Latest Past Events

Oppenheim Lecture: Pole to Pole: A Global Warning

Related event, hosted by UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES):An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Sebastian Copeland, award-winning photographer, explorer, and environmental advocate Wednesday, October 24, 20126:00 PM - 8:30 PMUCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Los Angeles, CA 90095 Reservations are required. Further information available at UCLA IoES.

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: The Contradictions of Capital

The conventional Marxist argument about capitalism has been that it will break up under the force of its own contractions. But just what are the 21st century versions of this argument? David Harvey identifies 17 contradictions and clarifies their relationship with post-2007 instability.

One Day Everything Will Be Free

The student-run Geography Association, sponsored by UCLA Geography and UCLA IoES, screens One Day Everything Will Be Free. "One Day, Everything Will Be Free" is a feature-length documentary about an ecological restoration project run by a utopian community located in one of the world’s most politically complicated and environmentally degraded terrains—in an area referred to locally as "the […]