Past Events
- Thu, 10/12/2017 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Reception with brief remarks by UCSB Professors Bruce Tiffney (Earth Science) & Paul Spickard (History) to celebrate the opening of the UCSB Library's new exhibition Botanical Illustrations and Scientific Discovery-- Joseph Banks and the Exploration of the South Pacific, 1768-1771.
Event is free and open to the public.
- Wed, 05/31/2017 - 3:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
In honor of the Music Academy of the West’s 70th Anniversary, the UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized 400 early and fragile concert recordings from the famous conservatory, including special performances by Marilyn Horne, Jerome Lowenthal, and Lotte Lehmann. UCSB Professor of Musicology Derek Katz will speak about the partnership between the Music Academy and the...
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- Fri, 05/05/2017 - 3:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Assembled over a lifetime of passionate collecting, the Allen G. Debus Collection in UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections is one of the most comprehensive collections of sound recordings devoted to the early American recording industry and popular entertainment in a public institution. Through words and sound, our assembled panel will explore the Debus collection, and...
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- Tue, 05/02/2017 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Hahrie Han (UCSB Political Science) specializes in the study of collective action, social change, and democratic revitalization, particularly as it pertains to social justice and environmental issues. Her talk will examine the recent outpouring of protest activity since the election of Donald Trump. What does social science research tell us about the conditions under which...
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- Wed, 04/19/2017 - 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
John W.I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UCSB. This talk is part of the ‘Black Classicism’ lecture series presented in conjunction with the “14 Black Classicists” exhibition hosted by the AD&A Museum and the UCSB Library. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies, and the departments of Classics and Black Studies.
John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta,...
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- Fri, 04/14/2017 - 1:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of the indignities poor, single mothers of color like her suered at the...
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- Thu, 04/06/2017 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Opening reception for the new exhibition "A Powerful Voice: Nurturing Creativity--Female Book Artists at the College of Creative Studies." This event is free and open to the public.
- Wed, 03/08/2017 - 3:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Ethnomusicologist, sound curator and artist Noel Lobley presents some creative, interactive and performative sound curation, blending examples from his own practice with rare sounds selected from the Special Research Collections at UCSB.
The second in the series CISM in the Archives, this event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM).
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Video of George Lipsitz' talk.
Photos of event.
Professor George Lipsitz (UCSB Black Studies & Sociology) will give a talk titled: “’A Collective Intelligence Gathered from Struggle’: Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition” as part of the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series. How have Black people in the U.S....
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- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:00am
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:00am
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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- Tue, 11/01/2016 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Hofmann will discuss her research showing that rising levels of carbon in Antarctic waters threaten the Antarctic food chain.
Reception and exhibition of paintings by artist Lily Simonson to follow. Simonson collaborated with Hofmann in the Antarctic to explore and sketch the obscure organisms and otherworldly scenes that are the subjects of her...
More- Tue, 04/12/2016 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education at UCSB, will present "Science Fiction and Creative Self-Destruction" as part of UCSB Library's Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series.
In 2015 Gutiérrez-Jones published the book...
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- Tue, 04/28/2015 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Giovanni Vigna, UCSB Department of Computer Science
April 28, 2015, 4pm
Malware is in continuous evolution. As new countermeasures are deployed, cybercriminals adapt and create malware samples that can evade these defenses, like invisible ninjas attacking at night.
This talk describes the evolution of malware, and describes research in fighting this ever-changing threat, focusing in particular on the detection of evasive...
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