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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2d

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...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

www.burninghou.se

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Webinar beginning now!

Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 18d

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

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

www.thecrimson.com

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 16d

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...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 26d

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy
Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (deadline: October 7, 2025): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Associate Prof/Prof - Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

Details - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies with Specialization in Hindu Studies

jobs.sandiego.edu

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wish I could be there!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wonderful to hear that @rhcraig.bsky.social will be @upennrels.bsky.social as well - I'm sure your in for a powerfully uplifting lecture!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

Dr. Ralph Craig III, "Preachers and Inspired Eloquence in Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras" - Learn | Explore | Connect

September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - “Inspired eloquence” the foremost skill in the Mahāyāna Buddhist preacher’s rhetorical toolkit.

buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

actionnetwork.org

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · Aug 13

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"

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 9

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...

Qualities of Distinction: A New Perspective on the dhutaṅgas in the Pāli Canon

This essay explores the so-called dhutaṅgas (or dhutaguṇas), which are commonly understood as a group of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. Richard Gombrich expresses a widely accepted...

https://www.academia.edu/143337761/Qualities_of_Distinction_A_New_Perspective_on_the_dhutaṅgas_in_the_Pāli_Canon

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 9

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...

Qualities of Distinction: A New Perspective on the dhutaṅgas in the Pāli Canon

This essay explores the so-called dhutaṅgas (or dhutaguṇas), which are commonly understood as a group of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. Richard Gombrich expresses a widely accepted...

https://www.academia.edu/143337761/Qualities_of_Distinction_A_New_Perspective_on_the_dhutaṅgas_in_the_Pāli_Canon

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

American Historical Association @historians.org · Aug 5

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education

These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.

www.historians.org

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

The front cover of Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration by Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney.

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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