iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 16h

grasp, grasp’ by Sian Fan is now available online at graspgrasp.com . The digital artwork draws on the anonymised life stories of members of two different Buddhist communities and is part of the @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded project “Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities”.

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Creating Community (tinyurl.com/2snjytca) offers some short reflections from the @leverhulme.ac.uk project “Fear and Belonging”(tinyurl.com/yckh3y43). It captures some of the feelings, experiences, and atmospheres running through the stories people shared with us. The artwork is by artist Sian Fan.

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Creating Community | PDF to Flipbook

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UKABS - UK Association of Buddhist Studies @ukabs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

UKABS 2025 conference begins with keynote address by Prof Erica Baffelli on "Buddhism at the margins: crisis, community, and vulnerabilities" #buddhistconference #buddhism ukabs.org.uk/conferences/...

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Truly enjoyed listening to @uomsalc.bsky.social researchers presenting their research projects at the annual SALC Research Showcase

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The deadline for this CFP is today. After a request, the form will accept submissions until 10pm (not the original 5pm). We’re meeting to go through the proposals as soon as we can so hope to get back to everyone and open registration soon.

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Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Scottish RME teachers: Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm University of Edinburgh Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact halle.oneal@ed.ac.uk

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@uomsalc.bsky.social will be holding an online information session for potential applicants to the following schemes: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships. Link here: shorturl.at/opLFB

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Funding Opportunities - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures - The University of Manchester

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

East Asian Studies Seminar coming up next week @uomsalc.bsky.social Iwashima, Fumi (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ‘Shared Washing Machines in Rural Japan: Embodied Experience of the Electrification of Home Life’ 4-6pm Tuesday 18 March Samuel Alexander Building A213A

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our next Fear Research Network (FeRN) seminar will be on April 2, 2025. Valentina Zagaria will present on “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town" events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:.... @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

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FeRN Seminar Series: “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town | Events at The University of Manchester

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

2 PhD and 1 postdoc positions available on the RADHEART project. In beautiful Bergen and with an amazing project leader!

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Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Another postdoc position in the Study of Religion @ UiBergen - this one for a research project on strong individual commitment in ancient forms of #Christianity, as part of the big ERC project RADHEART led by @laurafeldt.bsky.social 🌟 #AncientBluesky #AcRel #SBL www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (276308) | University of Bergen

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (276308), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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Rob Bellamy @drrobbellamy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Come work with us in Geography at Manchester! We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography, particularly in the field of peatland science Closing date 27/03/2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Lecturer in Physical Geography :Oxford Road

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Looking forward to being part of this interdisciplinary event in Bristol on March 11-12, bringing together academics, artists, and filmmakers to discuss how Japanese religious practices, media, and the arts have been shaped by and responded to the 3/11 tragedy. theartofrecovery.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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The Art of Recovery – Legacies of the Fukushima Triple Disaster

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨 Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French." www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...

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Recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs 2025 | École Pratique des Hautes Études

Liste des postes ouverts au concours à l'EPHE - PSL. Campagne 2025.

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Join @baffellierica.bsky.social, Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi on 28 February for their symposium on 'Robotics, Religion and Ethics', presented in partnership with @official-uom.bsky.social and the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 🤖 🔗Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Great job opportunity at The John Rylands Library www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Head of Collections, Teaching and Research:John Rylands Library

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Applications are now open for the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships @official-uom.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ypxjkce5 4 x Simon Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships/Hallsworth Chinese Political Economy Fellowships 5 x Hallsworth Fellowships External Engagement and Impact Closing date: 7 March 2025.

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Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester

Find out the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships at Manchester, our Faculty of Humanities funding scheme for early career researchers with a doctoral degree.

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our next EAS seminar will be on February 14. Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities) "Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan." tinyurl.com/5cbs98su @uomsalc.bsky.social

Poster advertising a seminar with abstract design. Content:
Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)
"Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan."

February 14, 2025 4:30pm, Sam Alex_A116

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I will be giving a talk at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies in Oxford on Friday this week www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/event/religi...

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Nissan Seminar: Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Starting up a very basic University of Manchester Humanities starter pack - please share and let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/FqiNqDp

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Poster for the conference "Robotics, Relgion and Ethics", February 28, 2025, 9am-5pm, The University of Manchester. Details are provided in the link. The poster shows the image of the Android Kannon Mindar.

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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As Xmas approaches, please remember that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was animated in Japan by one of the masters of puppet animation, Mochinaga Tadahito, who also strongly influenced Chinese animation.

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happening today events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Poster of seminar talk. Details about the talk are in the link above.

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Fear Research Network (FeRN), led by @chikaw.bsky.social and yours truly, brings together researchers interested in the politics, feelings, and practices that converge around fear from historical and contemporary perspectives. tinyurl.com/ycx25kkb Here are some of our upcoming events at UoM

Event schedule for the Fear Research Network

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Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Less than 24 hours left to apply for our open-rank, open-field position in Japanese Law and Society at Oxford! Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Exciting news! New MA Arts, Culture and the Environment (MA ACE) launched at UoM!

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Laura Dawson @lauradawson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How is Manchester tackling #healthinequalities? Join #HealthierFutures at #TheUniversityofManchester for our annual lecture on 28 Nov and discover how Cordelle Ofori, Director of #publichealth for #Manchester City Council, and team are #MakingManchesterFairer. All welcome. Register: lnkd.in/ewe-8nuY

Purple text on yellow background, advertising a public lecture on health inequalities to take place on 28 November in Manchester, with image of the speaker, Cordelle Ofori, director of public health for Manchester.

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Coming up later this week in Venezia. Supported by an AAR Collaborative Research Grant and by NICHE (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities). Looking forward to two days of conversations with a great group of researchers. www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

Conference poster. The image shows offerings on a Buddhist altar. The text is about titles of presentations.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A view of the Library grounds. They are coated in snow. A snow-strewn willow tree takes up much of the image

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University cijs.oii.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/deta...

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The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Get a taste of a brand new book on University of Manchester and its interaction with the city, on Mon 18 Nov. ’Manchester Minds: A University History of Ideas’ has been written to mark the bicentenary of the University of Manchester. Get to know some of its great thinkers & more: bit.ly/4hzGnLg

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Manchester Minds — The Portico Library

Get a taste of a brand new book on the University of Manchester and hear more about the interaction between the University and the city.

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Raji Steineck @raji-steineck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A tenure track position in Japanese Studies or Japanese Culture is offered by University of Tsukuba's Malaysia Campus: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/11/2024

‘Yoko Tawada has absorbed not just a Japanese tradition of magical narration, but a German-Jewish tradition of transformation.’ Adam Thirlwell on the Japanese novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...