Modern Punjabi Literature & Its Worlds Seminar

Modern Punjabi Literature and its Worlds

A seminar in honor of Sadhu Binning

April 26-27, 2008

The Centre for India and South Asian Research and the Department of Asian Studies, in association with the Dean of Arts and the Departments of Anthropology and English, are proud to announce an academic conference dedicated to modern Punjabi literature with the special emphasisi on its Diasporic forms.

This academic and literary seminar/workshop brings together writers, students, and scholars to consider Punjabi literature as a North American and world literature. The event features academic papers in English on literature in Punjabi (with a special but not exclusive focus on Diaspora literature, April 26-27), held in conjunction with a series of readings in Punjabi and discussion by by local poets and students (April 27). All sesssions will take place in English, except for the writers' discussion and poetry reading on Sunday afternoon, April 27. The conference is dedicated to Sadhu Binning, who has taught Punjabi at UBC for two decades, and is a well-known Punjabi language author and promoter of Punjabi language and literature in Canada. Mr. Binning retires this year from teaching.

For more information about the seminar and different sessions, visit The UBC Department of Asian Studies.