Wednesday, October 2 / 8 pm / MultiCultural Center / Free

Acclaimed dancer/choreographer Jones, co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship winner. His lecture will discuss the exhilarating potential inherent in partnerships between live music and dance.

Wednesday, October 9 / 4 pm / Corwin Pavilion

Author of The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger will read from his essay collection Fire, memorable accounts of life on the edge, including pieces on firefighters in Colorado and Sierra Leone’s murderous diamond trade. Co-presented by the UCSB Bookstore.

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Thursday, October 10 / 7:30 pm / SB Museum of Natural History

Named a “Hero of the Planet” by Time Magazine, ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin is president of the Amazon Conservation Team. His illustrated lecture is developed from his book The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria. Co-presented with the SB Museum of Natural History.

General public $10 / UCSB students and SBMNH members $8

Monday, October 14 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall

Humorist Sandra Tsing Loh is well known for her droll work on NPR, her one-woman show Aliens in America, and her books, including A Year in Van Nuys. Her satiric wit skewers LA, midlife crises and middlebrow culture.

General public $15 / UCSB students $10

Monday, October 21 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall

At 26, Joby Ogwyn became the youngest climber ever to scale each continent’s highest peak. His illustrated lecture will regale the audience with his sensational adventures, including scaling Mt. Everest.

General public $12 / UCSB students $8

Friday, October 25 / 8 pm / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall

In 1971 Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. This lecture presents the inside account of how and why Ellsberg helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency.

General public $12 / UCSB students $8

Monday, November 4 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall

Award-winning Magnum photographer Steve McCurry circles the globe to make his moving photo-reports, including the compelling portrait, “The Afghan Girl.” His illustrated lecture reveals his methods and motives. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative Studies. Co-presented with Brooks Institute of Photography.

General public $12 / UCSB & Brooks Institute students $8

Sunday, November 24 / 2 pm / Campbell Hall / Free

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has written the bestsellers The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Wonder Boys. His work is noted for sparkling intelligence, rich imagination, ambitious plots and consummate wordplay. 39th Annual Edwin & Jean Corle Memorial Lecture.

Sunday, December 8 / 3 pm / UCSB Corwin Pavilion / Free (note new date, time and place)

New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, will discuss humanitarianism from the perspective of a writer who reports on morally charged international political conflicts.