This past Friday I gave a presentation on art as a cultural bridge to a group of young women from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. I was speaking to students visiting Stanford University from the Asian University for Women located in Chittagong, Bangladesh. For many of the students, it was their first overseas trip. They were attending a four-week program at Stanford led by Richard Saller, Dean of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences…