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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.

“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention” is a rallying cry in social justice circles. Indeed, there is plenty to be outraged about – income inequality, police use of force, lack of health care, treatment of refugees, violence against transgender people, to name a few. When is outrage beneficial, and what toll does it take? Can science guide social justice advocates to harness outrage effectively?

Like today’s Movement for Black Lives, the 1960s Black Power movement was a critical moment when radical ideas suddenly took hold and unprecedented opportunities emerged for transformational change. While today’s activists look to the Black Panther Party for inspiration and lessons, the focus is almost entirely on the BPP during the organization’s existence. But in the intervening 38 years since the Party ended, how has the BPP continued to shape the movements for Black survival and Black liberation?

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2019) concludes a trilogy of films that began with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and continued with Watermark (2013). The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly ten years of analysis and investigation, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.

The event will include photographs, a selection of the facsimile volumes, and refreshments. This innovative archival deep dive was made possible by the Arnhold Collaborative Research Project Grant.

Time: 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020

Location: UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 (1st floor, Mountain Side)

UCSB Library: (805) 893-2478

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Event URL: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/william-faulkner-exposing-creative-secrets-author%E2%80%99s-archive

Climate justice frames climate change as a civil rights issue in addition to an environmental issue. In Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, UCSB Reads 2020 author Elizabeth Rush combines rigorous reporting and lyrical storytelling to depict the impact of sea level rise in the United States and demonstrates how race, class, national origin, and income levels further exacerbate vulnerability to rising seas.

In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020 UCSB Library presents a talk by Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, to be followed by a public reception.

The UCSB Library is pleased to present the exhibition Eunice Foote to UCSB: A Story of Women, Science and Climate Change. Eunice Foote was an early American feminist, inventor, and ground-breaking scientist. Despite these achievements, few have heard of Foote. This UCSB Library exhibition will draw on research to illustrate Foote’s contributions to climate science and feminism and connect her legacy to the contributions of faculty at UCSB who study climate change.

A talk-and-record-listening event by researcher and record producer Ian Nagoski of Canary Records.

At the height of immigration to the United States 100 years ago, a wave of people from the collapsing Ottoman Empire settled in the U.S. At the same time, the New York City record industry documented and distributed music by performers from present-day Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Lebanon, and Egypt. And then, for a half-century, those recordings were neglected. Who were these musicians? Where did they go? How did their work affect America?