For two decades, we were told the humanities are moribund and we only need STEM, and now we're reached a point where the biggest innovations in STEM are raising fundamentally humanist questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require philosophy, art, history, and religion to answer.
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Proud to launch the Digital Library of Chinese Classics! 510 texts, 20 years of research, 500 scholars, 282 vols, in one comprehensive digital collection, empowered by Brill’s renowned dictionaries. Check it out:
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I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.
Happy Birthday, big guy.
Starting today: The conference "Buddhism and Medicine: People, Paradigms and Perspectives", hosted by the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol, is hybrid, free, and open to the public (registration required): buddhiststudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk?page_id=435
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Thanks @dcsmith.bsky.social!
I am looking forward to speaking at UPenn this Thursday! I hope to see 🫵🏿 there!
Sept 11 - Friends in Buddhist Studies and beyond - @rhcraig.bsky.social will be speaking at the Ho Center at @utoronto.ca on Dharma preachers of the Indian Buddhist Mahāyāna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner!
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Medievalist Matthew Vernon discusses Beowulf, Blackness & 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 (2025) while @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social notes Met Gala classics looks. Then, NEH grantees get a big win, rebuilding the Ziggurat @ Ur, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies
ISTB University of Vienna, Austria
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
Ralph H. Craig III
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Nicholas Witkowski
Sarah E. Bond
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This week, medievalist Matthew Vernon discusses Beowulf, Blackness, and the film Sinners (2025). Then, the ACLS, AHA, and MLA win the day for NEH grantees; dendrochronology and medieval Japanese auror...
