Nicholas Witkowski
@npwitkowski
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Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
San Diego/Kyoto/Taipei
Joined July 2016
Proofs (w/ pagination) now available for my 2025 article, “Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity” with #CSSAAME @DukePress . Download here: #monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
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How Brahmins became Brahmins! @TimothyLubin's illuminating scholarship on how the ritual power of the Brahmins became enshrined in practical political and economic power!. @ambedkariteIND @Profdilipmandal @ambedkar_center @AmbedkarCaravan @SoasAmbedkarSoc .
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My lecture @UCLA, "Searching for the Ancient #Dalit #Buddhist" in the #death economy is now hybrid. Friends who wish to join virtually, pls reg for ZOOM here: #DalitLivesMatter . @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkar_center @SouthAsiaYale
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For friends interested in a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Critical #Caste Studies @uchicago's Committee on Southern Asian Studies!. @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkariteIND @ambedkarism_ @caste_city @karwaanheritage @DalrympleWill @dalitdiva @dalitwomenfight.
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UPDATE: I will be leaving Singapore to join the Department of Theology and Religious Studies as Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies @uofsandiego. To my students and colleagues @ntuhistory: Thank you for 4 years of tremendous camaraderie!
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Request for #BuddhistStudies community! Can anyone provide the source for image below?. This would be much appreciated!
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March 16, 8:30AM India Time (IST), my lecture @CRS_Mahidol on #Dalit Power in Early #Buddhist Monasteries (vihāra) and the resistance against #Brahminization.
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JOB: South Asian Studies Critical #Caste Studies Post-doc @BrandeisU. Applications due March 3rd!.
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Sept 1 deadline: Scholars in South and Southeast Asia: Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants via @aasasianstudies.
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My forthcoming piece (preprint below) in CSSAAME @DukePress, “Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”. LINK:
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FULL TEXT of my new piece arguing that certain early #Indian #Buddhist asceticisms were #antiBrahminical in character. Link: . This piece is part of a wonderful homage volume to Jonathan Z. Smith just published w/ Equinox Press as part of the NAASR Series.
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Consider following @NTUSouthAsia - a newly funded research initiative @NTUsg organized by @HinchyJessica @TapsiMathur @rtujain and myself @NTUHistory - Watch this space for news on upcoming fellowships, seminars, lectures, conversations and publications on South Asia!
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A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's @Routledge_Phil _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. Link:
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My forthcoming piece builds upon my earlier work to demonstrate how MANY Indian #Buddhist monastics resisted #Brahmanical (#caste-based) purity politics!. @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @Rad_Ambedkarite @ambedkarism_ @ambedkariteIND @AmbedkarCaravan .
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Feb 24, I'll be speaking about the suppressed histories of Dalit/"outcaste" Buddhist monastics in early Indian Buddhism - do join us at this important conference @CanopyForum @EmoryLaw! Reg below. @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkarism_ @_ambedkarite @believe_0369.
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A preview @CriticAsianStds of my new approach to reading for low/out-caste Buddhist challenges to premodern Brahmanical imperial power. @AmbedkarCaravan @H_Buddhism @NTUHistory @critresrel @U_K_A_B_S @Buddhistdoor @canbuddhist @ProjectRS @NewBooksHindu .
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Can you #meditate #properly if you don't understand the #cultural #contexts in which meditation emerged? David McMahan's new book "Rethinking Meditation" addresses this question directly. Coming out this month @OUPReligion!. #meditationiscultural .
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My talk on #Caste and subaltern agency in Indian Buddhism @AmbedkarCaravan!. @Ambedkar_Boys @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @U_K_A_B_S @ColumbiaReli @ReligionUIUC @ReligionUQ @UChiDivinity @UniVie_RELS @UFreligion @BucknellRelS @AZ_Reli_Studies @GUberkleycenter.
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Great resource for thinking about Buddhism and gender (as if one could do otherwise. ).
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Congratulations to @AudreyTruschke and her co-defendants on the dismissal of the #SLAPPsuit (thanks also to @iamjohnoliver for publicizing the danger of SLAPP lawsuits) by the Hindu America Foundation! Another victory against ultranationalist chauvinism!.
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Finally read @AudreyTruschke's fantastic history of the term "Hindu" @CSSHJournal, a tremendous resource for those who love #truth more than the false fathers of #Fascism. Do check out other fabulous offerings at @CSSHJournal, a truly wonderful journal!.
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5 April on youtube @asenevents, Prof Prasenjit Duara's @DukeTrinity @DukeAADS talk _Nationalism and the Crisis of Modernity_. @NTUHistory @ntu_humanities @NUSHistory @nus_ari @ISASNus @OxfordSAIH @modernism_asia @HNationalism @APSAtweets @AHAhistorians
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The Museum für Asiatische Kunst has made their entire Gandhāra collection available online.
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To understand why alt-right BuddhaBros like @elonmusk embrace Buddhist ritual items like the #vajra, read @agleig @globalbuddhism. @SOAS_CBS @U_K_A_B_S @ccbs_studies @H_Buddhism @BuddhistEthics @ambedkarism_ @Stanford_RePoCu @ICLSColumbia @StanfordReligSt.
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My expanded #AAR2020 talk @AmbedkarCaravan discussing #caste & subaltern agency in the Indian Buddhist monastery. via @FacebookWatch .@BodiesBuddhist @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @Ambedkar_Boys @Himalistan @Sacred_Writes @Religions_MDPI @NTUHistory @ShinIBS.
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Jan 26 - My lecture @Stanford's Ho Center for Buddhist Studies @HumanAtStanford - a follow-up to my lecture @UCLA on #Dalit #Buddhism and #caste-based #economics. Lecture details here: Searching for Ancient #Dalit #Buddhism!
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My full conversation w/ @bsod_nams about his magisterial new book @ColumbiaUP available here: @MarzennaJ @theBSHP @RIPhilo @HistPhilosophy @tricyclemag @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @NewBooksBuddha @NewBooksNetwork @StanfordEthics @UBCPhilosophy
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Jan 17 I'll be speaking to the fantastic @AmbedkarCaravan about whether Indian Buddhism was a religion of the "middle way." . Join us 10PM Singtime/730PM IST/3PM CET/9AM EST.@BodiesBuddhist @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @NTUHistory @religionpublife @BuddhistEthics @nocontextbuddha.
Mark your calendars as I talk to Prof @npwitkowski on Asceticism, Indian Buddhism and many more things. Sunday 17th January.7:30pm IST. Join us at If you have any questions for @npwitkowski, send those. His work is available at
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Sept: Exciting Conference: SA & Indian Ocean Temple Cultures and Premodern Worlds @khiflorenz @YaleMacMillan . @UWSouthAsia @ISASatBerkeley @MittalInstitute @SOAS_SAI @OxfordSAIH @ISASNus @IndianOceanJnl @JournalIOR @Religions_MDPI @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @isawnyu @csen_nomads
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What does the discourse of #poverty sound like in ancient #Japanese #Buddhism? Prof. @bryandaniellowe @Princeton explains @ReligionTrust @NTUHistory 29 October! Reg. here: @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @BuddhistEthics @UCSBEastAsian @FairbankCenter
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My new piece argues that revolutionary new practitioners of #outcaste #death asceticism in late ancient India challenged the purity power of #Brahmins in the #Buddhist monastery. Preprint here: Purchase the volume here @EQUINOXPUB:
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Feb 25 Join us @NTUSouthAsia for Lucinda Ramberg's @CornellAnthro @SAPCornell talk on her new book project "Dalit Futures and Sexual Modernity in South India"!. @Himalistan @UofGGenderHist @FeminismInIndia @womnknowhistory @MissionAmbedkar @AmbedkarCaravan @ICLSColumbia @JHistSex
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March 22 - Friends, please join us for my upcoming lecture @smithcollege on how #Indian #Buddhist women monastics navigated channels of spiritual and public power in late ancient South Asia!
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Out now! Matthew King's @UCR_religion @UCRideas exciting study, "In the Forest of the Blind: Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" @ColumbiaUP: @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @ShinIBS @ccbs_studies @rrcs_journal @CCS_CUHK @CscrTw @MIC_Journal
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Is Buddhism strictly about #meditation & personal cultivation? No, argue @StephBalkwill and @James_A_Benn in their excellent volume on Buddhist Statecraft, @BrillPublishing. If the personal is always political, we must rethink our view of Buddhism as a religion only of self-help.
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Reading my @NTUHistory colleague @HinchyJessica's _Governing Gender_ in tandem with @durbakatha's _Indian Sex Life_. These excellent studies argue powerfully that we continue to live in the shadow of colonial epistemologies of sexual deviance--Both highly recommended texts.
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Very exciting piece by @surajyengde @pubcultjournal thinking through the categories of race and caste as Black America encountered #Ambedkar.
“Dalit in Black America.Race, Caste, and the Making of Dalit-Black Archives” is out. @PubCultJournal . credits to @vyjayanthirao @faisaldevji @fstflofscholars @ArjunAppadurai @CornelWest @HenryLouisGates @KhalilGMuhammad . link:
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Jon Keune's exciting lecture on #Ambedkar in Japan, Nov 30 15:30-16:30 JST: ID: 955 5231 9858.Passcode: 059486. @ccbs_studies @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkar_center @Rad_Ambedkarite @ambedkarism_ @H_Buddhism @BuddhistEthics @MHCHarvard @SouthAsiaYale @dalitdiva
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Tomorrow! What does it mean to be a FEMALE cakravartin (universal #Buddhist monarch)? @StephBalkwill discusses @FairbankCenter @MHCHarvard Reg here: . @canbuddhist @U_K_A_B_S @BuddhistEthics @UCSBReligion @WEAI_Columbia @ColumbiaReli @AmbedkarCaravan
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Many thanks indeed to the organizers and colleagues #sblaar22 @SBLsite @AARWeb for making sure that our families are welcome at conferences - in my case, for my partner @sofiafineart & baby Kanishka (photos below).
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April 29 - Looking forward to Dr. Charles DiSimone's @GhentCBS lecture @u_west on new finds in Gandhāran Buddhism!. @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @U_K_A_B_S @StudiesBuddhist @canbuddhist @SOAS_CBS @nocontextbuddha @isawnyu @SOAS_SAI @CSASCambridge @MHCHarvard @StanfordReligSt
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Great new issue of CSSAAME @DukePress with articles on modern Buddhism in South Asia, Caste, Hindu appropriations of Buddhism - wonderful work by @elizawillo, @cascadechild, @JohnMar37519591 among others
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Dec 3 - Join me @NTUSouthAsia for a discussion with Prof. Sonam Kachru @bsod_nams @UVA_ReliSt about his fantastic new book _Other Lives_ @ColumbiaUP. Register here @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @NewBooksBuddha @canbuddhist @UWSouthAsia @ISASatBerkeley @UChiDelhi
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Very curious about #Vinaya at Dunhuang - Zhan Ru's dissertation on the topic @BrillPublishing!. Available here:
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How exciting - @StephBalkwill's new book on #Buddhism, #multiculturalism and #governance - _The Women who Ruled China_ out soon @ucpress!.
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Prof. Paul Harrison @StanfordReligSt has completed the translation of the Sanskrit Vimalakīrtinirdeśa begun with Luis Gomez @MangalamRC. @NewBooksBuddha @U_K_A_B_S @canbuddhist .@H_Buddhism @StudiesBuddhist @tricyclemag @nyzencenter @upayazen @ColumbiaReli.
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New Buddhist Studies publication: _Monks, Money and Morality_ @BloomsburyPub! . @ccbs_studies @canbuddhist @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @NewBooksBuddha @BuddhistEthics @RiceRPLP @critresrel @UTKreligion @ShinIBS @uoftcbs @BarreStudies @tricyclemag @NTUHistory .
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Congratulations to John Kieschnick @StanfordReligSt on winning the Numata Prize for his _Buddhist Historiography in China_ @ColumbiaUP!.
Congratulations to John Kieschnick, whose BUDDHIST HISTORIOGRAPHY IN CHINA has won of the 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism! A well-deserved honor for a truly excellent and important book. @ColumbiaUP
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@caselchris1 Do these people even read the scripture?. Mānava Dharmaśāstra [10:51] Cāṇḍālas and śvapacas , however, must live outside the village. caṇḍālaśvapacānāṃ tu bahir grāmāt pratiśrayaḥ|.
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JOBS: 4-position Cluster Hire in Asian Studies.Ancient Studies.Political Science.History.Philosophy.
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Just read one of the most sophisticated pieces in Religious Studies published in recent years. Fascinating theorization of religion, economics and the corporate body by @jolyonbt Chika Watanabe @AikeRots @mclaughlin_levi. @AARWeb @H_Buddhism @JJRS_NIRC .
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Today 8PM India Standard Time (IST)- the inimitable Wendy Doniger @UChicagoHum on #horses and the assimilation of #foreigners in India @karwaanheritage facebook page. @SOAS_SAI @CSASCambridge @southasianhist @Yashaswini_Ch @DalrympleWill @MittalInstitute @res_australes @isawnyu
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Aaron Proffitt's @bukkyogaku History of Pure Land @LionsRoar is a model of public-facing Religious Studies!. @SOAS_CBS @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @U_K_A_B_S @ColumbiaReli @StanfordReligSt @FairbankCenter @SSSReligion @nus_ari @TangInstitute @andrewmarkhenry.
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Oct 14 - Dr. Trent Walker @StanfordReligSt will speak about Cambodian Buddhism in vernacular and cosmopolitan idioms @uhcseas!. @newmandala @seacsydney @ASEAS_UK @nus_ari @NTUHistory @ckscambodia @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @canbuddhist @KeepWisdomAlive @NYSEA_network @SEASI_BrownU
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June 23-24: International Perspectives on Buddhism in East Asia - A Symposium in Honor of William Bodiford @UCLA. Register here:
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Can the Buddhist monastic lifestyle truly liberate women from wifehood and motherhood? @LangenbergAmy's incisive new historiography of Indian women!. @U_K_A_B_S @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkarquote @BuddhistEthics @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @womnknowhistory .
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Buddhist Studies Friends - Do you teach "no-self" as a core concept of Buddhism in your classes? @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @HistPhilosophy. Currently reading Joseph Walser's article @ShinIBS arguing that this distorts students' conceptions of Buddhism.
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Essential Reading in RelStud! @LangenbergAmy's @AARWeb excellent NEW piece theorizing law, women's bodies, and blood. @Religions_MDPI @Religion1971 @Women_Scholars @H_WRBI @EMREM_Forum @Sacred_Writes @womnknowhistory @eu_are @OUPReligion @sacred_podcast.
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FULL lecture @HumanAtStanford @StanfordReligSt on #Dalit monastics & resistance to Brahminization in early Buddhist monasteries. For colleagues in #India, SE Asia and Japan unable to make my @UCLAINTL lecture, themes of #subaltern monasticism are covered.
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Was "outcaste" #TANTRIC cemetery practice at CORE of (Buddhist) Indian monasticism at turn of CE?NOW open access @AARWeb: @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @canbuddhist @RDispatches @UCSBReligion @AmbedkarCaravan @Sacred_Writes.
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Dec 8-9 @UCLA, @StephBalkwill & Diego Loukota hosting Conference: Reed, Brush, Chisel: Script, Literacy, and Writing Across Central and East Asia (400–1800), w/ Keynote by @VHansenYear1000 @Yale . Register here:
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Great conversation between @MStanleyBaker and @piercesalguero on Michael's new edited volume, _Situating #religion and #medicine in Asia_.@ManchesterUP at Blue Beryl (!.
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My recent talk on the influence of "outcaste" cultural practices over South Asian legal traditions & religious publics @CanopyForum @EmoryLaw. @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkarism_ @Rad_Ambedkarite @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @ccbs_studies @SouthAsiaYale @MHCHarvard .
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Check out fantastic Buddhist Studies talks coming up @GhentCBS, including @mattdmilligan on Buddhist economics March 30!. @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @U_K_A_B_S @NewBooksBuddha @BarreStudies @tricyclemag @KeepWisdomAlive @ColumbiaReli @Religions_MDPI @WhereRelLives @NTUHistory.
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The Closing of the Young Minds of Southeast Asia: Post-colonial Universities in the Service of Autocratic States
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My FULL online lecture @MahidolU, "Impure Labor and the #Dalit Presence in Early #Buddhist Monasteries," an #Ambedkarite lens on late ancient South Asia, available here: .
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Sept 19 - How can classical Buddhist sexual ethics help w/ cases of sexual abuse in contemporary Buddhism? Organized by @agleig & @LangenbergAmy supported by @HLuceFdn. @canbuddhist @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @StudiesBuddhist @tricyclemag . Reg:
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I view @dillivali's _Merchants of Virtue_ as one of the most important texts for rethinking #caste, but haven't yet put my thoughts down in print. Joel Lee @WilliamsCollege has done so, and very eloquently indeed!.
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Feb 4 - Join us @NTUHistory @NTUSouthAsia @ntu_humanities for Sunil Amrith's @yale_history lecture on Migration & Environment in South & SEAsia! Reg here: @SouthAsiaYale @ISASNus @MPIWG @NYSEA_network @CSASCambridge @SoutheastAsiaDC @SOAS_SAI @MHCHarvard
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Sexuality and Histories of South Asia I @NTUHistory w/ Profs Indrani Chatterjee @UTIHS1 & Durba Mitra .@durbakatha @Harvard!. @ccbs_studies @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @StudiesBuddhist @BuddhistEthics @NewBooksSAsia @GentIndia @MittalInstitute @CUHistoryDept .
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Superb Upcoming Lecture Series in Indian Philosophy: "On the Problem of Other Minds" @iitbombay. Particularly looking forward to @bsod_nams's lecture 3/2! . @MarzennaJ @glob_philosophy @theBSHP @GentIndia @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @HiPhiGlobal @OxfordSAIH @UWSouthAsia @NTUHistory
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Register here for our 2nd @NTUSouthAsia Seminar (Sept 24)- Dr. Arunima Datta's @migrationhist discussion of her book _Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya_!. @womnknowhistory @ACSouthAsia @UWSouthAsia @ISASNus @CSEASUCB @kucseas @seapcornell @ANUIndonesia
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What great lectures on #Buddhism of late @NUSingapore! Do we have @jackmtchia to thank? Fri Oct 13 Prof. James Robson @Harvard on bird, beasts and "bat monks"!
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My colleagues @TapsiMathur @HinchyJessica @NTUHistory @rtujain and I are delighted to present Prof. Radhika Singha as the first speaker in our new @NTUSouthAsia lecture series- Follow our new @NTUsg research initiative @NTUSouthAsia for updates on an exciting year of programming!
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Fantastic set of arguments for why narrative should be central to the study of Buddhism @StudiesBuddhist w/@andy_rotman and Reiko Ohnuma. @H_Buddhism @U_K_A_B_S @NewBooksBuddha @AmbedkarCaravan @lithub @AmOrientalSoc @NarrativeMag @Narratively .
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In her excellent talk @CanopyForum @AudreyTruschke asks "Can we craft a history of South Asia that recovers caste-oppressed peoples and voices?" . @MHCHarvard @CSASCambridge @SOAS_SAI @ambedkarism_ @Himalistan @SouthAsiaAU @NTUHistory @IgnoredIndia.
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Nov 12 - Join @NTUSouthAsia ( for @MythriJega's lecture "Matrifocal Labor Histories on Sri Lanka's Plantations"
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What are the Buddhist law codes (vinaya) and what do they teach us about what it means to be Buddhist- check out vinaya expert, Prof @LangenbergAmy's piece @LionsRoar!. @AmbedkarCaravan @ambedkariteIND @ShinIBS @MissionAmbedkar @ambedkarism_ @ccbs_studies.
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Just wanted to extend a note of appreciation to @StephBalkwill for going above and beyond to provide maximum financial support to @yuxuan_tay as he begins his journey in Buddhist Studies @UCLA! There is no greater blessing than a mentor who cares deeply about student success!.
I am pleased to announce I have a lil' bit more to survive in LA for the next few years 🥺. My immense gratitude goes to my future supervisor @StephBalkwill and all the Profs in the ALC department who supported my nomination 🥺
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Lovely to see Prof. John Kieshnick's @StanfordReligSt NEW _Buddhist Historiography in China_ @ColumbiaUP making the rounds! Thank you @SophieZhao94!.
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Tomorrow April 22 @migrationhist discusses her new book FLEETING AGENCIES, a social history of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya!. @NTUHistory @NewBooksNetwork @LSESEAC @nus_ari @ISASNus @CamGendSexHist @global_thoughts @MittalInstitute @NIHSAnetwork @BASASofficial @SOAS_SAI.
SAVE THE DATE! The @IdahoStateU Department of History is proud to host a webinar featuring Dr. Arunima Datta, @migrationhist, who will discuss her new book, FLEETING AGENCIES, on April 22 at 3 pm MT. Everyone is welcome! @ISUArtsLetters . Register here:
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I am delighted to share the first article of our grad student @SohEsmond @NTUHistory on the SE Asian diaspora Chinese religion Zhenkongjiao!. @CscrTw @rrcs_journal @CCS_CUHK @MIC_Journal @asiarhk @FairbankCenter @NYSEA_network @CCSEAS_CCEASE @nus_ari.
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Interested in theo-economics across monastic traditions? Highly recommend Chap 5 from @BertheJansen's excellent _Monastery Rules_ @ucpress: @tibetscapes @H_Buddhism @ccbs_studies @nus_ari @ReligionEconomy @AncientEconomy @NewBooksBuddha @GlobalLateAntiq
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Nick's new JAAR @OUPReligion article arguing from #materialculture that #ascetic #Buddhist #monks challenged #brahmanism in #medieval #India. @AARWeb @AASAsianStudies @NewBooksBuddha @canbuddhist @tricyclemag @H_Buddhism .
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In their open-access article ( @SaskiaAbrahmsK & @mattdmilligan argue that #wealth & #merriment are foundational #Buddhist concepts!. @ccbs_studies @H_Buddhism @canbuddhist @tibetscapes @hpeaks @WhereRelLives @ColumbiaReli @BuddhistEthics @Buddhistdoor
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Join Prof. Jon Keune for his lecture @SophiaUniv_ENG, 330PM (JST) Nov 30 on "Indian #Ambedkarites in East Asia"! Zoom link below!
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So pleased to see Rafal Stepien's @NTUsg new edited volume, _Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature_ @SUNYPress (! Contents at @NewBooksBuddha @NTUHistory @NewBooksPhil @MarzennaJ @Religion1971 @AARWeb
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Buddhist Studies and art historian friends - looking for recommended scholarship on this statue of Kūya (空也 903-972) h/t @woodsidesusan2. Some basic info here:
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Anticipating forthcoming pieces on historicity & caste, posting early piece on #Tantric #Buddhist subalternity: . @AmbedkarCaravan @U_K_A_B_S @H_Buddhism @BCssaame @canbuddhist @StudiesBuddhist @MittalInstitute @FairbankCenter @RaceAndYoga @AASAsianStudies
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Just saw excellent new volume come out - Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold @Brill_Asian by @BennoWeiner @RobbieBarnett and Françoise Robin. @H_Buddhism @tibetscapes @tibethouseus @MIC_Journal @NewBooksNetwork @newhistorybooks @global_podcast @Buddhistdoor
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Memories of #Tamil families at #Thaipusam 2020, from the beginning of the pandemic in #Singapore @IndiainSingapor @indiatoasean - @sofiafineart's sketches of a mood during our time at Singapore - thinking of our friends @taomo_zhou, @jackmtchia, @Miles_A_Powell, @TapsiMathur
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Looking forward to Prof. Manan Ahmed's @sepoy discussion of his revolutionary new piece of historiography _The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India_ @Harvard_Press @UCSCTHI 11/12(reg: ! @NTUHistory @NewBooksHindu @Classical_Ideas @global_podcast
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Great new podcast on South Asian religions _Sensing the Sacred_ with @FinnianGerety @BrownUniversity @WatsonInstitute!. @ISASNus @UWSouthAsia @MittalInstitute @NTUHistory @NewBooksHindu @BASAS_SAS @SouthAsianUni @Religions_MDPI @FairbankCenter @H_Buddhism.
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April 12 Join my colleague Prof. Faizah Zakaria @laurelinarien @NTUHistory for her talk on creating environmental indigeneity in the Dutch East Indies @HarvardHistSci @HarvardAsia!. @Engaged_EAnthro @CWEHSussex @SEASI_BrownU @NYSEA_network @Enviro_Ant @seacsydney @nus_ari @MPIWG.
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Really interesting article on Dalit education in Colonial India @southasiajsas @UniofNottingham by @historian_arun . @ISASNus @colonialhangovr @AmbedkarCaravan @nus_ari @DSNUK @BASAS_SAS @ineqhist @ExeterCIGH @EdGlobalHistory @NTUHistory @ColonialSpace .
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