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Past Faculty Research Lectures 1967 to Present

2023	J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves	Research Directions on Communication Protocols for Intelligent Information Infrastructures
2021	Jennifer González	Silent Speech, Migratory Gesture
2020	Terrie Williams	Touching Extinction: A Wildlife Conservation Love Story
2019	Lise Getoor	Responsible Data Science
2018	Carl Walsh	From the Great Inflation to the Great Recession and Beyond: The Interplay of Monetary Theory and Policy
2017	Sandra Chung	"Language Through the Lens of Diversity"
2016	Susan Strome	"Beyond the DNA Code: Transmission of Developmental Instructions from Parents to Offspring"
2015	Craig Haney	"PrisonWorld: How Mass Incarceration Transformed U.S. Prisions, Impacted Prisoners, And Changed American Society"
2014	Howard Haber and Abraham Seiden	"The Higgs Boson Unleashed"
2013	Gail Hershatter	"Rural Women, Memory, and China's Collective Past"
2012	Steve Vogt	"Across a Sea of Stars: Charting Distant Worlds, Other Earths"
2011	Paul Whitworth	"To Be...and...Not to Be"
2010	Daniel Friedman	"Beyond Fear and Greed: The Moral Roots of Financial Crises"
2009	Patricia Zavella	"Migration and Proverty in Santa Cruz County"
2008	Stanford E. Woosley	"Children of the Stars: How the Violent Death of Stars Creates Conditions for Life in the Universe"
2007	Geoffrey K. Pullum	*"Who Pays Attention to the Syntax of Things"*
2006	Nathaniel Mackey	*"Cante Moro"*
2005	Mary Silver	*"A Naturalist's View: Toxic Algae in the Coastal Ocean"*
2004	Barbara Rogoff	*"Learning Through Intent Participation in Cultural Activity"*
2003	Jonathan Beecher	*"Two Concepts of Utopia"*
2002	David Haussler	*"A Working Draft of the Human Genome"*
2001	James Clifford	*Ishi’s Story: History, Anthropology, and the Future of Native California*
2000	David S. Kliger	*Making Light Work of Biology: Using Lasers to Understand Biomolecules*
1999	David Cope	*Experiments in Musical Intelligence*
1998	Adrienne Zihlman	*An Anthropologist on Venus*
1997	Donald E. Osterbrock	*Active Galactic Nuclei: Lighthouses in the Universe*
1996	Donna J. Haraway	*FemaleMan(c) Meets OncoMouse(tm): A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts*
1995	Harry F. Noller	*Exploring Ribosomal RNA: The Heart of an Ancient Molecular Machine*
1994	G. William Domhoff	*Do Night Dreams have Meaning and Why are the Corporate Rich So Powerful?"*
1993	Jack Zajac	*Falling Water (an exhibit of his bronze sculptures and discussion of his work)*
1992	Audrey Stanley	*Waiting For...The Muses: An Exploration of The Arts*
1991	Harry Berger, Jr	*Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives of the Artists and The Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship*
1990	Sandra M. Faber	*The Giant New Keck Telescope: Earth's Largest Time Machine*
1989	Thomas F. Pettigrew	*The Nature of Modern Racism in The United States*
1988	Gerhard Ringel	*Problems with Empires--from Recreation to Research in Mathematics*
1987	Jean H. Langenheim	*Amber and Banana Slugs: Plant Chemical Defense in the Tropics and Redwoods*
1986	Richard A. Wasserstrom	*The Attack on Programs of Preferential Treatment: A Critical Assessment"*
1985	Kenneth S. Norris	*The Dolphin Connection*
1984	Hayden White	*The History of Consciousness*
1983	Frank X. Barron	*Personal Philosophy and Creative Thinking about Nuclear Warfare Contingencies*
1982	Robert E. Garrison	*Paleoceanography: A Science of Vanished Oceans and Earth Resources*
1981	Robert P. Kraft	*The Chemical Composition of the Oldest Stars--A Project for the Ten Meter Telescope*
1980	John A. Marcum	*South Africa, Higher Education and the United States: A Policy Statement*
1979	C. L. Barber	*The Family, Sacredness and Violence in Shakespeare's Tragedy and Romance*
1978	Norman O. Brown	*The Legend of Tanaquil*
1977	Harry Beevers	*Probing the Mysteries of the Plant Cell: Through the Xylem Canal with Gun and Camera*
1976	M. Brewster Smith	*Thinking About the Self*
1975	Joseph F. Bunnett	*Boundary Conditions of the Social Sciences and Their Implications*
1974	Albert Hofstadter	*The Scope of Human Liberation*
1973	Aaron C. Waters	*Volcanoes Under the Sea*
1972	Theodore R. Sarbin	*Hypnosis: The Study of Believed-in Imaginings*
1971	Joseph H. Silverman	*The Traditional Balladry of the Sephardic Jews: The History of a Collaborative Research Project*
1970	Kenneth V. Thimann	*Oats, peas, beans and barley grow, Oats, peas, beans and barley grow, Can you or I or anyone know How oats, peas, beans and barley grow?*
1969	Page Smith	*From Masses to Peoplehood: Women, Blacks and Students*
1968	Albert Edward Whitford	*Man's Place in Space and Time*
1967	Maurice Alexander Natanson	*Disenchantment and Transcendence*