Welcome to the Walter H. Capps Center
Greetings for the 2024-2025 academic year from the Walter H. Capps Center!
We are eager to welcome students and community members back to campus, including new cohorts of Mendell Fellows and McCune Interns, and a new class in the Civic Engagement Scholars Program.
This quarter we are excited to host several events that are free and open to the public:
- October 15: Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral, with Melissa Wilcox (UC Riverside)
- October 22: Election 2024 and Religion, a panel discussion with leading scholars
- November 13: Transforming Youth Justice in Santa Barbara: Lessons from Freedom 4 Youth, with Billi Jo Starr and staff/alumni of F4Y
- November 14: Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism, with Amanda Baugh (CSU Northridge)
We continue our efforts on various initiatives. This year we are foregrounding our work in three areas: (1) repatriation at UCSB and beyond; (2) our emerging initiative on civil rights and religious freedom for AAPI communities; and (3) the continuing development of our project with partners at UC Irvine, the UCSB Reserve System, and several Native nations located in Payahuunadü (Owens Valley) concerning best practices in wildfire management and tribal consultation. Stay tuned for developments on these initiatives and other Center activities.
In addition, we have added many new documents and photos to our archival project, the Walter H. Capps Archives Online. We are digitizing materials from the Walter Capps Papers at UCSB's Special Collections Library for viewing on our website. We will continue to add digitized archival materials regularly, with a focus on Walter's publications and materials from his famous courses on the Vietnam War and “Voices of the Stranger.”
We have also added several videos to our YouTube page, including from our Celebration of Walter Capps’ Legacy. You can find other videos of past events on UCTV and UCTV’s YouTube Playlist.
We hope to see you soon, and we welcome your thoughts and suggestions!
Sincerely,
Greg Johnson
Director
