Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Feb 1
For @the_point_mag I wrote one if the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. My experience teaching great books has been utterly transformative, and I think that if you’re on the left you should be all in on it. thepointmag.com/examined-lif…
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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
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
The Cambridge Companion to Periyar reviewed @the_hindu by @CholamandalPann who calls the volume "a significant addition for a non-Tamil reading public seeking to understand 20th century Tamil Nadu". @ARV_Chalapathy @qudsiya_Ah @RanaAnwesha
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
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
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
“The Burdens of Love in Public Discourse in China” looks wildly similar to my own book. 1) who at Yale invited him? 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk? macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/…
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UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow — Buddhist Studies — Numata Center for Buddhist Studies - application open now
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
14 Nov 2024
NEW Article: Translating Charismatic Bodies as Erotic Bodies: A Study of Revolutionary Agency and Counterrevolutionary Reception in Buddhist Legal Codes for Monastic Women. DOWNLOAD HERE: tinyurl.com/mw6k6jhy
Translating #Buddhist #women's agency from #India to #China
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
15 Nov 2025
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:
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
7 Nov 2025
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_
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
2 Nov 2025
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…
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
16 Oct 2025
An arresting portrait of Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi features in my @frontline_india article on the Self-Respect Movement. I identify the Mahakavi and other important thinkers & reformers as those who created an environment for the Self-Respect Movement to germinate.
8 Oct 2025
PERIYAR'S LASTING LEGACY | The century of self-respect
A hundred years later, the Self-Respect Movement’s ideals of equality, women’s liberation, and the annihilation of caste are finding new geographies.
@KRManoharan writes.
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15 Oct 2025
RT @DrTithi1917: Somewhat surprised but very happy to report that my ghost book has won the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian history…
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
25 Sep 2025
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…
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
9 Sep 2025
#BookDiscussion
#NLSIU is organising a discussion on the volume ‘The Cambridge Companion to Periyar,’ co-edited Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan (Assistant Professor, NLSIU).
🗓️Day & Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025.
⏰Time: 11 AM to 1 PM
📍Venue: Bangalore International Centre (@bicblr), Domlur
🗨️Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, VC, NLSIU; Prof. S. V. Srinivas @azimpremjiuniv; Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, NLSIU
RSVP now: nls.ac.in/news-events/book-d…
@KRManoharan @krishnaswamysud @ARV_Chalapathy
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11 Sep 2025
Sept 15 JOB app Deadline - South/Southeast Asian Religions at the University of San Diego
10 Aug 2025
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…
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