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The Global Connection - Episode #12: Behind the Scenes of Global Diplomacy at TAU

In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr.
Anna Sajecki joins two representatives of TAU’s Model UN Society, President
Amit Gershon and Board Member Mary Absawy, to chat about running Model UN at
TAU, the world of global diplomacy, building a global community of friends, and
bringing people from around the world together for this year’s TAU Model UN
Conference.
Want to get involved in Tel Aviv University’s Model United
Nations?  Learn more at www.taumun.com

The Global Connection Episode #11: Mindfulness and Madness in Today’s Global Film Industry

Renowned American filmmaker Lawrence Kasanoff has had a hand in movies such as Dirty
Dancing, Platoon, Terminator 2, True Lies and the Mortal Kombat series, and is
about to release his new book, A Touch of the Madness: How to Be More
Innovative in Work and Life … by Being a Little Crazy.
Recently,
Kasanoff was also the chair of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
and sat down with The Global Connection host Dr. Anna Sajecki to chat about
this next generation of filmmakers and how to build a career in the film
industry today.
Interested in
studying film? Check out TAU’s international MFA in Film and Television: www.international.tau.ac.il/Television_and_Cinema

The Global Connection: Episode #10: Is Tel Aviv the Happiest City in the World?

Amid the weekly protests occurring in Tel
Aviv-Yafo, a major global travel blog has voted the city the happiest in the
world. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks to
Nadav Laor, head of incoming tourism at Tel Aviv Global, about the ingredients
that make up Tel Aviv.

The Global Connection Episode #9: The Past, Present and Future of Hebrew

Naomi Brenner is an associate professor in the Department of
Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State
University. Tamar Sovran is a professor emerita from the Department of Hebrew
Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University.
Taking a short break from the National Association of
Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) annual conference, the two sat down with The Global
Connection host Anna Sajecki to talk about how Hebrew as a language and
literature has evolved and shifted with time.
Want to improve your Hebrew? Learn more about TAU’s Hebrew
Ulpan courses here: https://international.tau.ac.il/Intensive_Hebrew_Ulpan

The Global Connection Episode #8: Tech vs. the Law – Lessons from TAU’s International LL.M Program

In this episode
of The Global Connection, host Dr. Anna Sajecki joins Turkish attorney Nurgul
Gokpinar and Nigerian lawyer Olivia Mbonu – two students in the International
LL.M Program at Tel Aviv University who are focused on law and technology – to
chat about what brought them to Israel, comparative law in a global context,
and the current challenges with regulating artificial intelligence and more.
Learn more
about the program: www.international.tau.ac.il/international_llm
law, law
students, LL.M, corporate law, commercial law, technology, digital rights,
regulation, high tech, common law, civil law, comparative law, Turkey, Nigeria,
Israel, Tel Aviv University

The Global Connection - Episode #7: What We’re All Missing When It Comes to Cyber Security

As we become
more and more hooked into digital products like our phones, computers, and smart
gadgets, we also set ourselves up for more and more danger.
In episode #7
of The Global Connection podcast, global cyber security expert and activist
Chris Roberts sits down with host Anna Sajecki to chat about his own history
and present as a hacker, what the role of the cyber security industry should be
today, and what steps we can all take to reduce our cyber risk.

The Global Connection - Episode #5: Measuring the Risk and Reward of Artificial Intelligence

In Episode #5 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki talks with Nadav Cohen, an assistant professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University and research director at the University’s Foundations of Deep Learning Lab. Cohen is also the chief scientist and cofounder of Imubit.
In this podcast episode, the two discuss Cohen’s research on the mathematical foundations of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the current use and development of AI technologies, and the risks and challenges pertaining to AI advancement that society needs to consider today.

The Global Connection - Episode #6: Perchance to Dream – What Can Dream Sequences Tell Us About Society?

Do historical and contemporary theatre performances reveal something about how we collectively dream across time and space? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks to Dr. Sharon Aronson Lehavi and Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich, two professors from the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University, about a new international project with the University of Cologne.
Curating Theatre Histories is a project led by Lehavi and Abeliovich, along with Professor Peter Marx from the University of Cologne’s Institute for Media Culture and Theatre Studies, which dives into two of the largest Hebrew-speaking and German-speaking theatre archives to discover what theatrical dream sequences can tell us about national, transnational and social imaginations.

The Global Connection - Episode #4: Could the Middle East Save the World from Climate Change?

In The Power of Deserts: Climate
Change, The Middle East and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era, Tel Aviv
University Prof. Dan Rabinowitz takes readers through our current climate
change reality and suggests an opportunity for hope and global leadership in
the region.
This episode of The Global Connection podcast features
Prof. Rabinowitz on climate change in the Middle East, his lifelong interest in
environment and place, and a new graduate program in climate change being
launched at Tel Aviv University.

The Global Connection - Episode #3: The Future of Diplomacy

In Episode #3 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki sits down with Indonesian student Aryo Brahmantyo and Mexican student Paul Frankel to reflect on international life in Israel, why Indonesia needs diplomatic ties with Israel, the Mexican-U.S. border in context, being Muslim in Israel, the particularity of language, and what one can do with an MA degree in Security and Diplomacy.