2021/2022

• Anthropocene Ethics with Professor Johnson and Lisa Sideris
  November 16,2021 
   

• Community Engagement and an Ethic of Accountability with Professor Johnson and 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

• "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

•  
  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