Events

The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, with Kristen Stilt

Event Start: May 07, 2019 12:15 PM

Event End: May 07, 2019 01:45 PM

Event Details:

Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, with Eli Saslow

Event Start: March 04, 2019 07:30 PM

Event End: March 04, 2019 09:00 PM

Event Details:

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow reveals the human stories behind the most divisive issues of our time. In Rising Out of Hatred, he tells the powerful story of how Derek Black, a one-time heir to America’s white nationalist movement, came to question the ideology he helped to spread.  

Co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures.

Active Shooter Preparedness and Response Training, with Scott Scherr

Event Start: February 01, 2019 12:00 PM

Event End: February 01, 2019 01:30 PM

Event Details:

Scott Scherr discusses the challenges, logistics, response, recovery, and long-term impact for pre-hospital first responders, emergency personnel, and the community following the October 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas. From mass casualty incidents such as this, what can we learn about gun violence, prevention, and preparedness? How can this be applied to the campus experience? 

Shari’a, Inshallah: Searching for the Rule of Law in Somalia’s Islamic State, with Mark Fathi Massoud

Event Start: January 16, 2019 03:00 PM

Event End: January 16, 2019 05:00 PM

Event Details:

Radical Listening: A Doctor’s Journey to Save the Rain Forest in Borneo, with Kinari Webb

Event Start: January 16, 2019 07:00 PM

Event End: January 16, 2019 08:30 PM

Event Details:

The Trump Administration and International Law, with Harold Koh

Event Start: December 06, 2018 07:00 PM

Event End: December 06, 2018 08:30 PM

Event Details:

The Trump Administration and North Korea, with Harold Koh

Event Start: December 06, 2018 11:00 AM

Event End: December 06, 2018 12:15 PM

Event Details:

Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds, with Sara Wylie

Event Start: November 28, 2018 07:00 PM

Event End: November 28, 2018 08:30 PM

Event Details:

Unfractured, with Chanda Chevannes

Event Start: October 02, 2018 12:30 PM

Event End: October 02, 2018 02:00 PM

Event Details:

Free Speech on Campus, with Howard Gillman

Event Start: May 30, 2018 07:30 PM

Event End: May 30, 2018 09:00 PM

Event Location: UCSB Campbell Hall

Event Price:

Free

Event Details:

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights, with Kelly Shannon

Event Start: May 09, 2018 04:30 PM

Event End: May 09, 2018 06:00 PM

Event Details:

Since the late 1970s, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to US foreign policy. By reframing US-Islamic relations with respect to women’s rights, Kelly Shannon challenges traditional interpretations of US foreign policy that assert the primacy of “hard power” concerns.

Symposium: Humanities in Prison

Event Start: April 26, 2018 09:00 AM

Event End: April 26, 2018 05:30 PM

Event Details:

Strategies for Surviving Negative Emotions in a Time of Augmentation and Polarization, with Charis Thompson

Event Start: March 13, 2018 07:30 PM

Event End: March 13, 2018 09:00 PM

Event Details:

Why are negative emotions out of control? How do we begin to tame them? Thompson focuses on how we understand and deal with negative emotions in this turbulent moment, when new technologies (e.g. reproductive technology, digital media, robotics, A.I.) can contribute to the shared environment of polarization. 

Exodus: The Largest Movement of People Since the Second World War, with Dexter Filkins

Event Start: February 28, 2018 07:00 PM

Event End: February 28, 2018 09:00 PM

Event Details:

Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here, with Sam Quinones

Event Start: February 01, 2018 04:00 PM

Event End: February 01, 2018 06:00 PM

Event Details:

Sam Quinones discusses the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He also discusses the cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible.

Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Humanities as a Vocation, with Tim Kring, Reza Aslan, and Jessica Jackley

Event Start: January 19, 2018 02:00 PM

Event End: January 19, 2018 05:00 PM

Event Details:

What difference can one person make? How does one prepare for a career that uses one's passions? We host an exciting conversation about the intellectual and practical aspects of identifying and pursuing the career of one's dreams.

God: A Human History, with Reza Aslan

Event Start: January 18, 2018 07:30 PM

Event End: January 18, 2018 09:00 PM

Event Details:

Environmental Justice for All: Why Equity Matters, with Robert Bullard

Event Start: November 14, 2017 08:00 PM

Event End: November 14, 2017 09:30 PM

Event Details:

It’s Happening Here: American Renewal, Ingenuity, and Innovation, with James Fallows

Event Start: May 01, 2017 08:00 PM

Event End: May 01, 2017 09:30 PM

Event Details:

A national correspondent for The Atlantic, James Fallows is one of America’s most respected journalists. He’s reporting on how the country is putting itself back together in the wake of recession and division. Through innovation, reinvention, and optimism, America is on the verge of a major resurgence—Fallows has the personal, civic, community, and business stories that signal this new economic upturn.

An Evening with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman

Event Start: April 08, 2017 07:30 PM

Event End: April 08, 2017 09:00 PM

Event Details:

2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman is the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. A human rights activist, journalist, and politician, she was dubbed the “Mother of the Revolution” for her key role in the Arab Spring.