Thursday, October 29, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University...
Brice Erickson (Classics, UCSB) Wednesday, October 29 / 5:00 pm 2001a HSSB, Anthropology Seminar Room...
Ned Sublette Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Author and musician Ned Sublette will present a talk based on his new book,The Year Before the Flood. Written a year before Hurricane Katrina, Sublette's memoir is a companion volume to his acclaimed history...
David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director for the American Task Force on Palestine Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
(Irena Salina, 2009, 93 min.) Tuesday, October 20, 2009 / 9:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution and human rights. Interviews with...
(Joe Berlinger, 2009, 104 min.) Tuesday, October 20 , 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This cinéma-vérité feature is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet, the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case in...
Sylvia Earle Monday, October 19, 2009 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall UCSB Admission $10 general / $8 student Oceanographer and 2009 TED Prize-winner Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. She has served as the chief scientist of the National...