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Talks events in and around San Francisco this week

39 events in the next 7 days (Oct 31 – Nov 6) in and around San Francisco, 26 of them free. Each links to its original listing. Updated October 31.

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Sunday, November 1

9:30 AM Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence Grace Cathedral

Monday, November 2

12 PM AI SAFETY LAB - SILICON VALLEY Embarcadero Center $161.90
4 PM Japan and the Middle East in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape Encina Hall Free
4:15 PM Physics Colloquium with Chung-Pei Ma: Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies Lecture Hall #1 Free
5 PM Tendon thread feat. Tanya Lukin Linklater Grimes Engineering Center Free
5:30 PM Are Jews an Ethnic Group? Angela Nomellini & Ken Olivier building (ANKO) Free
6:30 PM Is a Service Dog the Right Next Step? JUKU Free

Tuesday, November 3

8:30 AM 5th Annual Research Symposium Berg Hall Free
8:30 AM Stanford Medicine Children's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease's 5th Annual Research Symposium Li Ka Shing Center Free
10 AM AI AGENTS SHOWCASE (INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC CUSTOMIZED DEMO-DAY) Hyatt Regency San Francisco $588.73
12 PM CUSTOMIZED AI FORESIGHT FOR YOUR CORPORATE INNOVATION TEAM Moscone Center $588.73
4 PM Creating What's Possible: A Panel Discussion with First-Generation Students in STEM Hartley Conference Center
5 PM MEHKO Informational Session | MEHKO Sesión Informativa Gilroy Library Free
5 PM SJSU Art Galleries Tuesday Night Lecture: Stepan Drunks ART 133: Art Lecture Hall Free
5:30 PM Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration Anderson Collection Free
6 PM Election Night: 2026 Midterm Election Watch Party Institute of Governmental Studies Library Free
6:30 PM The Carefree Executive - High Responsibility Without Anxiety Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center

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
12 PM STARTUP FUNDRAISING STRATEGY SESSION 2026 Fairmont San Francisco $588.73
5:30 PM An Evening with Jane Schoenbrun! Roxie Theater
6 PM Millennial Punk: Episodes 1 & 2 + Conversation Goethe-Institut San Francisco
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
4:30 PM The Fate of the Social in Modern Life: American Social Scientists and Japan as Archive East Asia Library
5 PM Seeing Through a Mirror: The 1948 War in the Eyes of the World Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Free
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
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

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