Food, Justice, and Community Series 2025-26

Aurora Lecture Series

Prophetic Maharaja:
Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia

Rajbir Singh Judge

January 15, 2026
3-5pm

Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Northern Sri Lanka

Geetha Sukumaran

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

Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film 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

Rajyashri Goody

April 20-30, 2026

 

Yummy: School Meals in India

Jean Drèze

May 14, 2026
10-11:30am

Recent Events

Launch Party

Roadsides Special Issue – “Foodways”

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

Virginius Xaxa, Bengt Karlsson, Jayseelan Raj, Sharika Thiranagama,  Gaurika Mehta, Debarati Sen, Ipsita Dey, Anjali Arondekar, Sanjay Barbora, Mythri Jegathesan, 

October 9,  9am – 6:30pm
October 10, 9am – 5:30pm

Other Events Of Interest

Presented By:  All India Management Association (AIMA) and UC Santa Cruz

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