That Land Beyond the Waves – A Play Performance on the Komagata Maru
That Land Beyond the Waves —A Play Performance on the Komagata Maru: The Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in Abbotsford, B.C, Canada has commissioned the performance of a brand new play on the Komagata Maru. Written by Dr. Rajnish Dhawan and Directed by Dr. John Carroll of UFV’s Department of English
WHEN: Saturday, November 1st at 7PM and Matinee Performance on Sunday, November 2nd at 2PM
WHERE: Matsqui Centennial Auditorium
Tickets: $15.00 General; $10.00 for students: To purchase tickets, please visit: http://ucfv.bookware3000.ca/CourseSearch/?course%5B0%5D=EVENTS,FALL14,EVENT,KM%20EVENING&course%5B1%5D=EVENTS,FALL14,EVENT,KM%20MATINEE&
cfp: PRG meeting at Wolfson College, Oxford, 25 October 2014
Punjab Research Group, Saturday 25th October 2014
It so happens that several historic anniversaries fall this year, which makes our October session of Punjab Research Group even more pertinent. It is thirty years since Operation Blue Star and the anti-Sikh pogroms. In addition, the outbreak of the First World War and the protracted tragedy of Komagata Maru off the coast of British Columbia, with scores of South Asians stranded aboard, remind us of the momentuous events in Punjab’s history and their on-going impact on the region in particular, and South Asia in general. The PRG’s forthcoming meeting is an opportune platform to discuss the context and aftermath of these events. We would particularly encourage papers discussing less-heard perspectives from women, religious minorities, non-dominant castes and classes, and welcome emerging scholars, independent writers and activists as well as academics. This one-day workshop is being hosted by Wolfson College, Oxford, a college with a strong South Asia research cluster. Please send 200 word abstracts and expressions of interest to Pritam Singh psingh@brookes.ac.uk, Iftikhar Malik i.malik@bathspa.ac.uk and Kaveri Qureshi kaveri.qureshi@anthro.ox.ac.uk by October 4th 2014.
PRG Conference 27-28 June 2014, Coventry University – revised programme
As you know this year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Punjab Research Group. To celebrate this milestone we have teamed up with Dr Churnjeet Mahn, University of Surrey, and are planning a two-day conference at Coventry University. The conference will be supported by the AHRC project, ‘A Punjabi Palimpsest: Cultural Memory and Amnesia at the Aam Khas Bagh’. A website connected to the project can be found here: http://www.thegtroad.com.
Attached are all the details for the conference, including the programme and abstracts. If you would like to attend please complete the registration form and send this to me by Thursday 19 June. Please note that the programme for Saturday has been revised and extended.
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