Events
Recent Events
Monday, June 03, 2013
David Kennedy: The Modern American Military
Public Event at the Commonwealth Club
The Commonwealth Club of California: San Francisco
Center faculty director David. M. Kennedy will appear at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco to talk about the transformation of the nation's armed forces and his book The Modern American Military.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Weathering Change: An Assessment of Federal Water Policies in The Face of a Changing Climate
Lunchtime Talk with Andrew Fahlund, Water in the West Project
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2)
Room 300
Our Water in the West project's Executive Director Andrew Fahlund will profile 10 federal water policies, and talk about how many are not well equipped to deal with a changing climate. He will explore some of the common elements of these laws and regulations and offer recommendations for how they can be amended to help communities better prepare for future water management.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
"The Sun Never Sets: Reflections on a Western Life"
Celebrating the Memoirs of L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr.
Lane History Corner
Building 200, Room 203
Stanford University
Please join us for a talk and reception on the Stanford campus to commemorate and celebrate the publication of Bill Lane's memoir, The Sun Never Sets: Reflections on a Western Life (Stanford University Press). The book chronicles the life, passion and adventures of the Sunset magazine publisher, U.S. ambassador, World War II veteran, ardent conservationist, and Center benefactor L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr, who passed away in 2010 at 90 years old.
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
The California Archipelago: Thinking About Mapping California
Lunchtime Talk with Rebecca Solnit
Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Room 67
397 Panama Mall
As part of the Bill Lane Center's Spring Seminars on the West, visiting scholar Rebecca Solnit will present her new research project based on Stanford Libraries' collection of cartographic materials that depict California as an island, The San Francisco writer is the author of more than a dozen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, and politics.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Desert America: A Journey Through Our Most Divided Landscape
An Evening with Rubén Martínez
Stanford Humanities Center
The Institute For Diversity in the Arts, Modern Thought and Literature, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, and the Stanford Humanities Center present an evening with the journalist, author and performer Rubén Martínez, who will read from his new book, Desert America: A Journey Through our Most Divided Landscape.
Open to the Public
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Adopting a Landscape-Level Approach to Managing our Nation's Public Lands
Lecture by The Honorable David J. Hayes
Jordan Hall Auditorium
Main Quad, Building 420, Room 40
The Honorable David J. Hayes will talk about the government's management of public lands, including policies regarding oil and gas production, solar energy development and the recovery of key species like the northern spotted owl and sage grouse.
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