Leading in an Age of Vulnerability
Tuesday, January 22 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
An internationally acclaimed expert on leadership and power, Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at USC. He has written or edited 26 books, including An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change.
Co-presented with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
General public $6 / UCSB students $5
Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
Monday, January 28 / 8 pm / Corwin Pavilion / Free
An Emmy-nominated correspondent, Darrow has worked for CNN for fifteen years, reporting from numerous world hotspots including Chechnya, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. She was based at CNN’s bureaus in Moscow and London.
Mark Doty
Friday, February 1 / 8 pm / Victoria Hall, 33 W. Victoria St.
A maker of big, risky, fearless poems.
—Pultizer-Prize Winner Philip Levine
Mark Doty, the author of six books of poems, most recently Source, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lambda Literary Award and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
General public $12 / UCSB students $8
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Monday, February 4 / 4 pm / Hatlen Theater / Free
Her voice is a sensual bridge between two world’s. —USA Today
Born in Calcutta, writer and poet Chitra Divakaruni is the author of six books, including The Mistress of Spices and Arranged Marriage, winner of the 1996 American Book Award. Her novel The Vine of Desire has just been published.
Dave Eggers
Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Monday, February 11 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Eggers may end up the voice of a generation. —Village Voice
Author of the memoir that both earns and satirizes its title, Dave Eggers also edits the groundbreaking literary journal McSweeney’s. His readings have attracted notice as unorthodox and engaging performances.
General public $12 / UCSB students $8
History, the Future and the Writer’s Obligation
Wednesday, February 20 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
In the star-studded world of the Latin American novel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a supernova.
—Wall Street Journal
Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and former Peruvian presidential candidate, mixes titillation, truth and fancy in his provocative books, including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Script Writer and The Feast of the Goat. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative Studies.
General public $6 / UCSB students $5
Terry Tempest Williams
Wednesday, February 27 / 7:30 pm / SB Museum of Natural History
Most lyrical and daring of major nature writers. —Booklist
Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family and Place, is a passionate advocate for the preservation of the American Western wilderness. Hailed a visionary by the Utne Reader, Williams’ most recent book is Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert.
Co-presented with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
General public $12 / UCSB students and SBMNH members $8
Ralph Reed and Barry Lynn
God and Country: The Role of Religion in American Public Life
Thursday, February 28 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
A forum featuring Ralph Reed, former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition and Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Moderated by Phillip Hammond, Professor of Religious Studies at UCSB.
General public $10 / UCSB students $5
A Case for the Arts in a Time of Crisis
Thursday, March 7 / 4 pm / Hatlen Theatre / Free
Libby Appel became the first woman Artistic Director of the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1995, after directing at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre and the Goodman Theatre, among others. She is a Regents’ Lecturer in Dramatic Art and Dance.
Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, books by the presenter will be available for purchase and/or signing at the event.