Food, Justice, and Community Series 2025-26
Aurora Lecture Series
Prophetic Maharaja:
Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
January 15, 2026
3-5pm
Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Northern Sri Lanka
January 29, 2026
10-11:30am
Kyi-dug: “Happiness and Sorrow” of Community Organizations
& Writing Hangout
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Discussion:
February 26th, 2026
12-1:30pm
Writing Hangout:
February 27, 2026
Event Details Forthcoming
Graduate Student Ideation Workshop
March 2, 2026
Event Details Forthcoming
Travelling Film Southasia:
a Mobile Festival
Launch:
March 5, 2026
5-7pm PST
Communications Bldg. Studio C
Festival:
March 5-20, 2026
Oceans of Dissent: A Feminist Commons
Anjali Arondekar, Nisrin Elamin, Jordache A. Ellapen, Tamara Fernando, Andil Gosine, Yoshina Hurgobin, Najnin Islam, Usha Iyer, Aliyah Khan, Nidhi Mahajan, Sabine Mohamed, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Kaneesha Parsard, Kalyani Ramnath,Sharvari Sastry
Presented By:
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair Feminist Studies, Prof. Anjali Arondekar. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Center for South Asian Studies, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
April 3-4, 2026
Details to Follow
Artist In Residence
April 20-30, 2026
Yummy: School Meals in India
May 14, 2026
10-11:30am
Recent Events
Launch Party
December 2, 2025
10am
Music and Talks with Upatyaka Dutta
Music Colloquium Talk & Performance:
October 28, 2025
10-11:30am
Center for South Asian Studies Talk:
Thursday, November 6, 2025
12-1:30pm
Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
October 9, 9am – 6:30pm
October 10, 9am – 5:30pm
Other Events Of Interest
October 7, 2025
From 2:30 Onwards
Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
Navyug Gill, Associate Professor in
the Department of History, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University
Presented By:
UCSC Center for Cultural Studies
Prof. Anjali Arondekar; Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair Feminist Studies, UCSC
October 15, 2025
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Humanities 1,
Room 210