Our Lecturers
Lecturer: Prabhsharanbir Singh
Prabhsharanbir Singh did his PhD at the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests include philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural politics of identity, globalization, decolonial studies, and Sikh Studies. In his dissertation, he examined the role of colonial technologies of control in shaping postcolonial subjectivity in South Asia. He has published several scholarly articles in research journals like Sikh Formations and The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. His most recent publication is ‘Deep Sidhu, Kisan Morcha and the erasure of Sikh suffering in the liberal imagination.’ He holds an MA in Philosophy from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He loves hiking, birding, and photography in his spare time.
Lecturer: Prabhsharandeep Singh
Prabhsharandeep Singh is a Sikh scholar whose research involves areas such Sikh Studies, Study of Religions, Religious Experience, Religion and Literature, Religion and Violence, Postcolonial Theory, Intellectual History, and Continental Philosophy. He has Masters in English (Punjabi University), Masters in Study of Religions (SOAS, University of London), DPhil cand. (University of Oxford). He writes poetry in Punjabi and English. He has recently published a collection of Punjabi poetry titled Des Nikala that has poems on the themes such as exile, memory, trauma, time, and language.
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