Senator George J. Mitchell Making Peace Monday, January 24 / 8 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell has led passage of legislation to support child care, clean air, education and services for the disabled. He is the U.S. mediator for peace negotiations in Northern Ireland which resulted in a historic peace accord. His book Making Peace is an account of his experiences in Northern Ireland. Students: $6. General: $8. Tickets in advance and at the door beginning at 7 p.m. Presented with the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Global Peace and Security Program, and Global and International Studies Program as part of the lectures series Global Peace, Security and Human Rights: The Next Millennium.

Tim Miller Glory Box—A Performance Monday, February 14 / 8 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall In a series of comic and provocative episodes, performance artist Tim Miller struggles to keep his Australian lover in the United States. A sexy and charged exploration of the challenges of love, marriage and immigration rights for gay people. Students: $5. General: $8. Tickets in advance and at the door, beginning at 7 p.m. Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center with support from UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Queer Resource Center.

The Best of the 24th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival Friday, February 25 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Cinematic adrenaline rushes and outdoor adventure, plus some of the most beautiful films on wildlife and mountain culture. Highlights include films about Inuit wisdom, climbing the Dolomites and South Africa’s Western Cape, extreme skiing in Alaska, paragliding in Nepal and BASE jumping. TICKETS ON SALE NOW. Buy early. Last year’s Banff Festival sold out and many were turned away at the door. Students: $7. General: $12. Tickets in advance and at the door, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Presented with Eagle Creek Travel Gear and UCSB Adventure Programs.

Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Hartman Flacks The Life, Vision and Artistic Work of Roman Vishniac Monday, February 28 / 8 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall / Free One of the world’s foremost photographers of microscopic life, Roman Vishniac also captured on film the life, culture and richness of Jewish Eastern Europe in the 1930s. His daughter Mara Kohn and Miriam Flacks offer a retrospective of Vishniac’s diverse, beautiful and compelling images. The two women collaborated on Children of a Vanished World, a book based on Vishniac’s images of children in the shtetl. Presented with the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Department of Religious Studies and Hillel as part of the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Symposia in Jewish Studies.

The UCSB Bookstore will have copies of the authors’ books for purchase and signing at these events.