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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 1d

#CFP "Closed Borders and Global Connections: Being Global after Globalization" — World History Association conference, to be held June 25-27 in Incheon, Korea. Early submission deadline is December 1!

WHA Korea 2026

The WHA will be hosting the 35th WHA Annual Meeting in Incheon, Korea, from 25- 27 June, 2026, co-sponsored by George Mason University Korea, in affiliation with The Academy of Korean Studies.

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 1d

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 1d

The Phillies: breaking my heart since … well, as long as I can remember.

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 1d

I never want to hear the name Orion Kerkering ever again. He needs to go.

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️TRADE OFFER⚠️

i receive: at least one phillies run

you receive: fewer unhinged posts from me

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Kelly @hinx.bsky.social · 1d

If I were the Phillies I would simply hit the base ball enough times in succession to ensure a minimum of one (1) player makes it all the way around to home plate, which scores a run.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 2d

Call for Submissions — "Global Perceptions of China: Insights from the Next Generation." Scholars under the age of 35 are invited to submit proposals by October 31.

Call for Submissions

CCA invites young scholars under 35 to submit paper proposals on how China is perceived in their countries or regions, as part of a new initiative to highlight underrepresented perspectives on…

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 2d

AAS-in-Asia 2026 to Take Place at Lahore University of Management Sciences—submit your organized panel session or roundtable proposal by November 13!

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Colorful poster for AAS-in-Asia Lahore conference, Sept 25-27, 2026, themed 'Centering Asia: Refiguring Connections, Recharting Futures'.

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 2d

A Banned Books Week recommendation: The Beautiful and Banned podcast, hosted by Christine Renee Miller and Jessica Goudeau. Currently on hiatus, but there's an entertaining and informative backlist of episodes to catch up on in the meantime.

The Beautiful and Banned Podcast

This is a podcast about banned books, plays, and films. We talk about society and culture, history, literature, politics, sexuality, gender, race, class, and identity. We love libraries and…

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 3d

And update it AT LEAST annually. Preferably more often than that, but once a year is the minimum.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 3d

Historians who write books, please a) set up your own author website, independent of your university profile and b) get some professional headshots taken. Love, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 3d

SO MUCH wandering this week—through a lot of China stories to a hit musical in Mexico, then on to features about bison in Poland (who knew?) and why Disney and New Orleans seem to go together. And there's more, so much more.

Weekly Wanderings: October 5, 2025

Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Associated Press, “Overseas Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law denied entry to Singapore” Chris Buckley and Adam Goldman, “Ho…

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 4d

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished.
www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Natashaaaaargh Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 6d

New Out of Office:

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to our new and improved doctor’s office!

If you’ll just scan this QR code, access our poorly designed website and repeatedly enter the information we already have on file as the site crashes, we’ll be with you in twice the time it used to take.

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Lady Samhain (she/her) @maggiesox.bsky.social · 6d

Harrison Bader: Art Nerd! (Complimentary, trust me. Gift link.)

The Phillies’ Harrison Bader has been painting since he was a kid. And it’s helped shape his game.

Bader took an interest in art history in high school and still paints. It’s helped him get through the highs and lows of his major league career, while keeping him in “the present moment.”

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.

"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 6d

"Xi aims to establish China as the fulcrum of an emerging multipolar world, and he is advancing a new, more active diplomatic strategy to realize that goal." Jeffrey Prescott and @juliangewirtz.bsky.social write on shifting centers of gravity in a new article for @foreignaffairs.com.

China Goes on Offense

Beijing’s plans to exploit American retreat.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 7d

Call for applications: Tangut Winter School 2026 at the Elling Eide Center, January 5-9, 2026. Apply by November 1 for this 5-day (funded!) immersion in Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.

Tangut Winter School 2026 | Elling Eide Center

Tangut Winter School 2026 Join the Tangut Winter School 2026 for five days of lectures and guided readings on Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.T ...

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 7d

Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."

Recent Fellows

Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief…

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 7d

New NYRB essay by Leslie T. Chang on several books that discuss the variety, seasonality, balance, and deliciousness of all the cuisines collected under that too-generic umbrella term "Chinese food."

At the Chinese Table | Leslie T. Chang

To understand the Chinese through their culinary history is to see them in their best lights—as inventive, adaptable, egalitarian, and open-minded.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 8d

#CFP 2026 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 10-11 at UC Berkeley. Submit paper proposals by November 8 for consideration.

Berkestan 2026 | Institute of East Asian Studies

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