SIKHOLARS is Open to the Public!
A number of individuals seeking to be a part of the audience have asked about admissions into the first annual SIKHOLARS: Sikh Graduate Student Conference. ALL member of the public are cordially invited. There will not be a registration fee, although tax-deductable donations are welcome.
The conference will be held at the Cypress Lounge in the Tressider Union on the Stanford University Campus on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Directions can be found here. The conference will last throughout the day.
A formalized agenda will be added to the website soon.
Confirmed Participants
The following papers have been selected and will be presented at the first annual conference. We had an overwhelming number of applicants for very few spots. We thank all those that submitted this year and are looking to expand the conference in the future to allow for more papers. The list includes the names and titles of confirmed participants. A few more may be added upon their confirmation.
- Ajeet Singh Matharu, Columbia University, History, N/A
- Arvinder Singh Kang and Amanpreet Singh Brar, University of Mississippi, Computer Science, Extending Gurmukhi Script into Twenty-first Century & Beyond
- Bandana Kaur, Yale University, Environmental Management, Reclaiming Natural Histories: Biodiversity and Landscape in Pre-Green Revolution Punjab
- Erik Resly, Harvard Divinity School, Divinity, (Re)figuring the Sikh: Theodicy, Discipleship and Narrative in Ethical Perspective
- Harjant Gill, American University, Anthroplogy, From Putt Jattan De to Munde UK De: The Transformation of Masculinities in Punjabi Cinema
- Iqbal Kaur Gill, University of British Columbia, Counseling Psychology, First Generation Canadian Punjabi Sikh Parents Beliefs about Adolescent Suicide and Suicide Related Behaviours
- Kamal Arora, York University, Social Anthropology, The Politics of Pain: Gender, Mourning and the Punjab Crisis
- Mandeep Kaur, University of Texas (Austin), Nursing, The Sikh Patient: A Review of the Nursing Literature
- Mette Bach, University of British Columbia, Creative Writing, The Changing Faces of Suburbia
- Preet Kaur Virdi, York University, Socio-Legal Studies, Silence: Resistance or Acquiescence? Sikh women’s perspectives on Canadian law
Deadline For Submissions Has Now Ended
We are excited by the tremendous exuberance and the vast array of submissions we have received for this year’s inaugural conference. For those that have not submitted, we hope you will consider applying next year.
We will begin the review process shortly and all presenters will be notified by late December/early January.
Deadline Extended
Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to NOVEMBER 30, 2009.
We have had a tremendous response and hope that others will continue to submit their proposals. Accepted papers will be notified by mid-December.
Call for Papers
“Sikhs in the World”
February 20th, 2010
Stanford University
The Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference seeks to bring Sikhs and non-Sikhs working on Sikh-related issues to an annual conference that unites a breadth of graduate expertise. From academia, to health, law, and business entrepreneurship, the conference will bring together a wide array of disciplines and scholarly interests to create an institutionalized channel to present papers on research, and informal circuits or networks for continued discussion. Inviting submission of abstracts, the two-day conference elicits proposals on various aspects of Sikh economic, political, health, cultural, and social life.
Purpose of the Conference:
Informal professional associations have already been founded within the Sikh community, but are mainly confined to networking. Academic conferences, related to Sikh Studies already occur, but the ideas put forth are generally confined to a narrow audience that engage in these issues, but are not necessarily linked or concerned with the Sikh community’s general welfare. The Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference does not aim to replicate these efforts, but rather to create a truly innovative and imaginative conference. By bringing together promising students in a truly multi-disciplinary fashion, we seek to incubate promising research by engaging various activists and scholars in the community together.
Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference invites papers for a conference to be held in the Stanford University on February 20th, 2010. Travel grants, hotel accomodations, and necessary arrangements will be rewarded to all authors of accepted papers.
The scope of the conference is global; papers may concentrate on particular localities or regions, or they may present cross-regional comparisons and convergences. We encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. All topics are open – from medicine, to law, to history, sociology, and all Sikh-related topics in-between.
Proposals for individual papers should be no more than 500 words in length and may be sent by email, with a current CV, to info@sikholars.org or uploaded at the conference website, www.sikholars.org. Selected papers may be published.
Submission Deadline: Please submit abstracts by November 15, 2009 DEADLINE extended to November 30, 2009.
Please send all inquiries to info@sikholars.org.
