Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
San Diego/Kyoto/Taipei
Joined July 2016
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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
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…
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…
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
Please join @AdeanaMcN and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@UTAustin) for the 2nd lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
Hi @myarhimala, thank you for the message - the QR code must have expired - let me know if this link works!
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NEW QR CODE!
Join @AdeanaMcN & myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
Feb 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
Friends, please join @AdeanaMcN and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
Feb 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
Spring talks as part of @AdeanaMcN and my new Buddhism and Caste Initiative! (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste
CALL FOR PAPERS for NEW #AAR SEMINAR, "Buddhism and Caste" (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@AdeanaMcN and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details: papers.aarweb.org/group/1508…
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: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d
#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
Turns out the idea that #AI can run without employing/exploiting vast quantities of human labor is nonsense. As this @60Minutes makes clear.
youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXj…
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Friends at #SBLAAR24 - just a heads-up that I'll be speaking at the Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar. Pls do drop by if you can! The basis for my talk is my new piece in #CSSAAME here:
tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Convention Center-1B
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NEW PUBLICATION: _Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana_: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison @StanfordReligSt, edited by Charles DiSimone and myself, is now available for preorder at Indica et Tibetica.
For purchase: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
Here is the link to download the piece: tinyurl.com/mw6k6jhy
Translating #Buddhist #women's agency from #India to #China
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