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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Aug 29

The UK regulator Ofcom turns UK impartiality rules upside down - allowing GBNews presenters to escape restrictions by claiming ti be "current affairs" not news. bjr.org.uk/ofcom-is-now...

Ofcom is now defying logic - BJR

Why is the media regulator reinterpreting statutory rules on impartiality to allow partisan politicians to present news programmes on GB News?

bjr.org.uk

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jul 11

🔗Open access at www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity

www.bloomsburycollections.com

Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jul 11

✨Just out: Learning from Different Approaches to Gender Nonconformity — a convo with Jass Thethi & Rudy Loewe on decolonial, defiant ways of researching gender. Huge thanks to @krheyam.bsky.social and Jonathan Ward for the invitation.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Open access link in the comments.
#queerstudies #LGBTStudies

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jul 9

Honoured to be interviewed by PTS Taiwan (公共電視) 🇹🇼— in what’s likely the first journalistic TV feature outside of Thailand on the rise of Thai #GirlsLove dramas and their transnational queer significance. 🌏🌈
🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?...
#GL #LGBT #QueerTV

泰國百合劇席捲亞洲掀起多元性別文化新浪潮｜泰百浪潮從凝視到認同｜公視 #獨立特派員第910集 20250709

YouTube video by 公共電視-獨立特派員 PTS INNEWS

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌈 Happy Pride! I wrote a piece for The Conversation on one of my favourite queer films: Saving Face (2004) by Alice Wu 🎬 It’s such a heartfelt, underrated gem in LGBTQ+ cinema.

theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...

#SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian

Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: Saving Face is a complicated romcom that tenderly depicts the experiences of queer Asians

A woman’s desire and cultural expectation clash in this heartwarming romantic comedy.

theconversation.com

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · Jun 3

Tomorrow, June 4th, 36 years after the Tiananmen massacre, we will be hosting Jeff Wasserstrom to discuss his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance (Columbia Global Reports).

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@jwassers.bsky.social
@jmulich.bsky.social
@wpsa.bsky.social
‪@mtacalendar.bsky.social‬

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jun 3

Friends in London, I’ll be talking about Thai Girls Love media on 7 June, as part of Formosa Salon 倫敦講臺’s Pride Month event! 👭🏻🇹🇭🏳️‍🌈The talk will be in Mandarin Chinese. Secure your place at this link and hope to see you there! 🔗 formosasalon.org.uk/post/queer-m...
#GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Mar 23

Getting ready for the Queer Sinophone Studies & the Question of Geopolitics Symposium at Academia Sinica! 🎤📚 Countdown begins—just two weeks to go! 🗓️✨ #QueerStudies #Geopolitics

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Kin @cell-less.bsky.social · Mar 16

Digital colonialism: 'US tech monopolies...have embedded themselves into South African society'. E.g. Operation Phakisa, 'designed to equip public schools with digital tools but, in reality, hands over the country’s educational data sovereignty to US corporations. lab.cccb.org/en/counterin...

Countering Digital Colonialism | CCCB LAB

A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.

lab.cccb.org

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you to The Chinese University of Hong Kong for hosting me yesterday. I very much enjoyed engaging with colleagues and students on AI's societal implications through fandom studies and exploring how the humanities & social sciences can contribute to research in AI ethics and governance.

Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Feb 12

Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Mar 10

I’m giving a talk today at Lingnan University on how AI is shaping the future of fandom. Really looking forward to the discussion! ☺️

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our research on Thai GL is featured in Bangkok post! ☺️

K.W. Pang @kwpang.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thank you Bangkok Post for featuring our journal article on #ThaiGL! 🙏 @evacyli.bsky.social

Lesbian media still in the shadows

The Thai Girls

www.bangkokpost.com

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Feb 24

✨Honoured to contribute to this timely volume edited by
@krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward!

I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge.

Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity

This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Feb 17

We discussed the global popularity of #Thai Girls Love #GL series and why this matters. Thai GL celebrates joy and thriving queer relationships 🌈💖, in contrast to Hollywood's #BuryYourGays trope @kwpang.bsky.social
#EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...

How Thailand’s TV lesbian romances captured a global audience

The rise of queer romances for women in Thailand signals the emergence of more tolerant and progressive attitudes to LGBTQ+ people.

theconversation.com

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Feb 12

Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy New Year! ✨🎉
I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 18

The article is published in Sexualities: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... An open access AAM version is available at Lancaster University's repository: www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/servi...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 18

We trace Sinophone queer scholarship throughout the past three decades focuses on geopolitics and thus moves away from the one-way, center-peripheral imagination of identity by relying on China as the center, and toward different directionalities and forms of attachments and allyship in HK and TW:

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 18

As 2024 draws to a close, I'm very pleased to see this piece, joint first authorship with Wen Liu, published. We propose the #geopolitics of queer archives to trace queer knowledge and activism connecting HK and TW, often overlooked under the shadow of the "greater China" framework. 🧵

The abstract of the paper
Liu, W., & Li, E. C.-Y. (2024). The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241237695

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 18

Can I be added to the list as well? Thank you.

Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 17

Media, Culture & Society Journal @mcsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 17

Check out the latest editorial in the Crosscurrents themed issue: "Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond #COVID-19." It's crucial to consider how this global event has reshaped our societies and its lasting implications.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hi could you please also add @mcsjournal.bsky.social to the list? Thank you.

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Desmond Sham @desmondsham.bsky.social · Dec 15

We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Dec 13

Students in my MA fandom module highlighted "how to be ethical fans" as a major challenge in today's mediascape. I'm pleased to hear this, and we must keep engaging in these discussions! 😇

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