New monograph in production on comparative mantric practices (e.g., in Vedic rituals, Tibetan Buddhist rites, early Christian invocations, modern manifestation practices), empowered speech acts, and relationships between humans and divinities: www.bloomsbury.com/us/social-li...

The Social Lives of Mantras

Challenging the Orientalist exoticisation of mantras and their restriction to 'Eastern religions', Joseph L. Kimmel traces the understanding, practice, and purp…

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March 9 - New deadline for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar - for friends whose work overlaps with these topics, please disseminate in your networks!

Nicholas Witkowski@nwitkowski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

New deadline for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar - for friends whose work overlaps with these topics, please disseminate in your networks!

Nicholas Witkowski@nwitkowski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

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

Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #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!

Jessica Zu@jessicaxzu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

come join my bookchat with Joy Brennan and Brook Ziporyn, Friday, Feb 6, 1pm PT. calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

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...

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 1/

JAOS

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

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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!

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...

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...

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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!

Nicholas Witkowski@nwitkowski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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...

Join us - starting now!

Nicholas Witkowski@nwitkowski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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: 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...

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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...

aarweb.org

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!

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."

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Webinar beginning now!

Nicholas Witkowski@nwitkowski.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

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...

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan@jacobius.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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...