{"id":259640,"date":"2025-02-28T00:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259640"},"modified":"2025-02-28T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:53:44","slug":"natl-seminar-on-reviving-indigenous-knowledge-underway-at-rgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/natl-seminar-on-reviving-indigenous-knowledge-underway-at-rgu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat&#8217;l seminar on reviving indigenous knowledge underway at RGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 27 Feb:<\/strong> A two-day national seminar on &#8216;Reviving and Reimagining Indigenous Knowledge Traditions in Contemporary Discourses&#8217; began at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the seminar, being organised in the blended mode by RGU&#8217;s English department, around 50 presenters hailing from different parts of the country will deliberate strategies for reviving indigenous knowledge traditions and its significance in contemporary discourses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the opening ceremony, RGU English Associate Professor Dr Doyir Ete pointed out how the seminar would &#8220;contribute largely to a reorientation of our understanding of indigenous knowledge systems and help to uncover our rich heritage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU Vice-Chancellor (i\/c) Prof SK Nayak, who chaired the inaugural programme, in his address stressed on the need to document indigenous narratives, &#8220;so that the knowledge and wisdom contained in them can be preserved for posterity,&#8221;and added that the seminar would &#8220;bring to the fore important aspects related to indigenous knowledge systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Tezpur University cultural studies HoD Prof Debarshi Prasad Nath drew attention towards &#8220;the need to look back at our indigenous practices as storehouses of solutions to present maladies that are caused by neo-liberal practices.&#8221; Referring to certain classical texts and practices, he threw light on how indigenous practices have the potential to improve sustainable growth and help maintain ecological balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU Languages Faculty Dean Prof SS Singh also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inaugural programme was attended by deans, heads of departments, faculty members, administrative officers, research scholars and students from other departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 27 Feb: A two-day national seminar on &#8216;Reviving and Reimagining Indigenous Knowledge Traditions in Contemporary Discourses&#8217; began at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Thursday. During the seminar, being organised in the blended mode by RGU&#8217;s English department, around 50 presenters hailing from different parts of the country will deliberate strategies for reviving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}