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SYA plans seminar
at Berkeley about legacy of 1984
WSN Network
 BERKELEY:
One of the key issues that continues to haunt Sikhs is how the
traumatic events of the last 25 years can begin to be represented
through the work of memorialization when the very horizon common to
memory, history and forgetting seems to have been constantly
slipping away from grasp. Always in retreat, this horizon has made
the effort of mourning and forgiveness extremely difficult.
In an effort to
engage with efforts aimed at assassinating the memories of the brave
Sikh community, the Sikh Youth of America is organising a two-day
seminar at University of California, Berkeley beginning September 12
that will address new ways of thinking through the events and legacy
of the last 25 years, and their implications for the political
future of Sikhs inside and outside India.
The basic
premise of the venture is that while the work of mourning and
forgiveness is by no means easy, it is also by no means impossible.
Part of the
problem was that representation of Sikh issues at that time by
scholarly, mediatic and state apparatuses was governed by frameworks
that seemed unquestionable. In recent years, however, all sorts of
changes at the academic and political level have forced scholars and
related agencies to rethink these frameworks. Such changes would
include: the crisis of secularism and the global resurgence of
religion; a profound rethinking of the seemingly opposed nature of
religion and violence; new theories of globalization; new inroads in
the politics of knowledge construction; alternative ways of thinking
about justice, law, the public space and the representation of
minorities; the relevance of all of these thinks for international
relations and the future of democracy etc.
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Seminar on September 12-13, 2009
Both days 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Lipman Room in
Barrows Hall
at University of California, Berkeley
Note: Langar will be served. |
Papers will be
presented by the following scholars:
* Pal Singh
Ahluwalia (Pro Vice Chancellor—University
of South
Australia,
Magill Campus)
* Gurharpal
Singh (Nadir Dinshaw chair in inter-religious relations—University
of Birmingham)
* Arvind-Pal S.
Mandair (S.C.S.B. Endowed Professor of Sikh Studies—University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor)
* Balbinder
Singh Bhogal (Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh
Studies—Hofstra University)
* Anne Murphy
(Chair in Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies—University
of British Colombia)
* Giorgio Shani
(Ritsumeikan University)
* Navdeep Singh
Mandair (University of Birmingham)
*
Prabhsharandeep Singh (Center for Sikh Studies)
* Brian Axel
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
* Virinder Singh
Kalra (University of Manchester)
* Prabhsharanbir
Singh (University of British Columbia)
* Puninder
Jaitla (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
* Harjeet Grewal
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
* Parvinder
Mehta (University of Toledo)
* Virginia Van
Dyke (University of Washington)
For more
information, contact Prabhsharandeep Singh at (510)372-6200.
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September 2009
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