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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Jul 11

My PhD student Yuxuan Lang gave a great paper on photographs of Chinese slave-girls in Guangzhou at the fascinating Global Urban History Project in Berlin today ‪@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social‬
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · May 15

Celebrating 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies with my excellent PhD students, Dexter Tse and Yuxuan Lang! @historytcd.bsky.social

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · May 15

Great to see lovely former students as we celebrated 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, including my first PhD graduate, Dr Meishan Zhang, and Chiara Mastronardo who was one of our early MPhil Chinese Studies students!

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Congratulations to Ka Lo Yau on her PhD graduation! Her thesis title was Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). She was funded by her supervisor Isabella Jackson's Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD

A young Chinese woman in a Trinity College Dublin red and yellow PhD gown

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder.
#skystorians
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For more information, see here 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Job Description - Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Apr 8

Great to see my colleague @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speaking at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC tonight

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Jan 29

My husband, Adam Hanna, wrote this beautiful obituary for Michael Longley:

Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social · Jan 29

I've written a short piece on Michael Longley - less an obituary than an appreciation.

booksirelandmagazine.com/as-long-as-t...

Pictures: Portrait by Colin Davidson in the National Gallery of Ireland; with Seamus Heaney on the Hill of Tara in 2010.

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Jan 28

A warning about Chinese control of information if its technology is accepted globally: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Dec 13

Had a great time at a conference on diplomacy and cultural encounters in turn-of-the-century East Asia in Cambridge this week, with an excellent paper by @clarem212.bsky.social and a keynote by yours truly

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Dec 6

Looking forward to this on Monday

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Dec 6

Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

Engraving of UK Foreign Office building, Westminster

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Nov 9

Bowled over by the British Library Dunhuang manuscripts exhibition. Here, the rules for a woman's club from 959, with 15 female signatories, each of whom signed a mark under her name.

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