Events

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Fake News and ‘Rigged’ Elections, with Christina Bellantoni

Event Start: March 12, 2017 03:00 PM

Event End: March 12, 2017 04:30 PM

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Christina Bellantoni is assistant managing editor for politics at the Los Angeles Times and writer of the daily political newsletter Essential Politics.

The Ethics of Cyberwar, with Shane Harris

Event Start: March 11, 2015 08:00 PM

Event End: March 11, 2015 09:30 PM

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Shane Harris, Lecture: “The Ethics of Cyberwar” 
New Vic Theatre, 33 W. Victoria Street

Making America Empathetic Again: The Challenges of the Next Four Years, with E. J. Dionne

Event Start: February 28, 2017 08:00 PM

Event End: February 28, 2017 09:30 PM

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 Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University

A Canary in the Coalmine: Muslims in Trump’s America, with Edina Lekovic

Event Start: February 16, 2017 06:30 PM

Event End: February 16, 2017 08:00 PM

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Gene Drives, Technology, and Wisdom: Deciding Whether, When, and How, with Kevin Esvelt

Event Start: January 31, 2017 08:00 PM

Event End: January 31, 2017 09:30 PM

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Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. At Harvard Medical School, he developed several key technologies for genome engineering and regulation utilizing RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9

Public Universities and the Future of Democracy, with Harry Boyte

Event Start: November 17, 2016 04:00 PM

Event End: November 17, 2016 05:30 PM

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Harry Boyte, faculty member with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnestoa. Previously affiliated with the southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

Politics and Religion in a Changing America, with Robert P. Jones

Event Start: November 01, 2016 08:00 PM

Event End: November 01, 2016 09:30 PM

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Robert Jones, director of the Public Religion Research Institute in Washington, D.C. and a well-known commentator on religion and politics and the upcoming presidential election.

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help, with Larissa MacFarquhar

Event Start: October 05, 2016 12:00 AM

Event End: October 05, 2016 12:00 AM

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Staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Previously senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review.

Carbon Shock: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate-Disrupted Economy, with Mark Schapiro

Event Start: November 12, 2015 08:00 PM

Event End: November 12, 2015 09:30 PM

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Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
Mark Schapiro, Lecture: “Carbon Shock: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate-Disrupted Economy” 
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB

With Justice for All in a Changing America, with Morris Dees

Event Start: October 21, 2015 08:00 PM

Event End: October 21, 2015 09:30 PM

Event Location: UCSB Campbell Hall

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Free

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Is the Black Church Dead? with Eddie Glaude

Event Start: June 07, 2015 03:00 PM

Event End: June 07, 2015 04:30 PM

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Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life 
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Lecture: “Is the Black Church Dead?” 
University Club of Santa Barbara, 1332 Santa Barbara Street 

The Politics of Religious Freedom, with Nomi Stolzenberg

Event Start: May 12, 2015 05:30 PM

Event End: May 12, 2015 07:00 PM

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Capps Conversation 
Nomi Stolzenberg, Moderator: “The Politics of Religious Freedom” 
University Club of Santa Barbara, 1332 Santa Barbara Street