Public Programming at UCSB Library: Talks & Panel Discussions

Emily Goard Jacobs, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB examines critical ways in which progress in women’s health has stalled from the lack of female representation in biomedicine, including neuroscience. She'll end by highlighting emerging research programs, public policy changes, and private sector funding opportunities that position the female body as equal to the male, and by doing so are opening up new frontiers for understanding health and disease.

In their Pacific View talk, Kyle Meng and Danae Hernandez-Cortes will share what they learned when they examined what happened to such inequalities following the introduction of California's greenhouse gas emissions trading program, the world's second largest carbon market. Finding that the program narrowed local air pollution disparities between disadvantaged and other communities, Meng and Hernandez-Cortes will discuss implications and limitations of these findings in other settings where environmental injustices meet environmental markets.

Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis draw from their new book, Black Power Afterlives, to discuss the multifaceted arenas in which Black Panther activism continues on

This lecture examines the people, pedagogy, and practices of the Highlander Research and Education Center and considers how education might foster community leadership and multi-issue struggles for justice.

Leah Stokes discusses her forthcoming book and connects it to the UCSB Reads "Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore".

The Amazon rainforest is a land of incredible biological and cultural diversity that plays a crucial role in global environment health. Yet the rainforest continues to be cut down. Drawing on a decade of his anthropological research, Hoelle discusses the beliefs, values, and interests that contribute to destructive behaviors.

Radio Frequency signals are everywhere these days. Can they be used for sensing? Do they carry useful information about the objects they visit? Mostofi discussed her latest results to achieve these goals and shows that it is possible to achieve x-ray vision with only WiFi signals and drones, and image details through thick concrete walls.

This lecture examined the recent outpouring of protest activity since the election of Donald Trump. What does social science research tell us about the conditions under which protest influences political outcomes? What does this mean for the protest activity in the present era?

George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, explores research by late UCSB Professor Cedric Robinson, who focused on the collective intelligence gathered from struggle as key to Black survival, humanity, and democracy.

Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Hofmann discusses her research showing that rising levels of carbon in Antarctic waters threatens the Antarctic food chain.

Contemporary science fiction is fascinated with suicide. What does suicidal crisis mean in recent sci-fi films and texts?

This talk describes the evolution of malware, and describes research in fighting this ever-changing threat, focusing in particular on the detection of evasive behavior.

More than one-half of wild animal life on the planet has been lost in the last 40 years. These rates of decline are accelerating.This presentation explores research that suggests these losses are likely to have profound and often negative impacts on basic functions of ecosystems and the societies that depend on them.