Wedding dress, wool brocaded with silk, England, 1837-8. Via LACMA.
James A. Benn
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Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
PSA to prospective PhD students: Don't use LLMs to write e-mails to faculty you want to work with (or if you do, you better have done a good job making it not-obvious that you used an LLM).
It became necessary to destroy women's sports to save them.
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6h agoThe Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Research funding applications to SSHRC are evaluated in the official language in which they are submitted. Interested in becoming a reviewer? Find out more: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/h...
Buddhist insights: Everyday Buddhist: 'Toward Nirvana and From Nirvana', by Professor Masahiro Shimoda wp.me/pFy3u-3c7 Part one.
Toward Nirvana and From Nirvana, by Professor Masahiro Shimoda
The process whereby Buddhism—which first began as the deeply internal experience of just one ascetic practitioner—has over time borne fruit within vastly different races, climates, cultures and his…
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Have you registered for our FREE virtual teaching conference yet? 🫵 📋 This year, we will explore the importance of teaching empathy, critical thinking, and civil discourse in the #humanities and #socialsciences Please register by 12 p.m. EST, August 17, 2026. networks.h-net.org/group/pages/...
ok this sucks but it is kind of interesting how people use "medieval" when they actually mean 19th century the actual structures of university life - the things faculty, for example, actually DO - would not, in fact, be recognizable to William of Ockham
Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · 4h agoThis Clay Shirky essay about AI in HE uses the word medieval, so we are all obligated to ping @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com . It's just the rules.
Marwan El Gaddafi, a doctoral student in Religious Studies, has just published an article, “Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations,” in The Conversation: theconversation.com/quebecs-bill...
Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
Québec’s Bill 9 demands the public sphere be free of visible religion, even when expressions of religion take are obligations its adherents cannot set aside.
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Congratulations to my student Xiaowen. Please keep an eye out for her work.
McMaster Religious Studies@mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 5d agoPhD student Xiaowen Zhou presented a paper entitled “The Demons Within: Reinterpreting the Fifteen Demon-Deities in Late Ming Jiangnan” at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) 2026, held at Sophia University in Tokyo in early July.
Congrats to Andy Perrin (PhD 2013) on being awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a new research project, "Daniel in Ancient Jewish Scribal Imagination"! The project will re-examine the formation, development, and shape of the Daniel tradition in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries at Qumran.
Matthew Trafford (MA 2023) reviews John Gray’s The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism for the Philosophical Inquiry in Education. www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
Great blog post discussing the question if university is still worth your time. As a protection against unemployment a university degree still works like a charm. Source: blog.waldrn.com/p/the-colleg...
"The Moguls give to the white owl credit for preserving Jengis Khan, the founder of their empire..." One of a hundred tales to be found in Anecdotes of Animals (1905): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905
#OtD 4 Aug 1980 the US-backed military dictatorship in South Korea handed down jail sentences of between one and five years to 30 people who had been involved in an insurrection of coal miners and their families in Sabuk the previous April stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...
MIT Music Library is searching for a Music Technology and Digital Media Librarian! careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Music Technology and Digital Media Librarian
MIT - Music Technology and Digital Media Librarian - Cambridge MA 02139
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Today is Octidi the 18th of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate almonds. #JacobinDay See today's page
Same waterfall, radically different housing markets. The Canadian side benefited from tourism, population growth and Ontario’s property boom. The New York side suffered decades of deindustrialisation, population loss and urban decline. Source: www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...
People in the Asia-Pacific region have both the most positive and most negative opinions of China. For example, 90% of adults in Pakistan have a favorable view of China, while 88% in Japan have an unfavorable view.
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915 (dated on reverse 1914) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135144
Hong Kong’s Jardine Matheson announced that it will terminate undergraduate scholarship programme for Oxford and Cambridge starting next year, after 44 years. • Jardine Foundation, the company’s education trust, said it will increase focus on the Asian market www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Jardines ending Oxbridge undergrad scheme to ‘maximise impact’ for more students
Jardine Matheson says it is increasing its ‘focus and commitment’ on the Asian market.
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#OtD 4 Aug 1792 radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. His most famous poem, penned after the Peterloo massacre, ends: "Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew... Ye are many—they are few!" workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e15-...
esoteric scholars will of course recognize the salt-girl as one of the child-elemental incarnations of Mary Poppins, who pasted the very stars to the sky when this universe was made.
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Pencils are one of the tools of my trade and this is one of the best sets I’ve been gifted: The limited edition Blackwing 574 Native American. Designed by artist Chris Pappan (Osage, Kaw, Sioux), a portion of proceeds goes to the Cheyenne River Youth Project, enriching art programs for Lakota youth.
RISKY BUSINESS aims to be hypnotically sexy, but it's overdeliberate and vacuous. (1983)
Derek @derekbjenkins.bsky.social and I are doing a night of films and poetry in Boston on Saturday, Aug. 15! agxfilm.org/events/2026/...
Elaborate Procedures: Films & Poems by Derek Jenkins and Eugenia Zurosk — AgX Film Collective
AgX is pleased to host an evening of films and poems with Derek Jenkins and Eugenia Zuroski
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Primary sources for China studies are often scattered across institutions with uneven access. The Luce/ACLS Mapping Project brings together a searchable directory of more than 120 free or open access resources to help close that gap: https://mapping-project.org/
China Studies Digital Mapping Project
Resources for the field of China studies
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On this day in 1948, USS Nevada is sunk as a target ship off Hawaii, having survived both atomic bomb explosions at Bikini in 1946. Gunfire from surface ships failing to sink her, the coup de grace is delivered by an arial torpedo. #NavalHistory
On this day in 1970, Black Tot Day arrives, when the rum ration aboard Royal Navy ships is abolished. #NavalHistory
