In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Monday 9/25 @ 4:30pm “Sikhism 101” with Harman Singh in Babbidge 1947 Room; Co-Sponsored with UConn Neag School of Education

All events will be hybrid. Join us in person or online. Register online here:  https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Tuesday 9/26 @ 4pm “Diasporic Peregrinations: Journeys of a Burmese Sikh” with Dr. Jaspal Kaur Singh in Babbidge 1947 Room

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Wednesday 9/27 @ 5pm “History of Sikhs in Connecticut” with Manmohan Singh Bharara at the Sikh Art Gallery in Norwich, CT

All events will be hybrid. Join us in-person or online. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/CTSikhs

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Join Gurmeet Kaur Singh and the UConn Sikh Student Association for a Traditional Kirtan performance

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Friday 9/29 @ 4pm “Visual Cultures of ‘Communal’ Violence in India: Media Failures and Activist Artists” with Dr. Inderpal Grewal in Babbidge 1947 Room

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

Please join the History Department for this semester’s first Foreign Policy Seminar!

Michele Louro (Salem State University) will give a talk on “Intimacy, Gender, and Anticolonial Internationalism: The Case of Agnes Smedley.”

The talk begins at 5pm with Q&A after. Light refreshments will be served.

Michele L. Louro is a Full Professor of History at Salem State University. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University and is broadly trained in the fields of modern South Asian history, British imperial history, and international and transnational history.

Her first book, Comrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is set between the world wars and recovers the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru’s political vision for India and the wider world. Louro is author to essays on this topic that appear in several journals including the Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013), and Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society (2009), as well as an essay in the edited volume, The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds and Worldviews (2014).