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The Global Connection - Episode #28: Israel and the Forces of History

Ran Tal is a documentary filmmaker and the head of the international MFA documentary film
program at Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. In this episode of The Global Connection, Tal talks to host Anna Sajecki about his
career capturing Israeli stories, how historical and individual forces have interacted to shape Israel and its meaning, and his most recent documentary films 1341 Frames of Love and War (about celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am) and What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace. They also chat about the two-year MFA program in documentary film and what it offers students.
Interested in the international MFA
documentary film program? Learn more at www.international.tau.ac.il/Television_and_Cinema
*This episode was filmed before
October 7.

The Global Connection - Episode #27: What It Means to Be Modern

What is modernity? How has it shaped the way we live and think? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Yoav Fromer about a course he teaches called “Modernity and Its Discontents.” The course is one of the most popular taught through Tel Aviv University’s International BA in Liberal Arts, which this year is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.
 
Learn more about TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://international.tau.ac.il/Liberal_Arts
 
Keywords: modernity, modernism, discontents, enlightenment, reason, democracy, nature, individuals, individualism, romanticism, postmodernism, technology, war, abstraction, capitalism, Liberal Arts, humanism, art, humanities, Tel Aviv University, Israel
 
Unit: Global podcast 27 09 23 Yoav Fromer edited
 
Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbIEfMyu7M
 

The Global Connection - Episode #26: Thinking Critically About Technology

As technology continues to change how we live, what questions should we ask? Nitzan Waisberg is a lecturer, consultant, and design thinker
who served as a consulting assistant professor at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner
Institute of Design before returning to Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global
Connection, Waisberg talks with Anna Sajecki about a course she teaches, called
“Thinking Critically About Technology,” through the Innovation and
Entrepreneurship track as part of TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts.
 
Learn more about the Innovation and Entrepreneurship track offered
through TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/ac_tracks

The Global Connection - Episode #25: Social Media and the Israel-Hamas War

In this episode of The Global Connection, the spotlight is on social
media and its relationship to the Israel-Hamas war, as well as what today’s
digital platforms mean for the future of humanity. This episode features Dr.
Carmel Vaisman, a digital culture researcher and associate lecturer at TAU’s
Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, as well as
with TAU’s Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities. The guest host is Ben
Bright: an international master’s student and a member of a Tel Aviv University
(TAU) task force fighting disinformation online.
 
Learn more about the Digital Culture and Communications track offered
through TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/ac_tracks
 
Learn more about the TAU International Students Task Force: https://international.tau.ac.il/student-task-force
 

TAU Unbound - Episode #40: Ido Aharoni and Ehud Toledano: what now? Israel’s options & Hamas War outlook

Prof. Ehud Toledano is the former Director of TAU's Program in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Department of Middle East and African History. In this episode of TAU Unbound, he shares with host Ido Aharoni his take on what Israel should do next, how and when. Toledano provides a comprehensive overview of the actors in the conflict: Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, ISIS, PA, Turkey, KSA, USA and more.
Between 2004 and 2008, Toledano served as the Director of the Graduate School of History, and from 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the University Board of Directors, representing the University Senate. He received his PhD from Princeton University and conducted extensive research in Istanbul, London, and Paris. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt between 1979 and 1981, a Senior Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1986/7), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1993/4), and Visiting Professor at UCLA (between 1999 and 2001).
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Political, diplomatic and military aspects of the attack on 7.10
01:34 - The response must be the destruction of the Hamas organization
02:23 - The political move to destroy Hamas. Expulsion of the leadership
05:54 - The military move in the Gaza Strip
10:35 - "The day after the war"
16:38 - The Arab world
19:03 - Iran and its involvement in the events of 7.10
26:00 - Turkey and its involvement in the events of 7.10
29:10 - Saudi Arabia and its involvement in the events of 7.10
32:10 - Russia and its involvement in the events of 7.10
lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

TAU Unbound - Episode#39: Ido Aharoni & Thalma Lobel: Practical tips to reduce stress and manage anxiety

Our guest is Prof. Emeritus Thalma Lobel former head of TAU’s Psychology Department and Dean of Students. Thalma is a prolific writer who authored several bestsellers on the practical applications of psychological methodologies. In this episode, Lobel shares with host Ido Aharoni ways to reduce stress and mitigate anxiety during wartime in Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and conducted her post doctoral work at Harvard University. As Dean of students Lobel promoted several social impact programs aimed at narrowing gaps in the Israeli society.
00:00 - Intro
02:06- The psychological rationale behind the actions of Hamas
03:30 - brutality
06:10 - Practice to improve the environment, to help deal with stress and fear
13:00 - More ways to reduce stress
13:44 - The importance of nature, causes a decrease in stress levels and an increase in cognitive performance
18:54 - A virtual tour of landscapes and sounds from nature also reduce stress
19:19 - It is important to listen to the voices of nature
21:00 - In order to relax it is important to reduce watching news updates. Make sure to exercise
23:34 - Tips for those staying in the protected area.
lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

TAU Unbound - Episode#38: Ido Aharoni & Uriya Shavit: What are Israel’s Options in the War

In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni is interviewing prolific Israeli academic and writer Prof. Uriya Shavit of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. Shavit, who received his PhD from TAU, talks about the origins of Hamas, its ties throughout the region and Israel’s options.
Prof. Shavit is a professor of Islamic studies and, since 2016, has served as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and its Graduate Program in Religious Studies. Since 2021, Shavit serves as head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, as well as co-head of the Shandong-Tel Aviv Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Shavit also worked as a senior staff writer and editor for Haaretz and other Israeli newspapers and authored novels and books for young readers. He specializes in the study of contemporary Islamic law, theology, and politics, as well as the study of Muslim minorities in the West.
00:00 - Intro
01:58 - The roots of the Hamas organization are anti-Semitism.
02:48 - Signs in a world of denial such as Holocaust denial
03:18 - Violence also by Muslims against Muslims
04:40 - The BDS movement
08:41- The struggle of the Hamas movement is against the West in general
09:50 - ISIS
11:10 - after the war - military government/Hamas government
13:39 - Hamas ISIS VS
18:58 - Islam in Europe
26:45 - Pro-Islamic propaganda in private universities in the United States
lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

TAU Unbound - Episode #37: Ido Aharoni & Eyal Zisser Origins of Hamas Gaza War - Regional Perspective

This new episode of TAU Unbound introduces TAU Vice Provost Prof. Eyal Zisser, who also serves as the holder of The Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East. Dean of Humanities (2010-2015), Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (2007-2010) and Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Prof. Zisser covered in this conversation the regional perspective with an emphasis on Iran and Syria.
Zisser wrote extensively on the history and the modern politics of Syria and Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Among his books: Assad’s Syria at a Crossroads (Tel Aviv, 1999); Asad’s Legacy – Syria in Transition (New York, 2000); Lebanon: the Challenge of Independence (London, 2000); Faces of Syria (Tel Aviv, 2003) Commanding Syria, Bashar al-Asad’s First years in Power (London, 2006); The Bleeding Cedar (Tel Aviv, 2009), Syria :Protest, Revolution, Civil War (Tel Aviv, 2014). He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University. He was a visiting professor in Cornell University and a visiting research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - To what extent is the 7.10 war a war with Iran?
03:30 - Hamas versus ISIS
07:39 - The west VS the rest
10:16 - The Hamas movement
11:00 - Advice to Israel's leaders
13:06 - The population in the Gaza Strip
15:48 - Qatar involvement
16:20 - The government and the reality in Syria regarding the situation in Israel
18:40 - The involvement of the United States in conflicts in the Middle East - Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran
27:39 - The current government in Israel and its policy towards the Gaza Strip
31:20 - Israel after the war
lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

The Global Connection - Episode #24: To Fight Antisemitism, We Must Understand It

In this special episode of The Global Connection, guest host Maria Ellul – an
International student and member of a Tel Aviv University (TAU) task force
fighting disinformation – interviews TAU historian Prof. Havi Dreifuss, who is
the head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem’s
International Institute for Holocaust Research. Together they discuss the
meaning of antisemitism, its historical and political contexts, and the current
rise in anti-Jewish violence around the world.
 
Learn more
about the TAU International Students Task Force: https://international.tau.ac.il/student-task-force
 
Learn more
about TAU’s Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology: https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/jstudies
 

The Global Connection - Episode #23: New Leadership Program for Jewish Students Led by Ronen Hoffman

In this episode of The Global Connection, renowned diplomat, entrepreneur and academic Dr. Ronen Hoffman speaks with Anna Sajecki about working with Tel Aviv University to launch the new Exploration, Leadership and Innovation (ELI) program – an immersive and academically rigorous gap-year program for Jewish students; as well as what he learned from late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and from living a life focused on building a better world, supporting Jewish community and youth, and leading with integrity.
 
Want to spend your gap year in Israel? Learn more or apply to ELI through the program webpage: international.tau.ac.il/Academic_Gap_Year