Thread by @HinduAmerican

#Scoop: As promised, releasing more of @dghconference's "secret" list of co-sponsors.
❎Not a single co-sponsor is an expert in the study of Hinduism.
❎DGH sponsors have no competency to define Hinduism. That's why DGH attacks on Hindutva are transparent #Hinduphobic tropes

Univ. admins. are dissociating, but stating that the DGH event is an academic meeting, thus support faculty.

Academic??
-"Dismantle" implies activism/violence.
-Indian communist politician is speaking.
-Hinduism is defined in contradictory, Hinduphobic terms.

List! 🥁...

-Global Legal Studies Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin
-Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
-South Asia Institute, UT, Austin
-South Asia Program, Cornell
-Program in South Asian Studies, Princeton
-Centre for South Asian Civilizations, U Toronto, Missi.
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-Race Class and Colorism Project, South Asia Research Forum, Northwestern U
-Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
-Dept. of Anthropology, York University
-Intersectionality Research Hub, Concordia
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-Emory University (Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)
-Humanities Research Institute and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
-Center for South Asia, Stanford
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-Committee on Southern Asian Studies, Univ. of Chicago
-Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies & Ambedkar Institute, Columbia
-South Asia Initiative, UC San Diego
-Center for South Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz
-South Asia Center, Syracuse Univ.
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-South Asian Studies, Ohio State
-Center for Global Asia, NYU
-Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice, McMaster U
-Asian Studies Program; Bridge Initiative, Georgetown U
-Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Manitoba
-Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser
6/

There are more schools, and we continue to research the details. If you are a student, alumnus or supporter of these schools, reach out personally. Your voice matters most, and univ. leaders are paying attention.

As always, be succinct, polite & constructive.

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