Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
San Diego/Kyoto/Taipei
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
For @the_point_mag I wrote one if the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. My experience teaching great books has been utterly transformative, and I think that if you’re on the left you should be all in on it. thepointmag.com/examined-lif…
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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
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
“The Burdens of Love in Public Discourse in China” looks wildly similar to my own book. 1) who at Yale invited him? 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk? macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
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
Translating #Buddhist #women's agency from #India to #China
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's @Routledge_Phil _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. Link:
academia.edu/106577235/My_Re…
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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_
aarweb.org/event/buddhist-fe…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
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-informat…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Somewhat surprised but very happy to report that my ghost book has won the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian history from the American Historical Association.
I am humbled by the trust my colleagues on the committee put in my scholarship.
@AHAhistorians @historyatpurdue @PurdueLibArts @PermanentBlack @DukePress
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Oct 3, my @KhyentseFound Lecture @NorthwesternU: “Comparative Subalternities” as a New Framework for the Study of Indian Buddhist Traditions: Locating the Outcaste Monastic within Plantation Geographies
9:30PM IST/9AM PDT/11AM CT/5PM GMT/6PM CET
LINK: northwestern.zoom.us/j/91408…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
#BookDiscussion
#NLSIU is organising a discussion on the volume ‘The Cambridge Companion to Periyar,’ co-edited Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan (Assistant Professor, NLSIU).
🗓️Day & Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025.
⏰Time: 11 AM to 1 PM
📍Venue: Bangalore International Centre (@bicblr), Domlur
🗨️Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, VC, NLSIU; Prof. S. V. Srinivas @azimpremjiuniv; Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, NLSIU
RSVP now: nls.ac.in/news-events/book-d…
@KRManoharan @krishnaswamysud @ARV_Chalapathy
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
【ご案内】 東文研セミナー Customary Legalism: Rules of Law in Early India, Java, and Bali (A Lecture by Prof. Timothy Lubin) のお知らせ dlvr.it/TMtnNQ
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," a fundamental reconsideration of early #Indian #Buddhist identity.
Free for download here:
academia.edu/143337761/Quali…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power.
nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opini…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
I am pleased to share my article 'The Visibility and Invisiblity of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Helen De Cruz has passed. In her final days, she was frank about her gratitude but also her devastation. She called her death a "financial, emotional catastrophe" for her family.
If you are able, I'll link her gofundme to support her children and husband in a reply below.
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
New open access article @CSSHJournal where I write about India's city improvement trusts of early 20th century and how they inaugurated a new language, technology, and rationality of urban governance.
- bit.ly/43Vy46q
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Excited to present my work at @StAntsCollege, University of Oxford.
@AparnaAgarwal91 will give the MSAS @CSASPOxford talk next Tuesday (3 June) @StAntsCollege
Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
New Jersey folks -- Please join me for my book launch at Princeton Public Library, May 29, 7 p.m.
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
Today's the big day! Happy Pub Day to my first book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION! It explores how Booker T. Washington's & George Washington Carver's visions of sustainable agriculture shaped the broader Black diaspora. So thrilled it's officially in the world! Read more below.
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India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent will be released in India on June 17!
Preorder your copy here: amazon.in/India-000-Years-Hi… #India #history #newbook
