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The public health imperative to stay home has introduced new challenges on a wide scale for mental health, maintaining cybersecurity in our virtual world, and for those with extra time, occupying oneself with home entertainment. In a program dedicated to some of the practical realities of this period, learn key steps to keep your computer and identity safe, discover support systems like the practical application of Eastern and Western philosophy, and consider how world cinema can counter isolation, and isolationism, by connecting us with others and ourselves.

Host: ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ President Vincent Boudreau

Guests: Jerry Carlson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts in ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Louis Marinoff, Professor of Philosophy in ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Tarek N. Saadawi, Professor of Electrical Engineering in ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's Grove School of Engineering, director of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's new Cybersecurity master's program.

Recorded: May 22, 2020

Online resources mentioned during this episode:

Cybersecurity

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ MS in Cybersecurity: /cybersecurity
• Internet Infrastructure Security: Interview with Prof. Saadawi:
• Top agencies warn cyber criminals are using coronavirus to step up hacking efforts:

Philosophy

• American Philosophical Practitioners Association:

World Cinema

• CUNY TV:
• The British Film Institute polls and surveys: www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys
• JustWatch streaming guide:
• The Criterion Channel: