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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happening tonight! So excited to moderate this talk with the amazing Holly Stephens about her ground-breaking new research!

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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In one week! Holly Stephens (U of Edinburgh) on her new book “Empire by Association: Agriculture and the Reorganization of the Rural Economy in Colonial Korea”, in conversation with Jun Uchida (Stanford U) and Joseph Seeley (U of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6787760

A screenshot of the webpage details for the event, featuring a book cover with an idyllic illustration of a woman holding an armful of harvested grain stalks against a broad field and a blue sky.

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Kjell Ericson @kjelldericson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This stuck out to me on my last trip to Busan: a fantastically illustrated 1962 poster from the South Korean central fisheries experiment station asking ordinary fishers to send in any tagged horse mackerel, mackerel, or squid specimens they managed to catch.

Poster with illustrations of a tagged mackerel, horse mackerel, and squid.

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a nerdy undergrad I bought a Harris Tweed blazer for $7 from a local thrift store. That thing carried me through the rest of undergrad, grad school, job talks, and my first several years of teaching.

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited to host Russell Burge at UVA to talk about his new book on the underside of rapid urban development in 1960s-1970s Korea.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum

Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background

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Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Preorder now. You cannot get such an expertly crafted and researched history of empire, ethnicity, and the environment anywhere else.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A first for me-- I was quoted in the NYTimes this morning! Thanks to Tiffany May for including me in this important story on English language learning in China in the age of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w...

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In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble

A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seems about right for someone born in California, grew up in Utah/Idaho, and went back to CA for grad school. The last seven years in VA have done little to my English except that I say y'all more often now.

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ten of the finalists for the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes shares why they decided to publish their humanities and social sciences books #openaccess: bit.ly/4ctFeEf

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10 Authors Share Why They Published Open Access

Finalists of the ACLS Open Access Book Prize share why they published open access books in the humanities and social sciences.

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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

An MIT Press Reader article by the art historian Nozomi Naoi in connection to her new book on Mitsukoshi department store: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-japan-tu...

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How Japan Turned Department Stores Into Dreamworlds

What started as dry goods shops serving the elite became sprawling emporiums that helped usher in an age of mass consumption.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Placing East and Southeast Asia in Convo, Forum In Memory of Aaron Stephen Moore got published! Writing "Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects + Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia"=next best thing to talking w ASM in person read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects and Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia

Abstract. Japanese overseas development assistance intersected with sericulture in Southeast Asia especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Piecing together disparate entomological engagements as reporte...

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Proud of my wife and favorite author @mengxiseeley.bsky.social for this starred review. She did a lot of impressive research into late imperial Chinese history to tell this charming, Austen-inspired story!

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It was a great forum! Makes me miss Aaron even more. He was so excited when he found out I was going to be teaching at his undergrad alma mater.

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Guilty as charged! My parents had an old 1970 edition that we inherited from my grandparents.

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Mengxi Seeley 李梦溪 @mengxiseeley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's a good day to share some historical background behind my debut novel, right?

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy to be in the lovely city of Edinburgh for the History of Science Society conference. This Scottish weather is a perfect respite from the Virginia humidity.

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sad that the story of Hanpyo didn't make it into the final version of my presentation on Korean zoo history that I will be giving in less than two weeks at the HSS conference in Edinburgh, but I look forward to meeting with scholars there!

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A cute chonkster with a tragic backstory-- Hanpyo (한표) was captured in 1962 as one of the last wild Amur leopards in South Korea. These leopards once ranged throughout Korea but were overhunted. Photo is from his later years at Seoul's Changgyeongwon Zoo.

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are you getting ready for a spooky summer? 👻 We have just the thing! Revisit some quality bakemono and yokai in this #NCCSpotlight by Jack Stoneman (Brigham Young University), introducing their Edo period Pictures of Monsters scroll! 💀 #妖怪 #化け物 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#CFP Porous Worlds: Histories, Environments, and Material Relations at the Surface-Subsurface Interface (Bergen, October 28-29, 2026), due September 1. Workshop explores relationship between surface and subsurface w/ keynote by @gabriellehecht.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extractivism #histstm

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hard to believe the book has been out for almost two years! Late tonight I'll be giving what may be my last "new book" talk. Many thanks to SNU's Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies for hosting!

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Let's incinerate this tendency!"--1950s North Korean cartoon criticizing endless meetings. And this was made before the hellishness of Zoom meetings...

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This will be a key text for years to come on the history of capitalism in the Japanese Empire, and the transformation of Korean rural society under empire. So looking forward to it!

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Always a good day for Song dynasty cat poetry

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 08/06/2026

TOMORROW Join us for Tuesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" with @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan! Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night www.cambridge.org/core/books/j... #envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Let's Raise More Dogs!"--a few pics of some very good doggies from a 1960s North Korean magazine. One on the left is from the unique NK "Pungsan" breed, described as "docile to humans but fierce towards its enemies."

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happening tomorrow! Really looking forward to chatting with @sayakachatani.bsky.social

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

can't think of a time i've smashed the order button harder www.sup.org/books/asian-...

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 28/05/2026

Trump on wars longer than the current Iran mess, we have an 8 year Korean War…has he been reading Bruce Cumings and co. and is going for 1945-1953? 🤔😜

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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In a week! Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Three incredible books—one big honor: 📚 Poet-Monks (@tommazanec.bsky.social) 📚 Ecological States (Jesse Rodenbiker) 📚 Border of Water and Ice (Joseph A. Seeley) All 2026 ACLS OA Book Prize + Arcadia Awards finalists! Congrats! 🎉 🔗 bsky.app/profile/acls...

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

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ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

So thrilled to have my book named as a finalist for the ACLS @acls1919.bsky.social Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!! Many thanks to all who helped this happen, especially my editors at the OA Environments of East Asia book series at Cornell!

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

if you happen to be 1) interested in Korea; 2) interested in the environmental humanities; and 3) in SoCal in early June, please consider coming to a conference I've organized with my dear colleagues Eleana Kim, Albert Park, and Juwon Lee. Details 👇

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

an embarrassment of riches in the latest issue of Environmental History www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current

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CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

14 May 4pm EASTERN Dr. #RussellBurge #Seoul #Korea #History #booktalk #koreasociety "The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979" Zoom registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The scheduled air routes of the Japan Air Transport Co. (Oct. 1938 – Mar. 1939), which doubles as a fascinating diagram of the civil aviation infrastructure then collapsing the distance of the Japanese empire

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Tomorrow! Really looking forward to moderating this discussion about @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social's fantastic new book!

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Mengxi Seeley 李梦溪 @mengxiseeley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Come check out Library Journal's Day of Dialog on May 7! Amazing authors and librarians will be chatting about upcoming books. (As a little debut author, I'm honored to be on a panel with some big stars in historical fiction 😄)

Flyer for Library Journal's Day of Dialog free virtual event on May 7, 2026

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