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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 8d

I'm heading for #JSAA25. Organised with my intrepid colleague Laura Clark! The keynotes are open to the public on the website. The 1st is tomorrow at 6pm AEST. Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki - "The Sea Connects: Rethinking the Emergence of Modern Japan and Australia from a Pacific Ocean Perspective"

JSAA Conference 2025

www.une.edu.au

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 10d

I love this bit of reflection by Ursula Le Guin on her writing. 'Meaning in art isn't the same as meaning in science.'

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 11d

JSAA25 is on next week! Still time to register if you’d like to watch the keynotes online.

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks so much Kathleen!

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 19d

Ha, thanks! 🙏 no not mine, but our daughter’s so still a big deal!

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20d

“It is truly extraordinary that of the three countries that are party to the deal, Australia – which bears the brunt of both the cost and the risk – is the only one not to have put AUKUS to a genuine review."

Petition for an inquiry into AUKUS > theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Two-thirds of Australians want a review of AUKUS, while less than half think it will make us safer: poll

66 per cent of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into the AUKUS security agreement, according to new polling commissioned by The Australia Institute.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 20d

Okay so Melbourne is going to tease us with a balmy 23 degrees this afternoon and then quickly revert to 14 max tomorrow for the wedding! 🧐

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 20d

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war

Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?

theconversation.com

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · Aug 16

The keynotes for JSAA Biennial Conference University of New England (AU) on 2nd/3rd October will be hybrid (AEST). All welcome! To register, sign up here: forms.gle/2XdDxz6yshVE...

The full abstracts are found here: www.une.edu.au/about-une/fa... on a drop down screen.
#japanesestudies #jsaa2025

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 26d

In-person registrations for the JSAA 2025 Biennial Conference will close on 23rd September. We have been working behind the scenes to finalise the program with 7 sessions including either 3 or 4 streams... #jsaa www.une.edu.au/about-une/fa...
(In case anyone would like to join us in Armidale, NSW)

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 27d

That is a great point, Chad! I'll get on to Ted and ask him to let them know in case someone is interested. Cheers!

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 28d

@rawmih.bsky.social, @chadkoh.com ?

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 29d

Ojika Island manages the tourism on this island today, and here is their website: ojikajima.jp/en/nozaki
Any interest, @shanmason.bsky.social - or do you know anyone might be interested in coming along? I've booked the trip but the price would be better if I found some companions or even one!

Nozaki Island | おぢか島旅 | 長崎県五島列島・小値賀町

ojikajima.jp

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 29d

Here is a photo from my previous trip to Nozaki of the island where Hidden Christians were until at least 1871 and Catholics after that until they finally left in the early 1970s... This is a part of my investigation of the Hidden Christian World Heritage sites of which Nozaki is one. #worldheritage

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 29d

I'm planning a (likely final) trip to the Goto. On 28 October I am planning to join a guided trek on the 無人島 Ojika Island to the shrine known as Oe-ishi which includes a rock formation 24 m high and 12 m wide. If anyone #長崎人？ would like to join the trek PM me! (Kojima shrine on this US map) #japan

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Tim @tim.gy · Aug 31

Typical evening at a March for Australia household

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · Aug 28

My work was pirated by LibGen, and I filled out the form.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Aug 24

National march for Palestine through Canberra

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Matt Dennien @mattdennien.bsky.social · Aug 24

one of the biggest recent protest turnouts in Brisbane by my count marching for Palestine with others across the country today, incl a strong @withmeaa contingent w the message:

stop the killings. stop killing journalists

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Aug 24

We’ve been here for over 20 minutes and we still can’t see the end of this protest. There must be tens of thousands here! 🇵🇸

Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Aug 24

Right now, Naarm/Melbourne coming out in the thousands to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. My camera can’t capture the numbers but the march extends as far as the eye can see. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸❤️

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 23

If there are profs out there who don’t want to do the very basics of their jobs anymore I know a lot of out-of-work academics who’d gladly take them!

Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yeah I was vague for privacy. But this isn't unusual. My friend's daughter just started college and her first professor warned the students "drop any class if the professor DOESN'T include instruction about how to integrate AI in your work." I heard the same from a different friend this year.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Relieved that Australia's Copyright Agency is pushing back against the Productivity Commission's Text and data mining exception brain fart. All power to them ✊

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · Aug 16

Apparently, we (Scottish people) are being hysterical, and we should just shut up and accept the 150 nuclear "incidents" that have occurred in the last 18 months.

Share this & contact your MSP & MP if like me you want these subs out of Scotland.

www.thenational.scot/news/2539358...

MoD claims serious radioactive leak at Faslane 'posed no risk to public'

A “category A” nuclear safety incident occurred at Faslane naval base earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed ...

www.thenational.scot

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · Aug 16

The keynotes for JSAA Biennial Conference University of New England (AU) on 2nd/3rd October will be hybrid (AEST). All welcome! To register, sign up here: forms.gle/2XdDxz6yshVE...

The full abstracts are found here: www.une.edu.au/about-une/fa... on a drop down screen.
#japanesestudies #jsaa2025

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