Global Insights (Audio)

“It’s not taking pilots out of planes. It’s putting propellers on smart phones.” So says Chris Anderson, co-founder of 3D Robotics describing “Solo,” the world’s first Smart Drone. Anderson was among a group of leading engineers in unmanned aerial vehicles gathered on the USS Midway to inspire San Diego students to consider careers in high technology. Others on board included Mike Atwood and Darren Moe of General Atomics describing the military missions of the “Predator” UAV, George Guerre of Northrop Grumman adding how its “Global Hawk” drone is also used for weather surveillance and other humanitarian purposes and finally, Mike Veale of San Diego Zoo Safari Park touched many in the audience by explaining how he plans to use drones to stop the poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa. This event was presented as part of the STEAM Leadership Series, created by Intellectual Capital, KidsEcoClub and the Education Synergy Alliance. Series: "STEAM Channel" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 29523]

Can nonviolent civil disobedience effectively counter the brutality of organized crime and government corruption in Mexico? What impact can people’s movements have against such odds? Pietro Ameglio, a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social movements in Mexico addresses this challenge in an interview with Everard Meade, the director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29171]

As part of the UC Global Health Day 2015, four leading public health researchers offer ideas on how to help undocumented immigrants at the state level, in light of stalled immigration reform in Washington. Speakers include Claire Brindis of UC San Francisco, Michael Rodriguez and Steven Wallace of UCLA, and Reshma Shamasunder of the California Immigrant Policy Center. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29632]

Steven Salaita (former Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech) and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB Assistant Professor in History) discuss writer-director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains. Winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is an intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland between 1948 and the present day. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections, the film recounts the saga of the filmmaker’s family in subtly hilarious vignettes. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29622]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, for a discussion of the challenges facing political leaders as they manage domestic politics charged with nationalism in an interdependent world. Focusing on the case of the United Kingdom, Lord Patten analyzes these forces and their impact on leadership, on political choices, and on the conduct of elections. He discusses the May, 2015 British elections comparing the leadership styles of Thatcher, Blair, and Cameron. He also analyzes Europe’s relations with China and Russia. He concludes with advice for students as they prepare for the future.

Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29643]

Discussion with My Love Awaits Me by the Sea director Mais Darwazah and Nuha N.N. Khoury, UCSB Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture. My Love Awaits Me by the Sea is a poetic meditation on what it means to be denied the chance to participate in a collective memory of normal life. Accompanied by Hasan, her imaginary lover, Darwazah (a second generation Palestinian) returns for the first time to her home in Palestine, and finds the remnants of hope in a land exhausted by endless years of war. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29621]

Since the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Germans have been forced to confront their “unmasterable past.” What was it like to grow up in a divided country burdened with the legacy of genocide? How does one deal with the knowledge of one’s people’s complicity in mass murder, and how does this knowledge affect one’s identity? Primary witnesses of both German and Jewish backgrounds explore answers to these questions. Panelists include Frank Biess, Deborah Hertz, Margrit Frolich and Brian Schottlaender of UC San Diego. Series: "The Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29486]

Former California Supreme Court Justice and UC Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso recalls his days working alongside Cesar Chavez in the Community Service Organization and speaks to the influence of Latinos today on immigration, voting rights, police conduct and other contentious public issues. Justice Reynoso is presented by the Helen Edison Lecture Series at UC San Diego. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29210]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcome Indian Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor for a discussion of India’s role in world affairs. Tharoor discusses his journey from international civil servant to Indian politician. After analyzing how world order is changing as a result of the changing balance of power from the West to the East and the revolution in communications technology, he then outlines the role India will play as it undergoes major social and economic transformation. He discusses the implications for US Indian relations analyzing the interface between the superpower turning to multilateralism and a rising power shaping the future of multilateralism. He concludes with reflections on India relations with China. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29542]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes John A. Nagl for a discussion of his life as a scholar/soldier in the U.S. military. After recalling the highlights of his career, Nagl, focusing on the problem of counterinsurgency, analyzes the army’s failings as a learning organization. He discusses the trajectory of military thinking after the Vietnam War and the long struggle to recognize the unconventional ways of warfare conducted by insurgents and terrorists. He describes how a group of innovators in the military came to draft the US Army/Marine Corp Counterinsurgency Field Manual. With the completion of that document and the subsequent change in leadership in the Pentagon and in Iraq, the U.S. reversed the course of the war and set the stage for withdrawal from the conflict. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29487]