CISAC Seminars showcase Stanford faculty and researchers, as well as policy makers and visiting scholars from all over the country. Speakers typically cover general topics on international security and present the policy implications of their research or their years of experience in government. CISAC Seminars are free and usually open to the public. Directors' Seminars are held on certain Thursdays, from 3:30 - 5:00 PM in the William J. Perry Conference Room, Encina Hall, 2nd floor. At speaker’s request, some events may be by invitation only.
Events
Seminars
Assessing the Role of Emerging Technologies in Wartime Nuclear Escalation Risk | Caitlin Talmadge
Thursday, March 2, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Democratizing Cryptography - The Work of Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie | Rebecca Slayton, Andrei Broder, Susan Landau, and John Markoff
Thursday, February 23, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
How We Have Come to Live with Nuclear Risks and Threats: Post-Fukushima Reflections on Transnational Nuclear History | Kyoko Sato, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia
Thursday, February 16, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the Nuclear Age | Rose McDermott, Amy Zegart
Thursday, February 2, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Shadowing Cybersecurity: Expertise, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Uncertainty | Rebecca Slayton
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Pacific)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations and the Fight to End Empire | Kal Raustiala
Thursday, January 12, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections
Thursday, October 20, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
From Bagram Airfield to Baghdad and Back Again: a U.S. Military Doctor’s Experience in Two Wars
Thursday, May 26, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)