ROUNDTABLE: Natural Capital Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM – ?McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Maine (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global and […]Read More
Speaker: Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada Talk title: Hunger and the World Food System a presentation of the Mellichamp Speaker Series, sponsored by Mellichamp Professor of Transnational Civil Society Networks, Jan Nederveen-Pieterse Speaker bio: Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches agrarian political economy. He is Professor of International Development Studies, Chair of […]Read More
Speaker: David Wilson, Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: “Deepening the Creative City: America’s new redevelopment machine and the global trope” Presented through the the Mellichamp Speaker Series in Global Studies by the Mellichamp Professor of Transnational Civil Society Networks, Jan Nederveen-Pieterse Speaker bio: David Wilson […]Read More
When I Saw You (2012) will be screened at the Pollock Theater at 7:00 PM on Thursday, February 12. To be preceded by video introduction recorded specifically for this occasion by writer-director Annemarie Jacir. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBXFBPwL8JI Reserve your seat now: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/events/social-impact-cinema-dreaming-palestine-when-i-saw-you This event is co-sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of […]Read More
On February 25 the Orfalea Center celebrates its 10th year anniversary with an invitational banquet commemorating the vision of Paul and Natalie Orfalea to create the Masters in Global and International Studies program as well as the Orfalea Center itself under founding director Mark Juergensmeyer, whose leadership will also be recognized at the event. The […]Read More
Workshop: October 27, 2017 Lecture Series and Workshop on the Topic of: “Thank God We’re Not Like Them” The Global Dimensions of Religious Othering Concept: This is a topic that has been developed in consultation with a working group of faculty from various departments who work on religion-related research related to global public life. […]Read More
Public lecture/forum for the Sociology Colloquium Series: Wednesday, November 8, at 12 noon. 3017 SSMS conference room. The Role of Community Initiatives in Transitioning Society: Observations and Strategies in the U.S. and Europe How do we increase community resilience and well-being as social, economic and environmental problems deepen? The global Transition Towns movement catalyzed community-led initiatives […]Read More
Speaker: Gabrielle Hecht Professor, Department of History, and Director, Program in Science, Technology & Society at the University of Michigan Title: TBA Presented by the Orfalea Center-supported research cluster “Energy Challenges: Development and Climate Change in Global Perspective” Speaker bio: Gabriella Hecht is a Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan, where […]Read More
