Ben Van Overmeire
@zenmirrors.bsky.social
Author of American Koan. Zen Buddhism. Outer Space. Weird stuff. Pedagogy. Father. Board gamer.
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May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Honored to have contributed an op-ed in @tricyclemag.bsky.social: tricycle.org/article/read...
Words as Windows
Reading, writing, and the Zen paradox
tricycle.org
May 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Honored to have contributed an op-ed in @tricyclemag.bsky.social: tricycle.org/article/read...
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A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site.
#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph
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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site.
#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph
#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph
Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)
One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.
May 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.
"But the best thing I can say about Van Overmeire’s book—and for me, this is high praise—is that it will send me back to read these books again, or in a few cases, for the first time. His insightful survey gives them a fresh feel and paints a vivid portrait of Zen practice today." bit.ly/4k5GyyQ
American Zen Retold
How koans and autobiographical narratives reveal the evolution of Zen practice in America
tricycle.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"But the best thing I can say about Van Overmeire’s book—and for me, this is high praise—is that it will send me back to read these books again, or in a few cases, for the first time. His insightful survey gives them a fresh feel and paints a vivid portrait of Zen practice today." bit.ly/4k5GyyQ
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via Julie Zaugg @lemonde.fr
Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »
Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »
Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »
Les établissements ont accentué l’approche entrepreneuriale de l’enseignement supérieur mise en place par les conservateurs à partir de 2010. Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-cherc...
www.lemonde.fr
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
via Julie Zaugg @lemonde.fr
Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »
Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »
Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
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Japanese #anime like the film "Demon Slayer" blends thrilling action with deep spiritual themes, drawing on Buddhist, Shinto, and samurai traditions to explore fate, sacrifice, and moral struggles. A philosophy and religious studies professor explains: buff.ly/2oK5vbM #religion #philosophy
How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty
‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Japanese #anime like the film "Demon Slayer" blends thrilling action with deep spiritual themes, drawing on Buddhist, Shinto, and samurai traditions to explore fate, sacrifice, and moral struggles. A philosophy and religious studies professor explains: buff.ly/2oK5vbM #religion #philosophy
Essential reading for educators today: thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-d.... Justin McDaniel's approach has long informed my own thinking on higher education in the age of AI. What if we used the institutional presence of the university to restrain student access to technology to free their mind?
Welcome to Despair
thepenngazette.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Essential reading for educators today: thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-d.... Justin McDaniel's approach has long informed my own thinking on higher education in the age of AI. What if we used the institutional presence of the university to restrain student access to technology to free their mind?
Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.
Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.
February 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.
First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf! brill.com/.../jour.../...
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf! brill.com/.../jour.../...
For those of you at #aarsbl24, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space
November 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
For those of you at #aarsbl24, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space
Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!
November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!
Virginia University Press published a short interview with me about my book American Koan. If you're interested, you can also use their website to pre-order the book. Check it out! upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
Author's Corner with Ben Van Overmeire, author of AMERICAN KOAN
<p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Ben Van Overmeire, author of <em>American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical L
upress.virginia.edu
October 11, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Virginia University Press published a short interview with me about my book American Koan. If you're interested, you can also use their website to pre-order the book. Check it out! upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.
August 28, 2024 at 9:35 AM
So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.
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Wat ze bedoelen is dat vrouwen kiezen voor een eigen carrière en zelfontplooiing. Voor mannen was dat altijd al heel normaal, met steun van hun vrouwen. Maar die hebben daar dus geen zin meer in.
Met je YOLO generatie.
Met je YOLO generatie.
Genderongelijkheid en 'yolo-generatie' leiden tot babycrisis in Zuid-Korea
Het geboortecijfer in Zuid-Korea is niet alleen extreem laag door hoge kosten en genderongelijkheid. Ook de zogenoemde 'yolo-generatie' speelt een rol, zeggen experts tegen persbureau Reuters. De autoriteiten zijn zeer bezorgd over het dalende geboortecijfer.
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August 27, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Wat ze bedoelen is dat vrouwen kiezen voor een eigen carrière en zelfontplooiing. Voor mannen was dat altijd al heel normaal, met steun van hun vrouwen. Maar die hebben daar dus geen zin meer in.
Met je YOLO generatie.
Met je YOLO generatie.
Honored to be Featured Faculty on DKU's Center for the Study of Contemporary China's website. Read on for my thoughts on Zen, autobiography, and Buddhism in space! www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/feature...
Featured Faculty: Ben Van Overmeire - CSCC | Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Ben Van Overmeire is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DKU. Prof. Van Overmeire has been a dynamic force within the CSCC, co-leading the
www.dukekunshan.edu.cn
August 26, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Honored to be Featured Faculty on DKU's Center for the Study of Contemporary China's website. Read on for my thoughts on Zen, autobiography, and Buddhism in space! www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/feature...
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New book review:
Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...
Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...
Kieschnick, John. Buddhist Historiography in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231205634. Reviewed by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University) Published on H-Buddhism (May, 2024) Commissioned by Stuart H. Young (Bucknell University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60185
networks.h-net.org
May 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
New book review:
Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...
Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...