The American Oriental Society’s Tweets

EarlyMedievalChina

@medieval_china

Dec 14, 2021

Call for Papers: Fifth Conference of the Early Medieval China Group. April 2, 2022. Proposal submission deadline: Jan 30, 2022.

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Religious Exemptions and Jural Autonomy in Foundation Grants of Early...

Prof.

's full lecture on endowment grants, jural autonomy & the rise of #Brahmin power in #India

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@OrientStudiesOx

Endowment grants beginning in the early centuries CE conferred upon religious professionals (Buddhist, Jain, Brahmin) exemption from tax-payments and other o...

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Oct 20, 2021

Quick reminder that the AOS Western Branch meeting will begin tomorrow (Thurs, Oct 21) at 1pm PDT. Register to get the Zoom link for free here: tinyurl.com/AOSWB2021.

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· Oct 13, 2021

We are delighted to host the 2021 meeting of the American Oriental Society's Western Branch, virtually on Zoom. Oct 21-23, 1-5pm PDT each day. Registration is free at the following link: tinyurl.com/AOSWB2021. (@AmOrientalSoc) 1/

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William A. McGrath

@wmcgrathnyu

Oct 13, 2021

“The Princess and the Plague: Explaining Epidemics in Imperial Tibet, Khotan, and Central Asia” #JAOS

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Oct 13, 2021

We are delighted to host the 2021 meeting of the American Oriental Society's Western Branch, virtually on Zoom. Oct 21-23, 1-5pm PDT each day. Registration is free at the following link: tinyurl.com/AOSWB2021. (

AOS Western Branch 2021 Pre-Registration Form

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American Oriental Society Western Branch established 1951 Annual Meeting, October 21-23, 2021 University of California, Santa Barbara For more about AOS Western Branch, please visit our website:...

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Sergio Tenenbaum

@sergioten

Sep 28, 2021

People, we're doing a wee bit of hiring: Assistant Professor – Philosophy of Science, St. George Campus (Deadline, November 1): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As Associate Professor – South Asian Philosophy, UTM (Deadline, September 30): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug (1/3)

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Sep 28, 2021

My department is hiring a TT assistant prof in Korean Studies. Area of specialty wide open! UC Santa Barbara is a great place to be. Please share!

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· Sep 28, 2021

Job: Assistant Professor in Korean Cultural Studies @ucsantabarbara. Application materials: -CV -cover letter -diversity statement -writing sample -3 reference letters Apply by 11/1/2021 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02040 (Full description in thread) 1/

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Bsod Nams

@bsod_nams

Sep 24, 2021

I wrote a little something about the book I just wrote. Many thanks to

@ColumbiaUP

for giving me this opportunity. And dear readers, i hope the end is worth it. At least, I hope it brings a smile to your face. Or, a grin. May all beings stay as safe and as sane as possible.

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Columbia Univ Press

@ColumbiaUP

· Sep 24, 2021

"On my account, Vasubandhu uses Buddhist cosmology to question any unthinking reliance on human waking experience as a norm." -Sonam Kachru buff.ly/2XTngaP @bsod_nams @UVa_IHGC @SGOKIdehistorie @SPEPorg @GlobalPhilRel #BuddhistStudies #Philosophy #GlobalPhilosophy

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elisa freschi (evidences & reasoning, not claims)

@elisa_freschi

Sep 9, 2021

#SanskritJobs: TT position in Rome ("Sapienza" University, Italy). Unfortunately, you have to download a pdf in Italian and check at p. 87 of it, bc all 123 TT positions of the whole university are listed together. Ask me if you need help 1/2 web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/de

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elisa freschi (evidences & reasoning, not claims)

@elisa_freschi

Sep 8, 2021

#SanskritJobs: 4ys Assistent position at the University of Vienna (this used to be my position, ask me anything): univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungs

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#DigitalOrientalist #digitalhumanities #Digital #BacktoSchool2021

Sep 7, 2021

And we are back! A #NewYear Indeed for the Digital Orientalist, with a team of returning contributors and new additions! Check out this #welcoming note by our 21/22 Editor in Chief

@daigengna

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· Sep 7, 2021

A New Year, A New Beginning: The Digital Orientalist, 2021-2022 digitalorientalist.com/2021/09/07/a-n

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Aug 31, 2021

🚨Call for Papers! 🚨 *232nd Meeting of the AOS will be Mar 18-Mar 21 2022* Submit abstracts by October 15th, 2021: americanorientalsociety.org/annual-meeting

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Simcha Gross

@Simcha_Gross

Aug 31, 2021

A 🧵 about my article in

on the fascinating report in a medieval Zoroastrian Middle Persian text about Šīšīnduxt, the supposed Jewish wife of the Sasanian king Yazdgird I. A story set in the 5th century illuminates Jewish & Zoroastrian history in the 10th 🧵 1/12

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Dr. Sohini Sarah Pillai

@SohiniPillai

Aug 25, 2021

Job Alert! Open-rank (tenured or tenure-track) faculty position in Classical Studies of South Asia at UT Austin! They are looking for a candidate who can teach Advanced Sanskrit. apply.interfolio.com/92689?fbclid=I

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Jing Chen - Heritage for Future: The Archive of Photographing History

Aug 13, 2021

Today we are happy to release the second video from our conference earlier this year, Keynote Speaker Jing Chen's "Heritage for Future: The Archive of #Photographing History."

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The Digital Orientalist Virtual Workshop 2021: https://digitalorientalist.com/the-digital-orientalists-virtual-workshop-and-conference-2021/Jing Chen talks a...

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Jennifer Ball and Xu Chao - Introducing HanziFinder, a Hanzi substr...

Aug 4, 2021

The first of the videos from the Digital Orientalist's Workshop and Conference 2021 is now online. It is Jennifer Ball and Xu Chao's paper "Introducing #HanziFinder, a Hanzi substructure search engine." Check it out at the link below!

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The Digital Orientalist Virtual Workshop 2021: https://digitalorientalist.com/the-digital-orientalists-virtual-workshop-and-conference-2021/HanziFinder: http...

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Open Call for Editors, Contributors, and Team Members 2021

Jul 20, 2021

Still time to apply to our open call for editors and contributors! See details below!

digitalorientalist.com

The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. This year we are again looking to expand the content and fields on which we publish. W…

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Jul 9, 2021

📢We are looking for new team members for the next academic year. Open positions include editors, contributors and a social media manager. Click on the link below to apply👇

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· Jul 9, 2021

Open Call for Editors, Contributors, and Team Members 2021 digitalorientalist.com/2021/07/09/ope

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Jun 30, 2021

Just a reminder that abstracts for the AOS Western Branch (virtual) meeting are due in a month, on July 31. While Western Branch has typically been focused on premodern China, it's open to scholars of all fields covered by

. See quoted tweet for more details.

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· Apr 5, 2021

We'll be hosting the 2021 (virtual) meeting of @AmOrientalSoc's Western Branch this October 21-23. Abstracts due July 31. Submit abstracts or register for free here: tinyurl.com/AOSWB2021 See the Call for Papers below for more detail. 1/

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Simcha Gross

@Simcha_Gross

Jun 9, 2021

Thrilled the new issue of

is out, with my piece "The Curious Case of the Jewish Sasanian Queen Šīšīnduxt: Exilarchal Propaganda and Zoroastrians in Tenth- to Eleventh-Century Baghdad." Will 🧵 about it soon! Congrats also to

@GabrielSaidR

on the new article!

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Jun 7, 2021

In case you missed, we welcomed James Gorrie,

@asrar_elarcheef

,

@hmpim

and

@AdrianPlau

last week with a piece on how to improve search and discovery for global languages.

@WellcomeLibrary

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· Jun 4, 2021

"Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages" by James Gorrie, @asrar_elarcheef, @hmpim and @AdrianPlau digitalorientalist.com/2021/06/04/kit

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Kahlschlag an der MLU verhindern, Fakultäten retten! - Online-Petition

Luther

@waxsanskritic

May 31, 2021

For those of you who care about the preservation of humanities programs in this time of austerity, please consider signing this petition to help save Greek and Latin Studies, Japanese Studies, Languages and Cultures of South Asia, among others!

openpetition.de

Wir fordern das Rektorat der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg dazu auf, die massiven Kürzungspläne einzustellen und nicht wie geplant, 10 Professuren zu schließen. Wir fordern die Landesr...

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Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist...

Dr. James Harry Morris

Today in

is

interview with

a fascinating exploration of the challenges of digital analysis in #Buddhist Studies. #Buddhism #DigitalHumanities

@crocha2

@mattdmilligan

@canbuddhist

digitalorientalist.com

The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my dataset, entered the data into spreadsheets and uploaded to the platform (at that time, P…

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Stephanie Balkwill

@StephBalkwill

May 12, 2021

New article with a ridiculously long title coming soon to _History of Religions_. *Very* excited for this one.

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Apr 19, 2021

🚨🚨New issue🚨🚨 Vol. 141 Issue no. 1 jstor.org/stable/10.7817

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The Iranian Studies Collective

@iranstudiesUK

Apr 9, 2021

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming talk by

@ArezouAzad

on

@BIPS_Britac

- “The Unheard Voices from Eastern Iran & the Eastern Islamic World”

@invisible_east

😀 details below:

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BIPS

@BIPS_Britac

· Apr 9, 2021

WEBINAR | @ArezouAzad talks about "The Unheard Voices from Eastern Iran and the Eastern Islamicate World" @invisible_east

22 April 5PM GMT

Register: bit.ly/3mq2ho1

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Éditions Les Belles Lettres and 4 others

ISD

@isdistribution

Apr 6, 2021

Receive 20% off all titles in our 2021 Asian Studies leaflet, with promotion code 1809-21. Browse here: bit.ly/3eLJ4eI

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Apr 5, 2021

I'm hosting the (virtual) meeting of AOS Western Branch this fall. See the quoted tweet for more details and please get in touch if you have any questions.

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· Apr 5, 2021

We'll be hosting the 2021 (virtual) meeting of @AmOrientalSoc's Western Branch this October 21-23. Abstracts due July 31. Submit abstracts or register for free here: tinyurl.com/AOSWB2021 See the Call for Papers below for more detail. 1/

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Rana Mikati

@mikati_rana

Mar 16, 2021

At 1 pm (EST), two of my favorite Islamic Studies ladies are presenting the

Mariam Sheibani

@MariamSheibani

is presenting on al-Shafi‘i students in Egypt & beyond. Jessica Sylvan Mutter

@DoktorMutter

on the potential of multilingual digital humanities initiatives.

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Mar 15, 2021

Respond to this thread with your at-home virtual AOS conference buddies (pets, kids, spouses, lawn gnomes, etc.)

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Mar 15, 2021

Respond to this thread with your at-home virtual AOS conference buddies (pets, kids, spouses, lawn gnomes, etc.)

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ISD

@isdistribution

Mar 14, 2021

A peek at some of the titles on offer at our virtual booth at the

Brepols and Vandenhoeck Ruprecht

annual meeting!

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Mar 14, 2021

Looking forward to her future Presidential Address!

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Rana Mikati

@mikati_rana

· Mar 14, 2021

First ⁦@AmOrientalSoc⁩ conference in Boston for her a few years back. ⁦@GarrettDavids19⁩ and I took turns. She attended my talk and her dad’s. I think she should get an honorary membership ;-)

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Mar 14, 2021

Hey y’all just a reminder to all the virtual presenters and conference attendees that tonight is the beginning of Daylight Savings time! So we’re springing forward and losing an hour! Yet again. Just FYI.

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Mar 12, 2021

Just wanted to re-up this thread 😎

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· Nov 21, 2020

1/ Occasionally, our newly minted J/AOS Twitter account will highlight past Presidential Address to the society and their subsequent publication in the JAOS. All issues can be found at jstor.org/journal/jamero

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If you're attending

's annual meeting, check out my presentation on "Buddhist Poetry by Its Persecutors: The Cases of Li Shen 李紳 and Li Deyu 李德裕" tomorrow at 2:30pm EST/11:30am PST.

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Mar 12, 2021

Also **important** This account is not for tech assistance! In the virtual platform (linked above) there is a "help" button that should be your first stop for assistance. Thank you and let's have a great conference!

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Mar 12, 2021

**Important** for AOS virtual attendees and presenters: Please login and open presentation rooms via the platform: aos-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a

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