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All are welcome; attendance is free.\nSymposium Schedule\n10 - 10:15 a.m.: Welcome \/ Stamps Gallery Director, Srimoyee Mitra\n10:15 - 10:45 a.m.: First Screening\n11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: First Panel - Sikh Responses to Racialized Gun Violence in AmericaThis opening session offers a tangential reflection on \u201cImpossible Conversations\u201d by shedding light on some of the complexities of the Sikh community\u2019s struggles to mourn, memorialize, and at the same time publically respond to the Oak Creek massacre. The panelists offer personal and critical observations inviting the audience to think about racialized gun violence as a problem that goes beyond individuals and institutions.\n\nModerator: Arvind-Pal Mandair, Professor of Asian Languages and Culture and Chair, Sikh Studies, U-M\nHarleen Kaur, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology at Arizona State University\nGurkirat Sekhon, PhD candidate in the joint program in English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan\n\nNoon - 1:30 pm: Lunch break\n1:30 - 2 p.m.: Second Screening\n2:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Second Panel -Trauma and Forgiveness: The Courage to Have Impossible ConversationsCan impossible conversations provide a way forward in contentious times? How do we bring more voices to the table? This roundtable invites us to think through these questions in conversation with persons who come to the restorative justice process from varied perspectives, including practitioners and those who have experienced harm as victims and perpetrators. \nModerator: Francine Banner, Chair, UM-Dearborn Behavioral Sciences DepartmentPardeep Kaleka, Conciliation Specialist with the US Department of Justice-Community Relations Service; Central figure in the Impossible Conversations filmArno Michaelis, Public speaker, filmmaker, and author; Central figure in the Impossible Conversations filmJulio Figueroa-Martinez, Restorative Justice Practitioner, Macomb Correctional FacilityBarbara Jones, Community Dispute Resolution Specialist and Faculty Instructor, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Wayne State UniversityCarrie Landrum, Adaptable Resolutions and Restorative Practices Lead, Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office, University of Michigan\nAbout the Speakers\nFrancine Banner (she \/ her)Francine Banner is Professor and Chair of Behavioral Sciences at UM-Dearborn. She has spent many years teaching in the prison system in Michigan. She is a legal scholar and author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems.\nPardeep Kaleka (he \/ him)Pardeep is a Conciliation Specialist with the US Department of Justice-Community Relations Service. With a background in clinical psychology and trauma, Pardeep is a subject matter expert on the impacts of hate on communities and the need for collective healing. In 2012, following the murder of his father in the hate killings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, he co-founded Serve2Unite, an organization nationally recognized for bridging school and community groups. He is the author of The Gifts of Our Wounds and an award-winning columnist.\nHarleen Kaur (she \/ her)Harleen Kaur is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology at Arizona State University. She studies the subjectivity formation of the US Sikh Punjabi diaspora through empire, memory, and advocacy for social and political inclusion. Her current project, Martialing Race, traces the co-optation of Sikh embodied sovereignty and community negotiations for safety and recognition into empire- and state-driven tactics of increased surveillance, militarization, and policing.\nCarrie Landrum (she \/ they)Carrie Landrum has been forging pathways to peace and facilitating healing justice using restorative practices with faculty, staff, and students at the University of Michigan since 2007. Carrie serves as the Adaptable Resolution and Restorative Practices Lead within the Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office at U-M, and also serves on the Cultivating Committee of the Metro Detroit Restorative Justice Network, a project of the Detroit Justice Center. Carrie has passion and expertise in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, healing justice, restorative peacemaking practices, trauma healing & healing-centered engagement, and a variety of healing arts. \nBarbara Lynette Jones (she\/her)Barbara L. Jones, a restorative justice practitioner and Educator in the Office of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education at Wayne State University. With a career spanning roles such as Senior Underwriting Representative, WDET, and Community Dispute Resolution Specialist, she has championed social justice, conflict resolution, and trauma-informed approaches for nearly two decades. Barbara\u2019s dual identity as a co-survivor of violent crime and advocate for restorative justice informs her transformative approach to empowering survivors and promoting accountability. \nArvind-Pal S. Mandair (he \/ him)Arvind-Pal Mandair is a Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and holds an endowed Chair in Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including Violence and the Sikhs (Cambridge, 2022). His teaching portfolio includes courses on violence, race and religion. \nArno Michaelis (he\/him)Arno Michaelis is a public speaker, filmmaker, author of My Life After Hate, and co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds. His storytelling stems from an intention to inspire people to see themselves in others, and see others in themselves. Arno also works as a Peer Support Specialist at Parents 4 Peace, helping to lead people away from all violent extremist ideologies, and to support their families. Refuge, his latest film project, is now available on Amazon Prime Video. Arno has been a professional public speaker since 2010, and has captivated audiences around the world with his story of transformation and message of love and peace. Uniquely positioned to facilitate healing for people who have been targets of hate, he has dedicated the past 15 years to forging compassion. \nJulio Martinez-Figueroa (he \/him)Julio Martinez-Figueroa is a practitioner trained in restorative justice practices who spent many years conducting restorative justice programs as part of the Theory Group at Macomb Correctional Facility. \nGurkirat Singh Sekhon (he \/ him)Gurkirat Singh Sekhon is a PhD candidate in the joint program in English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. At the intersection of Sikh Studies, transnational feminisms, and postcolonial theory, his work is concerned with how honor crime discourse and its attendant Islamophobic logics inform Sikh feminist efforts to both challenge and rework \"izzat,\" a Punjabi-Sikh iteration of \"honor.\"\nExhibition curated by Srimoyee Mitra. 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