Five CI student attendees will win a copy of Dr. Singh's translated volume, Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2023). This event has been generously funded by students via the Instructionally Related Activities fund.

Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is the Crawford Professor and head of the Department of Religious Studies at Colby College. Her interests focus on Asian Religions, feminist issues, and sacred art and poetry. Dr. Singh has published extensively in the field of Sikh Studies and Punjabi Literature. Her books include Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab (IB Tauris 2012), Sikhism: An Introduction (IB Tauris 2011), Cosmic Symphony (Sahitya Akademy, 2008), Birth of the Khalsa (SUNY 2005), Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Sikhism (Facts on File, translated into Japanese, 1993),The Name of My Beloved (HarperCollins1995; Penguin 2001), Janhamsakhi Paintings of Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art (Roli Books, 2022), and Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2023). She has authored over 100 articles and chapters, and has delivered more than 250 lectures nationally and internationally.

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