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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday 7.30 Cosplay Theatre
Join @illustrismodels.bsky.social
@thegemcosplay.bsky.social @rembrandtrijn.bsky.social DaniellaMakesThings&I for the CAREERS IN COSPLAY panel. There's a broad range of experiences here, and I'm hoping this should be a good time.

#paxaus #paxaus2025 #paxpanel2025

Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday 3.00 @lumins_workshop workshop space
I'm crashing at @emmycosplayss, and @nix_cosplay 's ask a maker q and a session. Come and chat with us and throw your tricky maker questions at them!

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday 1.30 @lumins_workshop workshop space
LITTLE GUYS! Saturday is little guy day, and we'll chat about planning a Little Guy, mental health, and you'll start making your own pocket Hornet from HOLLOW KNIGHT:SILKSONG.

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

Friday 4.30 @lumins_workshop workshop space
Friday afternoon, I'll be running an INTRO TO SCULPTING WITH FOAM CLAY WORKSHOP where we'll make some roses and talk about sculpting.

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

PAX AUS PANELS Friday 10.30 Kookaburra Theatre
Join @soylentcosplay.bsky.social, Sam from Gateway to Anime ASH for the FANDOM UNIVERSITY panel. We'll be talking about how to make your degree about the things you love and how to carry that further into higher research.

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 2d

Heading to @paxaus.bsky.social ? Interested in getting an MA or PhD and becoming a super villain?*

Join us in Kookaburra Theatre on Friday at 10.30

@utas.edu.au

*many super villains have higher education degrees, but not all ....

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

Red haired magical girls and clothing production??!! Hello! Sign me up

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

A highlight from this morning, Dr Yasuku Claremont talking about this stunning photo taken by Takahashi Jun'ichiro in Kyoto #JSAA #JSAA-conference-2025

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

*I need to spell check ... tl;dr: wrote a paper during the conference, gave it at 5pm, it was well received - but you shouldn't be me ....

Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

#JSAA #JSAA-conference-2025 #Kimutakau # samuraiaboo (self depreciatingly)

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled to be joining A Prof Barbara Hartley in the launching of"Gender,Costume,Textile,Technique"from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025
Launched by Prof Tessa Morris Suzki on a very early 9am Saturday day 2 (3?) session
#JSAA #JSAA-conference-2025
(Peep @vyecos.bsky.social from our MNCC days!)

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

...I maybe spent most of yesterday writing my Kimutakau as Oda Nobunaga before giving in at 5pm,so didn't post anything...
Thank you to Jason Jones (UMonash) for chairing.
Please enjoy this image of 90s Oda Nobunaga and his bros pissing off a cliff(bros!male bonding!)which didn't make it the talk..

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently my super star image of Prof Tessa Morris Suziki giving her boaty boats key note from Friday night didn't post?

A great way to kick off JSAA 2025!

#jsaa2025
#JSAA-conference-2025

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 5d

I got to chat with @michellehsho.bsky.social about this incredible book today. Very excited to pick up a copy <4

Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social · 9d

Heading to #JSAA #JSAA2025 conference in Armidale, NSW this week? 🦘

Catch me at my book launch for #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️
📅 Oct 3 (Fri)
⏰ 3-4:30pm
📍 New Horizons, Oorala Lecture Theatre

Chair: Karl Ian Cheng Chua
Discussant: Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 17d

theconversation.com/young-people...

Young people in England and Australia are supposedly poor at learning languages – our research shows this isn’t true

By listening more closely to the interests and goals of young people in schools, we can start to provide the language teaching they want.

theconversation.com

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 19d

In this week’s Private Eye. How long before other big agencies follow suit?

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Jim Rion @jimrion.com · 20d

Just listened to/watched @newsfromnihon.bsky.social talk about jhorror on the Cinema Scope podcast and it's always a pleasure to hear/see pure expertise on display. So good!
#Jhorror

Cinema Scope • J-Horror Part I: Lindsay Nelson (Raw Interview)

YouTube video by TruStory FM

youtu.be

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 19d

There is still much to be done to fix university governance but nonetheless a huge win for the thousands of NTEU members who have campaigned tirelessly to build better unis.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

www.abc.net.au

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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 21d

In the opening editorial for #TWC46, coeditors @melstanfill.bsky.social and Poe Johnson focus on diversifying "the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work" and aim to "make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) & troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations"! Read more:

buff.ly

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Dr Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 21d

A while ago, Lincoln Geraghty, @acafanmom.bsky.social, @memorieschild.bsky.social & myself did a special issue on “The Past, Present & Future of Fan Fiction”. This is now being reprinted in book format, & available for download for free #FanStudies
www.mdpi.com/books/reprin...

www.mdpi.com

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Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · 23d

Just published the roundtable introducing work by three emerging scholars on student-led activism against sexual assault. Sita Dewi on Indonesia, Bea Patricia Devesa on the Philippines, and Misha Cade on Japan. I learned so much working with them —

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Speaking up against sexual assault on campus: A discussion on three cases of student-led activism in Asia

This roundtable puts three scholars of student-led movements against sexual assault at educational institutions in discussion with each other as an introduction to their research articles published...

www.tandfonline.com

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 23d

I'm still trying to get into the 🦋 posting rhythm...
At the moment, I'm just crawling back to shameless promote things from time to time

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 25d

Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 25d

studyinternational.com/news/world-c...

(I'm just a very tired academic trying to be a whole Japanese department, but sometimes I'm reminded that I get to do some cool stuff)

World Cosplay Summit's smartest participant

Dr Emerald L King at the University of Tasmania looks like your regular lecturer -- until you see what she's achieved at the World Cosplay Summit.

studyinternational.com

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 25d

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

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