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Sikholars calls for Papers for
major conference in Feb
WSN Network
STANFORD: The
Sikholars - Sikh Graduate Student Conference seeks to bring Sikhs
and non-Sikhs working on Sikh-related issues to an annual conference
that unites a breadth of graduate expertise. From academia, to
health, law, and business entrepreneurship, the conference will
bring together a wide array of disciplines and scholarly interests
to create an institutionalized channel to present papers on
research, and informal circuits or networks for continued
discussion. Inviting submission of abstracts, the two-day conference
elicits proposals on various aspects of Sikh economic, political,
health, cultural, and social life.
Informal
professional associations have already been founded within the Sikh
community, but are mainly confined to networking. Academic
conferences, related to Sikh Studies already occur, but the ideas
put forth are generally confined to a narrow audience that engage in
these issues, but are not necessarily linked or concerned with the
Sikh community’s general welfare. The Sikholars: Sikh Graduate
Student Conference does not aim to replicate these efforts, but
rather to create a truly innovative and imaginative conference. By
bringing together promising students in a truly multi-disciplinary
fashion, we seek to incubate promising research by engaging various
activists and scholars in the community together.
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Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
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The forum
invites papers for a conference to be held in the Stanford
University on February 20th, 2010. Travel grants, hotel
accomodations, and necessary arrangements will be rewarded to all
authors of accepted papers. The scope of the conference is global;
papers may concentrate on particular localities or regions, or they
may present cross-regional comparisons and convergences. We
encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines,
methodologies, and perspectives. All topics are open – from
medicine, to law, to history, sociology, and all Sikh-related topics
in-between.
Proposals for
individual papers should be no more than 500 words in length and may
be sent by email, with a current CV, to info@sikholars.org or
uploaded at the conference website, www.sikholars.org. Selected
papers may be published.
Submission
Deadline: Please submit abstracts by November 15, 2009.
Please send all
inquiries to info@sikholars.org.
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October 2009
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