Webinar for month of March 2020

No Vichar Month for the Month of April, 2020. Please attend free webinars from HUA. One webinar being hosted today.

Sign-up for the Free Webinar   Hindu University of America is excited to bring to you a new webinar on  Postcolonial Hindu studies on March 14th @ 2 PM EST/1 PM CST/11 AM PST. In this webinar we will explore the following questions: 1) What is the relationship between colonization and the colonial discourse on Hindus and Hinduism? 2) How does the discourse set in motion during colonial times affects us today? 3) How do we begin a process of intellectual decolonization? Webinar Admission is Free Sign-up for the Free Webinar We usually associate colonialism with political domination and economic exploitation. Colonialism, however, has involved representation, study, classification, and ordering of the colonized through “intellectual” works encompassing translations, commentaries, travelogues, surveys, etc. which were disseminated through the establishment of academic institutions. This intervention systematically destroyed the native worldview wherever European colonization happened. In short, colonialism has involved the conquest of culture through what is now being recognized in academia as “epistemic violence.” India, Hindus, and Hinduism were the victims of the epistemic violence, where reams were written to disconnect them from their epistemological and cosmological underpinnings. The effects have been twofold: 1) In current mainstream academia, the same distorted and demonized discourse continues in politically correct ways. 2) Postcolonial India has not systematically analyzed the sinister and distorted discourse, which was unleashed on its culture and traditions in general, and Hinduism in particular. Our concentration in “Postcolonial Hindu Studies” will systematically explore colonialism as a discourse, i.e. the literary, representational, and ideological component of its political and material dominance. It will explore ways of decolonization, i.e. the process of calling into question European categories and epistemologies and seeking freedom from colonial forms of knowledge and thinking. Finally, it will examine and facilitate modes of retrieval, recovery, and rejuvenation of the precolonial Hindu culture and knowledge. Click Here to Learn More about the Certificate Program in Postcolonial Hindu Studies   Best Regards DCF Team

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