YAEL WARSHEL: PUBLIC, POLICY AND PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS AND TRAININGS

Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit (2024), Delhi, India.

Hosted by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate with Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi, his Children's Foundation, and Kerry Kennedy, President of Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Jose Ramos Horta and Leymah Gbowee, Ambassador for Peace UN Women, Lorena Castillo Garcia, and Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven.
Invited to speak and deliberate as a roundtable participant and speaker alongside past world presidents, government representatives, IGO, NGO and think tank directors, Nobel laureates, senior academics and leading journalists; participated in Conclave).

Muse College, Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Student Talk Series, (2023) Shenzen, China

Prepared presentation entitled "Transiting, transition and transnationality: a journey to becoming a global scholar" for Muse College students.

Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates and Friends (2022). Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia.

Spoke and deliberated alongside past world presidents, current government representatives, IGO and NGO directors and Nobel laureates.

Renaissance Weekends (2019-present), various locations around the United States.

Nominated to participate in quarterly-annual invitation-only weekends comprised of innovators and thought-leaders from diverse fields to discuss pressing contemporary issues in a non-partisan forum. (In that vein, meetings have been co-chaired by US Presidents’ Bill Clinton and Gerald R. Ford.)
Declined invitations thus far.

Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit (2018), Dead Sea, Jordan.

Hosted by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate with Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi, his Children's Foundation, and His Majesty King Abdullah II.
Invited to speak and deliberate as a roundtable participant and speaker alongside past world presidents, government representatives, IGO, NGO and think tank directors, Nobel laureates, senior academics and leading journalists.
Declined invitation.

Golant Annual Holocaust Lecture (2018), Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Delivered Keynote Address "Lessons Learned from Studying Why People Think and Feel the Way They Do."

Baku International Humanitarian Forum (2018), Baku, Azerbaijan.

Roundtable Participant and Speaker.
Declined Invitation.

National Political Science Honor Society and American Political Science Association University of Bridgeport Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha (2017), Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Invited to deliver keynote address entitled "Role of Media in Conflict Resolution."
Declined invitation.

Co-Fund Faculty Ethics Hires Brown Bag Series, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State (2016), University Park, Pennsylvania.

Presented about "Gazan Refugee Children’s Media Uses: Implications for Establishing a Children, Youth, Media and Conflict Zone Lab at Penn State."
Presentation kick-started the development and founding of the Children, Media and Conflict Zones Lab

Baku International Humanitarian Forum (2016), Baku, Azerbaijan.

Prepared presentation and roundtable remarks for "The Importance of Preserving Human Capital in Conditions of Mass Migration as a Basis for Sustainable Development," entitled, "Preserving Mobile Literacy."
Spoke and deliberated alongside past world presidents, current world vice-presidents, other government representatives, IGO, NGO and think tank director generals, Nobel laureates, senior academics, and (international) National Academy of Sciences Directors.

Multiscale Modeling of Complex Molecules and Life Processes: A Symposium and Gala Dinner Honoring Dr. Arieh Warshel on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (2015), Los Angeles, California

Prepared presentation entitled, "Non-formal learning from Arieh Warshel".
Spoke alongside numerous Nobel Laureates and international experts in the field.

Baku International Humanitarian Forum (2014), Baku, Azerbaijan.

Prepared presentation and roundtable remarks for "Media Transformation in the Digital Age: New Development Trends".
Spoke and deliberated alongside past world presidents, government representatives, IGO, NGO and think tank directors, Nobel laureates, senior academics and leading journalists.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013-2014) Sweden and the United States.

Spoke on subject matter in several venues in Sweden and the United States.
Summarized Nobel Prize award rationale and relevance of research findings to public health in lay form to public and diplomatic audiences.

Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future-Doha Forum, Qatari Permanent Committee for Organizing Conferences and Center for Middle East Development, University of California, Los Angeles. (2012), Doha, Qatar.

Gave Plenary Presentation entitled, "Media and youth opinion"
Prepared Panel Paper and Workshop Remarks
Spoke and deliberated alongside world leaders, NGO, IGO and think tank directors, senior academics and leading journalists.

Political Upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa: The Role of Social Media, American University, Washington D.C.

Prepared Panel Paper
Spoke to public audiences

World on Fire Public Symposium (2011), Howard University, Washington D.C.

Prepared presentation entitled, "Racial prejudice, media and the fallouts of uprisings: Zimbabweans as potential scapegoats of the Libyan revolution"
Spoke to public and diplomatic audiences.

Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade, GigaNet (2011), American University, Washington D.C.

Prepared presentation for "Revolution 2.0: The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa Panel"

Israel in the 21st Century (2009), San Diego, California

Prepared presentation entitled, "Growing-up Palestinian and Israeli: Dolls, checkpoints, computer games, and bomb shelters.
Only junior scholar to be invited; spoke to public audiences.

Alliance for Middle East Peace Summit on the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (2009),

Washington D.C.

Served as a panelist for "Reporting Peace: The Constructive Role of Media".
Spoke to public, government, and conflict management professional audiences.

Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media "Children and Gender in Film and Television" Public Symposium (2008). Los Angeles, California

Participated in scholarly workshop and prepared public symposium presentation
Spoke to public, and television- and film-production professional audiences.

Israeli Oasis of Peace & Palestinian Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Media Professionals Peace-Building Workshop (2005), Dead Sea, Jordan.

Workshop participant.
Participated in dialogue group with fellow Israeli and Palestinian journalist and entertainment media professionals and scholars.