Erica Baffelli
Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
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- Truly enjoyed listening to @uomsalc.bsky.social researchers presenting their research projects at the annual SALC Research Showcase
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- Coming up this week!
- Our next Fear Research Network (FeRN) seminar will be on April 2, 2025. Valentina Zagaria will present on “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town" events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:.... @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
- @uomsalc.bsky.social will be holding an online information session for potential applicants to the following schemes: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships. Link here: shorturl.at/opLFB
- East Asian Studies Seminar coming up next week @uomsalc.bsky.social Iwashima, Fumi (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ‘Shared Washing Machines in Rural Japan: Embodied Experience of the Electrification of Home Life’ 4-6pm Tuesday 18 March Samuel Alexander Building A213A
- Our next Fear Research Network (FeRN) seminar will be on April 2, 2025. Valentina Zagaria will present on “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town" events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:.... @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
- 2 PhD and 1 postdoc positions available on the RADHEART project. In beautiful Bergen and with an amazing project leader!
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- Join us on Wednesday for this great talk! @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
- East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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- Looking forward to being part of this interdisciplinary event in Bristol on March 11-12, bringing together academics, artists, and filmmakers to discuss how Japanese religious practices, media, and the arts have been shaped by and responded to the 3/11 tragedy. theartofrecovery.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
- Happening on Friday this week!
- A month to go! Only a few tickets left. @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
- East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
- Happening on Wednesday this week!
- Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!
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- Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!
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- Great job opportunity at The John Rylands Library www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Applications are now open for the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships @official-uom.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ypxjkce5 4 x Simon Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships/Hallsworth Chinese Political Economy Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships External Engagement and Impact Closing date: 7 March 2025.
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- Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
- A month to go! Only a few tickets left. @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
- Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
- Our next EAS seminar will be on February 14. Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities) "Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan." tinyurl.com/5cbs98su @uomsalc.bsky.social
- I will be giving a talk at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies in Oxford on Friday this week www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/event/religi...
- Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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- Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
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- Happening today events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
- The Fear Research Network (FeRN), led by @chikaw.bsky.social and yours truly, brings together researchers interested in the politics, feelings, and practices that converge around fear from historical and contemporary perspectives. tinyurl.com/ycx25kkb Here are some of our upcoming events at UoM
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- Exciting news! New MA Arts, Culture and the Environment (MA ACE) launched at UoM!
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- Coming up later this week in Venezia. Supported by an AAR Collaborative Research Grant and by NICHE (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities). Looking forward to two days of conversations with a great group of researchers. www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
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- Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University cijs.oii.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/deta...
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- Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in History of Medicine and Health - permanent position at the University of Manchester
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- If you work on or teach about religious minorities have a look at the Religious Minorities Online Project www.degruyter.com/database/RMO... a peer-reviewed, open-access project co-edited by Michael Stausberg, Alex van der Haven and yours truly. We have published 23 articles so far.
- One full PhD scholarship (fees and maintenance for 3.5 years) available at UoM for a research proposal on religion in Japan. Deadline: January 13, 2025 for October 2025 entry www.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
- Deadline is tomorrow, April 12!
- We are hiring! Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Japanese Studies position (full-time, permanent) at UoManchester. Spread the word! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester is running an online Postdoctoral Fellowships Workshop on Mon 22 April 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM BST. For more information and registration 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/theun...
- We are hiring! Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Japanese Studies position (full-time, permanent) at UoManchester. Spread the word! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Listen to Michael Stausberg, Alexander van der Haven and yours truly discussing our project Religious Minorities Online. One of the most enjoyable research collaborations I have been involved with newbooksnetwork.com/religious-mi...
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- Permanent position in Liberal Arts at UoManchester (including candidates with expertise in interdisciplinary religious studies) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- In collaboration with the amazing FuturEverything team we are looking for an artist to work with us on the "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" (alc.manchester.ac.uk/.../fear-and...) Please distribute widely! futureeverything.org/news/artist-...
- Seven new articles have been published on Religious Minorities Online, on Russia, China and Taiwan, Baha'is, Zoroastrian, Church of Scientology, Exocitism, and Discrimination tinyurl.com/33kakycu
- FeRN - the Fear Research Network now have a website www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/modern-langu...
- Happening new week. Really looking forward to it!
- Permanent position in Social Anthropology at UoManchester - Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEM146/l...
- Lecturer in Political Theory position (permanent) at UoManchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- We welcome PhD applications for September 2024 entry. The application deadline to be considered for funding competitions is 12 January 2024. For available scholarships see: www.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr....
- Chair/Professor in Social Anthropology position at UoManchester. A great department with wonderful colleagues, including @chikaw.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEI296/c...
- The Amaterasu particle www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
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- 3. On Monday 20, I am very much looking forward to being on a panel with Jessica Starling, Mu-Lung Hsu, Napakadol Kittisenee, and Sophea Seng to discuss "Affective Ethnographies of Buddhism, Sickness, Loss, and Grief" (A20-305, 3-4:30pm) presenting my new project on fear and belonging. #AARSBL23
- 2. On Sunday 19 I will be a panelist in the session "Author-Meets-Critics Roundtable: Justin B. Stein, Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (A19-105, 9-11am).
