running time: 80 mins. Discussion to follow.
Questions? Please contact rsvp-weisfeld@stanford.edu
Colombia at a Crossroads: Ballots, Bullets, and the Future of Democracy
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM (Pacific)
Webinar open to the public via Zoom, if prompted for a password, use: 123456
- María Ignacia Curiel,
- Oliver Kaplan,
- Javier Mejía,
- Michael Weintraub
Yossi Melman — Israel's Intelligence Community: What Have We Learned From Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon?
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific)
Registration required. Virtual to Public.
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Encina Hall E208 (Reuben Hills Conference Room) may attend in person.
- Yossi Melman
- Amichai Magen,
- Or Rabinowitz
Stephen J. Stedman — Everything's Security and No One is Secure: A Short History of a Vague Concept
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Conference Room E-008 in Encina Hall, East, may attend in person.
Chokepoints: How Economic Warfare is Changing the World
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM (Pacific)
William J. Perry Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Encina Hall
Registration required.
- Edward Fishman
The Arab World in an Era of War and Upheaval: A Conversation with Joel Beinin
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM (Pacific)
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to the Philippines Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person.
Registration is required.
- Joel Beinin
Cross-Sectoral Mobilization in Defense of Democracy: Insights from Israel’s Judicial Reform
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Pacific)
Online via Zoom. Registration is required.
For questions, please contact israelstudies@stanford.edu.
- Yossi Kucik,
- Orni Petruschka,
- Dina Zilber