About Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series
The Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series is an opportunity for UCSB faculty and graduate students from diverse disciplines to speak about their current research, publications, or creative work.
The talks are free and open to the public, and are held in the Library's stunning 8th Floor Pacific View Room. Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series began in 2014.
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To suggest future events in the series, write Alex Regan, Events & Exhibitions Program Manager, at aregan@ucsb.edu.
Upcoming Speaker:
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Past Speakers:
Wild Life: How Personal Journeys Can Transform Our Roles in Environmental Science
Rae Wynn-Grant (Bren School)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4pm. Link to video recording.
Public Art and Campus Placemaking: Recentering the Artist in Communities of Practice
Kim Yasuda (Art)
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 4pm
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency, the Transformation of American Capitalism, and America Labor Today
Nelson Lichtenstein (History)
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 4pm
Spatial Data Science Solutions for Better Bicycling
Trisalyn Nelson (Geography)
Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 4pm
The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril
Roland Geyer (Bren School)
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 4pm
What is Responsible AI?
William Wang (Computer Science)
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 4pm
The Scientific Body of Knowledge - Whose Body Does it Serve? A Spotlight on Women's Brain Health
Emily Jacobs (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 4pm
Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California’s Carbon Markets
Kyle Meng (Economics) and Danae Hernandez Cortes (PhD Candidate, Economics)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 4pm
Social Justice Advocacy and the Culture of Outrage
Tania Israel (Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology)
Tuesday, January 13, 2021, 4pm
Black Power Afterlives: From the Black Panther Party to Black Lives Matter
Diane C. Fujino (UCSB Department of Asian American Studies)
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4pm
An Education for Social Transformation: Learning, Leadership, and the Highlander Idea
Ethan Chang (Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Departments of Asian American Studies and Black Studies)
Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 4pm
Climate Change in our Backyard: Impacts, Policy, and Politics
Leah Stokes (Political Science)
Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 4pm
Is Politics Our New Religion?
Ann Taves (Religious Studies)
Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 4pm
Ecosystems of Oil at the Ocean's Floor and Other Secrets of the Santa Barbara Channel
David Valentine (Earth Science)
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 4pm
Exiled: Loss and Resilience Among Refugee and Forcibly Displaced Youth and Communities
Maryam Kia-Keating (Gervitz School)
Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 4pm
Who Gets to Drink? The Past, Present and Future of Drinking Water
James Salzman (Bren School)
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 4pm
Oceanography in the Thomas Fire: Preliminary Results from a Graduate Student Led Expedition
Kelsey Bisson (Geography) and Eleanor Arrington (Earth Science), PhD candidates in the UCSB Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 4pm
The Anthropology of Rainforest Destruction
Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 4pm
Robotics meets Wireless Communications: Opportunities and Challenges
Yasamin Mostofi (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 4pm
Understanding Protest and Resistance in the Trump Era
Hahrie Han (Political Science)
Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 4pm
’A Collective Intelligence Gathered from Struggle’: Cedric Robinson & the Black Radical Tradition
Professor George Lipsitz (Black Studies and Sociology)
January 17, 2017, 4pm
On Thin Ice: Antarctic Biology in a Changing Ocean
Gretchen Hofmann (Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology), with artist Lily Simonson
November 1, 2016 4pm
Science Fiction and Creative Self-Destruction
Carl Gutierrez-Jones (English)
April 12, 2016 4pm
Of Mice and Men: How Wildlife Loss Affects Ecosystem and Human Health
Hillary Young (Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology)
November 17, 2015, 4pm
The Evolution of Malware (or "Ninja Malware Attack!")
Giovanni Vigna (Computer Science)
April 28, 2015, 4pm
Balancing on a Planet: Can Local Food Improve Health, Increase Equity, and Slow Global Warming?
David Cleveland (Environmental Studies)
November 18, 2014, 4pm
