UC Santa Barbara (Video)

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: Can Terrorism be Defined? with Lisa Stampnitzky, University of Sheffield, and Misoverestimating Terrorism with John Mueller, Ohio State University. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30467]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: The World vs. Daesh: Constructing a Contemporary Terrorist Threat with Scott Englund, UC Santa Barbara, and Contemporary Threat Roundtable led by Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30474]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Constructing Cultures of Martyrdom, with Mia Bloom, Georgia State University, and Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset with Laura Dugan, University of Maryland. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30473]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Are the (Causal) Stories of Different Operationalizations of Terrorism Different? with Victor Asal, State University of New York, Albany, and Analyzing Pathways of Lone-Actor Radicalization: A Relational Approach with Lasse Lindekilde, Aarhus University. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30472]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Ambiguities in the Terrorist Discourse and the Political Imagination of Violence with Richard Falk, Princeton University, and Legal Constructions of Terrorism with Richard Burchill, TRENDS Research and Advisory. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30471]

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is a successful entrepreneur, executive, author and futurist and the Founding President of the World Business Academy. He looks at the role and responsibility of business in relation to the critical moral, environmental and social concerns of the day especially moving away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30475]

Professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker of the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies, discuss "The Look of Silence," a groundbreaking documentary on trauma by Joshua Oppenheimer. The film was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30457]

Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic joins Professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Laila Shereen Sakr of the Department of Film and Media Studies at UCSB for a discussion about her poetic documentary Evaporating Borders that examines the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30458]

Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB, welcomes executive producer and writer Toni Graphia to discuss the Starz series “Outlander.” Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30404]