Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD
@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social
Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
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Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Jessica Taggart, Andrew Kennedy, and I have a new piece out that's about UVA's Faculty AI Guides program, but it's really about how centers for teaching and learning can be key players in an institution's response to disruption. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Responding to Disruption? Consult a Center for Teaching and Learning
A guest post by Derek Bruff, Andrew Kennedy and Jess Taggart.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Jessica Taggart, Andrew Kennedy, and I have a new piece out that's about UVA's Faculty AI Guides program, but it's really about how centers for teaching and learning can be key players in an institution's response to disruption. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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What links Sherlock Holmes, the British invasion of Tibet, and a royal gambling scandal? Andrew Glazzard investigates the domestic and imperial subterfuge beneath the surface of Holmes’ 1903 return to Baker Street in Conan Doyle’s “The Empty House” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What links Sherlock Holmes, the British invasion of Tibet, and a royal gambling scandal? Andrew Glazzard investigates the domestic and imperial subterfuge beneath the surface of Holmes’ 1903 return to Baker Street in Conan Doyle’s “The Empty House” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
Reposted by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
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The first 108 Buddhas in the West posts are now archived, tagged, and easy to browse! 🔍 🗺
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The first 108 Buddhas in the West posts are now archived, tagged, and easy to browse! 🔍 🗺
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
International Dunhuang Project website launched a new "learning" resource with a variety of collected materials.
idp.bl.uk/learning/dun...
idp.bl.uk/learning/dun...
Dunhuang – International Dunhuang Programme
IDP
idp.bl.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
International Dunhuang Project website launched a new "learning" resource with a variety of collected materials.
idp.bl.uk/learning/dun...
idp.bl.uk/learning/dun...
A discussion on a new publication that focus on the Chinese wu 巫.
criticaldivination.org/2025/09/03/i...
criticaldivination.org/2025/09/03/i...
ISCSD Book Talk Online | The Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and Their Successors - ISCSD e.V.
The International Society for the Critical Study of Divination (ISCSD) presents a Book Talk on The Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and Their Successors, edited by Johan Hausen. This landmark volum...
criticaldivination.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A discussion on a new publication that focus on the Chinese wu 巫.
criticaldivination.org/2025/09/03/i...
criticaldivination.org/2025/09/03/i...
"This databank seeks to bridge this gap by providing the most up-to-date comprehensive radiocarbon database of Chinese archaeology. This effort involves a systematic review of the relevant literature ... A total number of 7,083 radiocarbon dates...were collected."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
"This databank seeks to bridge this gap by providing the most up-to-date comprehensive radiocarbon database of Chinese archaeology. This effort involves a systematic review of the relevant literature ... A total number of 7,083 radiocarbon dates...were collected."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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He explores how learning management systems already constrain pedagogy by forcing educators to systematize learning into predetermined formats, and questions what happens when OpenAI's chatbot takes control of content production across these platforms #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #Podcast
OpenAI Has Come for Education
He explores how learning management systems already constrain pedagogy by forcing educators to systematize learning into predetermined formats, and questions what happens when OpenAI's chatbot takes control of content production across these platforms. Furze is particularly concerned about OpenAI's study mode—which he found pedagogically flawed despite claims of expert input—and sees it as part of a larger strategy to position the company as the solution to problems it helped create.
leonfurze.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
He explores how learning management systems already constrain pedagogy by forcing educators to systematize learning into predetermined formats, and questions what happens when OpenAI's chatbot takes control of content production across these platforms #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #Podcast
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At the #Shōsōin Exhibition:
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At the #Shōsōin Exhibition:
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
At the #Shōsōin Exhibition:
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At the #Shōsōin Exhibition:
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act.
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
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One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? - The Scholarly Kitchen
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
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The Perpetual Myths of Stereoscopy.
To commemorate Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 150th anniversary of his death, I thought I’d share a post to try and bring a sledgehammer to some of the perpetual myths of stereoscopy.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/10/19/t...
#Wheatstone150
To commemorate Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 150th anniversary of his death, I thought I’d share a post to try and bring a sledgehammer to some of the perpetual myths of stereoscopy.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/10/19/t...
#Wheatstone150
October 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Perpetual Myths of Stereoscopy.
To commemorate Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 150th anniversary of his death, I thought I’d share a post to try and bring a sledgehammer to some of the perpetual myths of stereoscopy.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/10/19/t...
#Wheatstone150
To commemorate Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 150th anniversary of his death, I thought I’d share a post to try and bring a sledgehammer to some of the perpetual myths of stereoscopy.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/10/19/t...
#Wheatstone150
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Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
president.yale.edu
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865), a wonderful book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, “ghosts everywhere and of any colour”. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865), a wonderful book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, “ghosts everywhere and of any colour”. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
On display at the #Shōsōin Exhibition in Nara:
8th century bronze mirror inlaid with mother-of-pearl, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. Chemical analysis shows mirror was made in China before becoming part of the collection of Emperor Shōmu (r. 724–749).
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
8th century bronze mirror inlaid with mother-of-pearl, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. Chemical analysis shows mirror was made in China before becoming part of the collection of Emperor Shōmu (r. 724–749).
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
On display at the #Shōsōin Exhibition in Nara:
8th century bronze mirror inlaid with mother-of-pearl, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. Chemical analysis shows mirror was made in China before becoming part of the collection of Emperor Shōmu (r. 724–749).
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
8th century bronze mirror inlaid with mother-of-pearl, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. Chemical analysis shows mirror was made in China before becoming part of the collection of Emperor Shōmu (r. 724–749).
www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur...
#正倉院
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco: "Through x-ray imaging, our conservators reveal the hidden structures and stories sealed inside these centuries-old sculptures. For the first time, we offer a hauntingly beautiful glimpse inside some of the museum’s oldest objects." (on IG)
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco: "Through x-ray imaging, our conservators reveal the hidden structures and stories sealed inside these centuries-old sculptures. For the first time, we offer a hauntingly beautiful glimpse inside some of the museum’s oldest objects." (on IG)
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Major works from the Okada Museum of Art, which was created by the Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada and is filled with a trove of Asian art he collected, are to be sold to resolve a $50 million legal bill left over from his dispute with the casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Museum’s Treasures to Be Sold as Founder Faces $50 Million Legal Bill
Prized pieces held by the Okada Museum of Art in Japan are being auctioned to settle a $50 million legal bill owed by the museum’s “Pachinko King” founder.
nyti.ms
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Major works from the Okada Museum of Art, which was created by the Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada and is filled with a trove of Asian art he collected, are to be sold to resolve a $50 million legal bill left over from his dispute with the casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Contemporary artist Yuma Matsumoto makes giant figures out of straw. His most recent was a giant cat.
Recent work: awrd.com/creatives/us...
#caturday
Recent work: awrd.com/creatives/us...
#caturday
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Contemporary artist Yuma Matsumoto makes giant figures out of straw. His most recent was a giant cat.
Recent work: awrd.com/creatives/us...
#caturday
Recent work: awrd.com/creatives/us...
#caturday
This article mentions research performed this year shows the tree that produced the Ranjatai aloeswood was felled in the 8th or 9th century.
#正倉院 #蘭奢待
www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai...
#正倉院 #蘭奢待
www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai...
「門外不出」を大衆に公開して１５０年…天下の名香に心奪われた元祖・学芸員の情熱きっかけ
【読売新聞】第７７回正倉院展が２５日、奈良市の奈良国立博物館で開幕する。天皇の勅封で守られてきた正倉院宝物は１８７５年（明治８年）、「第１回奈良博覧会」で初めて大衆に公開された。１５０年の節目に、「宝物をひらく」ことの意義を考える。
www.yomiuri.co.jp
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This article mentions research performed this year shows the tree that produced the Ranjatai aloeswood was felled in the 8th or 9th century.
#正倉院 #蘭奢待
www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai...
#正倉院 #蘭奢待
www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai...
