UC Santa Barbara (Video)

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: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30679]

Todd A. Stone is an Currently Head of Marketing at BIOPAC Systems, Inc., Goleta-based international biotech manufacturing company, Stone has over 25 years of experience in marketing and communications, preceded by a career as an Army Airborne Ranger Infantry officer whose last assignment was as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy (West Point).

Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30701]

Powerful new “gene editing” techniques have put the prospect of genetically modified human beings on the foreseeable horizon. Should we use these tools to improve the human species? Are they needed to prevent the transmission of genetic diseases? Would manipulating the genes of future children and generations open the door to new kinds of discrimination, inequality, and eugenics? Marcy Darnovsky unpacks the controversies that have erupted in recent months about how we should — and should not — use gene editing tools, and explores the technical, social, and ethical stakes of these imminent decisions Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30703]

After nearly twenty years in senior leadership roles in communications at media giants Universal, Sony and Turner Broadcasting, Libby Gill is now CEO of executive coaching and consulting firm Libby Gill & Company, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2015. Gill was also the PR/branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.

Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30572]

Award-winning actor Michael Douglas and Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky explore the role that faith, religious pluralism and human rights have played in their personal journeys. They discuss their relationship with Judaism to an audience at UC Santa Barbara. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30807]

Linda Putnam, a research professor of communication at UC Santa Barbara, focuses on discourse-based approaches to conflict framing. Specifically, she draws from research on teacher-administrator negotiations, environmental conflicts, real estate interactions and the 2007-08 writer’s strike to illustrate theory development in conflict framing Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30517]

Trip Hawkins wants to help the nerds take over the world. Hawkins founded and built Electronic Arts and played a key role in defining the PC industry as an early executive at Apple. Hawkins pioneered many successful strategies and practices in the PC and game industries and was the creative force behind EA Sports and such games as John Madden Football. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30340]

Mark Coopersmith is an entrepreneur, Fortune 500 executive, educator, and author. He has launched, built, and led high-growth businesses as raw startups and within global enterprises alike; Mark has also been a strategic advisor to organizations ranging from VC-backed ventures to global corporations such as Intel and DirecTV. Mark is currently a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at The Haas School of Business where he runs highly sought-after courses and programs on innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and new approaches to driving growth, company resilience and long-term success. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30341]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Defining Terrorism as Tactic with David Schanzer, Duke Sanford School of Pubic Policy, and Terror as Performance Violence with Mark Juergensmeyer, UC Santa Barbara. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30468]

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]