Raji Steineck

sorry, try this: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.50...

Now accessible in Open Access: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.…

Unfortunately, no literature on the topic was mentioned.

Now accessible in Open Access: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.…

Now accessible in Open Access: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.…

Zen Time

Out now! If you ever wondered about Dogen's cryptic text in time and how it related to what Zen monks actually did in their monasteries-or how to read Dogen not as pre-Heideggerian, here's the book for you. @studyoftime.bsky.social
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Sociologist Nathan Kalman-Lamb, based in Fredericton, said he was required to hand over his phone during a recent trip to a conference in South Carolina. "He claimed that it was just going to be a very cursory search," Kalman-Lamb said, explaining the officer's actions are legal. "But the document that he gave me said they reserve the right to copy all the contents of your phone and distribute them to every American military and intelligence agency."

FYI

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In the Presence of Gods and Spirits: Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators <I>In the Presence of Gods and Spirits </I>brings to life the early nineteenth-century Japanese religious leader and scholar Hirata Atsutane, whose fear of Russian incursion onto Japan's soil led him ...

A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

We're delighted to share the new issue of Time's News, The International Society for the Study of Time's official members-based magazine. This issue celebrates the accomplishments of our members through interviews, articles, visual art surveys, ISST Council reflections, and a performance essay.

Things you learn at conferences during breaks: That the story that court ladies in Heian #Japan could not read or write #kanbun was an invention by #Murasaki Shikibu and probably meant to be funny.

This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!

Zen Time

Ten days to go!

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#Japanologentag: just happened-great panel in the intellectual history section on the topic of relations with #nature. Presentations by Morgaine Setzer and Mariko Jacoby on an 1837 primer on agriculture, Paulus Kaufmann on Saito's #degrowth communism, Sarah Schmid on early colonialist ideas + more!

Falls man sich fragt wie die offizielle deutsche Sicht auf Polen 2025 ist, ist hier ein Post des @bundeskultur.bsky.social in dem zum Gedenken an den Warschauer Aufstand 1944 ohne Kontext ein NS-Propagandafoto aus dem Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto 1943 verwendet wird. Bitter.

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

... politisch gewollt eben auch von Hamas, was Ärzte ohne Grenzen leider vergass zu erwähnen.
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Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

If you care for the fate of innocent people in Palestine, you should read this:
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So proud of my wife, who just received the dissertation prize of the University of Tübingen!

Henry Faulds and his Japanese Buddhist Albums We have had a few sweltering days in the Reading Room this week, but thankfully the weather has cooled off significantly, so it is a great relief. While the Society’s lecture programme is taking a rec...

Our JBAE project is now working together with the Royal Asiatic Society, where our previous chief curator, Dr. Tomoe Steineck, has just spent a day explaining and exploring an album from the Kanda Sotei school of painting. #JapaneseArt #JapaneseBuddhism royalasiaticsociety.org/henry-faulds...

Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.

A couple years ago we received a message about an article posted on the site discussed below. The chair of a hiring committee wanted to confirm that an applicant had published an article with us, as they claimed on their CV. The CV included a link to the applicants account on that site.

? where ? Standard coffee is black. Milchkaffee, capucchino, latte macchiato etc come with diary products, because this is in each case the original recipe. Nothing weird here, just path dependency.

Inventing the Way of the Samurai by @olegb.bsky.social explores the concept of “Bushido” from genesis in 19th C Japan as an “invented tradition” in response to European concepts to its postwar rehabilitation.

Susanne K. Langer A Legacy in Aesthetics Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985) was a prominent American philosopher whose work spanned logic, philosophy of art, and theory of mind. This selection delves into n

Looking for all things Susanne Langer? Check out this compilation of BSA articles on her work. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...

PhD scholarships on #Buddhism available in Germany!

The academy project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra”, hosted by the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, is inviting applications for a 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (with the possibility of extending it for a fourth year).
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Thank you for your work and your presence here and in other venues. Memory of you will linger and will be cherished! I hope the remaining time will be peaceful for you!

Would love to listen to this upcoming talk by Max Ward on the legacy of Japan's "Peace Preservation Law" (i.e. the law to suppress communist/socialist/anarchist movements): www.icc-sophia.com/_files/ugd/2...

They’re here 🎉
@versobooks.bsky.social

June 2-3: 2nd Swiss Japanese Studies Conference: "Centers and Peripheries". The program is ready: www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/...
Guests welcome!

JT Fraser, "time-smith" and founder of the International Society for the Study of Time was born on this day in 1923. His notion of "constitutive conflicts" is increasingly relevant today, as an antidote to ideas of final solutions of all kinds.
See brill.com/view/journal...

DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” Mr. Musk said. Pressed again, he said: “Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?”

One of my main teaching goals lately is to show that Buddhism is indeed a religion and not just a way of life, and that the Buddha is actually kinda central to it…