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| Clarence Barlow |
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Monday, Jul. 20 |
8:00 AM |
| Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical
and electroacoustic works and holds the Corwin Chair of Composition at UC
Santa Barbara. While he has been a driving force in interdisciplinary and
technological advances, his music is grounded in tradition and primarily for
traditional instruments. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 21 |
5:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 22 |
11:00 AM |
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Thursday, Jul. 23 |
2:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 24 |
3:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 25 |
7:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 25 |
10:00 PM |
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| An Evening with Orhan Pamuk |
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Monday, Jul. 06 |
5:00 AM |
| Author Orhan Pamuk has gained
international recognition for his compelling works of fiction. A Nobel
Laureate, Pamuk has been honored with more than a dozen literary awards and
has had his work translated into more than 40 languages. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
2:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
8:00 AM |
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Thursday, Jul. 09 |
3:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
7:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
10:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
11:00 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
4:00 PM |
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| Gershom Gorenberg: The Struggle for the
Temple Mount |
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Monday, Jul. 13 |
3:00 AM |
| The Temple Mount is the most sacred and
contested real estate on earth. Yet it is also a physical place in the center
of a city—and the center of a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Gershom Gorenberg, an American-born journalist who has lived in Jerusalem
since 1977, ponders if God's mountain can ever become a symbol of peace. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 14 |
12:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 15 |
6:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 15 |
11:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 16 |
1:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 17 |
5:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 17 |
8:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 18 |
9:00 AM |
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| Abraham's Quest: The Common Link Between
Judaism, Christianity, And Islam in the Journey Towards Peace |
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| Acknowledged as the common patriarch of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Abraham links these three cultures
throughout the Middle East. William Ury, co-founder and director of the
Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, explores ways that programs like
the Abraham Path Initiative, which he chairs, can serve as a bridge to a
lasting peace in the Middle East and how the story of Abraham has the power
to inspire cross-cultural exchange and mutual understanding. |
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Friday, Jul. 03 |
7:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 03 |
10:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 04 |
11:00 AM |
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Sunday, Jul. 05 |
2:00 AM |
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| Josh Berman: My Entrepreneurial Journey
from UCSB to MySpace and Beyond |
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Josh Berman, co-founder and chief
operating officer of MySpace.com, on his entrepreneurial journey.
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Saturday, Jul. 04 |
5:00 AM |
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Sunday, Jul. 05 |
5:00 AM |
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| Three Cups of Tea: Promoting Peace &
Building Nations, One School, One Child at a Time |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
4:00 PM |
| Since a 1993 climb on Pakistan's K2, Greg
Mortenson has helped more than 25,000 children, especially girls, in remote
regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan receive quality education. He recounts
the challenges and joys that have culminated in the building of more than 55
schools to an audience at UC Santa Barbara. |
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| Environmental Memory and Planetary
Survival |
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Tuesday, Jul. 14 |
4:00 PM |
| Considered one of the founders of
environmental criticism, Professor Lawrence Buell of Harvard University
shares his most recent work, which treats the intersections of global and
environmental studies. |
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| An Evening with the Founder
and President of the Children's Defense Fund |
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Monday, Jul. 27 |
5:00 AM |
| Marian Wright Edelman, the
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, is the author of the
bestseller, The
Measure of Our Success—A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight
other books. The first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she worked
as
counsel for the Poor People's Campaign begun by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
She discusses her newest work, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small—Charting
a Course for the Next Generation. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 28 |
2:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
8:00 AM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
3:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
11:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
7:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
10:00 PM |
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| Ed Mazria: Now It's Personal |
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Monday, Jul. 06 |
11:00 AM |
| Is it possible to achieve energy
independence, solve climate change and revitalize the United States' economy
with a single solution? According to Ed Mazria it is. An award-winning
architect, author and educator, Mazria presents the 2030 Blueprint, a simple,
yet powerful approach to achieving all of these goals through the building
sector, the largest energy consumer in the United States. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
3:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
7:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
10:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 09 |
8:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
5:00 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
2:00 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
12:00 PM |
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| Conversation with Saad Ibrahim |
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Monday, Jul. 27 |
1:00 AM |
| Mark Juergensmeyer of the Orfalea Center
for Global & International Studies at UC Santa Barbara welcomes Saad
Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist, author, and one of Egypt's leading
human rights and democracy activists. A professor of sociology at the
American University in Cairo, Ibrahim is the founder of both the Ibn Khaldun
Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human
Rights. |
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Monday, Jul. 27 |
12:00 PM |
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Tuesday, Jul. 28 |
7:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
2:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
6:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
9:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
10:00 AM |
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| A Conversation with Ainslie Embree |
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| Mark Juergensmeyer of the Orfalea Center
for Global & International Studies at UC Santa Barbara welcomes Ainslie
T. Embree, professor emeritus of history at Columbia University. Embree is a
leading scholar of India, principally interested in the topics of religion
and nationalism, human rights, and ethnic conflict. |
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Saturday, Jul. 04 |
2:00 AM |
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Sunday, Jul. 05 |
9:00 AM |
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| Less than a Mile from Ground Zero:
Testimony from Atomic Survivors |
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Monday, Jul. 27 |
3:00 AM |
| Hibakusha (survivors of the
atomic attacks) Junko Kayashige, aged 69, and MiyakoYano, 78, tell their
personal
stories of the world's first atomic attack. Sponsored by the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 28 |
12:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
6:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
11:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
1:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
5:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
8:00 PM |
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| Frances Moore Lappé - Living
Democracy, Feeding Hope |
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Monday, Jul. 06 |
10:00 AM |
| Frances Moore Lappé, a democracy advocate
and world food and hunger expert, discusses her passion for participatory
democracy built upon hope for a better future. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
2:00 PM |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
11:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
6:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
9:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 09 |
7:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
4:00 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
1:00 AM |
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| Torture and the Law: Can U.S. Officials Be
Held Accountable? |
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Monday, Jul. 27 |
10:00 AM |
| Join New York attorney and human rights
advocate Scott Horton and attorney and columnist Stuart Taylor as they debate
the consequences of violating laws prohibiting torture. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 28 |
2:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
6:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 29 |
9:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 30 |
7:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 31 |
4:00 AM |
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| Aaron Glantz: The War Comes Home |
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Monday, Jul. 13 |
10:00 AM |
| How does America treat its veterans? An
independent journalist specializing in the impacts of war, Aaron Glantz,
provides a devastating indictment of the Bush administration for its blatant
neglect of soldiers and its disingenuous reneging on their benefits. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 14 |
2:00 PM |
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Tuesday, Jul. 14 |
11:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 15 |
6:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 15 |
9:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 16 |
7:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 17 |
4:00 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 18 |
1:00 AM |
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| Everything Must Change: Rediscovering
Christian Faith as a Spiritual-Social Movement |
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Monday, Jul. 06 |
2:00 AM |
| Author and Pastor Brian McLaren discusses
what he considers to be the most imperative global crises, how Christians are
equipped to grapple with them, and how Christians can join with people of
other backgrounds as advocates for change. |
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Monday, Jul. 06 |
12:00 PM |
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Tuesday, Jul. 07 |
8:00 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 08 |
3:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 09 |
7:00 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 09 |
10:00 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
11:00 AM |
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Friday, Jul. 10 |
11:00 PM |
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Saturday, Jul. 11 |
5:00 AM |
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| Spirituality and Culture |
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Monday, Jul. 13 |
1:30 AM |
| Sister Joan D. Chittister, a Benedictine
nun, discusses how culture changes and the implications those changes have
for contemporary spirituality. She focuses on the stages of revitalization,
global definitions of the seven capital sins, and American society as it
moves into the 21st century. |
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Tuesday, Jul. 14 |
7:30 AM |
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Wednesday, Jul. 15 |
2:30 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 16 |
6:30 PM |
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Thursday, Jul. 16 |
9:30 PM |
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Friday, Jul. 17 |
10:30 AM |
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Saturday, Jul. 18 |
4:30 AM |
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