2026-27 REISCHAUER INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN JAPANESE

🚨***Applicant Deadline: December 19, 2025 (Friday), 5:00pm EST***

🚨***Recommender Deadline: January 9, 2026 (Friday), 5:00pm EST***

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Looking forward to visiting University of Toronto & McMaster University in a couple of weeks. I appreciate the opportunity to share my work through the Yehan Numata Program in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025. My first time in Toronto & Hamilton. I’ve been assured Spring is the time to visit. 🌱

Looking forward to the Food System Temporalities conference with a great programme of papers: from the Red Palm Weevil infestations, to fishy futures, slow food movements & technological interventions in contemporary foodscapes. Excited to throw my two “Buddhist food waste” cents into the mix.

The thematic format of the volume is particularly friendly and analytically engaging, aided by the contributions put forward by the section editors, and the editors’ introduction to the volume. The Resources section is such a gem!

I was invited to write a short chapter on Rural Fieldwork for the Fieldwork section edited by Chika Watanabe who advances a very welcome discussion on fieldwork as practice & brings ‘patchwork ethnography’ to the research context of Japanese religions, highlighting different ways of doing fieldwork.

My copy of The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions arrived yesterday. Many congratulations to the editors, @mcmullen.bsky.social and @jolyonbt.bsky.social, and the stellar collective of the contributors.

@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social The cover photo is truly fab!

Feels like a good start to 2025!

Landed safely in Venezia for ‘Buddhist Foodways: Vegetarianism, Ritual Economies and Gastropolitics’ Workshop hosted by NICHE at Ca' Foscari University. Here’s to the next couple of days of great conversations.

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I will grapple with my own emerging ideas around how competing and overlapping temporal and divine imaginaries shape the waste trajectories of Buddhist food donations. Based partially on the audio-visual material collected for my ethnographic film project this summer.

Nothing better than Venice in late November for the “Buddhist Foodways: Vegetarianism, Ritual Economies and Geopolitics” workshop hosted by the New Institute: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at the Ca' Foscari University.

Biographies of Excess starting tomorrow!

Excited for the next 2 days of discussions on divestment & sorting of sacred objects, biographical intimacy, estate sales, practices & ethics of narrating lives, graves that misbehave & things that overflow.

Guess who is also catching a ride to our PhD course this morning…

‘Waste: Cultural Imaginaries and Materiality’ here we go!!! 🦆

@trineb.bsky.social

☸️📣Looking for researchers interested in Buddhism & past and present heritage-making. Aiming to gather stories of heritage on the periphery & explore questions of definition, recognition, and preservation of material & immaterial formations that exist on the fringe of mainstream narratives. #AAR2024

I rarely get starstruck. Today was close. “Non-humans can, do & must speak.” Amitav Ghosh asks us to reconsider who the makers of history are. If you haven’t yet, read The Nutmeg’s Curse & look out 4 his next book on the opium poppy that has thwarted all human efforts to control/eradicate its agency

Amitav Ghosh is coming to Copenhagen to present his recent book The Nutmeg’s Curse and debate the environmental challenges of today.

If you’re near Copenhagen, join us on Friday 13 October 13:00-15:00 at Southern Campus, UCPH.

To register: asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/cale...

CFP WASTE & VALUE Conference
University of Copenhagen, 25-26 April 2024.

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⏲️ Abstracts due on 1 Feb. 2024

See for details: ccrs.ku.dk/research/cen...

Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies
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