Raji Steineck
@raji-steineck.bsky.social
Chair of Japanology at UZH. Philosopher. In love with language and music. Believes in the complementarity of the sciences and the humanities. Views my own.
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Raji Steineck
@raji-steineck.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Instead of an introduction: 10 books I like and a picture of how I work.
Now accessible in Open Access: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.…
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Now accessible in Open Access: soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.…
Out now! If you ever wondered about Dogen's cryptic text in time and how it related to what Zen monks actually did in their monasteries-or how to read Dogen not as pre-Heideggerian, here's the book for you. @studyoftime.bsky.social
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sunypress.edu/Books/Z/Zen-...
Zen Time
sunypress.edu
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Out now! If you ever wondered about Dogen's cryptic text in time and how it related to what Zen monks actually did in their monasteries-or how to read Dogen not as pre-Heideggerian, here's the book for you. @studyoftime.bsky.social
sunypress.edu/Books/Z/Zen-...
sunypress.edu/Books/Z/Zen-...
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August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
In the Presence of Gods and Spirits: Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators
<I>In the Presence of Gods and Spirits </I>brings to life the early nineteenth-century Japanese religious leader and scholar Hirata Atsutane, whose fear of Russian incursion onto Japan's soil led him ...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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We're delighted to share the new issue of Time's News, The International Society for the Study of Time's official members-based magazine. This issue celebrates the accomplishments of our members through interviews, articles, visual art surveys, ISST Council reflections, and a performance essay.
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We're delighted to share the new issue of Time's News, The International Society for the Study of Time's official members-based magazine. This issue celebrates the accomplishments of our members through interviews, articles, visual art surveys, ISST Council reflections, and a performance essay.
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This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!
August 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!
#Japanologentag: just happened-great panel in the intellectual history section on the topic of relations with #nature. Presentations by Morgaine Setzer and Mariko Jacoby on an 1837 primer on agriculture, Paulus Kaufmann on Saito's #degrowth communism, Sarah Schmid on early colonialist ideas + more!
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#Japanologentag: just happened-great panel in the intellectual history section on the topic of relations with #nature. Presentations by Morgaine Setzer and Mariko Jacoby on an 1837 primer on agriculture, Paulus Kaufmann on Saito's #degrowth communism, Sarah Schmid on early colonialist ideas + more!
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Falls man sich fragt wie die offizielle deutsche Sicht auf Polen 2025 ist, ist hier ein Post des @bundeskultur.bsky.social in dem zum Gedenken an den Warschauer Aufstand 1944 ohne Kontext ein NS-Propagandafoto aus dem Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto 1943 verwendet wird. Bitter.
August 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Falls man sich fragt wie die offizielle deutsche Sicht auf Polen 2025 ist, ist hier ein Post des @bundeskultur.bsky.social in dem zum Gedenken an den Warschauer Aufstand 1944 ohne Kontext ein NS-Propagandafoto aus dem Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto 1943 verwendet wird. Bitter.
If you care for the fate of innocent people in Palestine, you should read this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve
Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.
www.theatlantic.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you care for the fate of innocent people in Palestine, you should read this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
So proud of my wife, who just received the dissertation prize of the University of Tübingen!
July 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So proud of my wife, who just received the dissertation prize of the University of Tübingen!
Our JBAE project is now working together with the Royal Asiatic Society, where our previous chief curator, Dr. Tomoe Steineck, has just spent a day explaining and exploring an album from the Kanda Sotei school of painting. #JapaneseArt #JapaneseBuddhism royalasiaticsociety.org/henry-faulds...
Henry Faulds and his Japanese Buddhist Albums
We have had a few sweltering days in the Reading Room this week, but thankfully the weather has cooled off significantly, so it is a great relief. While the Society’s lecture programme is taking a rec...
royalasiaticsociety.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our JBAE project is now working together with the Royal Asiatic Society, where our previous chief curator, Dr. Tomoe Steineck, has just spent a day explaining and exploring an album from the Kanda Sotei school of painting. #JapaneseArt #JapaneseBuddhism royalasiaticsociety.org/henry-faulds...
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Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.
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A couple years ago we received a message about an article posted on the site discussed below. The chair of a hiring committee wanted to confirm that an applicant had published an article with us, as they claimed on their CV. The CV included a link to the applicants account on that site.
Don’t want it, didn’t approve or ask for it, misconstrues my thesis, says my name wrong, makes weird jokes about sushi pizza and my area of expertise in a British man’s voice. Sooo do I delete my account now? What is it even good for anymore #AcademicSky
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A couple years ago we received a message about an article posted on the site discussed below. The chair of a hiring committee wanted to confirm that an applicant had published an article with us, as they claimed on their CV. The CV included a link to the applicants account on that site.
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Inventing the Way of the Samurai by @olegb.bsky.social explores the concept of “Bushido” from genesis in 19th C Japan as an “invented tradition” in response to European concepts to its postwar rehabilitation.
June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Inventing the Way of the Samurai by @olegb.bsky.social explores the concept of “Bushido” from genesis in 19th C Japan as an “invented tradition” in response to European concepts to its postwar rehabilitation.
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Looking for all things Susanne Langer? Check out this compilation of BSA articles on her work. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
Susanne K. Langer A Legacy in Aesthetics
Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985) was a prominent American philosopher whose work spanned logic, philosophy of art, and theory of mind. This selection delves into n
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May 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Looking for all things Susanne Langer? Check out this compilation of BSA articles on her work. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
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PhD scholarships on #Buddhism available in Germany!
The academy project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra”, hosted by the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, is inviting applications for a 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (with the possibility of extending it for a fourth year).
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The academy project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra”, hosted by the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, is inviting applications for a 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (with the possibility of extending it for a fourth year).
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Doctoral researcher (m/f/x)
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May 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
PhD scholarships on #Buddhism available in Germany!
The academy project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra”, hosted by the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, is inviting applications for a 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (with the possibility of extending it for a fourth year).
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The academy project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra”, hosted by the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, is inviting applications for a 3-year Ph.D. scholarship (with the possibility of extending it for a fourth year).
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Would love to listen to this upcoming talk by Max Ward on the legacy of Japan's "Peace Preservation Law" (i.e. the law to suppress communist/socialist/anarchist movements): www.icc-sophia.com/_files/ugd/2...
www.icc-sophia.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Would love to listen to this upcoming talk by Max Ward on the legacy of Japan's "Peace Preservation Law" (i.e. the law to suppress communist/socialist/anarchist movements): www.icc-sophia.com/_files/ugd/2...
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They’re here 🎉
@versobooks.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
They’re here 🎉
@versobooks.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
June 2-3: 2nd Swiss Japanese Studies Conference: "Centers and Peripheries". The program is ready: www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/...
Guests welcome!
Guests welcome!
2.-3.6.2025: 2nd Swiss Asia Society Japan Conference: Centers and Peripheries in Japan
www.aoi.uzh.ch
May 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
June 2-3: 2nd Swiss Japanese Studies Conference: "Centers and Peripheries". The program is ready: www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/...
Guests welcome!
Guests welcome!
JT Fraser, "time-smith" and founder of the International Society for the Study of Time was born on this day in 1923. His notion of "constitutive conflicts" is increasingly relevant today, as an antidote to ideas of final solutions of all kinds.
See brill.com/view/journal...
See brill.com/view/journal...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
JT Fraser, "time-smith" and founder of the International Society for the Study of Time was born on this day in 1923. His notion of "constitutive conflicts" is increasingly relevant today, as an antidote to ideas of final solutions of all kinds.
See brill.com/view/journal...
See brill.com/view/journal...
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One of my main teaching goals lately is to show that Buddhism is indeed a religion and not just a way of life, and that the Buddha is actually kinda central to it…
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One of my main teaching goals lately is to show that Buddhism is indeed a religion and not just a way of life, and that the Buddha is actually kinda central to it…
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Die preußische Landnahme in Polen, Litauen und anderen osteuropäischen Regionen zeigt: Koloniale Strukturen existierten auch innerhalb Europas. Felix Ackermann & Agnieszka Pufelska über Postpreußen.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/
Postpreußen
Die Geschichte preußischer Landnahme und innerer Kolonisation ist eine Leerstelle in der deutschen Diskussion über das Erbe des Kolonialismus.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
March 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Die preußische Landnahme in Polen, Litauen und anderen osteuropäischen Regionen zeigt: Koloniale Strukturen existierten auch innerhalb Europas. Felix Ackermann & Agnieszka Pufelska über Postpreußen.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/
A tenure track opening in philosophy of science at ETH. I hope they'll see and consider applications from colleagues working with materials beyond Europe and Angloamerica! @ethzurich.bsky.social, @takeshimoristo.bsky.social @ejjp.bsky.social
Kolleg:innen aus Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Technikgeschichte aller Länder, bewerbt Euch!
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ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Technikgeschichte und Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Wissenschaftsphilosophie
ethz.ch
April 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A tenure track opening in philosophy of science at ETH. I hope they'll see and consider applications from colleagues working with materials beyond Europe and Angloamerica! @ethzurich.bsky.social, @takeshimoristo.bsky.social @ejjp.bsky.social