Nicholas Witkowski
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
- 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!
- come join my bookchat with Joy Brennan and Brook Ziporyn, Friday, Feb 6, 1pm PT. calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
- 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...
- 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!
- 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...
- 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!
- Webinar beginning now!
- 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
- SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: 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). jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
- Sept 11 - Friends in Buddhist Studies and beyond - @rhcraig.bsky.social will be speaking at the Ho Center at @utoronto.ca on Dharma preachers of the Indian Buddhist Mahāyāna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner! buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/inspi...
- 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/job...
- 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: www.academia.edu/143337761/Qu...
- According to the American Historical Association @historians.org, "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is." You can download the report here in which they explain all the ways they claim that AI can be useful in the classroom.
- Fabulous Fall Buddhist Studies Lecture Series line up presented by the National University of Singapore Buddhist Studies Group!
- Now downloadable w/o paywall @dukepress.bsky.social in #CSSAAME: my most recent study which attempts to answer the question, What does it mean to talk about #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion? tinyurl.com/2zu4pe4m
- If I were in NYC tonight, this is where I'd be...
- Join us tonight for a public lecture at the New School with Rashid Khalidi, titled "Britain, Ireland, and Palestine," this evening at 5pm at the auditorium at the New School at 66 West 12th Street in NYC. Event and RSVP here: event.newschool.edu/rashidkhalid...
- June 8-14 Summer lecture series in NYC - Lewis Gordon Homi Bhabha @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Rashid Khalidi www.criticalsocialinquiry.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
- Now out: my article answering the question: What does it mean to talk about #Indian #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion? Download here: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
- UGent Buddhist Studies Lecture: “Visualising Rituals in Gandhara” by Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, June 05, 2025 Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU... www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...
- Thank you to Dheepa Sundaram @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & Rohit Chopra @rohit.bsky.social for all their work editing the just published May 2025 #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social special volume "Religion and Its Publics in South Asia" Entire Issue free for download: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue
- May 22nd - Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's online lecture on her new book, _Women who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism and Governance in the Sixth Century_ Register Below: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
- How exciting! Thank you for writing this @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social! Really looking forward to reading!
- STARTING NOW!
- Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Chandrabhan Yadav for the final lecture of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) Friday, May 16 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!
- Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Chandrabhan Yadav for the final lecture of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) Friday, May 16 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!
- Beginning NOW!
- Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture: “We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
- April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
- Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture: “We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
- Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture: “We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
- REMINDER: FRIDAY March 21, 2025 10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST / GMT 14:30 GMT / CET 15:30 / SGT 22:30pm (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
- Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@utaustin.bsky.social) 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
- The Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love and Justice at the Barre Center!
- For friends in Vienna April 24th-30th, @istb-univienna.bsky.social, roundtable and conversations on neuroscience, Western and Buddhist philosophy and practice
- Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@utaustin.bsky.social) 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
- Spring Buddhist Studies Lecture Series Ghent University
- DEADLINE EXTENDED BY AAR TO MARCH 10!
- CALL FOR PAPERS for NEW #AAR SEMINAR, "Buddhism and Caste" (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system @adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
- REMINDER: BUDDHISM AND CASTE INITIATIVE FRIDAY, February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST Please register here for MSTeams link: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
- NEW QR CODE! Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social 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. February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
- NEW QR CODE! Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social 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. February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
- Please sign (and circulate) petition to save the Religion and Theology program at @cardiffuni.bsky.social ! www.change.org/p/save-our-r...
- A call for application for a Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms at the EPHE-PSL in Paris. h/t Daigengna Duoer. www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...
- Friends, do attend @rhcraig.bsky.social's conversation at the Barre Center with William Edelglass, Thus Have I Heard: American Buddhism Through the Lens of #TinaTurner www.buddhistinquiry.org/classes/2025...
- 12 Feb, Caste as Practice: Persistence and Transformations @crasshlive.bsky.social, featuring Ananya Vajpeyi, Jon Keune, and Ankur Barua www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45311...
- Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social 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. February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
- Spring talks as part of @adeanamcn.bsky.social 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.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
- Friends who know a ton about our current politics but who want to think about how all that info fits into broader historical trends, do listen to Wendy Brown and @quinnslobodian.com @thedigradio.bsky.social, an excellent theoretical digest for our political moment.
