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Alexander V. Laskin, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US. Laskin's (2025) analysis highlights the diminishing necessity of human labor and intellectual exertion. He proposes that this directs human identity toward consumption as the ultimate form of self-actualization—the transition from cogito ergo sum to I consume, therefore I am. This is the foundational [...]

Federica Santini, Ph.D. Director (Academic Division), Global Listening Centre. Professor and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures (WLC), Kennesaw State University, US. As an administrative faculty member at a large public university in the United States, each year I review hundreds of student evaluations that contribute to the assessment of faculty in [...]

Konrad Michel, MD Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland. In my training as an M.D., I learnt that doctors ask questions about signs and symptoms, make a diagnosis and a prognostic assessment. When faced with patients referred after a suicide attempt, I realized that this approach did not help me to understand the [...]

Linda Eneix President and CEO, OTS Foundation for Neolithic Studies. In an age of infinite playlists and algorithmic calm, the modern soundscape is overflowing with noise, and it does not allow us any sense of peace. "Meditation music" has become a commodity - synthetic, looped, and stripped of context. It may relax the nervous system, [...]

Michael Purdy, Ph.D. Listening Legend, Distinguished Listening Scholar, Past Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Professor Emeritus, Governors State University, US. There is one aspect of listening that needs to be explored. This aspect of listening recognizes that there is nuance to the listening roles we enact and we must be aware of how we listen [...]

Steven G. Kellman, Ph.D. Director (Academia), Global Listening Centre. Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, US. Ernest Hemingway's celebrated short story "Hills Like White Elephants" consists almost entirely of dialogue. A man and a woman waiting for a train in Spain reveal truths about themselves and their relationship through a bare minimum of verbiage. Although [...]

Lance Strate, Ph.D. President (Academia) Global Listening Centre. Professor of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University in New York City, US. President of the Institute of General Semantics and Author of eleven books. The discipline of general semantics is sometimes referred to as a form of applied epistemology, and as such is concerned with the [...]

Mark Brady, Ph.D. Past Honorable Member, Global Listening Centre. Neuroscience Educator. Over many decades I've personally explored or at least inquired into a wide variety of spiritual traditions on Planet Earth. I've looked at their philosophies, their traditions, their specific practices. Shakers moving in their traditional shake. I've shaken with the few remaining American Shakers, [...]

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, D.Phil. Director (Academic Division), Global Listening Centre. Professor & Founding Director of The Middle East Study Group at University of Hull, UK. President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). Visiting Professor Johns Hopkins University, US. “We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share”. - Rania Al-Abdullah Introduction As a [...]

Professor Alexander V. Laskin, Ph.D. Professor at Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US. Not a Birthday Balloon In the current tense international landscape, the ability to accurately perceive and understand the perspectives of other nations has become paramount. An example of the perils of misperception can be found in the events [...]