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Welcome to the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies
Using rigorous research and community-informed approaches to accelerate racial and ethnic justice so everyone can flourish
Around the world, race and ethnicity are related to the health of democracies, migration, environmental justice, and national and geopolitical stability. The institute will help focus Stanford’s considerable resources on creating collaborations between faculty and organizations outside of the university to identify pragmatic interventions that address some of the most pressing problems in people’s lives.
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Apply for our IAJS-Stanford Center on Longevity joint postdoctoral position
Help identify key indicators of societal well-being and their relationship to racial and ethnic equality in long-lived societies. Applications will be reviewed starting February 3, 2025.
Events
January 14: 2025 Health Equity Symposium
This event, co-hosted by Stanford Medicine and The Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute at the Arrillaga Alumni Center, will focus on advancing health equity by addressing social and structural determinants of health.
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January 15: 2025 King & Faith Symposium at Memorial Church: The Day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Came to Stanford
Join us for a screening of Dr. King's 48-minute speech, “The Other America,” delivered in 1967 at Stanford. A movie screen will be constructed on stage for this event.
January 30: 20th Annual Kieve Lecture with Tommy Orange: "Pretending—An American History"
His debut novel "There There" following 12 characters of Native American descent in contemporary California was a 2019 American Book Award recipient.
