GRFDT interview with Shinder Thandi
Given the heterogeneous nature of the Punjabi diaspora, one size fits all policies will not do, it has to be multi-pronged.
Diasporas can make a contribution in terms of fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, enable technology and knowledge transfer, as well as transferring other intangible assets, says Prof. Shinder S. Thandi of Coventry University in an interview with Dr. Sadananda Sahoo, Editor, Roots and Routes.
Please view the interview online at: http://www.grfdt.com/InterviewDetails.aspx?TabId=2038
Invitation for an international conference on the Punjabi Diaspora’s linkages to host societies
The Department of Punjabi at Punjabi University has planned a three day conference on the Punjabi Diaspora on January 20-22, 2015. This will be a third such gathering of scholars with the main theme of this seminar will be an exploration of the Punjabi Diaspora’s interaction with host societies. The last two conferences were devoted to [a] Punjabi Diasporas’ linkage with Punjab as its ‘homeland’ [b] The first conference had a general theme while trying to map various aspects of the Punjabi Diaspora. This third conference, like the previous two, will be spread over three days. Scholars are invited to contribute on any of the topics falling under the main theme of the Punjabi Diaspora’s interaction with host societies which is elaborated below.
Please see attached for full details Diaspora Conference 2015
Lakhvir Singh, Chairman, Punjabi Department.
Email address: punjabidiasporaconference@gmail.com
Alternatively, please write to us at:
Department of Punjabi, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002, Punjab, India
Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora: Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi Diaspora
South Asian Diaspora Volume 6, Issue 2, 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsad20/6/2#.U9jNzKgpOHl
Introduction
Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi diaspora: after more than a century of Punjabi migration
Anjali Gera Roy
Articles:
- ‘The heart, stomach and backbone of Pakistan’: Lahore in novels by Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid Claire Chambers
- Culture shock on Southall Broadway: re-thinking ‘second-generation’ return through ‘geographies of Punjabiness’ Kaveri Qureshi
- Punjabiyat and the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Virinder S. Kalra
- Tracing Sufi influence in the works of contemporary Siraiki Poet, Riffat Abbas Nukhbah Taj Langah
- Exiled in its own land: Diasporification of Punjabi in Punjab Abbas Zaidi
- (Dis)honourable paradigms: a critical reading of Provoked, Shame and Daughters of Shame Shweta Kushal & Evangeline Manickam
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