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Sikh Feminisms Working Group:
Postcolonial, Intersectional, Transnational and Decolonial Approaches


Convened by Professor Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
2020-2022

Call for Participants:
UCI Sikh Studies and the Department of Anthropology in conjunction with the Religious Studies Program and Departments of Asian American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, will be hosting and convening a two-year working group on the topic of Sikh Feminisms. The research group will meet on a monthly basis to discuss pre-assigned readings. Our first conference will be held in Spring 2021 (Dates TBA) to workshop preliminary papers for individual or collaborative research papers. Monthly meetings will continue during AY 2021-2022 with a culminating conference in Spring 2022 (Dates TBA) to workshop final contributions to an edited volume on the topic of Sikh Feminisms/Sikh Feminist Writing to be submitted to be submitted to a prospective publisher by Summer 2022.

Our first meeting will take place on November 16th  from 1 to 3 PM PST to discuss Jakobsh’s (2003) Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and History. All meetings will take place over Zoom.
Reading available online at UCI Libraries. See link here.

Please email Anneeth Kaur Hundle at ahundle@uci.edu and Nima Yolmo at nyolmo@uci.edu if you are interested in participating and for access to readings.

All faculty and lecturer colleagues, graduate students, undergraduate students and university workers are invited to participate.