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This year's conference theme: “ The timeless, universal message of SGGS – across centuries, cultures, religions and continents”

Sikh representatives shared Guru Nanak teachings on environmental issues to a huge gathering comprising of over 100 youth environmental leaders and hundreds of social activists from all over the world at the opening of a major international event for climate action at Rome, Italy.

Just as many people begin to understand and recognize our community, and while we still struggle against the bigotry of those who seek to exclude peoples of color, why muddy the tentative waters with the contentious label: “feminism”? Quite simply because, as Sikhs, we are required by our faith to challenge the status quo.

The aim of the conference is to showcase the work of Sikh scholars and historians and to share their research on a wider platform.

According to a news reported by BBC “more than 10,000 Sikhs have gathered in Wolverhampton to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sikh Federation”.

At this year's conference we will explore the message and relevance of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib around the world today.

At the conclusion of this year's conference, collaboratively, delegates have determined that Sikh issues need to be resolved locally with assistance from experts from Sikh communities around the world.

This past weekend, the Surat Initiative brought together community leaders under the banner of the Justice League.

Organized by the Study of Religions Department, School of Asian Studies, UCC, and made possible by the generosity of the Sikh community in Ireland through the Cork University Foundation.

... researchers from throughout the world, focusing on Sikh-related topics, came together at Stanford University for the 4th annual Sikholars Conference, hosted by the Jakara Movement.

Sikh students held a conference on The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist. The objective of this conference was to “present the Sikh perspective of these two themes, to discuss the Sikh tradition and perhaps even outline what a Sikh’s role is as an activist, and what a woman’s role is as a Sikh…

At the first Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1893, Indian spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda thrilled the diverse crowd of observers with a call for global unity and the recognition of the oneness of religion. More than 100 years later, that spirit is still at the center of present-day interfaith gatherings.

Did you ever wonder how bhangra competitions turned a Punjabi folkdance into an international craze? Or how awesome it would be to record your grandma’s partition story? Waxing philosophic about the Green Revolution lately? Don’t fret, you’re not the only one!

Guru Nanak's hymn celebrating nature was sung at the inauguration of the global network of pilgrim cities in Assisi, Italy, in front of over 200 delegates and guests. The hymn called Aarti is recited by Sikhs at night as a concluding prayer of the day.

While we were often proud of our ingenuity, there was also an element of self-doubt in this experimentation. How did our improvised technology hope to compete with world class organizations working in the area of digitization and content management in the Western World?

Sikh women gathered in Toronto last weekend to hold the first ever Sikh Feminist Conference.

Our Journeys Conference 2011 is deliberately organized to be accessible to a diverse audience and range of interests. The conference will explore the topic of Sikh journeys from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. It is intended to provide a space for the articulation of Sikh feminist visions...

The upcoming conference, called “Our Journeys”, is set to be a celebration of Sikh women’s journeys growing up, becoming mothers, pursuing careers and passions, breaking ground in research, doing tireless advocacy for vulnerable people, and through it all, keeping and nurturing their faith.

The Sikh Feminist Research Institute will be hosting a one-day conference entitled "Our Journeys" at The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE) Canada.

A well organized Conference was held in the famous Mozes and Aaron Church of Amsterdam by Ahmediyya Muslim Jamat of Netherlands on 26th. of February 2011 where representatives of Muslims, Sikhism Christian, Jewish, Buddhism and Hinduism attended in large numbers and the conference was addressed under the theme," The Right and Duties of Humanity in the Life,"...

This interfaith action is what the attendees of the CT5 Conference did last weekend. And guess what? No one lost their faith, but everyone joined a powerful movement to fight back against the cancers of bigotry and extremism that are threatening our humanity. And in joining this movement, they just might achieve world peace. Yeah, seriously.

The theme for this year’s conference is Protect Our Identity, building upon the work of our Protect Our Identity (POI) Campaign launched earlier this year which has been gaining momentum within the global Sikh community.

It started with the moments of shyness in all - wanting to say something but not sure how to express ourselves to each other. As contrary to first day- when they were asked what would they like to say before going home as the answer was - we want another day here! So there was a sense of extended family in the whole congregation.

Leading young scholars converged at Stanford University this past weekend for Sikholars, the first Sikh Graduate Student Conference. 

The conference was one of the steps undertaken by the US government to promote and foster multi-religious cooperation since President Barack Obama’s historic speech in Cairo, Egypt last year.

Focusing on the rich history of Sikh women in leadership and on the Sikh teachings of gender equality, speakers highlighted concerns around current roles of Sikh women.

The Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference will be held on February 20th, 2010 at Stanford University

The focus of the course is to deepen, discover and nurture your own experience of Sikhi.

DC council declares Sikh Heritage Week

Donates funds to Children's Hospital and Interfaith body