UKABS 2025 conference begins with keynote address by Prof Erica Baffelli on "Buddhism at the margins: crisis, community, and vulnerabilities" #buddhistconference #buddhism ukabs.org.uk/conferences/...

Keynote for UKABS coming up from @baffellierica.bsky.social

Truly enjoyed listening to @uomsalc.bsky.social researchers presenting their research projects at the annual SALC Research Showcase

The deadline for this CFP is today. After a request, the form will accept submissions until 10pm (not the original 5pm). We’re meeting to go through the proposals as soon as we can so hope to get back to everyone and open registration soon.

Scottish RME teachers: Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm University of Edinburgh Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact [email protected]

Coming up this week!

@uomsalc.bsky.social will be holding an online information session for potential applicants to the following schemes: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships. Link here: shorturl.at/opLFB

East Asian Studies Seminar coming up next week @uomsalc.bsky.social Iwashima, Fumi (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ‘Shared Washing Machines in Rural Japan: Embodied Experience of the Electrification of Home Life’ 4-6pm Tuesday 18 March Samuel Alexander Building A213A

Our next Fear Research Network (FeRN) seminar will be on April 2, 2025. Valentina Zagaria will present on “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town" events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:.... @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

2 PhD and 1 postdoc positions available on the RADHEART project. In beautiful Bergen and with an amazing project leader!

And one opening for a Phd Research fellow in the Study of Religion (Ancient Forms of #Christianity) #AncientBluesky #sblaar #AcRel #AncientChristianity www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Also two exciting PhD fellowships connected to the project: one in the Study of Religion (Hebrew Bible/Ancient Forms of Judaism) #AncientBluesky #sblaar #aarsbl #AcRel www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Another postdoc position in the Study of Religion @ UiBergen - this one for a research project on strong individual commitment in ancient forms of #Christianity, as part of the big ERC project RADHEART led by @laurafeldt.bsky.social 🌟 #AncientBluesky #AcRel #SBL www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Join us on Wednesday for this great talk! @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social

Come work with us in Geography at Manchester! We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography, particularly in the field of peatland science Closing date 27/03/2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Looking forward to being part of this interdisciplinary event in Bristol on March 11-12, bringing together academics, artists, and filmmakers to discuss how Japanese religious practices, media, and the arts have been shaped by and responded to the 3/11 tragedy. theartofrecovery.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Happening on Friday this week!

East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Happening on Wednesday this week!

Another public history project on our map. Minna de Honkoku (Japan) is a collaborative transcription project that converts historical Japanese cursive scripts into modern readable text. Thank you @emitozawa.bsky.social honkoku.org/index_en.html www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... #Japan #PublicHistory

🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨 Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French." www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...

Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!

Join @baffellierica.bsky.social, Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi on 28 February for their symposium on 'Robotics, Religion and Ethics', presented in partnership with @official-uom.bsky.social and the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 🤖 🔗Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Great job opportunity at The John Rylands Library www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Applications are now open for the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships @official-uom.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ypxjkce5 4 x Simon Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships/Hallsworth Chinese Political Economy Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships External Engagement and Impact Closing date: 7 March 2025.

🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

A month to go! Only a few tickets left. @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social

Our next EAS seminar will be on February 14. Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities) "Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan." tinyurl.com/5cbs98su @uomsalc.bsky.social

I will be giving a talk at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies in Oxford on Friday this week www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/event/religi...

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Starting up a very basic University of Manchester Humanities starter pack - please share and let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/FqiNqDp

Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

As Xmas approaches, please remember that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was animated in Japan by one of the masters of puppet animation, Mochinaga Tadahito, who also strongly influenced Chinese animation.

Happening today events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

The Fear Research Network (FeRN), led by @chikaw.bsky.social and yours truly, brings together researchers interested in the politics, feelings, and practices that converge around fear from historical and contemporary perspectives. tinyurl.com/ycx25kkb Here are some of our upcoming events at UoM

Less than 24 hours left to apply for our open-rank, open-field position in Japanese Law and Society at Oxford! Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Exciting news! New MA Arts, Culture and the Environment (MA ACE) launched at UoM!

How is Manchester tackling #healthinequalities? Join #HealthierFutures at #TheUniversityofManchester for our annual lecture on 28 Nov and discover how Cordelle Ofori, Director of #publichealth for #Manchester City Council, and team are #MakingManchesterFairer. All welcome. Register: lnkd.in/ewe-8nuY

Coming up later this week in Venezia. Supported by an AAR Collaborative Research Grant and by NICHE (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities). Looking forward to two days of conversations with a great group of researchers. www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University cijs.oii.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/deta...

Get a taste of a brand new book on University of Manchester and its interaction with the city, on Mon 18 Nov. ’Manchester Minds: A University History of Ideas’ has been written to mark the bicentenary of the University of Manchester. Get to know some of its great thinkers & more: bit.ly/4hzGnLg

A tenure track position in Japanese Studies or Japanese Culture is offered by University of Tsukuba's Malaysia Campus: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...

‘Yoko Tawada has absorbed not just a Japanese tradition of magical narration, but a German-Jewish tradition of transformation.’ Adam Thirlwell on the Japanese novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New issue of Journal for Religion, Film, and Media is out. This one focusing on... well, time travel. Open access, as always. jrfm.eu/index.php/oj...

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in History of Medicine and Health - permanent position at the University of Manchester

Nothing better than Venice in late November for the “Buddhist Foodways: Vegetarianism, Ritual Economies and Geopolitics” workshop hosted by the New Institute: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at the Ca' Foscari University.

For anyone curious about the history of emotions and allied fields, here are some starter resources, accessible for students and professionals alike. 1. The public lecture series organised by NACHE/SIHEX in English and Spanish and freely available here: mars.gmu.edu/collections/...