SIKH ART and LITERATURE

A Conference Honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Sikh Foundation in conjunction with “Splendors of the Punjab: Art of the Sikhs,” at the Asian Art Museum November 25 through December 27,1992.

November 28-29,1992

The Trustees’ Auditorium, Asian Art Museum

Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California.

Saturday, November 28

9:00 – 10;00 Registration

SESSION I Opening Session

10:00-12:00 Panel Chair: Dr.Inder Mohan Singh, The Sikh

Foundation; Dr.Narinder Singh Kapany, The Sikh Foundation;

Mr.Rand Castile, Asian Art Museurn;

Prof.Burce Pray, University of Califomia, Berkeley;

S.Patwant Singh, New Delhi.

Lunch Chair Dr.Ajit Pal Singh Sandhu

12:00 – 2:00 Guru Granth Sahib for Diaspora Sikhs, Scholars, and the World, Dr.W.Owen Cole,

West Sussex Institute of Higher Education.

SESSION II Sikh Art (Panel Chair; Prof Joanna Williams,

University of California)

2:00 – 5:00 Arts of the Sikh Courts, Dr.Gursharan S.Sidhu, Apple

Computer Narrative in Sikh Painting, Dr. Robert Del Bonta, Asian

Art Museum

Conservation of Sikh Heritage, S.Patwant Singh, New Delhi The

Sikh Treasury, Ms.Susan Stronge, Victoria & Albert Museum

Golden Temple – Marble Forum, Dr.Henry J.Walker, Colby College

Sikh Architecture, Dr-Narinder Singh, Canadian Sikh Studies

Institute,

EXHIBIT OPENING AND BANQUET

6:30 Gruhn Court, Asian Art Museum.

Sunday, November 29

SESSION III Classical Sikh Literature (Panel Chair:

Dr.A.S.Marwah, Malibu)

9:00 – 12:00 Dasam Granth: The Philosophical Foundation of Sikhism,

Prof.Iqbal Singh, Duke University The Unique Musical Structure of the Guru Granth Saheb, Prof.W.M.Callewaert, Catholic University,

Leuven The Fusion of the Mystical and the Musical in Sri Guru Granth

Sahib, Dr.G.S.Mansukhani, London Works and Life of Max Arthur

McAuliffe: The Western Gateway to the Study of. ‘Sikhism, Prof.H.Lal,

Univ. of N. Texas The Goindval Pothis and the Formation of the Sikh

Canon, Dr.Gurinder Singh Mann, Columbia University.

Lunch Chair: Ms. Jasjit Kaur

12:00 – 2:00 Sikhism in the Western World, Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer,

University of Hawaii.

SESSION IV 20th Century Sikh Literature (Panel Chair: Dr.Steven

M.Poulos, University of California)

2:00 – $:00 Bhagvan Singh, The Sikh Poet of Folk Romances. Prof.

Chris Shackle, School of Oriental & African Studies, Univ. of London

Literature and Society: The Writings of Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid,

Prof.Nirvikar Singh, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Puran Singh: The

First True Modernist of Punjabi Literature, Prof. Surjit Singh Dulai,

Michigan State University

The Artistic Splendors in Bhai Vir Singh’s Mere Saian Jio, Dr.Nikky-

Guninder Kaur Singh, Colby College Prominent Themes and S tylistic

Features in Selected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh, Prof.Abdul

Jabbar, City College of S.F.

EXHIBIT OPENING AND BANQUET

6:30 Gruhn Court, Asian Art Museum.

Fee Schedule

General Public

* Lectures only Free

* Conference Package $60.

(includes lunch Saturday and Sunday!

& banquet Saturday night, plus all lectures)

Students (with student I.D.)

* Lectures only Free

* Lunch $8.

* Banquet in Gruhn Court 20.

Article extracted from this publication >> December 4, 1992