Power of Diversity Lecture: Dismantling Colonial Categories at CWRU, Dec. 1 w/ Dr. Deepak Sarma

What colonial complexities and categories persist at Case that reinforce or permit institutional, structural, and systemic racism? In his talk Sarma challenges the Case community to confront time-honored taxonomies that often remain hidden behind gestural subversions, cultural posturing, and performative diversity agendas. Is decolonizing Case possible? Desirable? Or dangerous? Or is it impossible, in this case?

Dr. Deepak Sarma, professor of Indian religions and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader (2011), Hinduism: A Reader (2008), Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta (2005) and An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta (2003).

He was a guest curator of Indian Kalighat Paintings, an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is a curatorial consultant for the Department of Asian Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

After earning a BA in religion from Reed College, Sarma attended the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he received a PhD in the philosophy of religions. His current reflections concern cultural theory, racism, and post-colonialism.

Sponsored by: Office For Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity

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