New monograph in production on comparative mantric practices (e.g., in Vedic rituals, Tibetan Buddhist rites, early Christian invocations, modern manifestation practices), empowered speech acts, and relationships between humans and divinities: www.bloomsbury.com/us/social-li...

March 9 - New deadline for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar - for friends whose work overlaps with these topics, please disseminate in your networks!

New deadline for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar - for friends whose work overlaps with these topics, please disseminate in your networks!

March 6 - Proposals for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar due on PAPERS system here (scroll to seminar link for CFP): tinyurl.com/3t9tfpvc. Instructions for submission are provided here: tinyurl.com/7fsbxx6a

March 6 - Proposals for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar due on PAPERS system here (scroll to seminar link for CFP): tinyurl.com/3t9tfpvc. Instructions for submission are provided here: tinyurl.com/7fsbxx6a

Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

On March 6th, I'll be speaking at Harvard about recent upheavals in Japan and why we must attend to religion to fully comprehend realignments now taking shape within Japanese politics. Thanks to Paula Kolata for making this event happen: rijs.fas.harvard.edu/events/relig...

Friends, Feb 6, 1PM PST please join Prof. Jessica Zu @jessicaxzu.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her recently published _Just Awakening_ (purchase here: cup.columbia.edu/book/just-aw...) Sign up for virtual conversation with Prof. Zu below!

I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out! Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings. Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...

The latest issue of JAOS has been published, #145.4 (2025). This will be the last one under the old name. Starting next year, the journal will appear under its new name, JASPA: Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia. lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @aspa1842.bsky.social 1/

There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!! The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!

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!

Join us - starting now!

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: 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!

Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!

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...

Webinar beginning now!

REMINDER: Oct 3, my ONLINE Khyentse Lecture at Northwestern: “Comparative Subalternities” 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 “Comparative Subalternities” 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

Everyone 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...

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]