Fall 2018
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Sunday, September 23
2:00 pm |
Professor Elizabeth Perez,
Department of Religious Studies, UCSB What's Cooking Now in the Study of Food and Religion Drawing from her award-winning ethnography Religion in the Kitchen, Elizabeth Pérez discusses cooking for the gods and ancestors in Afro-Caribbean religions like Haitian Vodou and Brazilian Candomblé. She argues that the process of learning to feed the spirits has profoundly shaped the historical development of African traditions in the Americas. She also shares insights about race, gender, and sexuality to be gained by taking food off of the "back burner" in religious studies. |
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Sunday, October 21
2:00 pm |
Professor Philip Lubin, Physics Department, UCSB
Enabling the First Interstellar Missions with Directed Energy for Relativistic Propulsion To reach the nearest stars in a reasonable time requires a new type of propulsion and a new type of spacecraft. Professor Lubin will describe, in nontechnical language, how we can use high-powered lasers to propel tiny wafer-like spacecraft to speeds up to a quarter the speed of light. Swarms of such spacecraft could reach the nearest stars in about 20 years and send back valuable information. Future developments may propel even larger spacecraft to relativistic speeds. |
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Sunday, December 2
2:00 pm |
Dr. Robert Harbaugh, M.D.
What Not to Forget About Dementia: An Update on a Growing Epidemic This presentation will provide an update focused upon not only basic concepts relevant to the “dementias” and the impending dementia “tsunami,” but also touch upon some of the latest thinking about the underlying causes of dementia. In addition, we will discuss the latest information about disease modifying efforts as well as basic medical management currently in use. |
All programs take place in the multi-purpose room of the Goleta Valley Library.
They are free of charge and open to all. Donations welcomed!
Please park in the upper lot of the Church of Christian Science, next door to the library. No RVs please.