Past Events
- 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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- 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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