Past Events
- Tue, 10/27/2020 - 4:00pm
Location: Online
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Like today’s Movement for Black Lives, the 1960s Black Power movement was a critical moment when radical ideas suddenly took hold and unprecedented opportunities emerged for transformational change. While today’s activists look to the Black Panther Party (BPP) for inspiration and lessons, the focus is almost entirely on the BPP during the organization’s existence. But in the...
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- Tue, 04/14/2020 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Watch Now: Pacific Views Talk with Ethan Chang.
More As part of its Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series, UCSB Library presents a talk by Ethan Chang, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies and Black Studies.
How do ordinary people learn to lead and dedicate their lives to movements for social change? This lecture examines the people, pedagogy, and practices of the...
- Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This year, the UCSB library acquired the complete 44-volume facsimile edition of William Faulkner’s most important manuscripts, now housed in the UCSB Library's Special Research Collections. To celebrate this, the UCSB library and the English Department invites everyone to an afternoon of lively presentations that uncover the creative process of this celebrated author.
Talks by undergraduate and graduate students who have engaged in archival research on William...
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- Tue, 01/28/2020 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020 UCSB Library presents a talk by Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, to be followed by a public reception.
Whether it’s sea level rise in the Bay Area, hurricanes in New York City and the Bahamas, or fires and extreme rainfall leading to mudslides in our own Santa Barbara, we are already experiencing climate change. Stokes will discuss the...
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- Tue, 11/05/2019 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
- Fri, 11/01/2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Meet in the UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd Floor Mountain Side)
UCSB 75th Anniversary Exhibition Open House: “Campus by the Sea” is part of Parents & Family Weekend.
Learn about UCSB’s history from its roots as a manual training school in 1891 to its years as the liberal arts Santa Barbara College and, finally, its birth in 1944 as part of the UC system. The curators will walk you through archival documents and photographs...
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- Wed, 10/30/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
UCSB Library presents a talk-and-record-listening event by researcher and record producer Ian Nagoski. At the height of immigration to the United States 100 years ago, a wave of people from the collapsing Ottoman Empire settled in the U.S. At the same time, the burgeoning record industry in and around New York City radically hastened the distribution of musical cultures and documented thousands of performances by performers from present-day Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Lebanon,...
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- Thu, 10/24/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Opening reception for UCSB Library's exhibition Campus by the Sea, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of UC Santa Barbara. Featuring items from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections, this exhibition examines how and when UCSB transformed from a sleepy liberal arts college into a world class research institution.
This reception style event is free and open to the public. There will be an opportunity to view...
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- Wed, 05/22/2019 - 9:30am to 10:45am
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join students in the upper division English 197 Spring Quarter 2019 class "Reading in Santa Barbara: Past, Present, and Future." Inspired by their archival research in UCSB Library, Special Research Collections, students will be presenting their reflections on the UCSB Reads book The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui and on their own experiences as readers at UCSB.
Coffee and pastries will be served.
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- Tue, 04/30/2019 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Oil has been leaking into the ocean off California's coast for millennia, creating spectacular geologic structures and hosting unusual ecosystems thousands of feet beneath the waves. Professor Valentine will share amazing and disturbing stories of discovery of these vivid sea floor environments.
This talk is part of the Pacific Views: Library Lecture Series, and is also in conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition...
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- Wed, 02/06/2019 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: MCC Theater
This unscripted documentary series presents an exclusive look into an academic year at suburban Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. Students, teachers, and administrators from one of the country's highest performing and diverse public schools are profiled in the face of decades-old racial and educational inequities. The series delves into the experiences of the racially diverse student population, sparking conversations about what has...
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- Fri, 02/01/2019 - 10:00am
Location: Special Research Collections
We invite you to a public lecture and a reception to celebrate the exhibition of works of Didier Mutel, pre-eminent French engraver and book artist, on Friday, February 1. This is a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and the community to meet one of the most skilled and best known French engravers of the 21st Century.
This event is free and open to the public and wll be followed by a public reception at 11:00AM
Sponsored by UCSB Library and The College of...
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- Wed, 01/30/2019 - 3:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
CISM in the Archive presents "Re-collecting the Global South" with sound artist Robert Millis and filmmaker Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies collective on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 3:30 pm at UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd floor, Mountain Side). Millis and Mayet will share their work reissuing global popular and folk music recordings on Sublime...
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- Mon, 01/28/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
UCSB Library invites you to an opening talk and reception celebrating its new exhibition "Anguish, Anger, and Activism," which examines the connections between the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and environmental activism in the local area. There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition with UCSB librarians and curators Kristen LaBonte and Annie Platoff.
Marc McGinnes...
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- Tue, 01/22/2019 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by Maryam Kia-Keating, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education to be followed by a public reception.
Mass migration and forced displacement of communities due to disruptions by violence, climate change, and economic and political instability, have heralded an era of global movement that has reached crisis levels. Approximately half of the world’s refugees are...
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- Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by James Salzman (Bren School) to be followed by a public reception.
Conflicts over drinking water highlight the most pressing issues of our time -- from social justice and globalization to climate change and emerging contaminants. Ensuring provision of safe drinking water has always been one of society's most important challenges and remains highly controversial around the globe. The United Nations has declared a Human Right to Water but...
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- Thu, 10/18/2018 - 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
5:30 - 8PM: Opening event for UCSB Library's exhibition Nuestras Américas: An Exploration of Expressive Cultures in Latina and Latino America*
Event is free and open to the public.
- Music by Mariachi Isla Vista Quartet
- Remarks by UCSB Professor Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez (Chicana &...
- Thu, 05/24/2018 - 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
The UCSB Library presents a public talk by scholar and artist Johanna Drucker. Drucker's talk is co-sponsored by Transcriptions (UCSB English).
What are the specific ways in which visualizations could be modified to engage interpretative methods for digital humanities? Drucker's talk assesses the challenges of appropriating visualization methods from...
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- Tue, 04/17/2018 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
The UCSB Library presents a talk by Kelsey Bisson (Geography) and Eleanor Arrington (Earth Science), PhD candidates in the UCSB Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, to be followed by a public reception.
This talk will describe the planning and preliminary results from a student research expedition that took place in the Santa Barbara Channel in December 2017 during the Thomas Fire. This trip was funded from the UC Ships Funds program and is the first...
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- Tue, 04/03/2018 - 8:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
The UCSB Library is excited to offer this free lecture and book-signing by Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl. Lab Girl is the selection for UCSB Reads 2018. No tickets needed; seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:20pm. Location: UCSB Campbell Hall.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
- Wed, 02/21/2018 - 3:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Aaron Fox will present a broad view of “repatriation” and “recovery” projects that have been undertaken in recent years by activists and ethnomusicologists who work with archives of recorded sound. Professor Fox connects the history of recording and collecting Native American music in the early 20th century to the later Cold War context, in which contemporary ethnographic ethnomusicology emerged in its current institutionalized form. He interrogates the view of sound “...
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- Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by Jeffrey Hoelle (UCSB Anthropology) to be followed by a public reception.
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The Amazon rainforest is a land of incredible biological and cultural diversity that plays a crucial role in global environment health. Yet the rainforest continues to be cut down to produce commodities, particularly cattle, soy, and gold. While we know that a combination of economic factors and governmental...
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- Fri, 01/19/2018 - 12:00pm
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In conjunction with the commemorative walk through the UCSB campus in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, UCSB Library invites all walkers to visit the pop-up display "Against the Wall: Social Justice and Civil Unrest in California 1960s - 1980s" featuring photographs from the Library's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Walkers will meet at the campus Eternal Flame at noon and visit the Library as one of the designated stops before arriving at the...
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- Tue, 11/14/2017 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
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The 2017-2018 Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series kicks off with a talk by Professor Yasamin Mostofi (UCSB Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering) to be followed by a public reception.
Mostofi, whose research has appeared in the Huffington Post, the BBC, Daily Mail, Engadget, TechCrunch, and NSFScience360, will discuss the...
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