Nicholas Witkowski

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

The red and silver English edition of HUMANS next to the smaller Chinese edition in a pale gray cover, both sitting on a circular wooden table (top and bottom cropped) on a wooden floor. The English cover is a dramatic red with yellow lettering. A large, silvery, oval mirror sits in the centre, with a black decorative border with fictional monsters on it. The Chinese cover has a human hand and a robotic hand reaching towards each other.

Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #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...

JAOS The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

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
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Front cover of Susanna Elm's The Importance of Being Gorgeous, featuring a marble carved head of a man and title

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!

My Review of Gokhale, Pradeep P., _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_. My Review of Gokhale, _Pradeep P. Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ . For much of the last hundred years, scholars of Buddhism (particularly in the West) have largely operate...

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!

Buddhist Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Balkwill – AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwill’s innovative and field-chang...

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...

Buddhist Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Balkwill – AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwill’s innovative and field-chang...

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!

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming "Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

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...