(“Sikhism & Gender” A Speaking
Event at CAL- April 17TH-18TH)
Sponsored
by the Center for South Asia Studies with support from Joginder Singh Ahluwalia
and his family. Our focus in this spring's Ahluwalia Lectures will be on gender
in Sikh society, with emphasis on the diaspora community.
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Date
& Time |
Venue |
Description |
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Wednesday,
April 17, 2002 Time: 7:00 PM |
Drawing
Room of the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley (one block from
campus) |
Refractions
through the Gender Prism: Sikh Women in the Diaspora by Dr. Avtar Brah |
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Thursday,
April 18, 2002 Time: 5:00 PM |
Drawing
Room of the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley (one block from
campus) |
Issues
of Gender in Sikh Studies: Problems and Possibilities: A panel discussion
with Dr. Avtar Brah, Dr. Inderpal Grewal and and Dr. Doris Jakobsh |
Information on the
Speakers
Dr. Avtar Brah, Birkbeck College, University of London, is the main
speaker for the Third Annual Ahluwalia Memorial Lecture series on 17-18 April
2002. Brah is very well known for studies in gender and ethnic identity issues
and she is the author of a widely used text in diaspora studies, Cartographies of
diaspora: contesting identities (1996). Brah is also the co-editor of Hybridity
and its discontents: politics, science, culture (2000); Global futures:
migration, environment, and globalization (1999); and Thinking identities:
ethnicity, racism and culture (1999). In 2000, Dr. Brah was on HM The Queen
Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours List, with an award of MBE for services to
‘Race, Gender, and Ethnic Identity Issues’.
Dr. Inderpal Grewal was a Visiting Professor in the Women's Studies Department
at the UC Berkeley during the Fall 2001 semester and Professor at San Francisco
State University. In January she became Director of Women's Studies at UC
Irvine. She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the
Cultures of Travel (1996) and a number of essays on imperialism, gender,
diasporas and globalization. She has written essays and edited a number of
publications with her long-term collaborator, Caren Kaplan (Chair of Women’s
Studies, University of California, Berkeley), most recently an issue of Signs
on Gender and Globalization, and an undergraduate textbook Introduction to
Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (2001).
Dr. Doris Jakobsh has degrees from the University of Waterloo, Harvard University,
and the University of British Columbia, where she studied and did her doctorate
with Dr. Harjot Oberoi. The focus of her doctoral thesis was gender and
Sikhism, particularly the 'construction process' of gender, both male and
female within that tradition. She finished her Ph.D. in 2000, and currently
teaches at both the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University in
Waterloo, Ontario.
For further information, please contact:
Center for South Asia Studies
10 Stephens Hall, University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2310
Tel: 510-642-3608, Fax: 510-643-5793
E-mail: csas@uclink.berkeley.edu
http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/Ahluwalia3.html