Harry Boyte (Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College) Thursday, November 17, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the midst of enormous external pressures to narrow or eliminate the public purposes of higher education, how can educators become agents of constructive, democratizing...
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...
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War) Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Thursday, January 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice, from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and...
Christopher Newfield (English, UCSB) Wednesday, May 12, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, with the University...