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--Victoria Lysenko, dr.hab.philos.Head, Department for Oriental philosophy studiesInstitute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences-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>> -->> _______________________________________________> INDOLOGY mailing list> indology-owner@list.indology.info (messages to the list's managing committee)> http://listinfo.indology.info (where you can change your list options or unsubscribe),_______________________________________________
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