Videos

In addition to the videos listed chronologically below, you can find more videos of our events on our UCTV page, on UCTV's YouTube Playlist, and on our YouTube channel.  

2024/2025

• Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement, with Lloyd D. Barba
  May 8, 2025

• Righting Wrong When "Sorry" Isn't Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations, with Grace Yia-Hei Kao
  April 30, 2025

• Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice, with Mary Ziegler
  March 6, 2025

• Repatriation Futures at UCSB and Beyond
  February 12, 2025

• Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism, with Amanda Baugh
  November 14, 2024

• Election 2024 and Religion with Anthea Butler, Julie Ingersoll, and Joseph Blankholm
  October 22, 2024

• Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral, with Melissa Wilcox
  October 15, 2024

2023/2024

• From the Reagan Revolution to the Trump Insurrection, with Diane Winston
  May 22, 2024

• Anti-Asian Hate, Racial Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth, with Russell Jeung
  April 15, 2024

• Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred, with Philip Gorski
  March 7, 2024

• The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: The FBI and White Christian Nationalism, with Lerone Martin
  February 20, 2024

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: The Value of Public Service
  November 11, 2023

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: Democracy is Born in Conversation
  November 11, 2023

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: Teaching Ethics and Civic Values
  November 11, 2023

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: Remembering the Vietnam War Class
  November 11, 2023

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: Walter Capps and the Study of Religion
  November 10, 2023

• Celebrating the Legacy of Walter H. Capps: The Value of the Humanities
  November 10, 2023

• New Frontiers in Women's Health with Emily Jacobs
  September 9, 2023

2022/2023

• Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias, with Manjusha Kulkarni
  April 26, 2023

• Asian American Activism: Drawing on History, Inspiring the Future
  April 26, 2023

• Myriad Intimacies: Lata Mani in Conversation with Cherrie Moraga & Swati Rana
  March 8, 2023

• Grounding Ethics in Clinical Practice, with Stuart Finder
  March 6, 2023

• Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge, with Erica Gies
  November 16, 2022

2021/2022

• Post Roe Frontiers? A Conversation about Legal, Medical, and Political Mobilizations with Michele Bratcher Goodwin
  May 9, 2022

• Repatriation Horizons
  March 15, 2022

• Anthropocene Ethics with Lisa Sideris
  November 16,2021 

• Community Engagement and an Ethic of Accountability with Patricia Limerick 
  October 26, 2021

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  Talking COVID: Translating Science and Clinical Experience for Community Understanding with Dr. Daniel Griffin and Professor Stephanie Malia Hom
  September 29, 2021

2020/2021

• The Current Health Crisis and Sustaining Community, with Daniel Griffin
  May 21, 2021

• "A Wakeup Call for Climate Justice?" 2021 Webinar Series, keynote by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
  May 14, 2021

• Hungry and Homeless in Isla Vista: A Panel Discussion featuring Supervisor Das Williams 
  May 11, 2021

• Discussion panel: The Multiple Crises at the US-Mexico Border and What We Can Do About Them
  May 11, 2021

• Land Back and Ethics in Place: A Conversation with Nick Tilsen
  April 27, 2021

• Sacred Summits to Frontline Actions: An Evening with Pua Case and Chief Caleen Sisk
  April 20, 2021

• Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, featuring Judge Gregory Bigler and Kristen Carpenter
  March 4, 2021

• Death, Dying, and Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID with Felicia Cohn
  March 1, 2021

• Protecting Sacred Land with Suzan Shown Harjo and Michael McNally 
  February 12, 2021

• Free Speech, White Supremacy, & Insurrection
  February 10, 2021

• Repatriation as a Human Right, with Walter Echo-Hawk, Angela Riley, and Edward Halealoha Ayau
  January 25, 2021

• Indigenous Communities and Intersectional Environmental Ethics, with Kyle Whyte and David Pellow
  December 1, 2020

• Presidential Election 2020: Where Do We Go from Here?
  November 10,2020

• Presidential Election 2020: What Students Want
  October 26,2020

• Kaleikoa Ka'eo 
  From the Beginning: Origin Narratives and Place-Based Ethics
  October 13, 2020

2019/2020

• Michael Kalichman
  Research Ethics: Uncertainty Reproducibility, and Truth in Science
  March 2, 2020

• Sarah McFarland Taylor
  Ecopiety: Green Media and
  the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue
  January 14, 2020

• Sarah Jaquette Ray
  Coming of Age at the End of the World:
  An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation
  December 4, 2019

2018/2019

• Scoot A. Scherr
  Active Shooter Preparedness and Response Training 
  February 1, 2019

• Harold Koh
  The Trump Administration and International Law
  December 6, 2018

• Sarah Wylie
  Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
  November 28, 2018

2017/2018

• Maurice Bloch
  Shared Imagination in the Morning Greetings
  of Villagers: The Implications for Human Evolution
  June 4, 2018

• Howard Gillman
  Free Speech on Campus
  The Wade Clark Roof Human Rights Lecture
  May 30, 2018

• Charis Thompson
  Strategies for Surviving Negative Emotions
  in a Time of Augmentation and Polarization
  March 13, 2018
   

• Tim Kring, Reza Aslan, and Jessica Jackley
  Humanities as a Vocation
  January 19, 2018

• Reza Aslan
  God: A Human History
  January 18, 2018

2015/2016

• Marcy Darnovsky 
  Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?
  March 3, 2016

• John Esposito
  Islam and Religious Pluralism 
  January 21, 2016

• Mark Schapiro 
  Carbon Shock: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate Disrupted Economy
  November 12, 2015

• Morris Dees 
  With Justice for All in a Changing America 
  October 21, 2015

2014/2015

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  Shane Harris
  The Ethics of Cyberwar
  March 11

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Anna Lappé
  Ethics at the End of a Fork
  February 9 

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Peter Barnes
  Fixing Capitalism’s Deepest Flaws
  November 18  

• Walter Isaacson
  The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  October 16 

2013/2014

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Professor Paul R. Abramson
  Sex, Sex, And More Sex: Ensuring Sexual Rights While Preventing Sexual Harm
  May 19 

• Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series 
  Stuart J. Youngner, M.D.
  Decisions at the End of Life: The Illusion of Control and the Sense of Responsibility
  March 6 

• Capps Conversation 
  Heidi Boghosian
  Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
  February 10 

• Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life 
  Stephen Prothero
  God I Not One: Religious Tolerance in the Age of Extremism
  January 26 

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Rinoldo S. Brutoco
  Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission
  November 20 

• Wade Clark Roof Lecture on Human Rights 
  Martina Vandenberg
  Human Trafficking: Ending the Myths, Confronting the Realities
  November 3 

2012/2013

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Stefan Timmermans
  Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
  February 20 

• Timothy Noah
  Inequality and the 2012 Election
  February 4 

• Hamdani World Harmony Lecture Series 

  Vivek Wadhwa and Ahmed Zewail
  Technology’s Promise, Humanity’s Future
  November 18  

• Mickey Edwards
  It’s Time to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans
  October 10 

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  Jonathan Alter
  Why the 2012 Election Is the Most Pivotal of Our Lifetime
  October 1

2011/2012

• E.J. Dionne, Jr.
  Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
  June 20  

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Linda Gordon
  Contraception at the Tea Party: The Politics of Women’s Health
  May 23 

• Amy Sullivan
  Culture War Games: Religion and the 2012 Election
  April 10  

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Kathleen Sharp
  Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
  February 23 

• Jennifer Butler and Wade Clark Roof
  Progressive Religion
  February 16 

• JE and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visting Professor in Catholic Studies 
  Michele Dillon
  American Catholics in the Twenty-First Century
  January 19 

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  Wade Clark Roof Lecture on Human Rights 
  Dr.  Samantha Nutt
  Damned Nation: Ending the Global War Against Women and Children
  January 17 

• Hamdani World Harmony Lecture Series Inaugural Event 
  Shirin Ebadi
  The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Middle East
  October 23 

• Melissa Harris-Perry
  Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
  October 4 

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 

  Daniel Hirsch
  Nuclear Power: Ethical and Policy Implications
  November 15  

2010/2011

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Kevin R. Johnson
  Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws
  May 4 

• Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 

  Dr. David Gollaher
  Life in the Balance: Perspectives on Stem Cell Research
  February 24 

• Aaron Williams and Kevin Quigley
  The Future of International Service
  November 21 

• Sarah Chayes, Gordon L. Radley, and Thomas Tighe
  International Service: Bringing the World Back Home
  September 26 

2009/2010

• George Packer
  An American Dilemma: Obama, Afghanistan, and Vietnam
  May 19 

• Martin E. Marty Lectureship on Religion in American Life 
  E.J. Dionne, Jr.
  Are America’s Religious Wars Ending?
  April 20 

• Kavita Ramdas
  Feminist Leadership in Building Global Community
  February 9 

• Vali Nasr
  Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
  October 11 

2008/2009

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  Martin E. Marty Lectureship on Religion in American Life 
  Sister Joan Chittister
  Spirituality and Culture
  April 2

• Aaron Glantz
  The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle against America’s Veterans
  March 1 

• Brian McLaren
  Everything Must Change: Rediscovering Christian Faith as a Spiritual-Social Movement
  February 7 

• Jonathan Alter
  Election 2008: The Stakes
  October 22 

2007/2008

• Congressman David Price
  Faith Informing Politics: Pitfalls and Promise
  June 1 

• David Chidester, Richard Hecht, Edward T. Linenthal, Robert Orsi, Jonathan Z. Smith, Sarah Taylor, and Wendy Wright
  Exploring the Contributions of Walter Capps to the Study of Religion
  May 9-10

• Congresswoman Lois Capps, Richard Hecht, Wilson Hubbell, Jim Nolan, and James Quay
  Coming Home: Walter Capps’ Vietnam War Class Reunion
  April 26 

• Wade Clark Roof Lecture on Human Rights 
  Lynn Hunt
  Inventing Human Rights: A History
  November 18 

• Mario Garcia
  The Gospel of Cesar Chavez: My Faith in Action
  October 30 

• Anne Hastings
  Eradicating Global Poverty: Is It Really Achievable?
  September 18 

2006/2007

• The 6th Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate 
  Rabbi Michael Lerner and Michael Novak
  Religion in American Politics — Too Much or Too Little?
  May 17 

• The Henry A. Schimberg Lecture and Symposium on Ethics 
  Coleen Rowley
  U.S. Intelligence, 9/11, and Iraq: A Whistleblower’s Story
  April 22 

• Joe Matthews
  Soft in the Middle? The Bi-Partisan Schwarzenegger and California’s Future
  January 11 

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  Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy 
  Kevin Phillips
  American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money
  October 19

• James Fallows
  Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq
  September 17 

2005/2006

• Taylor Branch
  At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
  Febuary 26 

• Kwame Anthony Appiah
  Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
  Febuary 1 

• Wade Clark Roof
  Gen Xers and How They Are Changing American Religion
  January 29 

• Mario T. Garcia & Fr. Virgil Cordano, O.F.M.
  Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano
  October 17 

2004/2005

• Quang X. Pham
  Thirty Years After Vietnam: Myths, Lessons, and Closure
  May 16 

• Capps Dialogue 
  Jonathan Rauch and Maggie Gallagher
  The Controversy over Marriage
  May 10 

• Harvey Cox
  When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
  December 12  

• Gillian Martin Sorensen
  The U.S. and the U.N.: Can this Marriage Be Saved?
  September 8 

2003/2004

• Vandana Shiva
  Planting Seeds for Change: Women’s Struggle against Corporate Control of Biodiversity
  May 9 

• Edward T. Linenthal
  Terrorism and Its Aftermath: Oklahoma City and September 11
  April 27 

• Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
  A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
  January 21 

• Lou Cannon
  The Rise of the Celebrities: Republican Politics from Reagan to Schwarzenegger
  January 13 

• Alan Wolfe
  The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith
  December 11  

• E. J. Dionne Jr.
  One Electorate Under God? Religion and American Politics
  October 30