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Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Broadly enough defined that it could include Asian Art History

Position description

The Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Arts of the Medieval World, tenure-track, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027.

The Department seeks candidates maintaining an active research agenda in the study of the Arts of the Medieval World, broadly defined. The position is open in terms of geographical and chronological focus, welcoming a range of local, regional, transregional, or comparative approaches to the study of art and the built environment in Africa, Asia, and/or Europe from the 7th to the 15th century. Candidates' teaching and research might also engage historic trade routes, sites of pilgrimage, axes of scholarly exchange, or itineraries of conquest and enslavement, such as the Trans-Saharan Trade, the Indian Ocean System, or the Silk Road. The department seeks applicants whose scholarship advances new insights on circulation, transmission, translation, reuse/adaptation, and material cultures across overlapping medieval worlds. Candidates' teaching and research should demonstrate engagement with the changing dynamics of the discipline both methodologically and topically, including, among others, studies of race, disability, empire, ecology, gender, sexuality, and the digital humanities.

Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m at a workshop in Taiwan and “Journey to the West” is coming up in conversation a lot. Is anyone in North America working on 西遊記? Seems like after Anthony Yu, people avoided the topic? I’m probably just ignorant of the field *apologies*

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

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Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is a silly response to your great quip about digital Buddhist studies. No cap. But, now I am rereading Hamar and others on the origins or protohistory of the Avatamsaka.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I believe you are referring to the 佛說八樓體用經, discovered with the Tangut cache at Khara-Khoto. Some refer to it as 華嚴禪 and others as a “Dhāranī Sutra”—neither is entirely accurate. I’ve read it is likely a Chinese composition containing fragments of proto-Buddhāvataṃsaka texts from C. Asia.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

CBETA is a place on floor eight.

CBETA on floor eight.
Seen in the lobby of 法鼓德貴學苑.

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Kierkegaard:

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Welcoming 2026 in Taipei 祝福馬年吉祥，諸事順遂，祈國泰民安

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I think it is always meritorious to want to eat not-meat. And of course being a monastic (who is ostensibly less attached to Michelin star vegan leftovers) is morally superior than being a layperson (who loved the eggplant and rice noodles). Once everyone is a vegetarian, then ... #expedientmeans

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In one sense, the vegetarian food in Taiwan is so good, that it isn’t a hardship to eat it. Michelin star vegan leftovers for breakfast? Yes please. In another sense, there are so many non-vegetarian foods one would have to give up!

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Would you think this image might have been created in a photography studio?

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

all stilled. Jane Hirshfield

UNDER THE RIVER

Under the river of the world, the world.
And beneath that palace, a palace—just the same.
From the quarry ledge, children dive
over and over into blue sky:
it always greets them the same,
laughter, then towels, and going home with watery ears.
It sings to them then for hours, hushing the rest—
family, dinnerware, tires spinning by, all stilled.
Open-winged for those moments between world and world,
the rooms leading one to the next,
each linoleum floor marble-cool,
the ceilings stencilled with water lilies, stars.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Book for sale in Hong Kong www.megbook.com.hk/mall/detail....

megbook.com.hk

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It’s been nice to hear from colleagues and friends. One of the strange parts of this experience is noting the world slowly move on, get back to normal. Our world is frozen. Campus is a crime scene. Offices inaccessible. And the grief. The grief. It’s good to not feel alone.

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk

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British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“[Prof. Friendberg] learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. … Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students.”

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“Rachel Friedberg said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course.” Yeah, this the biggest class at Brown. Between 400 and 500 students. At least 80% of the class are freshmen. These are kids in their first semester of college.

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2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large

Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class

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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Everyone in Religious Studies checked in as safe. If student reporting at BDH holds up, it sounds like it was a section of the big freshman econ course, folks gathered for a review session before the final. So so sad.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I am safe. All my grad students are safe.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I want to be sad, but who has the time? Xin Qiji, tr. Jon Hansen

IN SEARCH OF REVELRY

Drunk, I seek revelry.
I want to be sad, but who has the time?
Now I understand the books of the Ancients
and believe them all: “There are no good points.”

Last night I fell drunk next to a pine
and asked it, “How drunk am I?”
Suspecting the pine wanted to pick me up,
I shoved it and said, “Go!”

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Are you an environmental humanist? Do you like hanging out with other smart environmental humanists? Would you like to do so for a week this summer in Maine? Then I highly recommend Colby's Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities! (app due 2/6/26) cah.colby.edu/initiatives/...

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Rots on Vietnam whale worship: “how it is possible that residents of an island choking in plastic engage in ritualized littering. Why do animists who worship deities residing in nature pollute the very environment that they—according to the academic theory, at least—should perceive as sacred?”

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When Gods Drown in Plastic | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s published in Taiwan only afaik. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s hard to find a copy later.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

He doesn’t pull punches. Also names you @cmbnugent.bsky.social as one of the best undergraduate students he taught.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Richard Davis’ memoir is spicy.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There are 18 whiskers and eyebrows … and each one is an arhat. This is probably esoteric Buddhism.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

'we write the best history when the specificity, the novelty, the awe-fulness, of what our sources render up bowls us over with its complexity & its significance. Our research is better when we move only cautiously to understanding...' CWB 'Wonder' AHR 1997. Thanks to @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is powerful. An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum. 'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.' www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

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Helen Davidson @heldavidson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🚨 journo job! 🚨 Replace me! - after 13 years at the Guardian and six years on the incredible China team, including five in Taiwan, I’m leaving at the end of this year. I’ll get sentimental about it later but for now: Here’s the job ad. I recommend it! workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Is it not that one is saying “alas dumpster is aflame, but X is great, so let’s keep faith in the humans” … while the other says “even X isn’t great anymore, and the dumpster fire means we can’t get it back.”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

ACLS is now accepting applications for Graduate Internships on the Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future: summer 2026 opportunities for PhD students studying religion to work with leading nonprofits and apply their research beyond the academy. Apply by Jan 14, 9 PM ET: www.acls.org/GISI

Text graphic: Supporting PhD students studying religion. Graduate Internships on the Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future. Webinar for applicants: December 8, 2025 @ 12PM EST. Applications due: January 14, 2026.

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I don’t know about finding a file, but the title is 謝康樂集注 by 黃節.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

That’s terrific for all of us. Thank you for your service.

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This reminds me of another poem from the Book of Songs《詩經》國風：王風 · 黍離知我者、謂我心憂，不知我者、謂我何求。悠悠蒼天、此何人哉。 Those who know me, whisper I bear sorrows; Those who don’t know me, ask what I seek. O distant Heaven, tell me what man (has brought us to this despair).

《詩經》國風：王風 · 黍離
彼黍離離、彼稷之苗。
行邁靡靡、中心搖搖。
知我者、謂我心憂，
不知我者、謂我何求。
悠悠蒼天、此何人哉。
https://ctext.org/book-of-poetry/shu-li/zh

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