The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities

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...

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...

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...

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...