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Reflections on Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference: Day 2

March 5, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In a previous post, I reflected on attending the Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference at CSU East Bay in Hayward, California a few weeks ago. I commented on the first day’s presentations and panel discussions 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 available on the Sikholars website […]

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Reflections on Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference: Day 1

February 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

This past weekend, I attended the third annual Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference at California State University East Bay, held by Jakara Movement, the CSU East Bay Ethnic Studies Department and the Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at CSU East Bay. I had also attended the previous conferences in 2010 and 2011. I’ve enjoyed all three of these meetings of the mind immensely, and I believe the 2012 iteration was a raising of the bar in the discourse it […]

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A touch of brilliance: Sikholars 2011

March 2, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Last weekend, I was fortunate to attend the second annual Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference, a two-day event at California State University, East Bay. I also attended last year’s conference when it was held as a one-day event at University of California, Stanford. While not a formal scholar myself, I have a great interest in Sikh studies, and this conference provides a glimpse of the great academic work being done by Sikhs and non-Sikhs in the United States and around the world. This year, […]

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