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An Evening With Martín Espada

Event Start: April 29, 2026 07:30 PM

Event End: April 29, 2026 09:00 PM

Event Location: Campbell Hall

Event Price: General Public $20, UCSB Students Free

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Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in America: Entanglements, Boundaries, and the Public University, with Carol Bakhos

Event Start: February 25, 2026 04:00 PM

Event End: February 25, 2026 05:30 PM

Event Location: Henley Hall 1010

Event Price: Free

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From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction, Semiotic Skill, and the Authority of AI Chatbots, with Webb Keane

Event Start: February 24, 2026 05:00 PM

Event End: February 24, 2026 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price: Free

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The Price of Outsourcing Governance: The US Supreme Court's Use of Privatization to Redefine the Contours of Church-State Separation, with Amitai Heller

Event Start: February 23, 2026 05:00 PM

Event End: February 23, 2026 06:30 PM

Event Location: Henley Hall 1010

Event Price: Free

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Healing Together: Refugees, Immigrants, and Mental Health, with Mona Afary

Event Start: January 21, 2026 05:00 PM

Event End: January 21, 2026 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price: Free

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A Legal Sanctuary: Religious Freedom Laws and Immigration Enforcement, with Thomas Scott-Railton

Event Start: January 12, 2026 05:00 PM

Event End: January 12, 2026 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price: Free

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Water, Wealth, and the Ancestral Circular Economy, with Kamanamaikalani Beamer

Event Start: November 12, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: November 12, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price: Free

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Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment

Event Start: October 28, 2025 04:00 PM

Event End: October 28, 2025 05:30 PM

Event Location: UCSB Multicultural Center Theater

Event Price: Free

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New Terms for the Universe: A Visual, Archival, Ecological Lexicon

Event Start: October 23, 2025 04:00 PM

Event End: October 23, 2025 06:00 PM

Event Location: Robertson Gym 1000A

Event Price: Free

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Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist, Hindu, & Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini, Nepal, with Arjun Kurmi

Event Start: October 22, 2025 05:30 PM

Event End: October 22, 2025 07:00 PM

Event Location: ZOOM (https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82445953967) & HSSB 3041

Event Price: Free

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Augustine the African: On Writing Revisionist Biography, with Catherine Conybeare

Event Start: October 20, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: October 20, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price: Free

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Legal Constructions of Sanctuary: Religious Liberty and the Criminalization of Aid at the U.S.-Mexico Border, with Scott Warren

Event Start: October 16, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: October 16, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: UCSB Henley Hall Lecture Hall

Event Price: Free

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Climate Crises and Postapocalyptic Futures: Visionary Landscapes in Northern Peru, with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Event Image

Climate Crises and Postapocalyptic Futures: Visionary Landscapes in Northern Peru, with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Event Start: June 23, 2025 03:00 PM

Event End: June 23, 2025 04:30 PM

Event Location: Theater and Dance 1701

Event Price:

Free

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Antigone

Event Start: May 30, 2025 07:00 PM

Event End: June 07, 2025 07:00 PM

Event Location: Girvetz Hall 1004

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Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement, with Lloyd Barba Event Image

Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement, with Lloyd Barba

Event Start: May 08, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: May 08, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: Wallis Annenberg Conference Room (SSMS 4315)

Event Price:

Free

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Standing Above the Clouds: Film Screening & Discussion, with Pua Case & Kapulei Flores Event Image

Standing Above the Clouds: Film Screening & Discussion, with Pua Case & Kapulei Flores

Event Start: May 06, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: May 06, 2025 07:00 PM

Event Location: IV Theater #2

Event Price:

FREE

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Film screening and discussion with Pua Case and Kapulei Flores. 

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Righting Wrong When “Sorry” Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations, with Grace Yia-Hei Kao Event Image

Righting Wrong When “Sorry” Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations, with Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Event Start: April 30, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: April 30, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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Church Involvement in Nazi Policies: A Case Study of Legitimizing Racial Hygiene and Involuntary Euthanasia, with Maurice Backschat Event Image

Church Involvement in Nazi Policies: A Case Study of Legitimizing Racial Hygiene and Involuntary Euthanasia, with Maurice Backschat

Event Start: April 28, 2025 03:30 PM

Event End: April 28, 2025 05:00 PM

Event Location: Robertson Gym 1000A

Event Price:

Free

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Continue Reading Church Involvement in Nazi Policies: A Case Study of Legitimizing Racial Hygiene and Involuntary Euthanasia, with Maurice Backschat


Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice, with Mary Ziegler Event Image

Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice, with Mary Ziegler

Event Start: March 06, 2025 05:00 PM

Event End: March 06, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: UCSB Henley Hall Lecture Hall

Event Price:

Free

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Indigenous Futures in Higher Education: 12th Annual American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium Event Image

Indigenous Futures in Higher Education: 12th Annual American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium

Event Start: February 21, 2025 10:00 AM

Event End: February 23, 2025 07:00 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Event Price:

Free

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