Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)
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Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)
The Capps Center at UCSB presents public lectures that seek to advance discussion of issues related to ethics, values and public life, and to encourage non-partisan, non-sectarian civic participation.
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Repatriation Futures at UCSB and Beyond
What are the future horizons for indigenous repatriation work? What are best practices in repatriation settings, and how might they inform repair work...
Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice
What’s next for the battle over abortion? In this lecture, Mary Ziegler argues that undoing Roe v. Wade was never the endpoint for the antiabortion mo...
Anti-Asian Hate Racial Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth
In this program, Russell M. Jeung, professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, explores COVID-19 racism against Asian Ameri...
Teaching Ethics and Civic Values
This program discusses humanist and scholar Walter Capps’ teaching of ethics and civic values in the classroom and beyond. The panel consists of Katya...
Remembering the Vietnam War Class
This program discusses humanist and scholar Walter Capps’ famous course on the Vietnam War and its impacts. The panel consists of former U.S. Senator...
Democracy is Born in Conversation
Alessandro Duranti, Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, presents archival footage he filmed of Walter Capps' 1996 campaign for U...
Grounding Ethics in Clinical Practice
Dr. Stuart Finder, a renowned clinical ethicist, will discuss the meaning of ethics as it is encountered and understood in actual healthcare contexts....
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
As new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable—and it is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our relationship...
Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias
Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the country have been subjected to increased hate inci...
Research Ethics: Uncertainty Reproducibility and Truth in Science
The promise of science is great, but the application of new technologies often raises profound ethical questions. Answering those questions depends on...
Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue
In her book, Ecopiety, Sarah McFarland Taylor offers an absorbing examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, contemporary expres...
Coming of Age at the End of the World: An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation
How should we teach depressing material about climate change and social injustice to college students the very generation saddled with "fixing" all o...
Active Shooter Preparedness and Response Training: The Campus Setting
What can we learn about gun violence, prevention, and preparedness from mass casualty incidents such as the Las Vegas mass shooting? How can this be a...
Unfracking the Future through Developing Civic Technoscience
Premature births, unexplained human and livestock sicknesses, flammable water faucets, toxic wells and the onset of hundreds of earthquakes: the impac...
Free Speech on Campus: The 2018 Wade Clark Roof Human Rights Lecture with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, di...
Strategies for Surviving Negative Emotions in a Time of Augmentation and Polarization
Why are negative emotions out of control? How do we begin to tame them? UC Berkeley Professor Charis Thompson focuses on how we understand and deal wi...
Humanities as a Vocation: Career Paths Beyond the Blackboard
Social entrepreneur, investor, and author Jessica Jackley explores what it took for her to pursue a career that fit her passions. She explains that st...
An Evening with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman
2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman is the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. A human ri...
It’s Happening Here: American Renewal Ingenuity and Innovation with James Fallows
Today’s dominant political refrain is that America is in a state of decline. But to James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, nothing co...
Food Climate and Hope with Anna Lappe
Anna Lappé looks at the hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis. Our web of global food production and distribution is connected to as much...
Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus: Why It Matters and How It's Being Threatened
Is free speech threatened on college campuses? One of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars explores the the notion of “hateful” or “hurtful” s...
Coming in November: Armageddon Apocalypse or Rapture?- Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life
Bringing his expertise, experience and wisdom longtime journalist Bill Moyers looks at the November election and asks if we are in for armageddon, ap...
Marcy Darnovsky: Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?
Powerful new “gene editing” techniques have put the prospect of genetically modified human beings on the foreseeable horizon. Should we use these tool...
Carbon Shock: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate-Disrupted Economy with Mark Schapiro
Scientists describe the climate-havoc wrought on our natural world as the end of ‘stationarity’—a shift of the ecosystem so profound that it is no lon...
Democratizing Power: Fossil Fuels to 100% Renewables
Rinaldo S. Brutoco is a successful entrepreneur, executive, author and futurist and the Founding President of the World Business Academy. He looks at...
Morris Dees: With Justice For All in a Changing America
Legendary civil rights advocate Morris Dees addresses how our commitment to justice for all will determine our nation’s success in the next century as...
Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Unlike the justice system, California’s institutions of higher learning cannot hold perpetrators of sexual violence criminally liable, but they do hav...
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
The United States military currently views cyberspace as the “fifth domain” of warfare (alongside land, air, sea, and space), and the Department of De...
Ethics at the End of a Fork
Anna Lappé discusses how the food system impacts so many different aspects of our lives and how recent and diverse social movements motivated by a pro...
Paul Abramson: Sex Sex and More Sex: Ensuring Sexual Rights While Preventing Sexual Harm
UCLA psychologist Paul Abramson argues that if we want a better world, we need to eliminate sexual harm - not just violent rape, but also sexual coerc...
Fixing Capitalism’s Deepest Flaws
Peter Barnes, entrepreneur and former Newsweek correspondent, discusses his new book “With Liberty and Dividends For All: How to Save Our Middle Class...
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors Hackers Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution with Walter Isaacson
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their crea...
Decisions at the End of Life: The Illusion of Control and the Sense of Responsibility with Stewart J. Youngner
More than 2 million people die every year in the United States, almost always in the presence of life-sustaining medical technology. Sometimes the ch...
Peter Edelman: Ending Poverty in America
Law professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, Peter Edelman speaks about the prevalence of poverty in America, focusing on income-level dispari...
Heidi Boghosian: Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance Corporate Power and Public Resistance
In “Spying on Democracy,” National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citi...
Martina Vandenberg Human Trafficking: Ending the Myths Confronting the Realities
The International Labour Organization estimates that 20.9 million people around the world are currently held in forced labor and servitude. Human tra...
Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission with Rinaldo Brutoco
With problems such as the energy crunch, climate change, and dependence on foreign oil, the question reemerges as to whether we need nuclear power — e...
Saving Babies?: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorders. Though the early detection of these abnormalities can potentia...
Ethics and the Modern Corp: A Conversation with Alex Douglas
J. Alexander M. Douglas, Jr., Senior Vice President and Global
Chief Customer Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, reflects upon current issues in...
Inequality and the 2012 Election
Timothy Noah, Senior Editor, The New Republic and author of “The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis And What We Can Do About It,” i...