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• The Capps Center is host to a Fulbright/U.S. State Department “Study of the United States” each summer. Eighteen scholars from countries around the world come to Santa Barbara for a four-week residency followed by a 12-day field trip across the country with visits to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. The theme for the institute is "Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence." This was the first such institute focusing specifically on American religion funded by Fulbright/U.S. Department of State. • Funded by Fulbright and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the Capps Center will sponsor an “Interfaith Dialogues Seminar,” August 18-September 14, 2007. Ten senior scholars and public officials from other countries, UCSB faculty, and other speakers will participate in an intensive exploration of the challenges of communicating across global religious, political, and ideological lines. • Sponsored as well is an international study conducted by Roger Friedland and Paolo Gardinali at the University of California at Santa Barbara on the relationship between religiosity, gender conceptions and sexuality. This involves a web-based survey of university students at UCSB and the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
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