Upcoming Events
Wednesday, October 28 / 4:00 p.m.
Fact or Fiction: Women, the Vatican, and Religion
Sarah Dunant, international bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan whose carefully researched historical fiction provides a compelling window on Catholic life in sixteenth-century Italy, discusses her latest novel Sacred Hearts.
Free and Followed by Reception
McCune Conference Room,
6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Thursday, November 12 / 7:00 p.m.
Galileo, the Universe, and God Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara
This multidisciplinary event is a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's astronomical discoveries with the telescope, which changed our view of the universe forever.
This event will feature a scene from Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo performed by UCSB Department of Theater and Dance and directed by Irwin Appel (Department of Theater and Dance). It will followed by presentations by UCSB faculty members W. Patrick McCray (Department of History), Jon Snyder (Department of French and Italian), Tommaso Treu (Department of Physics), Stefania Tutino (Departments of Religious Studies and History), and Robert Williams (Department of the History of Art and Architecture).
Future Events
To be announced.
Past Events
Monday, November 17, 8:00p.m., Campbell Hall
Hans Kü, "Global Ethics and the World's Religions"
View .pdf flyer for details.
Tuesday, November 18, 4:00p.m. -- A Conversation with Hans Küng, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof, "Religion, Globalization, and the Public Sphere: Paths to Dialogue or Confrontation?", McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
"Learning from The Exorcist"
View .pdf flyer for details.
May 21, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
William A. Christian, Jr. (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"The Eyes of the Beholders: Spanish and Central European Visions of the Christ of Limpias, 1919-1936"
View .pdf flyer for details.
March 10, 2008
"Church, Sex and the Public Sphere: Italy and the United States."
Join scholars from Italy and the United States for this one-day conference.
Free and open to the public.
View conference website for details.
February 27, 2008
Peter Lake, Princeton University
"Buckingham Does the Globe: Shakespeare's Henry VIII and the Origins of the Personal Rule of Charles I"
View .pdf flyer for details.
February 17, 2008
Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J., Conference Director, Jesuit Secretariat for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome, Italy; Ecumenical Secretary, Federation of Asian Bishops Conference
"At the Convergence of Two Oceans: Issues in Catholic-Muslim Relations"
View .pdf flyer for details.
May 22, 2007
Bernard McGinn, U. of Chicago Divinity School (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"The Venture of Mysticism in the New Millennium"
May 3-4, 2007
Workshop: "Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions, the Arts, and Cognitive Neuroscience"
February 28, 2007
Peter Phan, Georgetown University
"Is Christianity a Western Religion? A View from Asian Catholicism"
View .pdf flyer
February 7, 2007
John Allen
"The Upside Down Church: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in
the 21st Century"
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May 31, 2006
Thomas Mayer, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
"Trying Galileo"
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May 4-5, 2006
Conference: "The Catholic Church as Global Actor"
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May 4, 2006
Thomas J. Reese, S.J., America magazine
"The Catholic Church as Global Actor"
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April 18, 2006
Daniel Bornstein (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"At Home in the Parish: Priests and their Families in Medieval Italy" (Annual
Tipton Lecture)
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