#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...

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...

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...

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 Mahāyāna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner! buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/inspi...

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& 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...

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"

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...

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...

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...

According to the American Historical Association @historians.org, "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is." You can download the report here in which they explain all the ways they claim that AI can be useful in the classroom.

If the authors (including @letteney.bsky.social) are right about the pervasiveness of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean world, then this book will require a paradigm shift in how we think about coercion and social control in antiquity. Not often that the historiographic stakes are so high!

Some more teasers for After Transformation, and a discount code for 30% off if you pre-order through Duke UP. The code is: E25KTRST See here: dukeupress.edu/after-transf... #classicsbluesky #byzantinebluesky #ancientbluesky

I’m behind on all of my planned reading these last couple of months, but I’ve taken peeks at the three of these because I just can’t wait. Mandatory reading, all of them.

Fabulous Fall Buddhist Studies Lecture Series line up presented by the National University of Singapore Buddhist Studies Group!

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

Now downloadable w/o paywall @dukepress.bsky.social in #CSSAAME: my most recent study which attempts to answer the question, What does it mean to talk about #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion? tinyurl.com/2zu4pe4m

Working on humanistic approaches to premodern Japanese law? Apply to come see us at UCLA! ⬇️ Share widely with colleagues around the world! Presentations can be in either English or Japanese.

Academic friends, I am in touch with a prospective PhD candidate who is looking for potential departments and supervisors - could you please share this and/or hit me up with any suggestions? It is outside of my areas of expertise, really [email protected]

Really excited to see my and @ardenthistorian.bsky.social 's pieces on the nerdy fascism of Palantir up @religiondispatches.org -- give it a read, those people are weird and awful. religiondispatches.org/fool-of-a-to...

Dharmamitra got a significant update: We now feature fast OCR for Sanskrit, Tibetan, etc. powered by Gemini. You can upload images and PDFs. We also added an option to translate from files directly, instead of needing to go through OCR manually first!

The linked article lists Classical Studies as one of the departments at Indiana University that "could lose its main offerings." This is a major US university with a distinguished tradition in Classics. Dire news.

Video up of my Milk Tea Alliance pub day event at JF Books (the reborn in DC version of Shanghai's legendary Jifeng Books, which I visited often in the 2010s)-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClrR... . (For a sense of why JF Books is so special, see this by Amy Hawkins www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... )

“OpenAI, Coursera, and many other EdTech startups, fantasize about utilizing public and not-for-profit educational infrastructure - our data repositories, labor forces, real estate, and tax havens - to transform themselves into technofeudalists.”

If I were in NYC tonight, this is where I'd be...

June 8-14 Summer lecture series in NYC - Lewis Gordon Homi Bhabha @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Rashid Khalidi www.criticalsocialinquiry.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

A thirteenth-century Japanese picture scroll shows monks deliberating whether to go to the capital to stage a protest. Those in agreement proclaim: “mottomo, mottomo”—that is appropriate, that is appropriate. (See Adolphson, Gates of Power, 252). #ManuscriptMonday colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

Proofs for my forthcoming book. Out in November. See here: dukeupress.edu/after-transf... #ancientbluesky #byzantinebluesky

I'm going to try and boil down the argument of the book I'm writing, The Hebrew Bible: A Counterhistory. It has the advantage of being based on something totally banal that everybody knows but I don't think we have a satisfying way to think about. 1/5

Now out: my article answering the question: What does it mean to talk about #Indian #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion? Download here: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...

UGent Buddhist Studies Lecture: “Visualising Rituals in Gandhara” by Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, June 05, 2025 Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU... www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...

My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...

In my first op-ed for @nytimes.com, I argue that the alliance between Silicon Valley & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Thank you to Dheepa Sundaram @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & Rohit Chopra @rohit.bsky.social for all their work editing the just published May 2025 #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social special volume "Religion and Its Publics in South Asia" Entire Issue free for download: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue

hey friends, you can now pre-order my element. and if you don’t want to pre-order, don’t worry! it’ll be free for download for about two weeks after publication.

May 22nd - Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's online lecture on her new book, _Women who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism and Governance in the Sixth Century_ Register Below: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Jessica Zu's fantastic interview with Stephanie Balkwill about Prof. Balkwill's new _The Women who Ruled China_ @ucpress.bsky.social ! #Buddhistfeministhistoriography newbooksnetwork.com/the-women-wh...

Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a #Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers buff.ly/KwIfpA9 Stephanie Balkwill, University of California, Los Angeles

How exciting! Thank you for writing this @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social! Really looking forward to reading!

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Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Chandrabhan Yadav for the final lecture of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) Friday, May 16 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!

Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Chandrabhan Yadav for the final lecture of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) Friday, May 16 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!

I can tell you one thing about this study: this is absolutely not true, no one who teaches in a humanities classroom thinks it's true, nothing has ever been less true, and it's extremely not true

How did Mughal understandings of the historical past evolve and change over time? This is the question explored in my new essay, which focuses particularly on the early eighteenth century. It is open access, and I look forward to your comments. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to share that the Indian print edition of my book, Pious Labor, is *coming soon* from Three Essays Collective!

My article on racial capitalism and caste in Historical Materialism: “The longevity of caste has not to do with its moorings in tradition, but the powerful counterrevolutionary forces that have foiled caste emancipation again and again.” www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/wher...

Archive | #DalitHistoryMonth: Karthick Ram Manoharan explores the energetic and ongoing debate on caste and representation in Tamil cinema, with the director Mari Selvaraj and his film Maamannan.