[INDOLOGY] Trump government cancelling NEH grants

[Satyanad KICHENASSAMY]

Very interesting paper, worth reading to the end. Another aspect of the underlying ideology, that I read about recently, is a scapegoat mechanism appropriated from Girard, as explained here:
<https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/va-savoir/comment-le-camp-trump-a-fait-une-opa-sur-le-philosophe-rene-girard-braconnage-appropriation-hors-les-murs-6395480>


Le 6 avril 2025 22:28:58 GMT+02:00, "Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY" <indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>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*
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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