Third Annual Ahluwalia Memorial
Lectures on Sikhism, April 2002 Our focus in the spring 2002 Ahluwalia Lectures was on gender in Sikh society, with emphasis on the diaspora community. On April 17, 2002 at 7:00 PM there was a lecture by Dr. Avtar Brah titled: Refractions Through the Gender Prism: Sikh Women in the Diaspora On April 18, 2002 at 5:00 PM there was a panel discussion with Dr. Avtar Brah, Dr. Inderpal Grewal and Dr. Doris Jakobsh titled: Issues of Gender in Sikh Studies: Problems and Possibilities
Dr. Avtar Brah, Birkbeck College, University of London, was 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.
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