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Nicholas Witkowski

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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

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My Review of Gokhale, Pradeep P., _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_. My Review of Gokhale, _Pradeep P. Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ . For much of the last hundred years, scholars of Buddhism (particularly in the West) have largely operate...

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...

15.11.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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)

14.11.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Join us - starting now!

07.11.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Join us - starting now!

07.11.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Buddhist Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Balkwill โ€“ AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AARโ€™s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwillโ€™s innovative and field-chang...

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...

03.11.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Buddhist Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Balkwill โ€“ AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AARโ€™s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwillโ€™s innovative and field-chang...

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...

03.11.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

02.11.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

02.11.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming "Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

For 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Webinar beginning now!

03.10.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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REMINDER: Oct 3, my ONLINE Khyentse Lecture at Northwestern:

โ€œComparative 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

03.10.2025 04:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oct 3, Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social
โ€œComparative 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...

28.09.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvardโ€™s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson Durba Mitraโ€™s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

22.09.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 189    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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...

22.09.2025 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Associate Prof/Prof - Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture Associate Prof/Prof - Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy
Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (deadline: October 7, 2025): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

12.09.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

03.09.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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

23.07.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 320    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
Details - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies with Specialization in Hindu Studies

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wish I could be there!

05.09.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

03.09.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dr. Ralph Craig III, "Preachers and Inspired Eloquence in Mahฤyฤna Buddhist Sลซtras" - Learn | Explore | Connect September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - โ€œInspired eloquenceโ€ the foremost skill in the Mahฤyฤna Buddhist preacherโ€™s rhetorical toolkit.

Sept 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 Mahฤyฤna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner!

buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/inspi...

27.08.2025 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of facultyโ€”including many tenured facultyโ€”and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off facultyโ€”incl 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

U 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

10.08.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Qualities of Distinction: A New Perspective on the dhutaแน…gas in the Pฤli Canon This essay explores the so-called dhutaแน…gas (or dhutaguแน‡as), which are commonly understood as a group of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. Richard Gombrich expresses a widely accepted...

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...

09.08.2025 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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