Presented by the Centre for India and South Asia Rese arch (CISAR) and UBC's Department of Asian Studies.
Join Dr. Nicole Ran ganath\, Associate Director\, and Assistant Professor in Middle Ea st/South Asia Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, for an illu minating talk on women's history in the South Asian diaspora as revealed th rough their musical performances. Challenging the traditional portrayal of men as mobile and women as stationary in diaspora studies\, Dr. Ranganath e xplores how Sikh women in the Punjab region and beyond were culturally asso ciated with the fluidity of water and air. Her work introduces the Ocean as a framework to examine women’s mobility and resilience. She proposes the m etaphor of ‘pearls from the seven seas’ to encapsulate the global dispersal of Sikh communities and women’s transformative experiences through song. D rawing from her upcoming book\, Women and the Sikh Diaspora in Californ ia: Singing the Seven Seas\, and her acclaimed PBS documentary\, Jutti Kasoori\, Dr. Ranganath offers a unique perspective on gender\, music\, an d diaspora.
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