Upcoming Events

April
13
Date
Mon April 13th 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
German Library (room 252)

Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley, Roni Masel, will share research from her current book project, tentatively titles, “Yiddish Empires: Visions of Race and…

April
20
Date
Mon April 20th 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location
Graduate School of Education
507 Lasuen Mall Stanford, CA 94305 USA
ANKO Bldg. Lecture Hall

Tova Friedman--one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau--will join Ari Kelman and Martin Carnoy for a conversation about her extraordinary…

April
22
Date
Wed April 22nd 2026, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 200, History Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305
030

The Babylonian Talmud is usually imagined as a forbiddingly dense work of legal argument. But its digressions are no less typical – and often altogether different.

April
30
Date
Thu April 30th 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
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Date: Thursday | April 30

Time: 12:00 pm 
Place: CCSRE Conference Room, Bldg. 360 | First Floor

May
13
Date
Wed May 13th 2026, 6:00pm
Location
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Levinthal Hall

Please join us in conversation with New York Times best-selling author Gary Shteyngart, a Soviet-born satirical writer, on the topic of absurdities and realities of Soviet and post-Soviet life.