Alumni Academy: Faculty, Lectures & Panels - Audio and Video

If any election year boggles the mind, this one is it. Even in an election cycle as full of surprises as this one, our brains create the conditions that allow some ideas, messages, and candidates to resonate and others to fall flat. This presentation focuses on principles of effective political communication that apply to both leadership and marketing. It uses these principles, as well as an analysis of where we are economically and historically, to explain the unprecedented political ride of 2016. Join Emory College Professor Drew Westen as he shows examples of ads and debate clips that worked or didn’t, and examines why from the point of view of the mind and brain.

If any election year boggles the mind, this one is it. Even in an election cycle as full of surprises as this one, our brains create the conditions that allow some ideas, messages, and candidates to resonate and others to fall flat. This presentation focuses on principles of effective political communication that apply to both leadership and marketing. It uses these principles, as well as an analysis of where we are economically and historically, to explain the unprecedented political ride of 2016. Join Emory College Professor Drew Westen as he shows examples of ads and debate clips that worked or didn’t, and examines why from the point of view of the mind and brain.

Barbara Rothbaum is quickly becoming a game changer in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects people of all walks of life and experiences. Rothbaum has grappled with the challenge of treating rape victims suffering from PTSD since 1986, and her pioneering research in the field, including the use of virtual reality therapy as early as 1995, has assisted medical professionals around the world in the treatment of PTSD. Her latest achievement, the establishment of Emory Healthcare’s Veterans Program, is a strategic partnership with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), whose mission is to heal the invisible wounds of war, including PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) for post-9/11 veterans. Join the Emory Alumni Association in South Florida as we spotlight Barbara Rothbaum’s groundbreaking research.

Barbara Rothbaum is quickly becoming a game changer in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects people of all walks of life and experiences. Rothbaum has grappled with the challenge of treating rape victims suffering from PTSD since 1986, and her pioneering research in the field, including the use of virtual reality therapy as early as 1995, has assisted medical professionals around the world in the treatment of PTSD. Her latest achievement, the establishment of Emory Healthcare’s Veterans Program, is a strategic partnership with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), whose mission is to heal the invisible wounds of war, including PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) for post-9/11 veterans. Join the Emory Alumni Association in South Florida as we spotlight Barbara Rothbaum’s groundbreaking research.

Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr., James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership, highlights some of the history of racialized politics and unusual policy decisions that created Ferguson as we know it today, and discusses the prospects for a natural conversation about race and difference.

Multiculturalism now stands as the great fault line of our society. Ferguson, Charleston, and other major recent events show us that deep social divisions and inequities have been masked for too long. Change is needed now more than ever before. How can Emory University lead courageously on this issue at home and in the world? How can alumni engage with the university to help us with this ambitious project? Change is needed now more than ever. Emory Campus Life serves as a laboratory and training ground for our students to become change agents and leaders. As Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair explains, “polyculturalism means recognition and appreciation of the multiplicity and intersectionality of our identities; the reframing of multiculturalism to view culture as dynamic and thriving.” Join Emory President James Wagner, Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair, alumna Maria Town 10C, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Emory's Candler School of Theology Greg Ellison 99C, and current student Jalyn Radziminski 18C in a conversation on Emory’s role in seeking positive transformation at home and in the world as we examine our polycultural future.

Emory Law’s Dean Robert Schapiro, a noted Constitutional Law scholar, reviews the year’s key Supreme Court decisions, including findings on the Affordable Care Act, partisanship and voter redistricting, and Obergefell v. Hodges, the case of same-sex marriage.

Fifty years ago Clark Kerr—then chancellor of UC/Berkeley—famously said that a university could keep all its constituents happy by providing “sex for the students, football tickets for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.” Since then, expectations have risen steeply. How can a university—how can EMORY—prepare its students with career paths, cultural literacy, social maturation, keener thinking, spiritual insight, tools for citizenship, safe space, counseling services, health care, international experience, physical fitness, and entrepreneurial opportunities, all while reducing costs, meeting government regulations, conducting breakthrough research, out-teaching Socrates, serving the community, and making the diplomas of alumni more valuable? In this webinar Emory University Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary Hauk 91PhD will explore how.

In modern thought, wellness includes not only the absence of illness but the presence of both flourishing and resilience. Beyond the physical domain, wellness can and must also be intellectual, emotional, ethical, spiritual and communal. Marshall Duke, an award-winning Emory psychologist who focuses on family bonds and resilience, will explore the modern concept of wellness and discuss ways to pursue wellness in our own lives and encourage its development in our families.

Sports are one of the final thresholds for serious scholarship on African American history and life that can expose the complex nature of blackness throughout American history. Yet, to appreciate fully the accomplishments of those who fought for the right to play America’s pastime in organized white baseball or perform on behalf of one’s country as an Olympian, we first need to recognize the “psychic value” of sports in the black community as a vehicle to achieving some sense of belonging in a country that denied the birthright of its darker sons and daughters.

Husband and wife team Jeannette Guarner and Carlos del Rio—Emory infectious disease experts who co-wrote an article about the Ebola epidemic with two Emory physicians—discuss how Ebola and other serious infectious diseases spread and how they can be contained.

Nourishing children with language from birth to age three has proven to stimulate cognitive development, social-emotional competency, school readiness, and, ultimately, educational achievement. Talk With Me Baby is a collaborative effort with Emory's School of Nursing, Marcus Autism Center, the Georgia Department of Education, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Funded by the United Way of Greater Atlanta, it encourages parents and health care professionals to talk with their children at an early age.

Oxford College is a unique model in US higher education—a selective, residential two-year program that embraces liberal arts in a learning environment that is highly engaged in and out of the classroom. Joe Moon will illustrate how Oxford's story unfolded throughout the 20th century to reach its current distinctive role within the Emory academic family.

In the United States, government officials wield powerful tools to control potential epidemics. Polly Price will address questions posed by the recent Ebola threat, including how quarantine orders issued and enforced, how we balance the rights of individuals against the public, and whether medical professionals have a duty to treat in public health emergencies.

0 0