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Walter H. Capps Center (Video) — 120 episodes · page 1 of 2
Jonathan Alter: Election 2008
E.J. Dionne - Are America’s Religious Wars Ending?
A Tribute to Walter H. Capps: Scholar Teacher Public Servant
From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction Semiotic Skill and the Authority of AI Chatbots
Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action
Water Wealth and the Ancestral Circular Economy with Kamanamaikalani Beamer
Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment
Righting Wrong When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations with Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba
Repatriation Futures at UCSB and Beyond
Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice
Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism
Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral
From the Reagan Revolution to the Trump Insurrection: The Role of the Religious Imaginary in American Politics
Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred with Philip Gorski
The Value of Public Service
Anti-Asian Hate Racial Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth
Teaching Ethics and Civic Values
Remembering the Vietnam War Class
Democracy is Born in Conversation
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 2)
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 1)
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
Walter Capps and the Value of the Humanities
Grounding Ethics in Clinical Practice
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias
Asian American Activism: Drawing on History Inspiring the Future
Post Roe Frontiers? A Conversation about Legal Medical and Political Mobilizations
Research Ethics: Uncertainty Reproducibility and Truth in Science
Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue
Coming of Age at the End of the World: An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation
Active Shooter Preparedness and Response Training: The Campus Setting
Unfracking the Future through Developing Civic Technoscience
The Trump Administration and North Korea
Free Speech on Campus: The 2018 Wade Clark Roof Human Rights Lecture with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman
Strategies for Surviving Negative Emotions in a Time of Augmentation and Polarization
In Conversation With Reza Aslan and Tim Kring
Humanities as a Vocation: Career Paths Beyond the Blackboard
An Evening with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman
Figuring Out What’s Real in an Era of Fake News: Why Journalism Matters Now More Than Ever
It’s Happening Here: American Renewal Ingenuity and Innovation with James Fallows
Make America Empathetic Again: The Challenges of the Next Four Years with E.J. Dionne
The Media's Biased Portrayal of American Muslims
A Canary in the Coal Mine: Muslims in Trump’s America
Food Climate and Hope with Anna Lappe
Politics and Religion in a Changing America
Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus: Why It Matters and How It's Being Threatened
Coming in November: Armageddon Apocalypse or Rapture?- Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life
Islam and Religious Pluralism featuring John Esposito
Marcy Darnovsky: Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?
Carbon Shock: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate-Disrupted Economy with Mark Schapiro
Democratizing Power: Fossil Fuels to 100% Renewables
Morris Dees: With Justice For All in a Changing America
Ethics at the End of a Fork
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Paul Abramson: Sex Sex and More Sex: Ensuring Sexual Rights While Preventing Sexual Harm
Fixing Capitalism’s Deepest Flaws
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors Hackers Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution with Walter Isaacson
Decisions at the End of Life: The Illusion of Control and the Sense of Responsibility with Stewart J. Youngner
Peter Edelman: Ending Poverty in America
Heidi Boghosian: Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Stephen Prothero: God Is Not One
Martina Vandenberg Human Trafficking: Ending the Myths Confronting the Realities
Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission with Rinaldo Brutoco
Saving Babies?: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Hammering the Devil with Prayer: The Contemporary Resurgence of Exorcism in the Catholic Church
Ethics and the Modern Corp: A Conversation with Alex Douglas
Inequality and the 2012 Election
Technology’s Promise Humanity’s Future
It's Time to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans with Mickey Edwards
Jonathan Alter - Why the 2012 Election Is the Most Pivotal of Our Lifetime
Contraception at the Tea Party: The Politics of Women's Health with Linda Gordon
E.J. Dionne Jr. - Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
American Catholics in the Twenty-First Century
Culture War Games: Religion and the 2012 Election
Progressive Religion
Kathleen Sharp on Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
Damned Nations: Ending the Global War Against Women and Children
Nuclear Power: Ethical and Policy Implications
The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Middle East with Shirin Ebadi
Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America
Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws
Life in the Balance: Perspectives on Stem Cell Research
The Future of International Service
International Service: Bringing the World Back Home
An American Dilemma: Obama Afghanistan and Vietnam with George Packer
An Evening with Karen Armstrong: Religion and Secularism
Feminist Leadership in Building Global Community
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World with Vali Nasr
Spirituality and Culture
Everything Must Change: Rediscovering Christian Faith as a Spiritual-Social Movement
Aaron Glantz: The War Comes Home
Henry A. Schimberg
Coming Home: Walter Capps’ Vietnam Class Reunion
Jeffrey Sachs
Faith Informing Politics: Pitfalls and Promise
Alyce Faye Eichelberger
U.S. Intelligence 9/11 and Iraq: A Whistleblower’s Story