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The Walter H. Capps Center will host three members of the Spiritual Care Team at Santa Barbara Cottage Health for a discussion on professional spiritual care. They will explore what spiritual care entails, its psychologically informed model, and its significance. Kathleen M. Moore, Director of UCSB's Health Humanities Initiative and Professor of Religious Studies, will moderate the discussion.

This talk will explore Taiwan Travelogue and its use of the Showa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour as a storytelling framework, highlighting the novel’s early inspirations and development. The discussion will feature authors Yáng Shuāng-zi and Lin King.

Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, will discuss the importance of teaching Black history and how studying the past helps us understand present-day inequalities. He will also explore how this knowledge can guide us toward a better future, drawing inspiration from the wisdom of those who came before us.

This annual program explores the archiving of anonymous labor in film history, from the silent era to 1970s political cinema. Curators Maggie Hennefeld and Michelle Baroody will join moderator Patrice Petro, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, to discuss films like When a Film Cutter Dawdles and Cowboy, as well as their curation process

Michael Cooperson, UCLA professor of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, will discuss his approach to rewriting Arabic literary history, which equally values all periods and regions while emphasizing reception and translation.