Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
San Diego/Kyoto/Taipei
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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
UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow — Buddhist Studies — Numata Center for Buddhist Studies - application open now
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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:
academia.edu/106577235/My_Re…
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_
aarweb.org/event/buddhist-fe…
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-informat…
Oct 3, my @KhyentseFound Lecture @NorthwesternU: “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/91408…
Sept 15 JOB app Deadline - South/Southeast Asian Religions at the University of San Diego
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/j…
For Friends in Kolkata Aug 25th - @moubanerjee28 will be speaking on her fantastic book, _The Disinherited_
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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/j…
Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," a fundamental reconsideration of early #Indian #Buddhist identity.
Free for download here:
academia.edu/143337761/Quali…
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:
academia.edu/143337761/Quali…
Friends - do read @mukesh8krishna's fantastic new piece in #JAAR that challenges our conceptions of what is #Hindu, what is #Muslim, and how #caste is used in #Indian religious categories!
academic.oup.com/jaar/advanc…
The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna is advertising a three-year 50% Postdoc Position in the field of Indology and Himalayan Studies. The current application deadline is 26th June 2025.
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Univer…
2025b. "Constructing Identity through Monastic Legislation: Rules Intended to Differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya Literature," 28 pages, forthcoming in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 88 academia.edu/125895266/2025b… via @academia
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Just published: my article on #caste, #Brahmin governmentalities, and early #Buddhism is now available free for download @DukePress (link below).
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/…
May 22nd - Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's @UCLA online lecture on her new book, _Women who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism and Governance in the Sixth Century_
Register Below:
soas.ac.uk/about/event/women…
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Beginning NOW!
Pls join Adeana McNicholl & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture:
“We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste
April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
