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DATE AND TIME

Sat, May 6, 2017, 10:00 AM –

Sun, May 7, 2017, 5:00 PM PDT

LOCATION

Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University

291 Campus Drive 

Palo Alto, CA 94305 

United States

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FREE with Pre- Registration 

Registration closes on May 2nd, 2017

Education is a very important part of the Sikh Foundation’s mission, and as a part of the Foundations 50th anniversary celebrations we will be featuring a conference titled “Advancing Sikhs with Education” at Stanford University on May 6th and 7th. Attendees at the conference can look forward to talks on a wide range of topics such as Innovation, Public Service, Health Care, Entrepreneurship, Arts and Heritage, and Sikh Studies by distinguished authors, artists, entrepreneurs, and business and political leaders from around the world.

http://www.sikhfoundation.org/50years/

Registration closes on May 2nd, 2017.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

May 6th & 7th 2017, 10am-5pm

Saturday, May 6th 2017

Master of Ceremony: Mr. Rajinder Singh Kapany- Trustee Sikh Foundation

Special Guest Lecture: Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan–Minister of National Defense, Canada

Sikh Studies- Past, Present & Future 

10am- 12.30pm

Chair: Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer – Professor Global Studies – UC Santa Barbara

  • Dr. Pashaura Singh – Chair- Department of Religious Studies UC Riverside
  • Dr. Nikky-G. K. Singh – Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College
  • Dr. Reiss Potterveld – President Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
  • Dr. Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa -Clinical Assistant Professor Sikh & Jain Studies at Loyola Marymount University
  • Dr. Sulekh C. Jain - International School for Jain Studies
  • Prof. Tyler Stovall - Dean Humanities, UC Santa Cruz

 

Lunch: 12.30pm-1.30pm

Sikh Arts & Heritage– Expanding Horizons 

1.30pm – 5.00 pm

Chair: Dr. Mary-Ann M-Lutzker– Professor, Carver Chair in East Asian Studies, Mills College

  • Dr. Paul M. Taylor & Sonia Dhami -Director A.C.H.P. Smithsonian Institution & E.D. Sikh Foundation
  • ArpanaCaur- Artist
  • Dr. Jean Marie Lafont –Historian and author
  • Susan Stronge – Senior curator, Asian department, V & A Museum London
  • Peter Bance - Author
  • Dr. Mohinder Singh - Professor and Director of the National Institute of Panjab Studies, New Delhi
  • Bobby SinghBansal - Author 

 

Sunday, May 7th 2017 

Master of Ceremony: Mr. Pritinder Singh Arora- Trustee Sikh Foundation

Health is the True Wealth: Perspectives from the field of Medicine

10.00am – 11.30am

Chair: Dr. K.J.S AnandM.D. - Professor Stanford Hospital

  • Dr. Jaiwant K.Rangi M.D. – Endocrinologist & Internal Medicine
  • Dr. H.S Sahota M.D. – Cardiologist
  • Dr. JasbirS. Kang M.D. – Medical Director, Hospitalist program, Rideout Health

 

Public Service: Role Models for Change

11.30am-12.30pm

Chair:Tarlochan Singh- Ex Member of Parliament (India)

  • Dr. Anarkali Kaur Honaryar – Senator, Afghanistan
  • Dr. MontekS. Ahluwalia- Ex-Deputy Chairman Planning Commission-India
  • Dr. Harjot Kaur – Chairperson, International Khalsa Council

Lunch: 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Drivers for Progress

1.30pm – 4.00 pm

Chair:Dr.Isher Judge Ahluwalia – Chairperson ICRIER, India

  • KanwalRekhi – Founder & CEO Inventus&TiE
  • Dr. JagdeepS.Bachher – CIO University of California
  • Dr. RatinderP.S. Ahuja -Founder & CEO ShieldX Networks Inc.
  • Satjiv S. Chahil – Global Marketing & Innovation Advisor
  • Bobby Bedi–Filmmaker

Networking session:

4pm -5pm

 

 

 

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58 minutes ago, S1ngh said:

one word - elitism

Same word comes to mind. Education and rationality are a tenent of Sikhi, but the trend in the generation before us demeans the word education. Their definition of education is Dr, Lawyer or Engineer. 

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The Giants & Dwarfs of Time

Shutting down discourse is a bad habit we seem to have picked up from our historical path.

https://www.sikhnet.com/news/giants-dwarfs-time

Let's start with a truism - my axiom for the day. 

If today, we can see more clearly and further it is because we are perched on the shoulders of others - our predecessors who lived and worked generation(s) ago. Were they all giants? Likely not, and certainly not by our standards of today, but that should not automatically diminish them.

Yes, judge the past as we must, but do so by the context, culture, language, and realities of those times, not by the values and yardstick of today. Remember that the future will judge us just as harshly (or kindly) as we judge the past from our vantage point today.

 

 

The past made us what we are; the present promises a future based on where we are today; both the journey and the end will remain imperfect, even incomplete. The baton is in our hands but soon enough will pass on to a new generation.

The past informs us where we are today and how we got here.  The stories and traditions of the past enable us to touch history as nothing else can. All history lives through traditions. Also, all historical narrative is chock full of "cunning passages and contrived corridors," as T.S. Eliot reminds us. 

If we find the past with no blank voids that baffle or mislead us, it means that our present vision is far from perfect. No matter how we tweak it and try stitching the past into a seamless reality today, future generations will find gaps - or they are not exploring well or honestly.

My plea is not to slap down the scholars of the past, nor to condemn them for shortsightedness, sloppy scholarship, or questionable motives but to celebrate their efforts. Imperfect as they were, their work opened many doors for us. We march forward but sometimes in our maniacal frenzy we lose all direction and a sense of where we are; other times we dance triumphantly through yesterday into today with a clear shot at tomorrow. 

Remember that the future will see us as imperfect, as it should. If tomorrow's readers don't catch our flaws, then they are not doing their homework very well.

 

 

Disagreements are useful. They need not be divisive. Often, they clarify questions. Shutting down discourse is a bad habit we seem to have picked up from our historical path. Now, gurdwaras often function as closed shops, and actively condemn alternative views or open dialogue. They shut off all progress. 

Our solution to disagreements should not be an immediate vilification of those we disagree with, accompanied by a run to start new gurdwaras. A monolithic, monochromatic version of the truth does not sit well and is not necessary. 

There is only one lasting lesson: some humility, a little less hubris, and a little more kindness for the past that brought us to the present. Some honest pursuit of human history would serve us well. Time diminishes us all, even our icons.

 

 

The giants of yesteryear! On their shoulders, we stand today, even if they had feet of clay. Our minds explore the past and connect to the future.

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