Global Insights (Audio)

Vice Admiral Charles W. Martoglio, US Navy (ret), the former Deputy Commander of US military forces in Europe, returns to Osher to discuss the numerous challenges facing Europe and European cohesion, NATO's evolution, and its current role in the security of both America and Europe. His lecture will also examine how Russia got to where it is today and the motives behind its current activity in Eastern Europe, Syria, and across its periphery. The lecture will close with an assessment of why America will remain the most powerful nation in the world, economically, diplomatically, and military, for generations to come. Vice Admiral Charles W. Martoglio served as one of our military's leading strategists, planners, and politico-military advisors. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at UC San Diego and an advisor to the US Department of Defense. Series: "Osher UC San Diego Distinguished Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 31375]

Megan E. Garcia, a national and cyber security analyst who is now a Senior Fellow and Director at New America California, talks with civil rights attorney and fellow alum Jonathan Stein about engaging in civic life after leaving the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 31438]

Journalist Ari Shapiro shares how his passion for literature has inspired him to find and report great stories in Washington, Europe and elsewhere around the world in his remarkable rise from radio intern to co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Shapiro is the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "Writers" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31184]

In his book, Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals, author Joel Dimsdale draws on decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience since the Nuremberg Trials to take a fresh look at four Nazi war criminals: Robert Ley, Hermann Goring, Julius Streicher and Rudolf Hess. Dimsdale, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, is presented by the UC San Diego Library. Series: "Writers" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30898]

Born in Jerusalem to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Israeli journalist Tom Segev is a leading figure among the so-called New Historians, who have challenged many of Israel’s traditional narratives or “founding myths.” His books include, “The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust” (2000); “One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate” (2000); “1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East” (2006); and “Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends” (2010). Segev is presented by the Holocaust Living History Workshop, a joint program of the UC San Diego Library and the Jewish Studies Program. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30122]

Some 300 San Diego Unified high school students learn about STEAM career experiences from five innovators who present new technologies including electric cars, satellites that provide internet connections to airplanes and other moving vehicles, an algae-fueled Baja 1000 motorcycle, and state-of-the art bicycles. Series: "STEAM Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30773]

As the Mideast chaos has focused elsewhere, the Israeli and Palestinian issue has been largely sidelined. Negotiated peace, the classic paradigm for the last few decades, has been put aside. What will take its place? What new paradigm can offer peace to both sides and put aside this tragic conflict? What can the US do? With David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omar both of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30679]

Game creator, tech executive and social entrepreneur Asi Burak makes an impassioned case for using digital games to spread “good” information, raise awareness, inspire social action and build civic participation as he recounts his own successes with the “PeaceMaker,” an award-winning video game that simulates conflicts in the Middle East. Burak is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 30658]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Media Constructions of Terrorism: Framing How the Public Interprets and Responds to Terrorism with Benjamin Smith, UC Santa Barbara, and Constructing the Terrorist Threat: The Merging of the Discourses of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism in the UK with Anthony Richards, University of East London. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30470]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Constructing Terrorism as Coercion with Clark McCauley, Bryn Mawr College, and The Narrative Construction of Violent Islamism with Steven Corman, Arizona State University. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30469]