Ben Van Overmeire
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Author of American Koan. Zen Buddhism. Outer Space. Weird stuff. Pedagogy. Father. Board gamer.
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Ben Van Overmeire
The Onion
6 months ago
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Honored to have contributed an op-ed in
@tricyclemag.bsky.social
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tricycle.org/article/read...
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Words as Windows
Reading, writing, and the Zen paradox
https://tricycle.org/article/reading-writing-zen-paradox/
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site.
#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph
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âReading is part of my identityâ: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readersâ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/16/goodreads-amazon-nadia-odunayo-the-storygraph
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Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)
6 months ago
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One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.
6 months ago
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"But the best thing I can say about Van Overmeireâs bookâand for me, this is high praiseâis that it will send me back to read these books again, or in a few cases, for the first time. His insightful survey gives them a fresh feel and paints a vivid portrait of Zen practice today."
bit.ly/4k5GyyQ
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American Zen Retold
How koans and autobiographical narratives reveal the evolution of Zen practice in America
https://tricycle.org/magazine/koans-and-american-zen-literature/
6 months ago
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6 months ago
via Julie Zaugg
@lemonde.fr
Au Royaume-Uni, les universitĂ©s sacrifiĂ©es sur lâautel de la rentabilitĂ© : « Elles se sont muĂ©es en fournisseurs de prestations Ă©ducatives » Des dĂ©partements entiers et des postes dâenseignants-chercheurs sont supprimĂ©s.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
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Au Royaume-Uni, les universitĂ©s sacrifiĂ©es sur lâautel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muĂ©es en fournisseurs de prestations Ă©ducatives »
Les Ă©tablissements ont accentuĂ© lâapproche entrepreneuriale de lâenseignement supĂ©rieur mise en place par les conservateurs Ă partir de 2010. Des dĂ©partements entiers et des postes dâenseignants-cherc...
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2025/05/20/au-royaume-uni-les-universites-au-regime-managerial-elles-se-sont-muees-en-fournisseurs-de-prestations-educatives-vendues-au-plus-offrant_6607258_4401467.html
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Ben Van Overmeire
The Conversation U.S.
8 months ago
Japanese
#anime
like the film "Demon Slayer" blends thrilling action with deep spiritual themes, drawing on Buddhist, Shinto, and samurai traditions to explore fate, sacrifice, and moral struggles. A philosophy and religious studies professor explains:
buff.ly/2oK5vbM
#religion
#philosophy
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How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty
âDemon Slayer: Mugen Trainâ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.
https://buff.ly/2oK5vbM
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Essential reading for educators today:
thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-d...
. Justin McDaniel's approach has long informed my own thinking on higher education in the age of AI. What if we used the institutional presence of the university to restrain student access to technology to free their mind?
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Welcome to Despair
https://thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-despair/?
6 months ago
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Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.
6 months ago
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Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.
9 months ago
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First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf!
brill.com/.../jour.../...
10 months ago
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Join us at CC6D for a discussion of translation across different religions!
#sblaar24
12 months ago
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For those of you at
#aarsbl24
, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space
12 months ago
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Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!
12 months ago
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So proud to find my book at
#SBLAAR24
!
12 months ago
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Virginia University Press published a short interview with me about my book American Koan. If you're interested, you can also use their website to pre-order the book. Check it out!
upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
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Author's Corner with Ben Van Overmeire, author of AMERICAN KOAN
<p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Ben Van Overmeire, author of <em>American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical L
https://upress.virginia.edu/author-corner/authors-corner-with-ben-van-overmeire-author-of-american-koan/
about 1 year ago
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So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Wat ze bedoelen is dat vrouwen kiezen voor een eigen carriĂšre en zelfontplooiing. Voor mannen was dat altijd al heel normaal, met steun van hun vrouwen. Maar die hebben daar dus geen zin meer in. Met je YOLO generatie.
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Genderongelijkheid en 'yolo-generatie' leiden tot babycrisis in Zuid-Korea
Het geboortecijfer in Zuid-Korea is niet alleen extreem laag door hoge kosten en genderongelijkheid. Ook de zogenoemde 'yolo-generatie' speelt een rol, zeggen experts tegen persbureau Reuters. De autoriteiten zijn zeer bezorgd over het dalende geboortecijfer.
https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6325994/genderongelijkheid-en-yolo-generatie-leiden-tot-babycrisis-in-zuid-korea.html
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Honored to be Featured Faculty on DKU's Center for the Study of Contemporary China's website. Read on for my thoughts on Zen, autobiography, and Buddhism in space!
www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/feature...
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Featured Faculty: Ben Van Overmeire - CSCC | Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Â Ben Van Overmeire is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DKU. Prof. Van Overmeire has been a dynamic force within the CSCC, co-leading the
https://www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/featured-faculty-ben-van-overmeire/
about 1 year ago
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H-Net Reviews
over 1 year ago
New book review: Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism. Read here:
networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...
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Kieschnick, John. Buddhist Historiography in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231205634. Reviewed by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University) Published on H-Buddhism (May, 2024) Commissioned by Stuart H. Young (Bucknell University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60185
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20033718
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