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13 Apr 2026 11:50

Mining in a Sacred Landscape: Adivasis, Deities and Alliances in a Former Princely State in Odisha

Aula 24, San Sebastiano Dorsoduro 1686, Campo San Sebastiano, 30123 Venezia

LECTURE | Mining in a Sacred Landscape: Adivasis, Deities and Alliances in a Former Princely State in Odisha/India
Special Guest:
Uwe Skoda
Department of Global Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark

Monday 13 April 2026 -  10.30-12.00
Aula 24, San Sebastiano
Dorsoduro 1686, Campo San Sebastiano, 30123 Venezia

The conference explores ideas of a sacred landscape inhabited by indigenous people as well as other communities, deities as well as other beings manifested in localities and ‘objects’ forming various relationships, alliances and a thick web of relationality in a former kingdom in central-eastern India. It introduces these historically evolved ties through the foundational narratives as well as contemporary rituals, while the area is undergoing major transformations after Indian independence and even more so in a phase of accelerated industrialisation, especially tied to a mining boom and sponge iron factories. The latter not only threatens to uproot an existing, though changing sacrificial polity around local deities, but it also has massive ecological consequences and leads to partially successful protests. Stefano Beggiora will Introduce the event.

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NICHE, DSAAM

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