[INDOLOGY] Trump government cancelling NEH grants

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Nightmarish...
I join Dominik in wishing courage and strength (and inventiveness) to our
US friends and colleagues.

To add to our worries, a Dutch newspaper wrote today the following:

de Volkskrant -- Sunday, April 6, 2025

Good morning,

Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and other tech billionaires draw their inspiration
from science fiction books. Experts and the authors of those books warn
that they are creating a dangerous world.

***
https://ims.volkskrant.nl/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=rEIprrA%2B2YsrIBL%2BFmNnPaMe2v1_irJIcBNA_smHuA0j3vY4Zhsx2LVVylL6L8JFFbM381NSLKhcDSUr05Fmku184ZwIro

Bekijk hier de webversie
de Volkskrant
Zondag 6 april 2025
Goedemorgen,

Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos en andere techmiljardairs halen hun inspiratie uit
sciencefictionboeken. Experts én de auteurs van die boeken waarschuwen dat
zij zo een gevaarlijke wereld scheppen.

***

On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 at 04:09, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> An organization addressing this situation is the National Humanities
> Alliance <https://nhalliance.org/>.  Elaine told me about it.  I don't
> know anything about it, personally, but maybe it can function as a focus of
> resistance to the government cuts.
>
> I wish my US friends and colleagues courage and strength in the coming
> months and years.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
>
> --
> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
> University of Alberta
>
> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and
> service."
> -- Collective Agreement
> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
> 3.01
>
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 at 19:25, Lubin, Tim <lubint at wlu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues of mine at WLU were part of a $350,000 multi-year data
>> visualization project on Florence (still on the NEH site!
>> <https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-awards-grant-florence-project>) based at
>> U.Chicago that has also been cancelled.  So has a grant to one of our
>> recent graduates.  It appears that all NEH grantees received the same
>> letter simultaneously.  All funding has been withdrawn, indiscriminately,
>> arbitrarily.
>>
>> So long as Trump is in office, no one can count on any government funding
>> for any work in the humanities, or perhaps any academic work at all.  He
>> and his collaborators will destroy the entire university system, if he is
>> allowed to do so.  So far opposition has not been effective.
>>
>> Best wishes in bad times,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> Timothy Lubin
>> Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law
>> Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program
>> 204 Tucker Hall
>> Washington and Lee University
>> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>>
>> https://timothylubin.net/
>> http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin
>> https://ssrn.com/author=930949
>> https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy
>>
>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Reply-To: *Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
>> *To: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Subject: *[INDOLOGY] Trump government cancelling NEH grants
>>
>>
>>
>> Two days ago, one of our colleagues, Elaine Fisher, who is an assistant
>> prof. at Stanford, received the following letter, which I reproduce with
>> Elaine's permission.  This is a very serious matter, a naked government
>> attack on university research and the intellectual life of the United
>> States.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>>
>> University of Alberta
>>
>>
>>
>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
>>
>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
>>
>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities
>> and service."
>>
>> -- Collective Agreement
>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
>> 3.01
>>
>>
>>
>
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-- 

*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

*johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>*

*https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
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