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OUR JOURNEYS: Connecting Our Stories, Visions & Paths
Gender hierarchy is contradictory to Sikh teachings and principles, however gender inequality exists in numerous forms within the religion, culture and society. “Our Journeys” brings to light the high caliber of research currently being carried out in these areas by exploring our collective past, present and future from the feminist perspective. By connecting, conversing and engaging in dialogue to generate critical thinking addressing the crucial concerns of gender equality, we aim to explore opportunities to strengthen the social activist, and community work of our present & future generations through advancements in Sikh Feminist Research.
Although academic in scope and orientation, Our Journeys Conference 2011 is deliberately organized to be accessible to a diverse audience and range of interests. The conference will explore the topic of Sikh journeys from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. The conference is organized in panels, and will include presentations as well as opportunity for audience interactions through follow-up discussion and Q & A.
Learn more or see the detailed Conference Schedule on our website at http://www.sikhfeministresearch.org
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8:15
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Registration & Breakfast
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9:00
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Welcome
& Opening Remarks
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9:15
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Keynote
Panel: Reconnecting the disconnect: A Sikh Gosht
A reflection through theology, literary analysis, and history exploring how Sikh
feminism can drive social change.
- A Thealogical Exploration of Sikhi - Prof.
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Colby College
- Diaspora Journeys: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being - Geetanjali Chanda, Yale University
- What the Rehat Remembers: Claiming & Cultivating the
Feminist Currents of the Sikh Rehat Maryada - Mallika Kaur, CORA - Community Overcoming Relationship abuse
Facilitated by Tarnjit Kaur, Executive Director,
Safar
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10:40
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Coffee
Break
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11:00
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Panel 1:
Disrupting History
An
exploration of historical moments changing Sikh gender identity, and the
present motivations for Sikh feminism impacting social justice activism
- The Highest Path: The Aura of Anandpur - Deep Singh, University of California
- A Comparative Postcolonial
Analysis: The Gendered Identity Construction and Representations of Sikhs in Colonial and Postcolonial
Culture and Media - Jaspal Kaur Singh, North
Michigan University
- Old and New Questions for the Study of Sikhi and Gender - Brian Keith Axel, University of
California Santa Cruz
- Ik Onkar: Our Sacred Feminist Practice - Tejpreet Kaur, The Sikh Coalition
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12:30
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Lunch
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1:30
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Panel 2a |
Gursikhi: Intersections, Parrallels & Gaps
Examination of how Sikh philosophy, scriptures, and codes of
conduct both produce, affect and are affected by gender relations.
- Masculinized Translations:
Problems of Reading Gender into Sikh Scripture - Simran
Jeet Singh, Columbia University
- Hair Speaks: Sikh Women Voicing
Spiritual, Sexual, and Identity Body Politic - Kirpa
Kaur, SikhRI / No One Is Illegal / Panjab Digital Library
- Khalsa Yogiji's Teachings as a Feminist Force - Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa,
Independent Scholar
- Saheli in Sikhism - Sonia Arora,
Independent Scholar
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Panel 2b | Lived Experiences: Sikh Women, Work &
Society
A discussion on how societal issues
pertaining to Sikhi and
gender affect women's lived experiences and their relationships to work, both
in Punjab and in the diaspora.
- How Does Social Science Research Become Part of a Researcher's
Spiritual Journey - Ravneet Kaur Tiwana,
University of California
- Shifting the Discource: Women's Spaces, Folk Heritage, and
Agricultural Post-Green Revolution Punjab - Bandana
Kaur, Yale University
- Grameen Bank Women Borrowers Familial and Community
Relationships Development in the Patriarchal Bangladesh and its Implications
to Sikh Feminism - Kazi
Abdur Rouf, University of Toronto
- Discursive
Gendered Impacts of Izzat: Immigrant Sikh Women's Access to Justice - Manprit (Preet) Kaur Virdi, The
School of Oriental and African Studies
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3:00
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Break
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3:20
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Panel
3a | Violence: Causes and Solutions
A wide gap has
emerged between theory and practice of Sikhi resulting in gender
discrimination and violations of women's most basic human rights. This panel
investigates causes and solutions of violence against women within the
framework of Sikh values and principles.
- The Prescribed Cultural-Otherness has Removed the Woman-Mother
from the Social Order through Acts of Viewing - Jasleen Singh, University of Michigan
- Exploring Gender Preference amongst Punjabi Sikhs in
California: A Community Based Pilot Study - Semran Kaur Mann, Jakara Movement Inc.
- The Fate of Our Sisters - Malika
Kaur Bhola, Independent Scholar
- Health Effects of Pesticides on Punjabi Women - Gunisha Kaur, New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and
Cornell Universities
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Panel 3b | Herstory: Bringing
Untold Narratives Of Womanhood To The Forefront
Investigating the female absence and
silence in our conversations, dialogues and discussions today, and the
importance of such narratives for future generations to take into account.
- 1984 and Post-1984 Gender Violence during the Panjab Conflict - Harlovleen Kaur, Osgoode Hall Law
School
- Women in the Palestinian Nationalist Struggle: Achieving Gender
Equality upon Statehood - Prabsimran Sachdev,
HandCrafting Justice
- Women as Objects in and Producers of the Sikh Social and Built
Environment - Tavleen Kaur, University of
Michigan
- Where Did She Go? - Harminder S.
Mann, UK Public Health Association
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4:50
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Panel
4a | Gender and Sexuality: A Lived Reality Unrecognized
A case for inclusive sexual orientations, questioning the
growing masculinization of the Sikh female identity, and examination of the
continued control over women bodies through portrayals of an ideal Sikh
female in the emerging Punjabi cinema as submissive.
- Sikhi: Beyond the Heteronormative -
Indu Vashist, Independent Scholar
- The Gender Politics of the ‘Sikh Look’: Race, Gender and Bodily
Normativity in Urban Britain - Kaveri Qureshi,
University of Sussex
- Queering Sikh American Women, Amu and Visuality of the 1984
Genocide - Gitanjali Kaur Singh, UCLA
- Still Stuck in Punjab: Diasporic
Females in Punjabi Films - Ranjanpreet Nagra, The
Sikh Foundation
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Panel
4b | Diaspora and Culture: Resisting Social Pressures
Through poetry and artistic endeavour, the panel explores
experiences of "homeland" travels, negotiation of transnational
feminist identities, and experiences of Canadian Sikh women within the
institutions of the Gurdwara and the univeristy classrooms.
- Kuldip Gill’s Poetry as a Collective and Historical Memory Site
- Sharanpal K. Ruprai, York University
- The feminist politics of Sikh Women’s Travels to “the
Homeland” - Gada Mahrouse & Indu Vashist,
Concordia University
- A Hyper Masculine Patriarchal Sikh Discourse Excludes the
Voices of Sikh Women - Satwinder Kaur Bains,
University of the Fraser Valley
- Sikhism, Culture and the Space Between: Accounts from the
University Classroom - Jaspreet Gill, York
University
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6:30
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Closing Remarks & Reception
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When & Where
OISE Building, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto,
Ontario M5S 1V5
Canada
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM (EDT)
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