Good afternoon. Welcome to my talk, Culture is a verb, how youth voices shape culture. My name is Alexia Tuno.I am a first generation American. I am a daughter of immigrants from France and Spain. I am fluent in French and Spanish and I have sung in choirs all over the world in German, Swahili, Latin, Zulu and many more languages.I am a third culture kid. One of the first thinkers who helped me understand that culture is not just something we are born into but something that actively shapes our thinking was ...

So, these are otter playing. Otter have a really tough life. They wake up in the morning, they fish, they roll around in the grass, they play, they go to sleep, and then a few hours later, they do it again.So, the pups here, if you if you watch them long enough, they do something where one pup will chase the other, and then it'll switch roles, so the second pup chases the first. It's very much like tag your it. It turns out that pups drive a lot of the things that otter do.So, watch what's going on here. Do ...

From Palestine to the climate crisis, from the gender wars to the rise of the far right, we're living in a time of where I feel like all of the biggest political issues of our time can boil down to one root cause, a crisis of belonging. Think of it as the societal longing to be a part of something bigger than oneself. And we're all searching for it.It's not just personal, but it's political, it's social, and most importantly, it's cultural. We are living in a crisis of belonging, and I think that culture wi ...

If you have spent any time around young men or boys, you've probably heard of the manosphere. People know it as a dark corner of the internet where influencers preach strength without empathy or dominance without compassion. And if you're anything like me, you've probably asked yourself two questions.Number one, what is wrong with these guys. And number two, how did we get here. Over the last decade, I've had conversations with men and boys from the classroom to the boardroom about masculinities.And I want ...

I spent most of my life studying and performing music, but it took me decades to realize that I was only hearing half of it. This is me growing up in the south of Brazil, probably starting to dream of becoming a classical singer. a dream a bit far away from my reality at the time.But I have a very inspirational mom and she used to tell me, "Of course, you must follow your dreams. You know, think of all the musicians who achieved great things in spite of all difficulties. Think of Beethoven. He was deaf, rig ...

What is better, technology or tradition. When you get a sore throat, do you reach for a prescription or make yourself tea with honey like your grandmother did. This dilemma, technology or tradition, resurfaces across countries, cultures, and industries.But why do we have to choose. I descend from Amazonian and Indian healers. Women like my grandmother who taught me that nature is alive and I trained as a PhD scientist in the United States working internationally for a decade.I embody two worlds that are oft ...

Three years ago, I walked out of a really grueling crawled out of a really grueling board meeting and went to my granddaughter's third birthday party. I took one of my board members with me and um she said to me later that night afterwards, "Julia, what do you want your grandchildren to say about you. " And that really changed everything for me. Up to then I'd been pretty blas about being a grandmother. I I hadn't really asked for the role. It sort of happened. I was relieved that my kids hadn't had their c ...

When criminal psychologist, Dr Julia Shaw, combed through thousands of green crime cases she found a common pattern, a psychological profile for the people committing environmental crimes. She calls them the ‘six pillars of environmental crime’: ease, impunity, greed, rationalisation, conformity, and desperation. These pillars can be applied across different types of green crimes, from corporate fraud, to organised crime, to cases of hit men hired to kill environmental defenders. Understanding these pillars ...

Civil engineer, Gemma Andrews, wants us to celebrate the quiet, invisible and dependable infrastructure that makes our lives easier – and is helping combat the effects of climate change. Using examples from around the world, such as smart motorways in Kuala Lumpur and clever cooling systems in Toronto, Gemma shows that the infrastructure we take for granted is protecting communities across the world. With the construction sector contributing around 30% to global carbon emissions, it’s more than important th ...

Women’s crafts have often been dismissed as frivolous or meaningless, ignoring the stories and histories they hold within. Yet as medical student and women crafts enthusiast Nyneisha Bansal shows us, there is much more to crafts than meets the eye. Sharing stories from across history, the world and her family, Nyneisha shows how women's crafts have been used to build identity, shape society and pass down wisdom and heritage. Nyneisha is a third-year medical student at the University of Cambridge and her pas ...