A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.
www.academia.edu/106577235/My...
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.
www.academia.edu/106577235/My...
Please join Adeana McNicholl and myself for the inaugural Buddhism and Caste Seminar at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Boston (November 22-25)
Panel 1: Sat. 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor)
Panel 2: Mon. 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor)
Join us - starting now!
07.11.2025 16:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Join us - starting now!
07.11.2025 16:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: aarweb.org/event/buddhi...
Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: aarweb.org/event/buddhi...
Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!
16.10.2025 16:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!
16.10.2025 16:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...
06.10.2025 05:43 โ ๐ 144 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 5Webinar beginning now!
03.10.2025 15:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0REMINDER: Oct 3, my ONLINE Khyentse Lecture at Northwestern:
โComparative Subalternitiesโ as a New Framework for the Study of Indian Buddhist Traditions: Locating the Outcaste Monastic within Plantation Geographies
8:30PM IST/8AM PDT/10AM CT/4PM GMT/5PM CET
LINK: northwestern.zoom.us/j/97705400388
Oct 3, Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social
โComparative Subalternitiesโ as a New Framework for the Study of Indian Buddhist Traditions: Locating the Outcaste Monastic within Plantation Geographies
9:30PM IST/9AM PDT/11AM CT/5PM GMT/6PM CET
LINK: northwestern.zoom.us/j/9140886463...
Dear friends and colleagues, I'm trying to compile a list of upcoming events on South Asian religions that will be live-streamed for students in my S. Asian religions class this quarter. If you are speaking somewhere or know of relevant events please drop a link below! Cheers! :D
20.09.2025 21:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.
It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy
Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (deadline: October 7, 2025): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: 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).
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.
Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/60683
Help me find a wonderful new colleague for our department! Specialty in religions of South Asia or Southeast Asia. #religiousStudies #tenuretrackjobs jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
10.08.2025 21:39 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wish I could be there!
05.09.2025 19:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: 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).
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Wonderful to hear that @rhcraig.bsky.social will be @upennrels.bsky.social as well - I'm sure your in for a powerfully uplifting lecture!
27.08.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sept 11 - Friends in Buddhist Studies and beyond - @rhcraig.bsky.social will be speaking at the Ho Center at @utoronto.ca on Dharma preachers of the Indian Buddhist Mahฤyฤna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner!
buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/inspi...
University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off facultyโincl many *tenured* facultyโ& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
21.08.2025 12:29 โ ๐ 73 ๐ 58 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 6U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"
13.08.2025 20:49 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0JOB: 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...
Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," here, the author argues that we need to seriously reconsider what practices were foundational to early Indian Buddhism.
Free for download here: www.academia.edu/143337761/Qu...