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Dimapur: Nagaland University (NU) and University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), jointly organised an international workshop titled 'Ecologies of Care' to foster a collaborative dialogue to explore the Himalayan region's various intersections, expressions and care practices. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Over 150 participants attended the workshop held in Kohima, a varsity release said on Wednesday. In his opening remark, chief guest of the event, Prof Jagadish K Patnaik, vice chancellor of Nagaland University, lauded the university's history and archaeology department for continuously making significant strides in research and collaboration by foregrounding Naga cultural heritage and indigenous epistemologies. Prof Dolly Kikon, director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, UCSC, asked the participants not only to love one another but also "love our lands like our ancestors did" by centering indigenous philosophies & care. While pointing to the dearth of indigenous archaeologists around the world, Prof Tiatoshi Jamir, department of history and archaeology, NU, invited students to return to the metaphor of the 'hearth' where indigenous knowledge and wisdom were shared and transmitted in the past. Drawing on his research, Jamir explained how returning to folklore on the origins of rice has helped inform archaeology on the early beginnings of rice cultivation in the northeast. He called for a need for reparative research by indigenous scholars that emphasise on 'with', 'by' and 'for' indigenous communities to decolonise knowledge production in academia. Both Kikon and Jamir lauded introduction of new courses on indigenous knowledge in NU and Kohima Science College.
News18
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Mekhela Wednesday in Nagaland varsity to drive mid-week blues, help weavers
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