“Divine Variations” received the Iris Book Award, an annual prize given to an outstanding work at the intersection of science, religion and technology.
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• Monday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m. Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel discuss Pandya’s recent novel “Members Only,” which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness.
• Tuesday, Jan. 26, 4 p.m. A talk by Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Part of the ongoing series Race to Justice, presented In partnership with UCSB Arts & Lectures.
• Tuesday, Feb. 2, 4 p.m. A talk with book artist and printmaker Tia Blassingame, of Scripps College, whose work explores the intersection of race, history and perception.
• Wednesday, Feb. 10, 12 p.m. The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era, featuring Errol Anthony Henderson of Penn State University. Part of the ongoing series Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues, in partnership with UCSB Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Demonstrating the connection between history, lived experience and the necessity for present-day activism, “When They Call You a Terrorist” is the powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The book is the 2021 selection for UCSB Reads and is both the focus of, and directly related to, multiple events throughout the winter and spring quarters. Free copies are being distributed to students this week at the UCSB Campus Store walkup window, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Black Lives Matter is rooted in the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of the man who shot him. Cullors’ memoir describes her experience as a Black, queer woman in the United States, who was raised in Los Angeles by a single mother. She recounts her experiences with racism in the criminal justice system, as well as the origins of the movement for racial justice that inspired an unprecedented number of protests across the country afte