Where should one publish one’s book? What are advantages and disadvantages of each venue? I will start sharing my views and would be glad to read yours (PLEASE NOTE that I cannot be exhaustive and in this sense I depend on my readers —suggest further venues or important points, if you deem them relevant).
Please remember that I am speaking about young authors (well-known ones will not need me).
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation initiated a program – channeled through ACLS – in Buddhist Studies last year, supporting dissertation fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, collaborative research grants and distinguished visiting professorships.
The Department of Religion at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track position in Buddhist Studies during the 2014-2015 academic year. The position will be in a one-year, non-renewable contract.
Q1 EF: In this second part of our chat, we will focus on career. How did your scholarly career start?
CB: I started by focusing on Indo-European studies and, consequently, learnt Sanskrit, Armenian… and Sogdian, which immediately interested me most [see Q2 of part 1].
This post is the European continuation of Andrew Nicholson’s one. Andrew is also the one who prompted me to write a European list.
Indian philosophy is taught in at least two different places in Europe:
I should have met Stephan Kloos because we both work at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but in fact we met at a common friend’s party and only later realised we had seen each other quite often before in the Academy. After that, I started having a look at his work. Departing from his wonderful website, all his work is dedicated to the anthropology of Tibetan medicine, especially of Tibetan medicine in exile. Kloos 2013, for instance, investigates on how it ended up being recognised, in India, in the West and in the Tibetan community as a “medical system” and how this concept involves a strategy and the self-construction of a new “Tibetan” identity —once the Tibetan identity could no longer be determined on a geographical basis— as related to Buddhist ethics, i.e., to one’s altruistic attitude towards the others.
You can read here the results regarding the Italian “Habilitation” process. Unlike in other parts of the world, the Habilitation has been introduced in Italy only in 2012 and it is twofold:
you can find here the results of those who submitted their work in order to be judged worthy of becoming Associate Professor (e.g., Maria Piera Candotti, Claudio Cicuzza, Marco Franceschini, Cristina Pecchia, Tiziana Pontillo and many others, including myself)
and here the results of those who submitted their works in order to be judged worthy of becoming Full Professor (e.g., Fabrizia Baldissera, Anna Filigenzi, Giacomella Orofino, Alberto Pelissero, Francesco Sferra, Federico Squarcini and many others).
You might also know that the whole process has led to controversial opinions. Comments?
In case you were wondering… after many months the first results of the first Italian “Habilitation” examinations are starting to be published. Of direct interest for the readers of this blog might be, among others, the results of Clelia Bartoli, Chiara Letizia, Federico Squarcini, Alessandro Saggiori (all positively evaluated), Enrica Garzilli…
Due to the fact that I work in an underrepresented area of philosophy (Indian philosophy, even worse: Pūrva Mīmāṃsā) and I am a woman, I am more than interested in the general topic of “making philosophy more inclusive“. But what do we really mean by this slogan?
We might mean:
At the link above you can read my thoughts on this topic.