South Asian Studies Institute

(Taken from the official RBCM Press Release) March 05, 2018  A new perspective for a decades-old display  VICTORIA, BC–The Royal BC Museum has drawn upon interviews with Punjabi Canadian loggers and millworkers, enhancing the logging display in the Becoming BC Gallery with their recollections about immigration, work and life in BC. Although Indigenous peoples and … Read more

The SASI has been awarded two grants to begin the 2018 year in relation to its work with the Sikh Heritage Museum,  a National Historic Site, Gur Sikh Temple. The first is the BC Arts Council Professional Project Assistance: Museums and Visual Arts Organizations for the upcoming Sikh Heritage Museum exhibit titled Desis in the Diaspora. The … Read more

UFV’s MoU with St. Bede’s College in Shimla received a boost when Satwinder Bains, Director of SASI was invited by Principal Sister Beena to speak with students and faculty. Satwinder presented a seminar to students about learning to learn and the vibrant paradigms of curriculum design. Students were keen to discuss their interest in becoming … Read more

The SASI is pleased to welcome Dr. Kamal Arora as the Co-Director of the South Asian Studies Institute who will be working alongside Director Satwinder Bains who was recently appointed as Principal of UFV India. Dr. Arora completed her PhD in Anthropology at UBC, with an emphasis on South Asia. She holds an MA in Gender … Read more

The SASI 2015 curated exhibit, (Mis)Interpretation: Sikh Feminisms in representations, texts and lived realities recently traveled to the University of Victoria’s Maltwood Gallery as part of their exhibit titled: Disobedient Women: Defiance, Creativity, Resistance.  SASI’s original exhibit was featured at the UFV’s S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery and looked at de-centring the notion of a normatively androcentric faith discourse by (re)raising … Read more

On November 30th, the SASI hosted its inaugural biennial symposium, Sharing our Understanding of Asia. The goal of this first symposium was to provide an opportunity for UFV faculty, staff and students interested in South Asia to present their research, projects, theories, critiques, papers, etc., in relation to their discipline and areas of interest. Sharing Our Understandings … Read more

(Taken from UFV Today) Andy Sidhu will be the University of the Fraser Valley’s third Chancellor.A long-time proponent of community engagement and integration, Sidhu will take over from Dr. Gwen Point, who served as UFV’s second Chancellor from 2015 to the present, following two terms by Brian Minter.“I’m extremely honoured and proud to join the University of … Read more

(As seen in UFV Cascades Press Release) Top row: Amtoj Dhaliwal, Karan Dhillon, Brad Hildenbrandt, Raj Virdi. Bottom: Jacob Torres, Karla Godinez Gonzalez, Parker McBride. Members of the University of the Fraser Valley wrestling program have embarked on the trip of a lifetime as they travelled to India in November and early December. Head coach … Read more

(Article from UFV Today) UFV’s Alumni Association will continue to be served by a dedicated leader, as Nav Bains takes the torch from Nik Venema as association chair. Bains (BBA ’13), a marketing specialist for G&F Financial Group, ascends to the chair after serving as vice-chair. “Under the leadership of Nik for the past two … Read more