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UCSB Reads 2022 Author Talk: Ted Chiang
UCSB Library is thrilled to present Ted Chiang, UCSB Reads 2022 author of Exhalation: Stories for a free community talk at UCSB Campbell Hall. This event will be moderated by Melody Jue, Associate Professor of English.
The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril
On Tuesday, April 19th, at 4pm, the UCSB Library presents a Pacific Views Series Talk by Roland Geyer, Professor of Industrial Ecology. This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on the UCSB Library Facebook page so you can watch along with us.
How Quantum Mechanics Affects Our Lives: A Panel Discussion
Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.
Moderated by Erik Lucero, Lead Quantum Engineer, Google Santa Barbara.
Event is free and open to the public. Questions about this event can be sent to outreach@library.ucsb.edu.
More information at: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/how-quantum-mechanics-affects-our-lives-panel-discussion
Untangling Entanglement & Other Quantum Ideas
In the final story in this year’s UCSB Reads book Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang, quantum computers allow people to explore divergent timelines. At UCSB, scientists are working on developing real quantum computers that do not allow for divergent timelines, but will help address pressing problems such as optimizing delivery routes and strengthening password encryption.
Relive the 1890s with Hancock's California Orchestra
Thursday, April 7, 2022
5:00 PM PT Catered Reception
5:30 PM PT Event
UCSB Library Special Research Collections | Mountain Side, 3rd Floor
*Free campus parking will be available.
In-person registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9D84XXKcsMDsfCtJ8sh96QOUaKI7vCHVYmL8tvL5UfY_4IQ/viewform
Virtual registration: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_43PwKTQlQ3Gl9Hqhg2g9lA
The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril
The UCSB Library presents a Pacific Views Series Talk by Roland Geyer, Professor of Industrial Ecology. This event is free and open to the public, and will be held in the UCSB Library's Pacific View Room.
The Greater Common Good
UCSB Library is pleased to present The Greater Common Good, a new work by Sa’dia Rehman in charcoal, graphite, ink, carbon paper, silver leaf, and black thread. The event will be held at the Art and Architecture section in the UCSB Library.
In her art practice, Sa’dia Rehman pulls apart and puts together family photographs, historical records, and mass media. She draws on Islamic art and architecture, and the contemporary art of Asian and African diasporas, to situate her individual history within larger historical processes.
UCSB Reads Exhibition Opening: Picture This: From Text to Image
Picture This: From Text to Image is an exhibition of paintings by student artists responding creatively to the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang. The event will include light refreshments and remarks by several students in Professor Jane Callister's winter Art 100: Intermediate Contemporary Painting Issues course. There will be an opportunity to view the paintings on display in the adjacent Library Learning Commons.
The event will take place at the UCSB Library's Mountain Courtyard.
Exhibition Event: A Call to Action
Since March of 2020, we have been challenged and reshaped -- as a community and individuals -- by our experiences living through the COVID-19 pandemic and renewal of abolitionist and anti-racist activist movements. Amidst the shift to remote learning and working, UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections initiated two ongoing projects: the Santa Barbara Black Lives Matter Community Archives and the COVID-19 Community Archives.
What is Responsible AI?
This talk is in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang, a collection of short stories that addresses essential questions about human and computer interaction, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Scientific Body of Knowledge - Whose Body Does it Serve? A Spotlight on Women's Brain Health
This event is free and open to the public. Please see campus COVID-19 guidelines here. If you are unable to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on the UCSB Library Facebook page so you can watch along with us.
A Pacific Views Series talk by Emily Goard Jacobs, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB. Co-sponsored by The Feminist Futures Initiative at UCSB.
A Call to Action: Documenting Santa Barbara’s Art & Activism
Since March of 2020, we have been challenged and reshaped -- as a community and individuals -- by our experiences living through the COVID-19 pandemic and renewal of abolitionist and anti-racist activist movements. Amidst the shift to remote learning and working, UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections initiated two ongoing projects: the Santa Barbara Black Lives Matter Community Archives and the COVID-19 Community Archives.
Postcards from Salinas: Filipino Americans on the Central Coast
Please join us for a virtual conversation about the history and contributions of Filipino Americans on the Central Coast. This event is in conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition Postcards from Salinas, on display in the Library's Ocean Gallery beginning October 1, 2021.
Panelists will include Alex Fabros, Jr. curator of the exhibition, Benjamin Zuleta (UCSB Asian American Studies), and Grace Yeh (Ethnic Studies, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo). Paul Spickard (UCSB History) will moderate the discussion.
How Media Representations of Minorities Empower Collective Action Efforts: A UCSB Reads Panel Discussion
Media representations of minorities, and how they’re shared in our society in the news, media, and social media can adversely affect how minorities see themselves and how others perceive them.
Despite these challenges, continued and unjust disadvantages are known to empower collective action efforts within minority groups and solidarity efforts within advantaged groups to correct the image and position of disadvantaged groups in society.
UCSB Reads Zine Workshop
Join UCSB Library for the annual UCSB Reads Zine workshop, now virtual, no experience necessary! Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published, DIY collections of photos and text that are printed by hand or photocopied, and independently distributed by the author or ‘zinester.’
Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California’s Carbon Markets
There is mounting evidence that economically disadvantaged and racial minority communities bear a greater share of environmental harms. This systematic pattern can be found across the world and over time. In California, existing large disparities in pollution exposure underlie many environmental justice concerns.
Prohibition, Pandemics, & Pinot Noir: A UCSB Library Screening & Discussion
Pour a glass of wine and join the UCSB Library for a screening of America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition, a documentary that offers an unprecedented overview of the legacy of National Prohibition and its continuing impact on the wine industry. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion diving into Prohibition’s effects on the Santa Barbara wine industry, how the current pandemic is actively remodeling its landscape and the Library’s role in preserving our local viticulture history.
UCSB Reads Zine Workshop
Event is free and open to the public. A Zoom link and password will be emailed on February 22nd to all registered attendees. You can register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_gcQdQQYvcQNhmAPTRjGYdVGKKhjxoIAqZS_OhN8gR3ojZQ/viewform
Art & Activism: A Talk with Book Artist and Printmaker Tia Blassingame
Register here: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NcVCWAirSNWg6yGo6JNlxw
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2021, UCSB Library presents a talk by Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of race, history, and perception. The talk will be followed by audience Q&A moderated by Iman Djouini, Assistant Teaching Professor in College of Creative Studies and UCSB Department of Art.
Author Sameer Pandya in conversation with Terence Keel: A UCSB Reads 2021 Event
Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness. Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian-American Studies.
Sameer Pandya is Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies and author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship.