Events at Stanford this week
Every upcoming public event at Stanford University: free food, club meetings, game days and more, from the university's own calendars and updated every day.
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Thursday, November 5, 2026
- Financial Counseling with Fidelity (Main Campus, Huang Bldg, Room 114) (By Appointment Only)8:00 AM – 5:00 PMJen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering) 114
- Climber Coffee8:00 AM – 10:00 AMArrillaga Outdoor Education & Recreation Center
- Partnership for Public Service: Fall 2026 Advising Hours (Aubrey Merrill)9:00 AM – 3:00 PMHaas Center for Public Service Milton Room
- Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail9:00 AM – 7:00 PMMcMurtry Building Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 for building/elevator access.
- EH&S: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic9:00 AM – 2:00 PM484 Oak Road
- LGBTQIA+ Conversations with Colleagues10:00 AM – 10:50 AMFree
- A Day in the Life of a Climate Strategist & Consultant: Maria Doerr '1710:00 AM – 12:00 PMHaas Center for Public Service 212
- A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford10:00 AM – 6:00 PMGreen Library, Bing Wing
- Support Group for Partners of Stanford Athletics Coaches, Staff, and Support Roles10:00 AM – 11:30 AMFree
- Introduction to Enverus11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Patty Chang: surfacing11:00 AM – 5:00 PMAnderson Collection Wisch Family Gallery
- In Focus: Asian American Art from the Collection11:00 AM – 8:00 PMCantor Arts Center Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery
- The Body as Monument11:30 AM – 1:00 PMEl Centro Chicano Jaime Miranda Lounge
- ePluribus Stanford Event Series: Free Speech and Academic Freedom11:45 AM – 1:00 PM408 Panama Mall CTL Meeting Space (Room 116)
- Lunchtime Curator Talk | California Current: Art and Histories from the Bay Area12:00 PM – 1:00 PMCantor Arts Center Freidenrich Family Gallery (221)
- CEE PhD Defense: Gustavo A. Araújo Rodríguez, "Heterogenous CPU–GPU Parallel Computing for Real-Time Hybrid Simulation"12:00 PMGreen Earth Sciences Building Room 365
- Documentary Objectives: Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence - Rachel Gabara12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEncina Commons Room 123
- Papel y Memoria | Celebrating Memory Through Art12:00 PM – 1:00 PMBolivar House Conference room
- Building Resilience for High Stress Moments Through Meditation (November 5 - 19)12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
- Marcela Ibáñez — Authoritarian Aid and Democratic Attitudes: Backlash, Not Diffusion12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
- Cristopher Niell - Neural circuits for natural vision12:00 PM – Tomorrow 12:00 PMStanford Neurosciences Building
- Geophysics Seminar - Allan Rubin, "Merging elastic/frictional and stochastic models of slow slip"12:00 PM – 1:00 PMMitchell Earth Sciences 350/372
- Historical Architecture in Disaster Zones: Digital Documentation, Archiving, and Preservation12:15 PM – 1:15 PMBuilding 160, Wallenberg Hall 433A
- Tangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing1:00 PM – 5:00 PMMcMurtry Building Coulter Art Gallery
- Critical Carceral Studies | Special Collections & Coffee1:00 PM – 2:30 PMGreen Library, Bing Wing Stanford Special Collections
- Green Library Book Display: Witches and Witchcraft1:00 PMHohbach Hall
- Emergent Properties: Decennial Reflections on Collections1:00 PM – 5:00 PMDavid Rumsey Map Center (Green Library)
- TNT Traysikel: Never Gonna Give You Up!1:00 PM – 5:00 PMMcMurtry Building Miller Discussion Room and Vitrine Gallery
- Touch Me Not: 12th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition1:00 PM – 5:00 PMArt Gallery
- Global Environmental Policy/ESS Seminar with David Keith1:15 PM – 2:30 PMPolya Hall 111
- Music Library Association California Chapter Annual Meeting2:00 PM – 4:00 PMHohbach Hall HH122
- Text Analysis in Python3:00 PM – 4:30 PMGreen Library, Bing Wing Velma Denning Room (120F)
- Tea for the Soul4:00 PMOld Union CIRCLE Common Room (Old Union, 3rd floor)
- Energy, Materials, and Water Use in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities for Supply Chain Resiliency4:30 PM – 5:50 PMBishop Auditorium
- No Ideas But in Things4:30 PM – 6:00 PMClark Center Auditorium
- What's Your Call to Serve? Launching a Career in Government4:30 PM – 5:30 PMHaas Center for Public Service Milton Room
- The Fate of the Social in Modern Life: American Social Scientists and Japan as Archive4:30 PM – 6:00 PMLathrop Library 224
- What Do We Owe Each Other in the Age of AI?5:00 PM – 6:30 PMPaul Brest Hall
- Stanford Culture Initiative Talk5:00 PM – 6:30 PMGSB Knight - Class of 1968 C102
- Day of the Dead Celebrations | Lecture by Rubí Tsanda Huerta5:00 PM – 6:30 PMNative American Cultural Center, Clubhouse
- The Queer Thing about Sin | Harry Tanner5:30 PM – 7:00 PMHumanities Center Levinthal Hall
- 36th Annual Jonathan J. King Lecture: Dr. Bryant Lin & Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider5:30 PM – 6:30 PMCedar Room, Stanford Faculty Club Cedar Room
- From Chasing Poachers to Catalyzing Systems Change: The Evolution of Sea Shepherd's Approach to Antarctic Conservation6:00 PM – 7:00 PMHopkins Marine Station Izzie Abbott Boatworks AuditoriumFree
- Electric Contrasts Study Evening6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMcMurtry Building Oshman Hall
- Sib Study Break6:00 PM – 7:00 PMAsian American Activities Center Couchroom
- Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, "Beyond Inclusion: Indigenous Abundance, Aloha ʻĀina, and Radical Futures"6:45 PM – 8:00 PM418 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305 Henry and Monique Brandon Family Community Room
- Canterbury Tales: Quiz the Pilgrims (2/3)7:30 PMBuilding 460, Margaret Jacks Hall Terrace Room (Room 426)Free
Friday, November 6, 2026
- Flash Sale Fridays12:00 AMArrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation
- JANE! An intimate exploration of Gilded Age excess and the enigmatic life and death of Jane Stanford12:00 AMCantor Arts Center Stanford Family Rooms
- Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계12:00 AMLathrop Library East Asia Library, 2nd Floor
- Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026)12:00 AMGreen Library, Bing Wing Hohbach Hall
- Solid Pictures: Photosculpture and the Making of Modern Likeness12:00 AMCantor Arts Center Pigott Family Gallery
- Branner Library Book & Map Exhibit - Water in the West12:00 AMMitchell Earth Sciences Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
- Carolyn Lazard: Long Take12:00 AMCantor Arts Center Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery
- Financial Counseling with Fidelity (Virtual Only)8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Music Library Association California Chapter Annual Meeting8:30 AM – 4:45 PMHohbach Hall HH122
- Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail9:00 AM – 5:00 PMMcMurtry Building Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 for building/elevator access.
- EH&S: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic9:00 AM – 2:00 PM484 Oak Road
- Partnership for Public Service: Fall 2026 Advising Hours (Aubrey Merrill)9:00 AM – 3:00 PMHaas Center for Public Service Milton Room
- Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights9:00 AM – 4:30 PMAlumni Center Fisher Conference Room ( Barnes/McDowell/Cranston)
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