Thematic Learning Initiative Event
The Last Class
Documentary Screening and Filmmaker Q&A
| Thu, Oct 9 | 7:00 PM | |
| Campbell Hall |
A love letter to education, The Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of former labor secretary Robert Reich as he teaches his final course and reflects on a period of immense personal and global transformation. Step into the mind, heart and classroom of a teacher who will change how you see the world, and yourself in it. (Elliot Kirschner, 2025, 71 min.)
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Elliott Kirschner and executive producer Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse, moderated by Alice O'Connor, director of the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality and Democracy.
(Robert Reich will not be present.)
| Thu, Oct 9 | 7:00 PM | |
| Campbell Hall |