John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) Thursday, June 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is...
Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) David Lea (Geology, USCB) Christopher Walker (English, UCSB) Thursday May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune...
Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB This talk will explore how, since around 1800, literature has offered imaginative ways of relating to the lithosphere beyond extraction and other destructive petrofictions. First coined in 1992 by Amitav Ghosh...
Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC Davis) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Embracing both genetically-improved seed and ecologically-based farming methods, Pamela Ronald aims to enhance sustainable agriculture. In this talk, she asserts that genetic improvement is a critical component of...
Participants: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) Dr. Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC-Davis Moderator: Paul Voosen Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall FREE A key factor in discussions about how best to feed the world’s growing population and...
SCREENING: Merchants of Doubt Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required: visit this page for reservations. CONFERENCE: Sustainable Science Communication: Content, Audience, Media, and Impact Thursday, May 14 2015 / 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Featured...
Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively...
Harold Abramowitz (Blind Spot) Amanda Ackerman (The Book of Feral Flora) Michelle Detorie (After-Cave) Thursday, April 30, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Three Southern California poets will read their work and discuss how the profound instability of the natural world informs...
Ursula Heise (English, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA) Thursday, April 23, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the early twenty-first century, the majority of the global human population lives in cities. Future population growth will occur mostly in cities. This shift challenges...
Jon Mooallem (journalist, author of Wild Ones) Thursday, April 16, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a weakened black bear that had been tied to a tree by his hunting...
Q&A with director Todd Darling Tuesday, April 14 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Occupy the Farm captures an intense conflict in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution (UC Berkeley) in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming. From preparing...
Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Amazon rainforest of Brazil is cut down to create cattle pastures and agricultural fields. Deforestation brings profit, but it is also linked to deeply held ideals of development and progress...
Oliver A. Ryder (Director of the Frozen Zoo project and Kleberg Chair at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The time in which we currently live has been described as the sixth great episode...
Q&A with director Louis Psihoyos Thursday, March 12, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event...
Richard Widick (scholar/filmmaker) Thursday, February 26 , 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2015 in Paris, the United Nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty, envisioned to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 as the world's leading collective response to global...
Gabrielle Hecht (History, University of Michigan) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 9:30 am Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room The Anthropocene has become a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that...
Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Dir. David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, 56 min. Special guest: Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission: $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. From the Big Bang...
Erik M. Conway (historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In their new book, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explore the coming of the Penumbra, the shadow of...
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...
dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...
Peter Barnes (entrepreneur, journalist, author) Tuesday, November 18 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future....