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Hoover Book Club: Stephen Haber On "The Battle Over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation"

Monday, December 6, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

A discussion with Stephen Haber on his latest book, The Battle over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation moderated by Bill Whalen on Monday, December 6 at 10AM PT/1:00PM ET.

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Mafia-Like Business Systems In China: Xi’s Crackdown In Context

Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Hoover Institution hosts Mafia-Like Business Systems in China: Xi’s Crackdown in Context on Tuesday, December 7 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST.

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Historiography of the Pacific War: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges

Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to a special online symposium as part of the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. The “Historiography of the Pacific War: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges" event is on Tuesday, December 7 at 3:00 pm PT.

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Ardeshir Zahedi and the Zahedi Archives at Hoover

Friday, December 10, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives hosts "Ardeshir Zahedi and the Zahedi Archives at Hoover" on Friday, December 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT.

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Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks in Research Collaboration with China

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Hoover Institution hosts Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks in Research Collaboration with China on Wednesday, December 15 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST

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Hoover Institution Workshop On Using Text As Data In Policy Analysis (Part 7)

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Hoover Institution announces a new seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.

This seventh session features Elliott Ash speaking on Emotion and Reason in Political Language on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.

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Past Events

Policy Seminar with Peter Fisher

Monday, January 26, 2009
George Shultz Conference Room, Herbert Hoover Memorial Building
Policy Seminar with Peter Fisher 
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Colonel David Ottignon, a national security affairs fellow for 2008–9 at the Hoover Institution, discussed civil-military relations

Hoover national security fellows’ event featured Colonel David Ottignon, from the U.S. Marine Corps

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Lou Henry Hoover Building room 100

Colonel David Ottignon, a national security affairs fellow for 2008–9 at the Hoover Institution, discussed civil-military relations, including speaking up and stepping down–a challenge to civil-military norms, on January 22.
(Photo by Tin Tin Wisniewski/Hoover Institution Public Affairs)

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Daniel P. Kessler

Seminar featuring Hoover senior fellow Daniel P. Kessler

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Annenberg Conference Room Lou Henry Hoover Building

Hoover senior fellow Daniel P. Kessler discussed health care at a seminar on January 22. The event took place at the Hoover Institution, on the campus of Stanford University.

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National Security and Law Task Force Meeting, January 15-16, 2009.

Task Force on National Security and Law Meeting

Thursday, January 15, 2009 to Friday, January 16, 2009
Hoover

Many topics were introduced at the meeting held January 15–16, 2009, including legitimacy and global governance; international criminal law, including marginalizing international law and international humanitarian laws; counterterrorism questioning and interrogation; Guantánamo; failed states; and future projects.
(Photo by Tin Tin Wisniewski/Hoover Institution Public Affairs)

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Russell D. Roberts

Seminar featuring Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts, presented a talk titled "The Mess We're In: How We Got Here and Where We're Heading" on January 14. The event took place at the La Jolla Country Club.

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hoover shattered peace postcard

Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 to Wednesday, May 27, 2009

This exhibition of documents, photographs, posters, books, and audiovisual materials from the Hoover Institution Library and Archives illustrates the diplomatic failures and the military actions that paved the way to World War II, highlighting the plight of civilians and the personal stories of witnesses.

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Richard C. Boly

Hoover national security fellows’ event featured Richard Boly from the U.S. State Department

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Lou Henry Hoover Building room 100

Richard Boly, a national security affairs fellow for 2008–9 at the Hoover Institution, discussed promoting entrepreneurship as U.S. foreign policy: good for our image and good for business on January 13.

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Chester Finn speaking at the Koret Task Force on Education

Koret Task Force on K–12 Education Meeting

Thursday, January 8, 2009 to Friday, January 9, 2009

Many topics were introduced at the meeting held January 8–9, 2009, including updates on Education Next, defining ideas, NCLB, and President-elect Barack Obama’s education agenda, as well as future projects.
(Photo by Tin Tin Wisniewski/Hoover Institution Public Affairs)

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James Ceaser speaks at the Virtues Task Force meeting.

Virtues of a Free Society Task Force Meeting

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Many topics were introduced at the meeting held January 6, including Tocqueville and the two-founding thesis, transmitting essential values and virtues to American youth, from hearth-fires to hell-fires: Hawthorne and the Cartesian project, and the moral principles governing the legal regulation of pornography, as well as books and the task force mission.
(Photo by Tin Tin Wisniewski/Hoover Institution Public Affairs)

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Margaret Talbot is a Hoover media fellow and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Seminar Featured National Correspondent Margaret Talbot

Monday, January 5, 2009
Arrillaga Alumni Center

Margaret Talbot, national correspondent for the New Yorker, gave a talk titled “Red Sex, Blue Sex: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence and Divorce,” on January 5 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University.

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