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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

March 6 - Proposals for AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar due on PAPERS system here (scroll to seminar link for CFP): tinyurl.com/3t9tfpvc. Instructions for submission are provided here: tinyurl.com/7fsbxx6a

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Please join Adeana McNicholl and myself for the inaugural Buddhism and Caste Seminar at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Boston (November 22-25) Panel 1: Sat. 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor) Panel 2: Mon. 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor)

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Fabulous Fall Buddhist Studies Lecture Series line up presented by the National University of Singapore Buddhist Studies Group!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

UGent Buddhist Studies Lecture: “Visualising Rituals in Gandhara” by Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, June 05, 2025 Register here: forms.gle/TwffQCPuVipU... www.cbs.ugent.be/guestlecture...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love and Justice at the Barre Center!

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Spring Buddhist Studies Lecture Series Ghent University

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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”:

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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)

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

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

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Dear Friends, Prof. Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself are co-coordinating an exciting NEW project: the Buddhism and Caste Initiative. If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely! #BuddhismAndCaste

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Many thanks indeed to The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Uni Vienna for the invitation to lecture on "#Outcaste #Awakening" and the Dalit identity of early #Buddhist ascetic practitioners. Powerpoint materials for lecture available here: www.academia.edu/124795246/Wi...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Oct 3, 4PM CEST, my lecture (online or in-person) at Ghent Center for Buddhist Studies (email organizer for online link) This is part of my new historiography of #anarchist/ #Outcaste #Buddhism, in which I examine #Brahminization in ancient #India in light of #Fanon's #colonial #plantation state.

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

July 20th, a long overdue conference on #buddhismandcaste hosted at Universität Erfurt, '#Karma, #Nirvāṇa and Social Equality: #Buddhism and the “#Untouchables” (Caṇḍālas/ #Dalits).' #subalternsoteriology Link: uni-erfurt.webex.com/uni-erfurt/j... Number: 2733 230 6380 Password: mJGbtxdm624

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

June 25 - LECTURE on how #subalterns shaped early #Buddhism! Friends who will be in/near #Heidelberg, please do attend UTAustin Buddhist Studies graduate student Harsha Gautam's exciting talk: Buddhist Others and Other Buddhists: Religious Identity Formation and Agency in Early India

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Buddhist Studies friends, Jun 6 (zoom link below), 19:30 Beijing time (7:30AM EST, London 12:30PM) join Prof. Juan Wu of Tsinghua University for 2 exciting talks by Profs. Amy Langenberg and Oliver Freiberger on #Asceticism in Early #Buddhism. ZOOM 816 6385 3352 Passcode: 0606

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Sakyadhita Newsletter essay versions of our American Academy of Religion Panel: Poaching Textual Authority: The Reception of the Bhikṣuṇī Vinaya. LINK: tinyurl.com/4njfv9wy Contributors: Annie Heckman, Manuel Lopez, Darcie Price, Amy Langenberg, and myself (pp. 8–16 of Sakyadhita Newsletter).

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Jan 19th at Tokoku University, Paul Swanson @nanzan.bsky.social speaking on the process of translating of Zhiyi's monumental text on Buddhist meditation.

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

11/19 #AAR2023 join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and me for roundtable (12:30-2:30PM Convention Center 221-D), "Is There a #Buddhism Without #Caste?: An Interdisciplinary Conversation," featuring Natalie Avalos Sonam Kachru Upayadhi S. Luraschi Lucinda Ramberg Mekhola Gomes Anupama Rao Rohit Singh

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. Link: tinyurl.com/mwyu8fty

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Very curious about #Vinaya at Dunhuang - Zhan Ru's dissertation on the topic! brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Submissions for “Making Space: Women’s Agency within a Patriarchal Hegemony," a panel at the 2024 ICMS, May 9-11 in Kalamazoo - Sept 15 deadline

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