The Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies and the Department of Religion invite you to
1984: Violation without Justice, Memory after Trauma Ten Women Scholars respond to:
The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women, 2024
THE HELENE FORTUNOFF THEATER • MONROE LECTURE THEATER, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY • NEW YORK • SATURDAY NOV 9, 2024 OPENING REMARKS / 9:00 a.m. JULIE BYRNE • Thomas Hartman Chair of Catholic Studies & Prof. of Religion Dept
FRANCESCA CASSIO • Sardarni Harbans Kaur Chair of Sikh Musicology, Prof. of Music
BALBINDER SINGH BHOGAL • Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair of Sikh Studies, Prof. of Religion
LECTURE ONE / 9:30 a.m. SANAM SUTIRATH WAZIR • Author & committed advocate for human rights from Jammu & Kashmir, engaged in documenting historical injustices and large-scale violence through oral history
PANEL ONE / 10:15 am ANNEETH KAUR HUNDLE • Assoc. Prof. Anthropology & Presidential Chair of Soc. Sci. to Advance Sikh Studies, UC Irvine, USA
ANSHU SALUJA • Asst. Prof. of History, Azim Premji University Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
HARLEEN KAUR • Asst. Teaching Prof. of Sociology, Arizona State University, USA
JASLEEN SINGH • Grad. Researcher in Sikh Diaspora, Activism, & Subjectivity, University of Michigan, USA
PARVINDER MEHTA • Adjunct Prof. English, Wayne State Uni, & Liberal Arts, Coll. for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI USA
PANEL TWO / 12:30 p.m. BALBIR KAUR SINGH • Research Chair in Art & Racial Justice, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
INDIRA-NATASHA PRAHST • Prof. of Sociology and Anthropology, Langara College, Canada
PRABHSHARANJOT KAUR SIDHU • Asst. Prof. Brijindra College, Faridkot, Punjab, India
HARLEEN SINGH • Assoc. Prof. of Literature & Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA
LECTURE TWO / 1:45 p.m . PRABHSHARANJOT KAUR SIDHU • “Unaccounted Silences: Reflections on what remains unsaid about 1984 Sikh genocide”
RESPONSE, ROUNDTABLE and Q&A / 2:45 p.m.
ENQUIRIES • RITIKA SINGH • sikhstudies@hofstra.edu
CLOSING REMARKS / 4:45 p.m. MARGARET ABRAHAM • Harry H. Wachtel Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Study of Nonviolent Social Change, Hofstra University, NY, USA
Zoom Link: https://hofstra.zoom.us/j/99207130598?pwd=wQk4x1xkpanXxDf6lGNS3tDRs299ia.1 Meeting ID: 992 0713 0598 / Passcode: 010316