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The Capps Center at UCSB presents public lectures that seek to advance discussion of issues related to ethics, values and public life, and to encourage non-partisan, non-sectarian civic part...
E.J. Dionne asserts that after three decades during which conflicts over religion played a tremendous role in American politics, the country...
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter discusses why the 2008 presidential race is of such historic significance. Series: "Ethics, Religion and P...
The extractive linear economy and policies focused on endless growth have produced unparalleled socioeconomic inequality and the climate cri...
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions co...
How should federal governments attempt to right, or at least remedy, past wrongs? Is it appropriate for victims of group-based harms or thei...
Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice ha...
What are the future horizons for indigenous repatriation work? What are best practices in repatriation settings, and how might they inform r...
What’s next for the battle over abortion? In this lecture, Mary Ziegler argues that undoing Roe v. Wade was never the endpoint for the antia...
Through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, Amanda Baugh sheds light on environmental actors hiding in plain sight. Drawing from ethnogra...
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence went viral in conservative media in June 2023 when the L.A. Dodgers announced plans to honor the local h...
How did Ronald Reagan’s vision of the American Dream lead to Donald Trump’s success? Looking back to 1983, Diane Winston, professor of journ...
The modern world is not disenchanted. On the contrary, it is full of gods and heroes and myths and magic. In this talk, Philip Gorski sketch...
This program discusses humanist and scholar Walter Capps’ political career and the ongoing value of public service. The panel discussion fea...
In this program, Russell M. Jeung, professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, explores COVID-19 racism against A...
This program discusses humanist and scholar Walter Capps’ teaching of ethics and civic values in the classroom and beyond. The panel consist...
This program discusses humanist and scholar Walter Capps’ famous course on the Vietnam War and its impacts. The panel consists of former U.S...
Alessandro Duranti, Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, presents archival footage he filmed of Walter Capps' 1996 camp...
As part of a special series celebrating the legacy of humanist and professor Walter H. Capps, this program examines Capps’ scholarly contrib...
As part of a special series celebrating the legacy of humanist and professor Walter H. Capps, this program examines Capps’ scholarly contrib...
In this program, Lerone Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education...
What role do the humanities - history, art, philosophy, language, religion - play in the modern world? Prominent leaders of humanities organ...
Dr. Stuart Finder, a renowned clinical ethicist, will discuss the meaning of ethics as it is encountered and understood in actual healthcare...
As new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable—and it is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our rel...
Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the country have been subjected to increased...
Asian/Pacific Islander American communities have a long history of activism in the United States, particularly in response to anti-Asian rac...
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the controversial decision ended the right to abortion that was upheld for nearl...
The promise of science is great, but the application of new technologies often raises profound ethical questions. Answering those questions...
In her book, Ecopiety, Sarah McFarland Taylor offers an absorbing examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, contempor...
How should we teach depressing material about climate change and social injustice to college students the very generation saddled with "fixi...
What can we learn about gun violence, prevention, and preparedness from mass casualty incidents such as the Las Vegas mass shooting? How can...
Premature births, unexplained human and livestock sicknesses, flammable water faucets, toxic wells and the onset of hundreds of earthquakes:...
In this talk, based in part on his forthcoming book, The Trump Administration and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018), Yale pr...
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor h...
Why are negative emotions out of control? How do we begin to tame them? UC Berkeley Professor Charis Thompson focuses on how we understand a...
Part of the Humanities as Vocation event at UCSB, features two UCSB alumni talking about their work after their humanities studies. Reza Asl...
Social entrepreneur, investor, and author Jessica Jackley explores what it took for her to pursue a career that fit her passions. She explai...
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....
Today’s dominant political refrain is that America is in a state of decline. But to James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic,...
Christina Bellantoni, the assistant managing editor of politics at the Los Angeles Times, discusses her experience in journalism, mainly cov...
We are a country in which a majority of people who voted for one candidate in 2016 don’t know anybody who voted for the other. We have a pre...
For 15 years, Edina Lekovic has served as a leading voice on American Muslims and an inter-community builder between diverse faith tradition...
For 15 years, Edina Lekovic has served as a leading voice on American Muslims and an inter-community builder between diverse faith tradition...
Anna Lappé looks at the hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis. Our web of global food production and distribution is connected...
Robert Jones, Director of the Public Religion Research Institute in Washington, D.C., is a well-known commentator on religion and politics....
Is free speech threatened on college campuses? One of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars explores the the notion of “hateful” or “...
Bringing his expertise, experience and wisdom longtime journalist Bill Moyers looks at the November election and asks if we are in for armag...
Islam is a great religious tradition, the second largest and fastest growing of the World’s Religions, embracing some 57 Muslim countries an...
Powerful new “gene editing” techniques have put the prospect of genetically modified human beings on the foreseeable horizon. Should we use...
Scientists describe the climate-havoc wrought on our natural world as the end of ‘stationarity’—a shift of the ecosystem so profound that it...
Rinaldo S. Brutoco is a successful entrepreneur, executive, author and futurist and the Founding President of the World Business Academy. He...