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What Hope Do We Have? Searching in the Small Moments of Everyday Communication

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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, …

Ethical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short? A Pacific Views Lecture by Haewon Jeong

UCSB Library: Pacific View Room UCSB Library, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

UCSB Library is pleased to present Haewon Jeong (Electrical and Computer Engineering) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2025. In her talk "Ethical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short?", Jeong will explore the ethical considerations surrounding the development and deployment of AI technologies, discussing how we can ensure that these systems are designed to benefit …

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Wild Life: How Personal Journeys Can Transform Our Roles in Environmental Science

UCSB Library: Pacific View Room UCSB Library, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

UCSB Library is pleased to present Rae Wynn-Grant, an affiliated researcher with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, as the spring speaker in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series. Wynn-Grant is a wildlife ecologist with an expertise in uncovering how human activity influences carnivore behavior and ecology. She received her BS in environmental studies from Emory …

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Public Art and Campus Placemaking: Recentering the Artist in Communities of Practice

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UCSB Library is pleased to present Kim Yasuda (Art) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2024.Through her own place-based, public research and teaching, and drawing on the UCSB Reads 2024 book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, Yasuda makes a compelling case for the untapped potential of the arts to …

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A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency, the Transformation of American Capitalism, and American Labor Today

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UCSB Library is pleased to present Nelson Lichtenstein in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2023. Lichtenstein will speak about his new book A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism, published September 12, 2023, by Princeton University Press. Chaucer's Books will sell copies of the book before and …

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