Nicholas Witkowski
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
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...
Register here: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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...
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!
October 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!
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
“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
October 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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
“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...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Fabulous Fall Buddhist Studies Lecture Series line up presented by the National University of Singapore Buddhist Studies Group!
July 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Fabulous Fall Buddhist Studies Lecture Series line up presented by the National University of Singapore Buddhist Studies Group!
UGent Buddhist Studies Lecture: “Visualising Rituals in Gandhara” by Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, June 05, 2025
Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU...
www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...
Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU...
www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...
June 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
UGent Buddhist Studies Lecture: “Visualising Rituals in Gandhara” by Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, June 05, 2025
Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU...
www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...
Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU...
www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...
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!
Friday, May 16
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!
May 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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!
Friday, May 16
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!
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
“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 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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
“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
The Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love and Justice at the Barre Center!
March 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love and Justice at the Barre Center!
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
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
March 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
Spring Buddhist Studies Lecture Series Ghent University
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Spring Buddhist Studies Lecture Series Ghent University
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 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
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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 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
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
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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
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
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
February 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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
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
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
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
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
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.bsky.social
Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d
#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d
#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.bsky.social
Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d
#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d
#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
A reminder for friends working on #China, #Tibet, #India, #SEAsia, #manuscripts, #arthistory and #BuddhistStudies that _Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison_ (Indica et Tibetica), ed. by Charles DiSimone and myself, is
now available for PURCHASE here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
now available for PURCHASE here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
December 11, 2024 at 7:27 PM
A reminder for friends working on #China, #Tibet, #India, #SEAsia, #manuscripts, #arthistory and #BuddhistStudies that _Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison_ (Indica et Tibetica), ed. by Charles DiSimone and myself, is
now available for PURCHASE here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
now available for PURCHASE here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
NEW ARTICLE in #CSSAAME on #monastic #asceticism as #subaltern resistance to #imperial power. Download here:
tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:
tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
NEW ARTICLE in #CSSAAME on #monastic #asceticism as #subaltern resistance to #imperial power. Download here:
tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:
tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:
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, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Convention Center-1B
The basis for my talk is my new piece in #CSSAAME, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Convention Center-1B
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Convention Center-1B
The basis for my talk is my new piece in #CSSAAME, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp
Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Convention Center-1B
Nov 25 - NEW PUBLICATION: _Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana_: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison, edited by Charles DiSimone and myself, is now available for preorder at Indica et Tibetica; 700 page volume, 29 contributions by scholars of Buddhism (TOC below).
For purchase here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
For purchase here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
November 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Nov 25 - NEW PUBLICATION: _Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana_: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison, edited by Charles DiSimone and myself, is now available for preorder at Indica et Tibetica; 700 page volume, 29 contributions by scholars of Buddhism (TOC below).
For purchase here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
For purchase here: tinyurl.com/yyer77cj
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
#monasticwomen #IndianBuddhism #ChineseBuddhism #translating women from India to China
#monasticwomen #IndianBuddhism #ChineseBuddhism #translating women from India to China
November 14, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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
#monasticwomen #IndianBuddhism #ChineseBuddhism #translating women from India to China
#monasticwomen #IndianBuddhism #ChineseBuddhism #translating women from India to China
Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
November 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Samyak Ghosh on why #Dalrymple was wrong to criticize #Indianhistorians for not writing popular history and why Dalrymple-style popular histories cannot combat "Whatsapp" history.
"For that work, you need a classroom and an academic historian"
Ghosh's work - columbia.academia.edu/SamyakGhosh
"For that work, you need a classroom and an academic historian"
Ghosh's work - columbia.academia.edu/SamyakGhosh
November 11, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Samyak Ghosh on why #Dalrymple was wrong to criticize #Indianhistorians for not writing popular history and why Dalrymple-style popular histories cannot combat "Whatsapp" history.
"For that work, you need a classroom and an academic historian"
Ghosh's work - columbia.academia.edu/SamyakGhosh
"For that work, you need a classroom and an academic historian"
Ghosh's work - columbia.academia.edu/SamyakGhosh
Nov 8 (20:30 IST/10:00AM EST/16:00 CET), pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and I for our first event (register via QR code in poster) in the Buddhism and Caste Initiative Series:
A lecture by Karthick Ram Manoharan on the Buddhist Modernism of the Anti-Caste Reformer Periyar
#BuddhismAndCaste
A lecture by Karthick Ram Manoharan on the Buddhist Modernism of the Anti-Caste Reformer Periyar
#BuddhismAndCaste
November 4, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Nov 8 (20:30 IST/10:00AM EST/16:00 CET), pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and I for our first event (register via QR code in poster) in the Buddhism and Caste Initiative Series:
A lecture by Karthick Ram Manoharan on the Buddhist Modernism of the Anti-Caste Reformer Periyar
#BuddhismAndCaste
A lecture by Karthick Ram Manoharan on the Buddhist Modernism of the Anti-Caste Reformer Periyar
#BuddhismAndCaste