Walter H. Capps Center

The Walter H. Capps Center exists to advance conversation on major public issues in a non-partisan, non-sectarian manner to cultivate an informed public.

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🚨 See you at 1pm (PST) on Zoom! Link in bio. 🚨

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Join us Thursday, May 28 (on Zoom) for Susannah Crockford on “Global Spirituality in Digital Media and Popular Culture.” The talk will consider the varied online and offline routes that link people and places around the world through shared spiritual networks

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Join us Thursday, May 7 at 4PM for J. Shawn Landres on “Disciplining the Line: Religious Studies and Artificial Intelligence.”

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Join us Wednesday, May 6 for Omri Elisha on “What Do Planets Feel Like?: Metaphysics and Metaphors of Presence in Modern Astrology.”

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See our website for event details and the Zoom Webinar link. Link and all other info available on our website.

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Join us Thursday, May 28 (on Zoom) for Susannah Crockford on “Global Spirituality in Digital Media and Popular Culture.” The talk will consider the varied online and offline routes that link people and places around the world through shared spiritual networks

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This event is co-presented with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (@templetonfoundation) as part of a nine-lecture series on contemporary metaphysical spirituality.

🕐: May 28, 1PM
📍: ZOOM Webinar (link in bio, under “events”)
💲: Free

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Today is Give Day at UCSB!

Please consider giving to the Capps Center today as we work to provide free, public events on ethics, religion, and public life. 💫 https://t.co/LJOJQsI5pp

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Support the Capps Center on #UCSBGiveDay!

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Join us Thursday, April 9 for Sam Gill on “Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action.”
🕐: April 9, 5PM
📍: Henley Hall, Lecture Hall
💲: Free
See our website for event details. Link in bio.

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foster a unique space where the university and the community come together to tackle profound questions of identity, values, and the public good.

To give, please visit: https://t.co/LJOJQsI5pp

Thank you for your commitment to our mission and to the UC Santa Barbara community!

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Support the Capps Center on #UCSBGiveDay!

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help shape the future of our campus.

Your support directly empowers us to: host world-class speakers and public forums on the most pressing issues of our time; to provide internships and research opportunities that prepare students to become engaged, ethical citizens; and to..

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As the project unfolds it will include a range of opportunities for community engagement and public participation. Stay tuned for more information about this exciting project.

Read more about the project: https://t.co/bbRsxmwIm2

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We are proud to announce our long-term work on repatriation at UCSB and beyond has received a major boost by way of five-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. @HLuceFdn

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We will travel as a team to various communities, listening to, learning from, and supporting repatriation practitioners seeking to bring home their ancestors and sacred objects.

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… making it all the more consequential that the discipline is losing faculty lines faster than any other field in the humanities.

🕐: May 7, 4PM
📍: HSSB, room 3024
💲: Free

See our website for event details. Link in bio.

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Join us Thursday, May 7 at 4PM for J. Shawn Landres on “Disciplining the Line: Religious Studies and Artificial Intelligence.”

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In this talk, Landres will argue that Religious Studies provides much of the epistemological infrastructure the humanities needs to govern AI-assisted scholarly production …