September 19, 2025 - December 14, 2025: (In-Person) Here, Now 여기, 지금 | Geisel Library 

October 6, 2025: (In-Person) 2025 UCSD Korean Day Festival | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | East Lawn in NTPLLN, Sixth College 

October 8, 2025 - December 1, 2025: (In-Person) Fall 2025 Japanese Studies Book Club 

October 10, 2025: (Virtual): JET Program Info Session for UCSD Students | 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Zoom

October 14, 2025 - January 19, 2026: UC Humanities Research Institute Grant Application Due January 19, 2026

October 16, 2025: (Hybrid) The Precarity of "Privilege": Intermarried Families in Prague during the Holocaust | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Geisel Library, Seuss Room 

October 23, 2025: (In-Person) Chicanx and Latinx Studies Major Launch Party | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Dining Room  

October 28, 2025: (In-Person) AAPI Studies x APIMEDA Programs & Services Fall Mixer | 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Marshall College, Umoja Community Kitchen, Building B 

October 29, 2025: (In-Person) Celebrating Dia de los Muertos | 3:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Triton Steps, Price Center 

October 31, 2025: (Virtual) Work & Internship Opportunities in Japan - Info Session for UC San Diego Students | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Zoom 

November 4, 2025: (In-Person) BDAAS Faculty & Student Mixer | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Black Resource Center 

November 6, 2025: (In-Person) Fuji Film Info Session with Japanese Studies | 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. | RWAC 624

November 6, 2025: (In-Person) Gaza Remains the Story | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Stage Room & Patio, Student Center, Level 1

November 10, 2025: (In-Person) Tragedy you Seem to See: Ancient Literary Receptions of Fifth-Century Theater | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Red Shoe Room, Price Center 

November 12, 2025: (In-Person) Translating "Black Lives Matter into Yiddish" | 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. | RWAC 374 

November 12, 2025: (Virtual) Faculty Grants Session with UCHRI | 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Zoom

November 12, 2025: (In-Person) Mary Under Occupation | 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | The Great Hall

November 12, 2025: (In-Person) New Writing Series with Michael Davidson and Piotr Sommer | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Seuss Room, Geisel Library 

November 13, 2025: (In-Person) Our Legacy, Our Strength: Exploring the Impact of Community Activism | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. | Dolores Huerta Vera Cruz Room 

November 13, 2025: (In-Person) Chicanx & Latinx Studies Community Hour: CLS-Giving | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | RWAC 5th Floor Terrace, Sixth College 

November 13, 2025: (Hybrid) Conversation and Catastrophe: Jews Choosing Christianity in Times of Crisis | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Geisel Library, Seuss Room 

November 17, 2025: (In-Person) Between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Craft Technologies in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Atkinson Pavilion 

November 18, 2025: (In-Person) Russia's War with Ukraine: Where Things Stand Now | 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | De Certeau Room, RWAC 335 

December 1, 2025: (In-Person) The Making and Breaking of a Transnational Sufi Family | 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | de Certeau Room, RWAC 335 

December 3, 2025: (In-Person) Book Talk: Here There Is No Why with Author Philip Graubart and Jewish Studies Director Allan Havis | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Seuss Library 

January 14, 2026: (Virtual) Teaching Through Translation: The Poetry Inside Out Program | 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. | Zoom

January 15, 2026: (In-Person) Simulation and Spiritualityin the Sufi Sama | 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | de Certeau Room, RWAC, Room 335

January 20, 2026: (In-Person) Paper War: Exile in California during WWII | 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Lobby of the Arts and Humanities Building (RWAC), Sixth College 

January 21, 2026: (In-Person) Book Talk: The Boomer Archaeologist with UC San Diego Anthropology Distinguished Professor Dr. Thomas Levy | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Seuss Library, Faculty Club

January 21, 2026: (In-Person) Everything You Need to Know About Abortion in 1 Hour or Less | 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Arthur Wagner Theatre, Theatre District UCSD 

January 22, 2026: (Hybrid) Religion as Camouflage? Hidden Children During the Holocaust, Featuring Lauren Rossi | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Geisel Library, Seuss Room 

January 23, 2026: (Virtual) Japanese Studies Program Presents: Haiku Workshop with Masako Takahashi | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Zoom

January 28, 2026: (In-Person) Mystical Modernity: Ali Shariati in Walter Benjamin's World | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | de Certeau Room, RWAC, Room 335

January 28, 2026: (In-Person) The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions | 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | The Great Hall 

January 30, 2026: (Virtual) Japanese Studies Program Alumni Perspectives | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Zoom

February 2, 2026: (In-Person) Up the Borysthenes: Coinage on Ukrainian Territory, in Antiquity and Today | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Red Shoe Room, Price Center, 2nd Floor 

February 6, 2026: (Virtual) Japanese Studies Program Presents: Haiku Workshop with Masako Takahashi | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Zoom

February 11, 2026: (In-Person) Chicanx & Latinx Studies Community Hour: Dia Del Amor y La Amistad | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Art Space at Cross Cultural Center 

February 13, 2026: (In-Person) Chinese Studies Calligraphy Workshop | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Geisel Library, Classroom 1 

February 18, 2026: (In-Person) Lunar New Year Celebration | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Muir Quad 

February 19, 2026: (In-Person) Art and Advocacy: Deported U.S. Veteran Voices at the Border | 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. | PEB 104

February 19, 2026: (In-Person) Bad Bunny: Moving Bodies and Making Politics | 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Wagner Dance Building, Studio 3

February 24, 2026: (In-Person) Lectureship in Literature: Ali Benmakhlouf's Averroes and Maimonides | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | de Certeau Room, RWAC, Room 335 

February 25, 2026: (Virtual) Translation: Poetics, Politics and Practice Roundtable | 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Zoom

February 26, 2026: (In-Person) Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Dance Workshop | 4 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. | Wagner Dance Building, Studio 3 

February 27, 2026: (In-Person) Translation: Poetics, Politics and Practice Workshop | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Ranglas Room, RWAC 935

March 4, 2026: (In-Person) The New Imperialism: Venezuela, Latin America, and Beyond | 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas 

March 5, 2026: (Virtual) Palaces of Memory: Polish Jewish Post-Holocaust Memorial Books, Featuring Eliyana Adler | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Zoom

March 30, 2026 - June 28, 2026: Hallyu (Korean Wave) Before Hallyu: The Artistic Worlds of André Kim, South Korea’s First Male Fashion Designer Exhibit | Geisel Library, The Nest 

April 7, 2026 - June 2, 2026: 2026 Spring Japanese Book Club | RWAC 624

April 14, 2026: (In-Person) Advertising, Rhyme, Cement: Writing about Things in the Early Soviet 1920s | 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. | de Certeau Room, RWAC, Room 335 

April 16, 2026: (Virtual) University of California Humanities Network Advocacy 101 | 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Zoom

April 16, 2026: (Virtual) Paradoxes of Regulating Sex: Marriage, Adultery Law, and Sexual Citizenship in South Korea | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Zoom

April 25, 2026: (In-Person) Histories and Cultures of South Korean Fashion in a Globaling World | 10:45 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Geisel Library, Seuss Room 

April 29, 2026: (Virtual) Translation Talks with Eugene Ostashevsky: Poetry and Translingualism | 10 a.m.- 11 a.m. | Zoom

April 30, 2026: (In-Person) The Effects of Gang Documentation on San Diego and Beyond Film Screening and Discussion | 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Mosaic 113

May 5, 2026: (In-Person) You and AAPI | 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Muir Lawn 

May 5, 2026: (In-Person) A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang | 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Price Center Theater 

 May 6, 2026: (In-Person) Racial Violence and Transatlantic Comparison: Nazism, Jim Crow, and the Limits of Analogy | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Hojel Auditorium, Institute of the Americas 

May 7, 2026: (In-Person) Annual Katzin Lecture: The Staircase of Jerusalem: A Mystery | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Faculty Club

May 8, 2026: (In-Person) Asayake Taiko Showcase | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Library Walk

May 8, 2026: (In-Person) A Celebration of Hawaii's Lei Day | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Pulse Lawn, Eigth College 

May 13, 2026: (In-Person) Antisemitism on Campuses and the Federal Response: Challenges, Frameworks, and Emerging Questions | 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Faculty Club

May 12, 2026: (In-Person) An Evening with Alex Edelman | 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Mandeville Auditroium 

May 13, 2026: (Virtual) Haiku with Japanese Friendship Garden & Museum | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Zoom

May 13, 2026: (In-Person) A Burning Sea: Risk and Geopolitical Arbitrage Across the Persian Gulf by Professor Nidhi Mahajan | 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Ranglas Room, RWAC, Room 935 

May 14, 2026: (Virtual) Bitter Sweet: Daily Life in Occupied France, Featuring Kitty Morse | 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Zoom

May 20, 2026: (In-Person) “Gems of the Ocean: Black Maritime Imaginings” Panel Presented by The Black Feminist Creative Arts Residency |12 p.m - 2 p.m | Public Engagement Building 201

May 20, 2026: (In-Person) Activism and History of AAPI Studies at UC San Diego by Prof. James Lin | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Umoja Multipurpose Room in Marshall College on Ridge Walk 

May 20, 2026: (In-Person) commUNITY Party | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | RWAC, Arts & Humanities Building, 5th Floor Terrace

May 21, 2026: (In-Person) AAPI X APIMEDA X PASA Spring Mixer | 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Umoja Community Kitchen 

May 21, 2026: (In-Person) "Hunting M---" by Dr. Andie Berry, A Staged Reading Presented by The Black Feminist Creative Arts Residency | 4:30 p.m - 6:30 p.m | Wagner Theatre, Galbraith Hall 157

May 26, 2026: (In-Person) Center for Hellenic Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Atkinson Pavilion 

May 27, 2026: (Virtual) Chinese Americans and Civil Disobedience | 1 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. | Zoom 

June 2, 2026: (In-Person) Chinatowns Around The World | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Geisel Active Learning Classroom 

June 4, 2026: (Virtual) On Natality, Creativity and Politics | 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Zoom 

his series sponsors lectures that engage timely, difficult, and complex issues of the day.

• October 18, 2021: Food Justice and Community Health with The Kitchenistas of National City (YouTube) featuring Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis, Aureny Aranda, Patty Corona, and Sabrina Falquier Montgrain, MD
• October 16, 2020: What Does an Abolitionist Asian American Politics Look Like? (YouTube) with DJ Kuttin Kandi, Phal Sok, and Rachel Kuo, moderated by K. Wayne Yang
• May 28, 2020: Virtual Teach-In, Detention/Pandemic: The Crisis at the Otay Mesa Detention Center (YouTube) with Vanessa Ceceña, Monika Langarica and Cynthia Marlene Galaz
• October 25, 2019: Film Screening of "Minding the Gap" and Discussion About Race, Mental Health, and Community with film subject Keire Johnson and Assistant Professor of Narrative Media in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego, Erica Cho.
• May 13, 2019: "We Gon' Be Alright" Race and Resegregation in Today's America with Jeff Chang. 
• February 15, 2019: UniverCities: How Higher Education is Transforming Urban America with Professor Davarian Baldwin.
• February 7, 2019: Race and Gentrification featuring the Art Exhibit "Reclaim! Remain! Rebuild! Posters on Affordable Housing, Gentrification & Resistance" with Professor Eric Avila, Georgette Gomez, Rizzhel Javier, Carolina Martinez
• November 14, 2018: Beyond the Wall: The Aftermath of Deportation in Mexico with Otros Dreams en Accion.
• April 17, 2018: "Fake News?: Post-Truth & the Politics of Authenticity since the Cold War" Listen to it here.
• January 24, 2018: "North Korea in the Age of Trump" with Martin Hart-Landsberg and Hyun Lee.
• November 6, 2017: "Against the Deportation Terror" with Rachel Buff.
• October 5, 2017: "The Crisis of Commemoration: First Contacts in the Americas" with Ray Ashley, Frank Salazar and Kevin Terraciano.
• May 18, 2017: "Challenging Conversations: City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and Rise of Human Caging" with Kelly Lytle Hernandez.
• March 14, 2017: "The End of 'The End of History': Lessons of East European Totalitarianism for the Postmodern World" with Amelia Glaser, Patrick Hyder Patterson, Steven Seegel, Marci Shore, and Tim Snyder.
• February 21, 2017: "From Japanese Internment to the Muslim Ban: History Forgotten and Remembered" with Wael Al-Delaimy, Simeon Man, Wendy Matsumura, and Michael Provence.
• October 18, 2016: "Race & State Violence" with Jordan Camp and Gaye Johnson.