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Remembering
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Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Sikh Experience
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An International Conference
organised by Sardarni Kuljeet Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies
Hofstra University, New York.
Saturday May 8th - Sunday May 9th, 2004
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Edith Wyschogrod (Rice University) Keynote
Paul Brass (University of Washington)
Ian Talbot (Coventry University)
Pal Ahluwalia (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Brian Axel (Swarthmore College)
Gurharpal Singh (University of Birmingham)
Inderpal Grewal (University of California, Irvine)
Jerry Barrier (University of Missouri, Columbia)
Harleen Singh (Brandeis University)
Darshan Tatla (Birmingham University)
Navtej Purewal / Vrinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
Rita Verma (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Respondents
Girorgio Shani (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
I.J. Singh (New York University)
Sunit Singh (University of Chaicago)
Navdeep Singh (University of London)
Exhibitors
Sandeep Singh Brar (Sikh Centennial Foundation, Canada).
South Asia Books
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PROGRAM |
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| Saturday
8th May, 2004 |
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9:00-9:45
Registration
and Coffee
9:45-10:00
Welcome
& Introduction
10:00-12:30
Panel 1: The Traumas of Partition
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Paul Brass, The Partition of India and Retributive
Genocide in Punjab (1946-47): Means, Methods &
Purposes
- Ian
Talbot, Partition Memory & Trauma: Voices
of Punjabi Refugees & Migrants in Amritsar and
Lahore
- Jerry
Barrier, Trauma & Memory Within Sikh Diaspora:
Internet Dialogue on Partition and 1984
Respondents:
Giorgio Shani and Gurharpal Singh
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12:30-1:30
Lunch
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor
1:35-4:00
Panel 2: Trauma, Subjectivity
and the Nation
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- Brian
Axel, Silence of the Graveyard
- Inderpal
Grewal, Gendering Refugees: Sikh Women as National/Trans-National
Subject
- Harleen
Singh, Punjab in Modern Hindi Cinema: Trauma and
Memory in Maachis and Hawaein
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Alhuwalia, Inventing Home: Re- Membering the Nation
Respondents: Sunit Singh and Navdeep Singh
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4:15-5:30
Welcome From Hofstra University
President Stuart Rabinowitz
Key Note Address: Edith Wyschogrod
Proclamation: Assemblymen Thomas Dinapoli and Donna
Ferrara
Remarks by Mr. T.J. Bindra
Tea Reception
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9th May, 2004 |
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MORNING
SESSION
9 :45-12:45
Panel 3: The Morning After: Reflections on 1984
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- Darshan
Tatla, After Ghallughara: Trauma, Memory and Sikh
Predicament Since 1984
- Navtej
Purewal & Vrinder Kalra, Partition, 1984,
Nationalism & the Symbol of the Sikh
- Gurharpal
Singh, The Strange Death of Sikh Ethno-nationalism:
Reassessing Operation Blue Star & its Aftermath
- Rita
Verma, “America is My Khalistan”:
Reflections by Sikh Youth on Violence and Memory Post-1984
and 9/11
Plenary Session led by I.J. Singh
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AFTERNOON
SESSION
2:00-4:00
Sikh
Heritage Foundation Lectures
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- Paul
Taylor, Sikh Heritage at the Smithsonian: Issues
of Identity, Representation and Community Co-Curatorship
in an Evolving Exhibition and Preservation Project
- Gurpreet
Maini, Treasures & Travails of the House of
Bagrian
- Mohan
Singh, Coins of the Sikh Raj
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