Jason Protass

For #MapMonday, a manuscript created in Japan during the second half of the 18th century that features a collection of maps of feudal castles in the current Kansai, Chubu, Kanto, and Chugoku regions in central Japan. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1592) (1/2)

Out now!

Bringing together contributions from North America, UK, Europe and Asia into a single volume, 'Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies' advances scholarship and celebrates Rupert Gethin’s immense contribution to the field.

Learn more: bit.ly/44mICM6

When I say “digital humanities,” I mean that I use my fingers to turn the pages of the book I’m reading.

JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).

Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Study of religion and spirituality among the listed interests for this position in Africana Studies.

Exciting. Will be watching how this works out.

Bravo on moving on from APC (article processing charge) fees for authors. Pay to publish is inherently bad.

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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📰 A Brief Survey of Contemporary Eco-Buddhist Activism in Korea (A free, 19-page article from 2015)

Tags: #EngagedBuddhism #Korea

Look, it’s bad times. We all want to see more fight against the bully. And there is a lot of shitty things in this deal. The fact that it mentions student evals at all is not great. Evals are unjust measures. It’s bad.

And it does not say the government will be trawling through student evals.

I don’t know. But the text says “regularly reviewed for reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action.” Is OECR referring cases to themselves? I don’t think so. If u want a guess, Brown has a diff. office do 1st review to firewall data from OECR.

100%. And there are lots of problems here.

But the on campus OECR doesn’t recive student evals directly—it receives complaints. It turns over an excel sheet documenting complaints.

The government will not be trawling through a database of student evals, fishing for keywords.

There are many problems, but the government trawling through student evals isn’t it.

It’s too late to stop the pile on, but OP is wrong about student evals.

OECR is a unit at Brown. It already exists. It handles reports of discrimination. Even it doesn’t review course evals directly.

OCR is a government unit. It receives reports from universities. It won’t receive course evals.

Important book:
"A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism: In and Against the World"
By Jakub Kowalewski
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Have you listened to any audiobooks lately? I would love to hear your thoughts on audiobook narration via the link above.

Hi everyone,

As part of my dissertation, I am researching audiobook narration.

If you have listened to an audiobook within the last two years, or have previously been a frequent audiobook user, I would really appreciate your thoughts!

You can find the survey here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the #Shaolin Temple in Henan province, is suspected of criminal offenses, including embezzling and misappropriating project funds and temple assets, according to a notice released on the temple's official website on Sunday. #释永信 bit.ly/44RJvhj

Available in a signed first edition for only $1,200.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Southeast Asian History Young and research intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. The School of Humanities (SoH) at NTU Singapore is committed to ...

A job going in Singapore! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

This poll by Gallup allowed only three responses to each question: “believe” “not sure” and “don’t believe.” Interviewees were asked eight questions. In only two cases a clear majority of people did not say it’s definitely not true. (1) psychic or spiritual healing, or the power of mind to heal the body. This is vaguely worded and would capture many different beliefs, ranging from Christian prayer to reiki, as well as placebo effect. And (2) belief in ghosts, or spirits of dead people returning sometimes. The reincarnation question is interesting. It has a larger number of “not sure” than others. Also, I wonder if it would have gotten a different response rate if this question had been asked together with questions about Christian faith. For the other questions, about 1/4 of people believe, 1/5 aren’t sure, and 1/2 say it isn’t real. Two questions that elicited the largest clear “not believe” response: astrology, and witches.

Gallup Poll asking Americans about “paranormal belief”

Some interesting data— but a few of these prompts are about normal religious ideas (ie reincarnation for billions of people) or poorly worded (ie ‘can mind heal body’? See placebo effect).

Source : news.gallup.com/poll/692738/...

I ordered a lot of index cards today (that I also paid for) because we’re going to be doing more short in-class writing this fall instead of some of the exercises they used to do on their own time (and turned in on line).

Nobody learns from the ways they’re increasingly using AI - not them, not me.

In my 100-level classes, I used to have students write a secondary source analysis. This semester, I am having them choose a secondary source on the syllabus, print it out, and annotate it based on some questions I give them. Then they will do a peer review session of their annotations.

Computer vision doesn't hallucinate because of an inscrutable deus inside the machina. It "hallucinates" — such a groovy word for being wrong with confidence-because that is the ideology with which it was encoded.

“AI” doesn’t lie. It’s not deceitful, it doesn’t have feelings: it is broken. Those who are selling AI products encourage people to anthropomorphize it because doing so avoids language that indicates what a garbage product it is they’re selling. Or, as I wrote here: www.artforum.com/features/gen...

A roundtable on the future of environmental history as a subfield from early career scholars (with a small contribution from me). What is the place of scale? Of interdisciplinarity?

Thanks especially to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for organising and editing.
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UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

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Poetry should be a requirement for white-collar jobs again

A headshot of Joanna Macy in her later years. She has grey hair and mother-of-pearl earrings, with a red cloak. Picture is from https://believe.earth/en/

Joanna Macy, a foundational figure in Buddhism and ecology, has passed away. She trained Stephanie Kaza (the most sophisticated American writer in this field) and many others, was a pioneer in facing eco-anxiety, and tireless activist.
#buddhism #buddhist #engagedbuddhism #ecology #sustainability

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Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies

Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.

The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

Catholic missionaries, Buddhist environmentalists, and lots of Tibetan wine.