VOICES 2009
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What's at Stake?
Can Accountability
Systems Strengthen Higher Education?
Chris Thaiss and others talk about the outcomes expected by stakeholders without narrowing the curriculum or compromising the educational opportunities. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4605
Proving Our Value: No Longer an Elective in Higher Education
Mark G. Yudof, President of the University of California, gives the plenary address at this event. Yudof served also as Chancellor at the University of Texas from 2002-2008. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4604
Accountability 101: Overview & Issues
Michael Brown and others focus on placing the University of California in the national policy context and understanding the UC's diversity and mission. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4603 101
Re-imagining International Law for a New Politics of Human Rights
Abdulahi An-Na'im focuses on the present difficulties of implementing human rights due to the conceptual and structural limitations of state-centric traditional international law. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4595
Who Determines What Becomes of History? A Witness' Reflections
George Wittenstein, already a member of the German armed forces, escaped apprehension by the Gestapo by volunteering to serve on the front line—the only place the German secret police would have no jurisdiction over him. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4585
From UCSB to Blizzard: Turning Your Passion into Your Success
Paul Sams, chief operating officer for Blizzard Entertainment, talks about entrepreneurial success and online gaming network growth, as well as live-action films. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4586
Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice, & Global Ecologies
Ursula K. Heise, a leader in Environmental Criticism, published Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Evironmental Imagination of the Global on the literature of global environmentality. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4584
Media Coverage & the Election: Did It Make Any Difference?
Jeff Greenfield, CBS senior political correspondent, talked about how the election was covered in the mainstream media, the full-throated emergence of new media, and how "real" events drove the outcome. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4574
Media Humor Was Good for the Presidential Campaign
Bennett & Hart:The Second Debate in the Rupe Conference was entitled: Resolved—Media Humor Was Good for the Presidential Campaign. Lance Bennett of University of Washington and Rod Hart of University of Texas were the presenters. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4573
The Media Played a New Role in Dealing with Race in the Presidential Campaign
Mastro & McAuley:The First Debate in the Rupe Conference was entitled: Resolved—The Media Played a New Role in Dealing with Race in the Presidential Campaign. Dana Mastro of University of Arizona and Christopher McAuley of UC Santa Barbara debated media coverage of race, the campaign and election. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4572
William McDonough, a leading proponent of practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture, speaks on the subject of his book, Cradle to Cradle Design–Creating an Environmentally and Economically Intelligent Future. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4579
Peace, Justice, & Politics on the International Front
Louise Arbour, President of the International Crisis Group, has dedicated her life defending human rights and independent judiciary systems around the globe. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4577
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Steven Greenhouse offers an eye-opening in-depth account of how American companies have squeezed millions of workers by clamping down on wages, cutting benefits, weakening job security and violating wage and hour laws. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4575
Robert Thurman & Pico Iyre, scholar-activists, reflected on the Dalai Lama’s ideas and work as a religious leader, politician, scientist, and philosopher, prior to the Dalai Lama's visit to UC Santa Barbara in April 2009. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4569
El Plan de Santa Barbara: Panel 3
Post-Chicano Movement Faculty Relations: El Plan is considered a foundational document of the historic Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most significant Chicano civil rights movement in U.S. history. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4543-C
El Plan de Santa Barbara: Panel 2
Senior Chicano Studies Faculty Relations: El Plan is considered a foundational document of the historic Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most significant Chicano civil rights movement in U.S. history. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4543-B
El Plan de Santa Barbara: Panel 1
Welcoming Remarks & Panel Discussion: El Plan is considered a foundational document of the historic Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most significant Chicano civil rights movement in U.S. history. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4543-A
Robert Bullard, often called the father of the environmental justice movement, offers scholarship that has distinguished him as a leading expert on environmental justice and race and the environment. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4562
Marian Wright Edelman discusses her newest work The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small – Charting a Course for the Next Generation. This is the Centennial Lecture of the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4556
The Gamble: General David Petraeus & the
American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006-2008
Tom Ricks is The Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent, who has covered the U.S. military since 2000. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4555
Torture and the Law: Can U.S. Officials Be Held Accountable
Scott Horton & Stuart Taylor, two legal minds, together engaged in a compelling debate about the consequences of violating laws prohibiting torture. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4554
Living Democracy, Feeding Hope
Francis Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet, changed the way the world thinks about food; now she wants to change the way it thinks about democracy. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4552
Now It’s Personal . . .
Solving Our Energy, Climate Change & Economic Crisis.
Ed Mazria, An award-winning architect, believes it is possible to achieve energy independence, solve climate change and revitalize the United States’ economy with a single solution. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4551
Culture & Nature: Building Collaboration at El Pilar
Anabel Ford, Director of the MesoAmerican Research Center, is an archaeologist, who helped launch the El Pilar Peace Park Initiative in Guatemala. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4532
Will Steger, the fourth person ever to reach both poles, is known by many titles—educator, activist, photographer, and former Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4545
Thought for Food: Literature and Gastonomy
Ronald W. Tobin, Associate Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara, adopted a multidisciplinary approach called gastro-criticism that draws upon anthropology, sociology, semiotics, history, and literary studies, as he elucidated the role of food, service, spectacle, diet, ingestion, and digestion in a number of works from a variety of national literatures. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4544
Junko Kayashige & Miyako Yano tell of the World’s First Atomic Attack. Both of these hibakusha are women, and both are survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4537
25th Annual Evening for Peace is a special night of awards and acceptance speeches at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4523
A Conversation with Saad Ibrahim
Saad Ibrahim is an Egyptian sociologist and author and one of Egypt's leading human rights and democracy activists. He is credited for playing a leading role in the revival of Egypt's contemporary research-based civil society movement. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4522
A Conversation with Ainslie Embree
Ainslie Embree is currently a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University in New York. He is a leading scholar of India, principally interested in the topics of religion and nationalism, human rights, and ethnic conflict. ~ Order Catalog No.: 4521
