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
Allyson Hobbs
​ Associate Professor of History and Director of African and African American Studies
​"The History of the Black Lives Matter Movement"

Tuesday, March 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, April 13, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
Virtual General Meeting & Distinguished Speaker
Noah Diffenbaugh
Professor of Earth Systems Science andSenior Fellow,
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
​ "Is this Climate Change?"

Tuesday, May 11, 2021: 10 am – 12 pm
​ General Meeting & Tour
Outdoor Sculpture Walk in Stanford's
​ Quad and south campus (tentative).

Tuesday, June 8, 2021
11 am:  General Meeting
12 pm:June Luncheon
(tentative - Details to Follow)​