The Power of Talk,
from High Sources
A&L Brings an Impressive Speaker Series
to Santa Barbara
By Josef Woodard | September 14, 2023
Read more of the Fall Arts & Lectures preview here.
The “lectures” component of the UCSB Arts & Lectures program is an impressive ingredient in the dual equation, which sometimes requires the big house of the Arlington or the Granada when the on-campus home base of Campbell Hall isn’t sufficient for the audience demand.
This season, lectures are organized loosely into categories. “Word of Mouth,” dealing with relevant current topics and areas of global interest, features a list of writers, including historian Jill Lepore (Oct. 24) and psychologist and professor Adam Grant — whose new book is the on-demand Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, popular enough to warrant his appearance at the Arlington Theatre on November 16. Nicholas Thompson (high-ranking positions with The Atlantic and Wired) and Nita Farahany (The Battle for Your Brain) team up to address the AI elephant in humanity’s room on January 31, 2024. On April 24, Pulitzer Prize–winning Evan Osnos discusses U.S.–China relations.
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