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 Talk-Story with Maxine Hong Kingston Event Image

Talk-Story with Maxine Hong Kingston

Event Start: April 20, 2024 04:00 PM

Event End: April 20, 2024 06:00 PM

Event Location: MCC Theater

Event Price:

Free

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Anti-Asian Hate, Racial Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth, with Russell M. Jeung Event Image

Anti-Asian Hate, Racial Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth, with Russell M. Jeung

Event Start: April 15, 2024 05:00 PM

Event End: April 15, 2024 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Links in the Same Chain: Race, Nuclear Weapons, and Colonialism, with Vincent Intondi Event Image

Links in the Same Chain: Race, Nuclear Weapons, and Colonialism, with Vincent Intondi

Event Start: April 13, 2024 05:00 PM

Event End: April 13, 2024 07:00 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Environmental Injustice and Nuclear Technologies in California: Roundtable Panel Event Image

Environmental Injustice and Nuclear Technologies in California: Roundtable Panel

Event Start: April 12, 2024 02:00 PM

Event End: April 12, 2024 03:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Since Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women, What Should be Done?, with Mary Olson Event Image

Since Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women, What Should be Done?, with Mary Olson

Event Start: April 12, 2024 04:00 PM

Event End: April 12, 2024 05:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Wastelanding: Histories of Colonialism and Nuclearism in the U.S. West, with Traci Brynne Voyles Event Image

Wastelanding: Histories of Colonialism and Nuclearism in the U.S. West, with Traci Brynne Voyles

Event Start: April 11, 2024 04:30 PM

Event End: April 11, 2024 06:00 PM

Event Location: Henley Hall Lecture Room 1010

Event Price:

Free

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Robert B. Reich: What Really Happened to the American Dream? (And How Can it be Restored?) Event Image

Robert B. Reich: What Really Happened to the American Dream? (And How Can it be Restored?)

Event Start: April 03, 2024 07:30 PM

Event End: April 03, 2024 09:00 PM

Event Location: UCSB Campbell Hall

Event Price:

$20-$30 General Public

Free for UCSB Students

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“Disenchantment of the World” or Fragmentation of the Sacred?, with Philip Gorski Event Image

“Disenchantment of the World” or Fragmentation of the Sacred?, with Philip Gorski

Event Start: March 07, 2024 06:00 PM

Event End: March 07, 2024 07:30 PM

Event Location: Henley Hall Lecture Hall

Event Price:

Free

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Max Weber was wrong. The modern world is not disenchanted. On the contrary, it is full of gods and heroes and myths and magic. In this talk, Philip Gorski sketches out a new narrative of Western modernity that can account for this state of affairs: the fragmentation of the sacred.

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Beyond Bookselling: How Queer Bookstores Shaped the Gay Liberation Movement, with Sarah Dunne Event Image

Beyond Bookselling: How Queer Bookstores Shaped the Gay Liberation Movement, with Sarah Dunne

Event Start: March 05, 2024 07:00 PM

Event End: March 05, 2024 08:30 PM

Event Location: Santa Barbara Public Library (Faulkner Gallery)

Event Price:

Free

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Intercontinental Conversations: Religion and Reparations, with Anderson Jeremiah and Greg Johnson Event Image

Intercontinental Conversations: Religion and Reparations, with Anderson Jeremiah and Greg Johnson

Event Start: March 04, 2024 10:00 AM

Event End: March 04, 2024 11:00 AM

Event Location: Online - MS Teams

Event Price:

Free

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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, with Lerone A. Martin Event Image

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, with Lerone A. Martin

Event Start: February 20, 2024 06:00 PM

Event End: February 20, 2024 07:30 PM

Event Location: MCC Theater

Event Price:

Free

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The Sparrow, the Swarm, the Crossing: How Understanding Religion Matters for Confronting Anthropocene Challenges, with Willis Jenkins Event Image

The Sparrow, the Swarm, the Crossing: How Understanding Religion Matters for Confronting Anthropocene Challenges, with Willis Jenkins

Event Start: February 12, 2024 05:30 PM

Event End: February 12, 2024 07:00 PM

Event Location: Robertson Gymnasium 1000A

Event Price:

Free

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Taking Christianity to Therapy: Evangelical Conflicts Over (Therapeutic) Emotions, with Ariane Kovac Event Image

Taking Christianity to Therapy: Evangelical Conflicts Over (Therapeutic) Emotions, with Ariane Kovac

Event Start: January 31, 2024 04:30 PM

Event End: January 31, 2024 06:00 PM

Event Location: Humanities and Social Change Center @ Robertson Gym 1000A

Event Price:

Free

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Race in the Roberts Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, with Khiara M. Bridges Event Image

Race in the Roberts Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, with Khiara M. Bridges

Event Start: January 19, 2024 05:00 PM

Event End: January 19, 2024 06:30 PM

Event Location: Henley Hall Lecture Hall

Event Price:

Free

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Theology in the History of the University, with Tomoko Masuzawa Event Image

Theology in the History of the University, with Tomoko Masuzawa

Event Start: November 13, 2023 01:30 PM

Event End: November 13, 2023 03:00 PM

Event Location: HSSB 4041

Event Price:

Free

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Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps Event Image

Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps

Event Start: November 10, 2023 11:00 AM

Event End: November 11, 2023 07:00 PM

Event Price:

Free and open to all

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The Predicament of Aftermath: The "Tough Stuff" of Public History, with Ed Linenthal Event Image

The Predicament of Aftermath: The "Tough Stuff" of Public History, with Ed Linenthal

Event Start: November 09, 2023 05:00 PM

Event End: November 09, 2023 06:30 PM

Event Location: HSSB 4080

Event Price:

Free

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Public Engagement with Climate Technologies in Post-Truth Times, with Holly Jean Buck Event Image

Public Engagement with Climate Technologies in Post-Truth Times, with Holly Jean Buck

Event Start: November 06, 2023 05:00 PM

Event End: November 06, 2023 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Wildfire Management, Native Nations, and the Ethics of Consultation and Collaboration Event Image

Wildfire Management, Native Nations, and the Ethics of Consultation and Collaboration

Event Start: October 26, 2023 05:00 PM

Event End: October 26, 2023 06:30 PM

Event Location: Loma Pelona Center 1100

Event Price:

Free

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Thanatofuturism: Making Space for the Marginal at a Tomb Shrine in Bangalore Event Image

Thanatofuturism: Making Space for the Marginal at a Tomb Shrine in Bangalore

Event Start: October 12, 2023 05:00 PM

Event End: October 12, 2023 06:30 PM

Event Location: HSSB 4080

Event Price:

Free

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