Another Sikholarly Success in 2012
This past weekend, CSU East Bay’s Ethnic Studies Department and Sikh Studies Chair along with the Jakara Movement held its third annual Sikholars Conference. Along with the 11 graduate students from all over North America, nearly 100 community members came together to share and engage in their research projects.
Opening on Saturday, Dr. Jaideep Singh welcomed the participants and discussed the burgeoning field of “Sikh Diasporic” studies that is finally beginning to bear fruit. The first panel showcased the projects of Bandana Kaur, a Yale graduate, on issues of ecofeminism, biodiversity, and social effects of the Green Revolution and Guneeta Kaur Bhalla on the challenges, development, and prospects of the 1947 Partition Archive. Both projects bring together social histories and the voices of non-elite subalterns to the fore.
The second panel, titled the “Identities of Law”, explored Sikh-Americans in a legal context. Jasmine Singh discussed the “racialization” of Sikhs in the United States, while Kiran Preet Dhillon reflected on the ways that Title VII, instead of promoting accommodation to religion in the workplace, have served to limit and demean. She called for a rigorous opening of the conversation with groups that fight for freedom from discrimination in the workplace, including SALDEF and the Sikh Coalition. The panel discussant was conference host, Dr. Jaideep Singh.
The last panel of the day involved explorations in musicology. Neelamjit Dhillon, a student at California Institute of the Arts, showcased his music talents and the convergence of technology and music, adding visual imagery to the auditory experience. Harpreet Neelam, from the University of Toronto, mesmorized the audience with her vocal talents and her explanations of the partaal through the shabad “Mohan Neend na Aavaey Haaveh.” View her amazing rendition (along with Neelamjit Singh on the thabla; pagh salute: RimmyKay) below and continue reading beneath the fold.
The first day concluded with a viewing of Harjant Gill (Sikholars, Class of 2010)’s documentary – “Roots of Love.”
26 Responses to “Another Sikholarly Success in 2012”
This was a fantastic conference and I feel fortunate and enriched to have attended. The presenters and the audience really challenged my thinking on many topics.
excellent contributions, like to see more of them.
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'Sikhs' are in Australia, New Zealand, the 18th district of Paris, rural Parma, Singapore, Malaysia, various dialect areas of London, India and even what translates in olde english as 'the land of shoddy goods' : Birmingham. Maybe 1% of them are in America. If you're holding a very regional, limited, localized event that 99.99% of Sikhs have neither heard of nor have any chance in hell of participating in…..for gods sake give it a local name. It ain't 'SikhScholars'. Its 'The Handfull of Local Sikhs that Know how to Read and Write Patting Themselves on the Back and Wallowing in their Own Self Importance' Festival. Tell it like it is.
True enough, but they've had participation of presenters from Canada, UK, US, and India. Hopefully from the other areas you listed in the future!
Haters gonna hate.
I ain't 'hating' sahenval. I'm merely telling it like it is. If your'e gonna hold a 'scholar' festival in America then, perhaps, before you begin to call it THE scholar festival you have to realise a few points :
1) There are tens of millions of Sikhs with artistic minds that have no access to a computer,
2) Of the tiny percentage who do, 88% would never, in a million years get a visa to travel to america for this 'scholar' festival.
3) Then there are those that, although they are born in the same square miles and walk the same cobbled streets of Dickens, Shakespeare and Wordsworth, can neither get an american visa because they appear on a blacklist nor want one.
Its time American Sikhs realised where they, and the 'international' festivals they organise stand in the world. As far as the 'SikhScholar' festival as concerned for 99.9% of the Sikhs in this world it might as well be called the 'Annual Republic of Khazaksthan Scholar Festival'.
'Sikh Scholars' on wahegurus earth, have more chance of participating in the Kazhakstan event than they have in the American event.
i suggest than…2 things : If you wanna call it a genuine sikh scholar event you should first fight the battle with your Homeland Security department (whom the rest of the civilised world equate with Hitler's gestapo) or…you should acknowldge the fact….as the oraganisers of the kazhakstan sikhscholars festival shouod also…the fact that 99% of sikhs with something to say intellectaully…can NOT participate.
Local event then – Belongs on the listings of the local paper. If England Sikhs, or Italian Sikhs, or Australian Sikhs would start to call our local events 'international' we would expect the north american equivalent of myself to point out its shortcomings. That;s all I'm mate.
Point taken. Let me clear up my perspective on why I take issue with your position: http://tinyurl.com/6bty6j4
Point taken Sahneval. And haven clicked on your link, it just reinforces the advice we Londoners and Parisians have for you American tourists : If you don't want us to laugh at you :
1) Lose some wieight.
2) Don't tuck your shirt or jumper into your pants
3) Try wearing blacks and greys rather than doing an impression of a rainbow.
What's the matter Blighty? Did your shoplifting from woolies conviction from the 80's deny you an American visa?
If you don't mind me using an Americanism, give them a break! Having had a look at the titles of the papers I was pleasantly surprised that Jodha's 'Muslimaphobia amongst Sikhs' and Sunny Singh Brooklynwala's 'Halalaphobia as the first step to the genocide of Muslims' didn't get selected!
Practically everyone I know is banned from America Bik. Frankly I'm surprised you're not. There's definately something quite degenerate about you., can't quite put my finger on it. My convictions, which incidentally ain't theft related, (football related), are spent from our point of view but America doesn't recognise the concept of 'spent'. Add that to the fact that their Homeland Security Dept regard England as one of the hotbeds of international terrorism, on a par with Iran and Pakistan, its much easier , as a European Sikh, to get into Syria right now than America. But ok, point taken, I'll actually read the papers and then pass judgement.
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Myself and at least one other Sikh peer from the UK put forward submissions for papers. However, I could not afford to travel to the US for this event and I think he was in similar circumstances. The organsiers rightly dd not press us for inclusion of the completed papers regardless. I will be doing the same next year but hopefully will be able to afford the travel.
[…] and now offer the same for the second day. As before, I will refer to the blog post on The Langar Hall that provided a recap of the conference and also to the papers that were presented this year made […]
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