Punjab Research Group ‘Punjab: Past, Present, Future’ Punjab Research Group Conference, October 26, 2019 (Wolfson College, Oxford)
DETAILED PROGRAMME
09.00- 09.15: Registration
09.15- 09.20: Welcome address: Professor Pritam Singh, Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford
09.20-10.50: Session I. Religion, ecology and culture
Chair: Prof. Pritam Singh
09.20-09.40: Reconstructing power? Male middle-class anxieties in a changing Pakistan
Cecilie Mueenuddin, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
09.40-10.00: Ecological Concerns in Select Punjabi Fiction
Sumandeep Kaur, Research Scholar, Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab – India
10.00-10.20: The Political Philosophy of Guru Nanak and Its Contemporary Relevance
Sujinder Singh Sangha Dr., Former Principal & CEO Stockton Riverside College, UK
10.20-10.50: Discussion
10.50-11.10: Tea/Coffee Break
11.10-12.40: Session II. Gender studies
Chair: Dr. Karima Brooke, Artist, Poet and Associate Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University
11.10-11.30: Feminist reflections in contemporary Punjabi cinema
Avneet Kaur Bhatia, Phd Scholar Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad Haryana India
11.30-11.50: Helena Blavatsky, Dorothy Field and Annie Besant: Theosophy’s role in introducing Sikhism to the West
Eleanor Nesbitt, Professor Emeritus, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, Centre for Educational Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry
11.50-12.10: Identity and Empowerment Patterns among Sikh women in the UK
Monika Gupta, Research Scholar, PHD, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi and Commonwealth Fellow, Visiting Research Student, SOAS, University of London
12.10-12.40: Discussion
12.40-13.10: Introduction with the attendees and group photo
13.15-14.00: Lunch Break
14.15-14.30: Conference Announcements regarding Publications, Scholarships and Research Projects
14.30-16:00: Session III. Development and health studies
Chair: Prof. Eleanor Nesbitt
14:30-14:50: Changing Pattern of Diseases and Public Health Care in Indian Punjab
Gurjeet Kaur, Ph.D Scholar, Department of Economics, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India
14:50-15:10: Bleeding in the Time of Empire: Punjabi Women and the Medicalisation of Menstruation
Nikita Arora, MSc History of Science Medicine and Technology, University of Oxford
15:10-15:30: Combatting Extremism through Punjabi Folklore
Dr. Munir Gujjar, Department of Urdu & Oriental Languages, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
15.30- 16.00: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Tea/Coffee Break
16.30-18.00: Session IV. Exploring fault lines: new and old
Chair: Gurnam Singh, Associate Professor of Equity of Attainment, Coventry University and Visiting Fellow in Race and Education, University of the Arts, London.
16.30-16.50: Exploring Oral Histories of Female Diasporic Voices on 1984
Poonam Sandhu, MSc student in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
16.50-17.10: Punjab falling apart: crossing the river of fire
Dr. Saima Iram, Professor of Urdu literature, Government College University, Lahore and currently associated with The School of Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, Oxford
17.10-17.30: Punjab’s Scavenger tribe and the third coming of Christianity, 1860-1930
Abraham Akhter Murad, Masters by Research Student
Royal Holloway, University of London
17.30-18.00: Discussion
18:00-18.15: Deliberation on/Announcement of Best Presenter Award
18.15-18:20: Vote of Thanks
Professor Pritam Singh, Conference Director
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