Events around Santa Barbara
Join us for a conversation between long-time local activist and author Jane Honikman and historian Rachel Louise Moran (University of North Texas) on postpartum depression and parental mental health. This event celebrates the establishment of the Jane Honikman Papers at UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections and the publication of Moran’s new book, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, which draws …
RSVP here. Join us for UCSB Library's Inaugural Kenneth Karmiole Annual Lecture series in Religion in American Life featuring Dr. J. Gordon Melton. In 1968, Melton founded the Institute for the Study of American Religion and then donated the research library to UC Santa Barbara in 1985 providing the foundation for the American Religion Collection. Melton will shed …
Please register in advance. Join UCSB Reads and Goleta Valley Library for an afternoon of poetry readings in celebration of National Poetry Month! The event will kick off with a reading by local poet and UCSB Professor Emerita Shirley Geok-Lin Lim of one of her favorite poems. Afterward, other participants will read their selected poems to the audience. How to participate? Please complete this …
Ross Gay, the author of the UCSB Reads 2025 book The Book of Delights: Essays will present a free, public talk in UCSB’s Campbell Hall, followed by Q&A and a book signing. This event is presented by UCSB Library in partnership with UCSB Arts & Lectures. This event is free but advance registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is required. …
Please register in advance. Join us for a virtual lecture by the 2024 Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellow, Pete Johnson, who used primary sources materials from the Library's Special Research Collections in support of his dissertation research at University of Texas, Austin. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, independent television producers pioneered financial and production models that laid the …
UCSB Library presents an art installation by artist Elena Yu, exploring histories of the Ethnic and Gender Studies Collection (EGSC) and space in celebration of its 30th anniversary. In Fall 2023, Yu was invited to create artworks in response to the history of the EGSC. The artist was drawn to two untouched back rooms - …
UCSB Library is pleased to present Andy Merolla (Communication) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2025. In his talk “What Hope Do We Have? Searching in the Small Moments of Everyday Communication,” Merolla will examine how hope—as well as the social connection underlying it—is constructed through social interaction. This includes interaction with loved ones, …
This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far …
Join us for a lecture by Nicholas van Hoogstraten, author of Broadway Poster Art: 1945–1969 (Schiffer Publishing, 2024). Van Hoogstraten will explore the vibrant advertising art of Broadway’s golden age, sharing behind-the-scenes stories of designers, illustrators, and photographers, along with rare and alternate poster designs and artist progressions. The lecture complements the exhibition Broadway Posters from the Golden …
UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition, an exhibition documenting the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters Robinson, whose seminal scholarship and activism had wide-ranging influence at UCSB, in academia, and across many public arenas. The event features a reception …
UCSB Library is pleased to present Heejung Kim (Psychological and Brain Sciences) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2026. In her talk, “Culture and Social Support: Implications for Health and Well-Being,” she explores how relationships lie at the heart of human life, strongly influencing our health and well-being. Yet what counts as a “good …
Join us for the launch of UCSB Library’s new speaker series AI in Action Conversations with UCSB Researchers. The event features short presentations by Tobias Fischer (Director, Earth Research Institute), Ben Halpern (Executive Director, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) and Rebecca Vega Thurber (Director, Marine Science Institute) on innovative applications of AI in their …
Celebrate Douglass Day and Black History Month by participating in a national transcribe-a-thon. You’ll learn how to bring 19th century Black history to life by transforming digitized documents from the Colored Conventions Project into legible text. This groundbreaking archive documents how nineteenth-century African Americans organized around critical issues such as voting rights, citizenship, education, labor, racial equality, …
This collaborative exhibition celebrates the intersection of art and environmental stewardship, highlighting the efforts of the Oak Group, the UCSB Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration, and Coal Oil Point Reserve to conserve the Devereux Slough. Art in Service of the Land invites viewers to explore how art documents, interprets, and amplifies the ongoing …
This collaborative exhibition celebrates the intersection of art and environmental stewardship, highlighting the efforts of the Oak Group, the UCSB Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration, and Coal Oil …