University College Cork to launch Study Centre at Karbi Studies

Ülo Valk, Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu gives his closing remarks on the last day of the Winter Workshop on Liminal Ontologies in Diphu, Assam.

Winter Workshop on Indigeneity & Liminal Ontologies concludes in Diphu

Diphu, January 17 (MExN): The final day of the Winter Workshop on “Indigeneity,” Orality, and Liminal Ontologies: Methodological Pluralisms and Approaches to Culture began with two plenary lectures from Uwe Skoda and Anil Boro.

In the workshop, University College Cork announced that MEWSC will be launching a study center at the Centre for Karbi Studies in Diphu in Assam, which will open doors for exchange of research and ideas between the two institutes.

Uwe Skoda, Associate Professor for India and South Asia Studies at the Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark spoke about the complex web of rituals, sacrifices and spiritual possessions in a former princely state in Odisha.

The second plenary speaker, Anil Boro, Head of the Folklore Research Department and Director in Charge of the Centre for Performing Arts at Guwahati University contextualized indigeneity, orality, and intercultural communication through the lens of Karbi Oral narratives. 

Closing remarks were made by organizers Margaret Lyngdoh and Ülo Valk from University of Tartu, Dharamsing Teron, Director of Centre for Karbi Studies,Sabin Rongpipi and Margaret Katharpi, invited delegates - Jyrki Pöysa, University of Eastern Finland, Laura Siragusa, University of Helsinki, and Uwe Skoda from Aarhus University.
The discussions at the workshop also culminated into a collaboration between Centre for Karbi Studies (CKS) and University College of Cork (UCC), Ireland. Dharamsing Teron along with Lidia Guzy, Director of Marginalized and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC), University College Cork announced that MEWSC will be launching a study center at the Centre for Karbi Studies in Diphu in Assam.