Global Diplomacy Courses

The Aspen Institute

The Worst Job in the World? Diplomacy in the 21st Century

Explore modern diplomacy's challenges through expert analysis of foreign policy complexities and the evolving role of diplomatic work in today's interconnected world.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linnean Society

Climate Injustice - Fighting Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

Explore how climate change intersects with global inequality, racism, and colonialism through analysis of extreme weather events and their disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

World Economic Forum

Global Gender Gap Report 2025 - Analysis and Insights

Explore findings from the Global Gender Gap Report 2025, examining why achieving gender parity will take 123 years and how smart policies can accelerate progress toward equality.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AWS Events

Global Perspectives on Healthcare Transformation

Discover global healthcare transformation insights from AWS Chief Medical Officer and HealthDirect Australia CEO at this executive summit session.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DEFCONConference

Stories from a Tor Dev - Operating a Global Anonymity Network

Discover real-world challenges of operating Tor's global anonymity network through firsthand stories from core developer Roger Dingledine at DEF CON 33.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DEFCONConference

Hacking the Nautical Rules of the Road - Turn Left for Global Pwnage

Explore maritime cybersecurity through nautical rules of the road, focusing on why cyber manipulation of port turns poses greater risks than starboard maneuvers in vessel collisions.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DEFCONConference

So Long, and Thanks for All the Phish - Infiltrating a Global Phishing-as-a-Service Operation

Uncover the infiltration of a global phishing-as-a-service operation through software cracking, backdoor exploitation, and OSINT investigation techniques.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DEFCONConference

From Shanghai to the Shore - Threats in Global Shipping

Uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Chinese-manufactured ship-to-shore cranes through US Coast Guard findings, including hidden cellular modems and potential attack vectors.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Oracle

Oracle Globally Distributed Database - Building Global-Scale Applications with Strong Consistency

Discover how Oracle's globally distributed database handles millions of transactions per second while ensuring 24/7 availability, data sovereignty compliance, and strong consistency across regions.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Global Kinetic Models of Spider Pulsars

Explore global kinetic models of spider pulsars and their extreme plasma physics through advanced theoretical frameworks and computational approaches.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BIMSA

Adaptive Regularized Newton-CG for Nonconvex Optimization - Optimal Global Complexity and Quadratic Local Convergence

Discover an adaptive regularized Newton-CG method achieving optimal O(ε^-3/2) global complexity while maintaining quadratic local convergence for nonconvex optimization problems.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Singularity University

How Space Must Be Democratized - From Government-Only Access to Global Participation

Explore how space access is shifting from government-only to global democratization, covering smallsats, open satellite data, ecosystem-building, and practical ways to get involved.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Simons Institute

Mathematical Connections of Some Local-to-Global Expressivity Results Over Geometric Graphs and Geometric Rigidity

Explore mathematical connections between geometric graph expressivity and rigidity theory, linking MPGNN invariants to classical geometric problems and future research directions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Upin & Ipin Go Global - Crafting an Open World UE5 Game from Southeast Asia

Discover how Streamline Studios built 'Upin & Ipin Universe' using UE5, covering cross-platform optimization, memory profiling, asset streaming, and Lyra framework implementation.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Harvard CMSA

Global Minimizers of Sigmoid Contrastive Loss

Explore theoretical foundations of sigmoid contrastive loss in SigLIP models, understanding (m,b)-Constellations and their role in representation learning and retrieval tasks.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video