Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism & Deathtech | Religion, Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Prof. @uofsandiego
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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…
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
The Cambridge Companion to Periyar reviewed @the_hindu by @CholamandalPann who calls the volume "a significant addition for a non-Tamil reading public seeking to understand 20th century Tamil Nadu". @ARV_Chalapathy @qudsiya_Ah @RanaAnwesha
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Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
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…
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_
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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
An arresting portrait of Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi features in my @frontline_india article on the Self-Respect Movement. I identify the Mahakavi and other important thinkers & reformers as those who created an environment for the Self-Respect Movement to germinate.
PERIYAR'S LASTING LEGACY | The century of self-respect
A hundred years later, the Self-Respect Movement’s ideals of equality, women’s liberation, and the annihilation of caste are finding new geographies.
@KRManoharan writes.
frontline.thehindu.com/socia…
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
We were honored that our coedited volume The Cambridge Companion to Periyar was released by The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister @mkstalin at @UniofOxford, over a fascinating 2 day conference on the Self-Respect Movement's centenary @ARV_Chalapathy Here's to Periyar internationalized!
#Oxford-இல் சுயமரியாதை இயக்க நூற்றாண்டுக் கருத்தரங்கு!
#தந்தை_பெரியார் நிகழ்த்திக் காட்டியதெல்லாம் ஆயுதமேந்தாத - இரத்தம் சிந்தாத புரட்சிகள்!
இந்நிகழ்வின்போது, பெரியாரின் சிந்தனைகள் - போராட்டங்களை உலகம் முழுதும் கொண்டுசெல்லும் வகையில், வரலாற்றாய்வாளர் திரு. @ARV_Chalapathy மற்றும் முனைவர் @KRManoharan தொகுத்துள்ள The #Cambridge Companion To Periyar நூலையும்;
பெரியார் தொடங்கிய சமூக இயக்கத்தில் இருந்து வெகுசன மக்கள் இயக்கமாகக் கிளைத்த தி.மு.கழகம் ஆட்சியைப் பிடித்து, தமிழ்நாட்டின் போக்கையே மாற்றியமைத்த புரட்சி வரலாற்றை, இளம் ஆய்வாளரான முனைவர் @krvtweets அவர்கள் ஆய்வுநடையில் வெளிப்படுத்தியுள்ள The Dravidian Pathway நூலையும் வெளியிட்டேன்.
ஒரு சீர்திருத்தவாதி, தான் பரப்புரை செய்த கருத்துகள் எல்லாம் அரசாணைகளாக மாறிச் செயல்வடிவம் பெறுவதைக் கண்ட பெருமை தந்தை பெரியாருக்கே உரியது. அவற்றைச் செயல்படுத்திய பெருமை பேரறிஞர் அண்ணாவுக்கும்-முத்தமிழறிஞர் கலைஞருக்கும்- நமது திராவிட மாடல் அரசுக்கும் உரியது.
உறுதியோடு சொல்கிறேன், #என்றென்றும்_பெரியார்-இன் வழியில், நமது #DravidianModel அரசு தொடரும்! சாதிக்கும்!
#CMStalinInEurope #CMStalinInOxford #PeriyarAtOxford #PeriyarForever
Nicholas Witkowski retweeted
And here it is - The Cambridge Companion to Periyar! Delighted to have coedited the volume with @ARV_Chalapathy. We have an amazing set of contributors here. Book will be released at a big event - more details soon! Many thanks to @qudsiya_Ah @RanaAnwesha & others @CambridgeUP.
Announcing 'The Cambridge Companion to #Periyar', a landmark work & our foremost publication in 2025. Developed over several years with an exceptional team of editors @ARV_Chalapathy & @KRManoharan & contributors, it brings critical insights on the modern thinker's ideas & legacy
ALT https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-periyar/5349F4B097E2F671F41E653F8F966610
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
epw.in/journal/special-artic…
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
