Talks events in and around San Francisco this week
41 events in the next 7 days (Nov 4–10) in and around San Francisco, 32 of them free. Each links to its original listing. Updated November 4.
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Wednesday, November 4
- 9:30 AM Book Club lecture Triton Museum of Art
- 10 AM Presentation: El Niño is Coming: Is Your Business Ready? San Francisco Public Library Free
- 12 PM Coffee with the Curator Marin History Museum Free
- 12 PM Leading by Unwritten Rules: Rural Educators in Myanmar’s Crisis Encina Hall Free
- 12 PM REI Colloquium: Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability Social Sciences Building 402 Free
- 3 PM The Shi’a in the Arab World and Iran The Commonwealth Club of California
- 6:30 PM The Native Story of Sonoma County Roseland Regional Library Free
Thursday, November 5
- 8:30 AM Philomathia Day: Bioelectricity at the Interface: Molecules, Membranes, and Models Alumni House Free
- 12 PM The Great Reshuffle: Global Mobility in an Age of Uncertainty Angler Free
- 4 PM Every Data Center Will Need Its Own Air Defense: Lessons from Ukraine’s Drone War Stanford University Free
- 4 PM Panel Discussion - Propaganda Machines (In the Age of Ai) Barrows Hall Free
- 4:30 PM The Fate of the Social in Modern Life: American Social Scientists and Japan as Archive East Asia Library
- 5 PM SYSTEM UPDATE with The Pragmatic Engineer The Howard SF Free
- 5 PM What Do We Owe Each Other in the Age of AI? Paul Brest Hall
- 5:30 PM EXPEDITION CLUB SAN FRANCISCO PANEL TALK Heath Newsstand Free
- 6 PM From Chasing Poachers to Catalyzing Systems Change: The Evolution of Sea Shepherd's Approach to Antarctic Conservation Hopkins Marine Station Free
- 6:30 PM Imperfect Circles Discussion Group Orinda Library Free
- 7 PM Road Scholar: Banff Los Altos Library Free
Friday, November 6
- 10:30 AM Ver la memoria: una conversación con Queralt Solé y Espe Pons || Seeing Memory: A Conversation with Queralt Solé and Espe Pons Doe Library Free
- 11 AM Oil in Conversation with Josie Licavoli SCRAP $39.19-$60.54
- 12 PM BETR/EECS Solid State Technologies Seminar: Prof. Vivian Feig, Stanford University | Engineering Piezoelectric Biomaterials Across Length Scales for Transient Bioelectronics Grimes Engineering Center Free
- 1 PM eWEAR Health Prize @ Stanford U. Alumni Center Free
- 3 PM Lecture: Visiting Composer – Melody Eötvös Braun Music Center Free
- 4 PM Fireside Chat with Dr. Slater Sharp Mission Hall 1402 Free
Saturday, November 7
- 11 AM UC Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA) Speaker Series: Nicholas Mathew Women’s Faculty Club See tickets
- 4 PM Jason Francisco in Conversation with Poet Alexander Nemerov SF Camerawork Free
- 6 PM 16th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Sima Bina Stanford Memorial Auditorium (MemAud) Free
- 7:30 PM Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway Golden Gate Theater
Sunday, November 8
- 10 AM JARDIN EXTRAVAGANZA Cornerstone Sonoma Free
- 2 PM Artist Panel Discussion: Silica / SiO2: Northern California Ceramics Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Free
- 2 PM The Monuments Men: Art History Lecture & Reception Triton Museum of Art Free
- 2 PM UC Master Gardeners: Good Bugs vs. Bad Bugs Guerneville Regional Library Free
Monday, November 9
- 12 PM For the Next Generation: Mental Health in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth Building 360 Free
- 4:15 PM Physics Colloquium with Wallace Marshall: Learning without a brain - how a single cell processes information Lecture Hall #1 Free
- 5 PM The Bomb in/and/out of the Archive. feat. Zoé Samudzi Grimes Engineering Center Free
- 5:30 PM War, Sanctions and the Intimacy of Everyday Life Encina Commons 123
- 6 PM The Future of Public Media with PBS CEO Paula Kerger and KQED CEO Michael Isip Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Tuesday, November 10
- 12 PM Biosecurity in an Age of AI: Frontier Safety, Anticipatory Governance, and Defensive Innovation Encina Hall Free
- 4 PM Science, Statecraft, and National Resilience: Rethinking Governance in the Philippines Encina Hall Free
- 5:15 PM St. Patrick's Seminary Fall Lecture Series Presents : Conor Cunningham, PhD St. Patrick's Seminary Free
- 5:30 PM Andrew Hogan // The New Rules of Design Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Free
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