Dear Jay and colleagues,
I would like to introduce two miner changes into Jay's otherwise acceptable statement. I do not agree with the following phrase: "We rely on the goodwill of the membership and participants to maintain decorum appropriate to an academic conference and association". I don't think that a "decorum" is an appropriate word. I would replace "decorum", with "a true spirit of academic discussions" or smth alike.
In the enumeration of "regardless of gender, ethnicity, colour, caste or any other factor, I would put gender after color to keep the order from more to less general features, unless you insist that gender is more general feature than etnicity, which I hardly believe.
With best regards,
Victoria Lysenko
https://rggu.academia.edu/LysenkoVictoria
http://iph.ras.ru/lysenko.htm
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Victoria Lysenko, dr.hab.philos.
Head, Department for Oriental philosophy studies
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
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18.08.2018, 18:34, "Jayandra Soni via INDOLOGY" <indology@list.indology.info>:
> Dear Colleagues,
> In the past several days under the subject heading “A regressive face
> of Indology at the World Sanskrit Conference”, a discussion has been
> been going on in this INDOLOGY discussion list. The discussion refers
> to the Public Forum: “The Story of Our Sanskrit. Gender & Caste in
> Sanskrit Studies” featuring Kaushal Panwar (Motilal Nehru College, DU)
> & Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS, Delhi) in conversation with Mandakranta Bose
> (UBC), on 10 July 2018 from 8–10 pm in the Barnett Recital Hall on the
> UBC campus at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver which
> took place from 9-13 July 2018 (see p. 19 of the Conference Programme).
>
> Both in this Public Forum and at some academic panels at this recent
> WSC in Vancouver, a number of disrespectful and inappropriate
> exchanges and statements were made. Invited guests and presenters were
> interrupted, shouted at, demeaned, and intimidated. In response, the
> IASS and the organizers of the WSC hereby issue this public apology to
> participants directly attacked and others in attendance who witnessed
> these events. Our goal is always to provide a civil forum for the
> exchange and debate of academic ideas and arguments related to
> Sanskrit. In these cases, we failed to do so. We rely on the goodwill
> of the membership and participants to maintain decorum appropriate to
> an academic conference and association. We condemn all threats,
> harassment, intimidation, discrimination, or intimations thereof. At
> future conferences, we will provide specific guidance about
> appropriate conference etiquette and institute a policy for the
> removal of disruptive individuals from IASS/WSC events.
>
> Posts on the Indology list have also called for the stance of the IASS
> to be clarified. The IASS would like to (re-) affirm its commitment to
> treating all scholars equally with respect, regardless of gender,
> ethnicity, colour, caste or any other factor. The IASS Board is
> confident that the decisions it takes are fully in keeping with the
> spirit of the guidelines laid down by its esteemed founding members
> such as “its purpose to promote, diversify, intensify and coordinate
> Sanskrit Studies” and “to promote scholarly publication of
> Sanskrit-based studies” (point 4 of our Statutes, made public in full
> online: http://www.sanskritassociation.org/about-us.php).
>
> On behalf of the IASS
> J. Soni
> Secretary General
>
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