#1 - Introduction to the Sikh Formations Podcast

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair specializes in Sikh and South Asian studies. Motivated by the intersecting questions of diaspora, religion, secularity, and technology, his research and teaching interests cut across a number of different fields including: Global Philosophies, history of and afterlives of religions, cross-secularity, colonization, political violence, psychoanalysis, and the study of spirituality.

In this inaugural podcast episode, Dr. Mandair discusses the origins and context of the Sikh Formations journal, as well as its continued presence in the fields of Sikh and Punjab studies.