2020-2021 MEETING SCHEDULE & DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS PROGRAM
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General meetings will be virtual this year. Attendees must register in advance. Sign up as a Parents’ Club member to receive details on meeting registrations: stanfordparentsclub.org/join.html

Tuesday, October 13, 2020: 10 am – 12 pm
​Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker
Pamela Karlan
Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic  "Election 2020: Protecting Voting Rights in the Midst of a Pandemic"
Suggested Readings: Voting Rights in the Midst of a Pandemic (video)
 Q&A: Law professor Pam Karlan discusses victory in landmark Supreme Court case on LGBTQ+ rights ​

Tuesday, November 10, 2020: 10 am – 12 pm
Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution and Professor  Sociology and of Political Science "Reversing Democratic Decay at Home and Abroad"

Suggested Readings: Diamond, Larry, "Democracy Versus the Pandemic:: The Coronavirus Is Emboldening Autocrats the World Over," Foreign Affairs, June 13, 2020.
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 Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency.  by Larry Diamond

Holiday Luncheon, December 8, 2020
​ Due to the pandemic, our traditional
​  Holiday luncheon is canceled this year

Tuesday, February 9, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker
Jeff Hancock
​ Professor of Communications and Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab  "Psychology of Social Media"

Tuesday, March 9, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker
Dr. Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
​ Elephant Whisperer and  Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford's School of Medicine
“Elephant Rituals: a Humble Reminder of the Importance of Ritual In Our Lives”
Suggested Readings: From the Washington Post, a recent review of her new book, 
Wild Rituals
Stanford Magazine article about Dr. O'Connell-Rodwell’s elephant research, "What Makes ElephantsTick?" (September/October 2009)
Clips from Dr. O'Connell's awarded winning Smithsonian Channel documentary"Elephant King" (2013)

Tuesday, April 13, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
Parents' Club Virtual Annual Meeting and Board Elections
Distinguished Speaker
Noah Diffenbaugh
Professor of Earth Systems Science and Senior Fellow,
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
​ "Is this Climate Change?"

Tuesday, May 11, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
​ Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker  
Professor Alexander Nemerov
Chair of Stanford's Art and Art History Department 
"Teaching, Is It Possible?: Thoughts from a Stanford Art History Professor  on Velazquez’s Water Carrier of Seville"

June Luncheon, June 8, 2021
Due to the pandemic, our traditional
  June Luncheon is canceled this year