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2006 - 07 Schedule

October 2Jeff Greenfield, Lecture: "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times – Ethics and Politics in the Mass Media Age," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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October 17Mario T. Garcia & Fr. Virgil Cordano, O.F.M., Lecture and Book Signing: "Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano," 4:00 pm, McCune Conference Room, UCSB.
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January 25 Jon D. Levenson, Lecture: ""The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"," 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara. Co-presented with Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB.
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January 29Wade Clark Roof, Lecture: "Gen Xers and How They Are Changing American Religion," 3:00 pm, St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Los Olivos.
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February 1Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lecture and Book Signing: "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers," 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall. Co-presented with UCSB Arts & Lectures.
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February 26 Taylor Branch, Lecture and Book Signing: "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68,” 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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March 19Peter Steinfels, Martin E. Marty Lectureship on Religion in American Life: "The Secular, the Religious, and the Demands of Citizenship,” 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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2005 - 06 Schedule

October 2 – Jeff Greenfield, Lecture: "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times – Ethics and Politics in the Mass Media Age," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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October 17 –
Mario T. Garcia & Fr. Virgil Cordano, O.F.M., Lecture and Book Signing: "Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano," 4:00 pm, McCune Conference Room, UCSB.
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2004 - 05 Schedule
 

September 8 – Gillian Martin Sorensen, Lecture: "The U.S. and the U.N.: Can this Marriage Be Saved?” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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September 23Jean Bethke Elshtain, Lecture: "Contemporary American Politics: The Ethical Divide" 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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October 7Seymour Hersh, Lecture: “Investigating the War on Terrorism: Abu Ghraib and the Underside of the Conflict in Iraq,” 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, $10 UCSB students, $12 general admission.
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December 12 Harvey Cox , Lecture: “When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today” 3 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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January 25Diana L. Eck and Wade Clark Roof, Interview: “Growing Diversity of Religious Thought in America,” 4:00 pm, UCSB Kerr Hall.
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April 14 Martin E. Marty, Lecture: “Mapping American Spiritualities” 8 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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May 16 Quang X. Pham, Lecture: “Thirty Years After Vietnam: Myths, Lessons, and Closure” 8 pm, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UCSB.
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2003 – 04 Schedule

September 10 - Thich Nhat Hanh as the Capps-Emerson Memorial Lecturer, Lecture: “Leading with Courage and Compassion,” 5:30 pm, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Co-Sponsored with the Faith and Politics Institute.
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October 30
- E. J. Dionne Jr., Lecture: "One Electorate Under God? Religion and American Politics," 7:30 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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December 11 - Alan Wolfe, Lecture, “The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith,” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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January 13 - Lou Cannon, Lecture, “The Rise of the Celebrities: Republican Politics from Reagan to Schwarzenegger,” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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January 21 - Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Lecture, “A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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February 2Bruce Giffin and Betty Fobair McDermott, Lecture: "Lt. Col. Ross Fobair, USAF, MIA 1965-2001, How One Family Coped with Loss," 4:00 pm, UCSB Multi-cultural center.
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March 7 - Jonathan Shay, "Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming," 25th - Anniversary Celebration of Walter Capps’ course on "Religion and the Impact of Vietnam," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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March 27
Jim Wallis, Lecture: "Prophetic Politics in An Election Year," 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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April 27Edward T. Linenthal, Lecture: "Terrorism and Its Aftermath: Oklahoma City and September 11,” 7:30 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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M
ay 9Vandana Shiva, Lecture: "Planting Seeds for Change: Women’s Struggle against Corporate Control of Biodiversity," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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2002 - 03 Schedule

October 6Gary Wills, Lecture: “Citizen Believers,” 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall.
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May 8Gustav Niebuhr, Lecture: "Religious Pluralism: America’s Continuing Challenge," 4:00 pm, UCSB Multi-cultural Center.
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May 16   Sister Helen Prejean, Lecture: "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues," 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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