Lawyer and ethicist, Jonathan Marks, explores what institutions so often get wrong in a crisis. Using Boeing as a recent case study, he tells organizations to throw away what he calls "the Crisis Playbook"—a set of tactics designed to rebuild trust. He urges them instead to focus on the more difficult work of becoming truly worthy of our trust. As Marks says: "Trust is what gets us on an airplane. Trustworthiness is what keeps that plane in the air!" Jonathan Marks is a Scotsman, who trained as a human rights lawyer in England, and now teaches at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is director of the Bioethics Program. He writes and lectures on ethics, law, and policy. His last TEDxPSU talk, “In Praise of Conflict,” was picked up by TED.com and received more than one million views in its first few weeks — not bad for a human but somewhat less impressive in the world of cat videos! That talk also became the framework for his book, “The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health,” published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and shortlisted for the Book Award of the North American Society for Social and Political Philosophy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Privacy scholar Priya Kumar unpacks how parents are navigating the privacy issues of posting about their children on social media and explains why the digital ecosystem has not set them up for success. Dr. Priya Kumar is an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, where she studies how we as society think, talk, study, and learn about data privacy, especially in relation to children. She holds a PhD from the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and an M.S. from the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research has been featured in media outlets including the New York Times, NPR, NBC, CNN, and Slate. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Berube’s talk distinguishes academic freedom from freedom of speech, while acknowledging that there are complex situations in which professors speak "extramurally" (that is, outside of class) in ways that are protected by the First Amendment but not always granted the protections of academic freedom. Michael Bérubé is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of twelve books to date, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006). He has also published two edited collections, Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995; with Cary Nelson) and The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2005). Life as We Know It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1996 and was chosen as one of the best books of the year (on a list of seven) by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Dr. Marc Dingman shares what he has learned from writing about the most unusual cases of human behavior, emphasizing that all human brains are far stranger than we realize—even though we often go to great lengths to convey our "normalcy" to the world around us. Dr. Marc Dingman is an Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health at The Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches courses on neuroscience and other health sciences. He has published two neuroscience books for non-scientists: Your Brain, Explained and Bizarre, and he has a popular neuroscience YouTube channel called Neuroscientifically Challenged. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Through an anecdotal lens of personal experience, Divine Lipscomb discusses the importance of ascertaining the context of crime in order to determine consequence and restoration practices. Councilman Divine Lipscomb is the First African American Council Member in the State College Borough. Divine is a formerly incarcerated scholar at Penn State in the Counseling Education Department with an emphasis in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental health counseling. As a graduate assistant for the Restorative Justice Initiative, Penn State’s Prison Education Program, Divine works at the intersections of access to higher education and effective reentry practices for individuals impacted by the within the carceral system. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

NOTE: The ideas in this talk are philosophical and based in social analysis. They do not necessarily reflect Dr. Hausman's personal practices and should not be interpreted as medical guidance. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. More information about the speaker’s work can be found here: 1. https://sites.psu.edu/humanities/bernice-hausman/ 2. https://pure.psu.edu/en/persons/bernice-l-hausman/publications/ 3. https://www.oneducation.net/no-08_september-2020/against-misinformation/ 4. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/79918 Vaccination choices divide individuals and communities in pluralist societies. In this provocative talk, Prof. Bernice Hausman explores vaccination controversy and the layers of meaning within it. She addresses philosophical disagreements about personal and public health, the distracting problem of misinformation, questions about responsibility toward vulnerable others, and the role of illness in being human. By examining the multiple cultural meanings of vaccination and illness, she shows that the way forward is not through science but through understanding our differences. Bernice L. Hausman is the Garner James Cline Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine. Prior to her appointment at Penn State, she spent twenty-three years in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Dr. Hausman has a bachelor’s degree in Literature from Yale University and a doctoral degree in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Iowa. She is an internationally recognized expert on medicine and culture, with expertise in breastfeeding and motherhood, transgender history, and vaccination controversy. She is the author of four single-authored books and numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Her most recent book, Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy (Cornell, 2019), challenges the public to understand vaccine dissent as a persistent and culturally meaningful aspect of modern societies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

How can AI be used to reduce the fatigue of planning? As Christine Palmer explores the basics behind AI, she tells the story of how she let Generative AI plan her week. For her, AI emerged as a tool to empower how she leverages her time as a student. Christine Palmer is a fourth year at the Pennsylvania State University, studying computer science with minors in mathematics and engineering leadership development. At PSU, Christine serves as the lead intern for the Presidential Leadership Academy, and is also involved with the Lion Ambassadors, Students Teaching Students, and Filipino Association. Christine is passionate about storytelling and hopes to combine her education/experience to inspire young adults to leverage technology creatively. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

The Pennsylvania State University’s University Park Undergraduate Association President and IST major Nora O’Toole reviews the current state of Democracy in America and offers suggestions on how to navigate misinformation and disinformation in news consumption. Nora O’Toole is a fourth-year majoring in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations with a focus in Geopolitics and minoring in Security Risk and Analysis. She currently serves as the president to the University Park Undergraduate Association and sits on the University Park Student Fee Board, among other positions. Her involvement with her extracurriculars and academics have given Nora the space to be an advocate for communities that historically do not have a voice and participating in programs like the Presidential Leadership Academy has taught Nora the value of critical thinking. She’s excited to further explore how we all can find our own voice in being an advocate for ourselves and what that can mean for the future of America’s generations to come. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx