Talks and Interviews

SACHI: An Exploration of Kolam Painting with Dr. Vijaya Nagarajan
Presented by Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India. This was a special talk around the kolam and her book, Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India—An Exploration of the Kolam.

Bridging: A One-Day Hedgebrook Writing Retreat
Presented by Hedgebrook and the Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing program. This was a one-day writing retreat for women-identified, non-binary, and genderqueer writers.

An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams
Presented by the Bay Area Book Festival Women’s Lit Series, Terry Tempest Williams in conversation with Vijaya Nagarajan, October 17, 2019.

APEX Express: South Asia spotlight
Interviewed by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
KPFA, September 19, 2019

“Feeding a Thousand Souls”: Guided Walk and Interviews with Kolam Artists”
Led by Prof. Vijaya Nagarajan, Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco. March 6th, 2019.

Toward a Better Future: Transforming the Climate Crisis
Navigating Climate Change: An Interfaith Conversation panelist
Rothko Chapel Symposium, Houston, TX, March 1st, 2019
Video couresty of Rothko Chapel and Runaway Productions

Vijaya Nagarajan speaking at TEDxGoldenGateED on June 11, 2011

Presentation by Dr. Vijaya Nagarajan on “Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Ecology in India, an Exploration of the Kolam” at the third annual “Religion & Ecology Summit” at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) on March 16, 2018.

Sengupta, Somini, and Vijaya Nagarajan. “‘Hope and Fury Among India’s Young.’” KPFA, Berkeley, California, 2016.

Vijaya R. Nagarajan: the Kōlam and Geometry, April 3, 2015

Ackerman, Diane, and Vijaya Nagarajan. “DIANE ACKERMAN The Human Age; The World Shaped By Us.” KPFA, Berkeley, California, 2014.

Krasney, Marty, et al. “Faith – Part II. Forum, San Francisco, California, 20 Aug. 2009.

Nagarajan, Vijaya, and Salman Rushdie. “Salman Rushdie on Bombay, Rock N’ Roll, and The Satanic Verses.” Whole Earth Catalog, 1999.