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.
2025/2026
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Water, Wealth, and the Ancestral Circular Economy, with Kamanamaikalani Beamer
November 12, 2025 -
Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment
October 28, 2025 -
Climate Crises and Postapocalyptic Futures: Visionary Landscapes in Northern Peru, with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
June 23, 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Talking COVID: Translating Science and Clinical Experience for Community Understanding with Dr. Daniel Griffin and Professor Stephanie Malia Hom
September 29, 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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Tim Kring, Reza Aslan, and Jessica Jackley
Humanities as a Vocation
January 19, 2018 -
Reza Aslan
God: A Human History
January 18, 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Jonathan Alter
Why the 2012 Election Is the Most Pivotal of Our Lifetime
October 1 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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