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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 13h

Dmitry Samarov reviews the ongoing Mary Cassatt exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago for "Chicago Reader": "Women and Children First." chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...

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Women and children first - Chicago Reader

Mary Cassatt celebrated the everyday lives of women and children, as proven in this stunning show at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New book: "ReFocus: The Films of Kon Ichikawa," ed. Kyle Barrowman (Edinburgh University Press). edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...

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ReFocus: The Films of Kon Ichikawa

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Jae-Ha Kim 김재하 @jaehakim.com · 11/10/2026

Leenalchi is a unique alternative rock group that conveys its lyrics through the traditional Korean storytelling genre known as pansori. The septet is signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop Records and has had their music featured in Apple TV’s “Pachinko.” 👇 🔗 store.chicagotribune.com/product/7QAM...

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Adam Sobsey in LARB on "Boomer Music: New Age Music and Album-Oriented Rock Have More in Common Than Might Initially Appear." lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-...

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Boomer Music | Los Angeles Review of Books

New Age music and album-oriented rock have more in common than might initially appear.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From "New City": Phillip Huscher on "How the CSO Found (And Won) Klaus Mäkelä" (an excerpt from Huscher's new book, “Passing the Baton: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Music Directors Who Shaped Its Greatness,” University of Chicago Press). music.newcity.com/2026/10/09/h...

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How the CSO Found (And Won) Klaus Mäkelä

The untold backstory of how the Chicago Symphony's search committee found its next music director.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New book: So-Rim Lee, "Remedying the Body: Plastic Surgery and the Politics of Embodiment in Korea" (Stanford University Press). www.sup.org/books/asian-...

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New book: Tina Chen, "Alien Forms and Minor Genres: A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor" (Duke University Press). dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-...

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Alien Forms and Minor Genres: A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/10/2026

#OtD 4 Oct 1884 anarchist poet, essayist, playwright, musician, actor, translator and Dadaist Jun Tsuji was born in Tokyo. Among the works he translated into Japanese is individualist anarchist Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

November ‘26 will bring multiple master classes for literary translators able to get to Tokyo! Sam Malissa has a workshop at Waseda on November 11, and David Boyd and Asa Yoneda will headline a workshop held by #SCBWI #Japan on November 21: www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...

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SCBWI Japan In-person Event: What We Talk About When We Cotranslate: A Conversation and Workshop with David Boyd and Asa Yoneda

Join SCBWI Japan for this in-person workshop on translation, Japanese to English, with renowned literary translators David Boyd and Asa Yoneda

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New book: Andrea Mendoza, "Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico" (Duke University Press). Open access ebook edition available. read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

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Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico

In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the c

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026

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UCLA's 'excessive' response to anti-war encampments chilled student activism, report says

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A new report from the ACLU and Amnesty International USA says universities like the University of California, Los Angeles violated free speech laws and imposed severe punishments on students, faculty and staff who expressed support for Palestinian rights.
The universities' responses "made it easier for the Trump administration to crack down on student activism, causing long-term damage to higher education."

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New book: "The 'Inheritance' of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World," edited by Maika Nakao, Masaya Nemoto, and Ran Zwigenberg (Bloomsbury). www.bloomsbury.com/us/inheritan...

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The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this timely study focuses on the challenge of keisho or 'inheritance' and the way a new genera…

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here at UChicago, we're searching for a new Japanese librarian. Please share the posting with anyone who might be interested: apply.interfolio.com/191060

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New book: "Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan: An Emotional Revolution," ed. Mark A. Jones, Robert Thomas Tierney, and Miriam Wattles (Bloomsbury; open access e-book available). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/loves-and...

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Dr Michigan Christie @profclbrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh for cryin out loud. The University of Michigan is now a wholly-owned aubsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company. #Michigan #Coke Buy a Pepsi, suffer.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Along with other members of the Boston School, William McGregor Paxton was known to admire the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. In 'The House Maid,' (1910) the triangular composition, muted palette and a sense of quiet absorption all have parallels in Vermeer's work.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Call for papers: The Asian/American Cold War Graduate Conference at UChicago. voices.uchicago.edu/coldwar/cfp/...

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Call for Papers | The Asian/American Cold War Graduate Conference

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Gonna read this wearing this

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Three of the striking paintings I saw today at the "MAETA KANJI Poesy and Realism: In Commemoration of his 130th Birth and the Centennial of the 1930 Society" show at Tokyo Station Gallery: "May Day" (ca 1924), "Girl in White" (1928), and "Portrait of J.C." (1924). www.ejrcf.or.jp/gallery/engl...

Painting by Maeta Kanji: "Girl in White" (1928)

Painting by Maeta Kanji: "Portrait of J.C." (1924)

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been reported that Grace Chang, Hong Kong's preeminent Mandarin screen diva of the 50s, passed away this afternoon, one day shy of her 93rd birthday. Watch Mambo Girl and The Wild, Wild Rose to see her at the height of her powers.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good story about the threat to Promontory Point here in Hyde Park, the place where I swim every day during summer. Replacing the limestone blocks with concrete steps, as the Army Corps of Engineers proposes, would destroy the feel of one of Chicago's real treasures. www.wbez.org/architecture...

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What’s That Building? Promontory Point

This 40-acre, car-free peninsula feels like a self-contained sanctuary on the South Side.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There will be some other events in September that I'll post here soon as Yu Miri winds down her 10-month residency with us here at UChicago. (More info on the project we've been doing together at ceas.uchicago.edu/re-staging-j...).

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hyojun Kim for the BBC on the popularity of K-Pop in the DPRK: "Kim Jong Un was meant to be their only idol - then North Koreans discovered K-pop." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Kim Jong Un was meant to be their only idol - then North Koreans found K-pop

Defectors tell the BBC that despite restrictions, K-pop has cut through in the stifling dictatorship.

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Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

North Central College is looking for a 1-term adjunct to teach an online section of Japanese Popular Culture this fall. I taught this course in 2020, and it was a really positive experience. Great for grad students looking for teaching experience! northcentralcollege.peopleadmin.com/postings/15857

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Adjunct Instructor of Japanese

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16/07/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-07-16 22:06:04 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 84 F | 29 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: NE at 5 mph | 8 kph // Humidity: 58%

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New book: 紅野謙介著『中里介山「大菩薩峠」とその時代——生成・受容・変換のクロニクル』（筑摩書房）。 www.chikumashobo.co.jp/product/9784...

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『中里介山『大菩薩峠』とその時代』紅野　謙介|筑摩書房

筑摩書房『中里介山『大菩薩峠』とその時代』の書誌情報

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

First swim of the season in Lake Michigan this morning: water temperature a brisk 64 degrees, forming a nice contrast with the heatwave temperatures we're having this week in Chicago. (The photo is from a few years back, though).

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Emily E Hogstad @song-of-lark.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Did not know people heard about Pearl Harbor while listening to the NY Phil doing Shostakovich 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsz8...

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1941: Pearl Harbor Attack Interrupts New York Philharmonic | CBS Radio News Bulletins

YouTube video by Old Broadcast

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Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Akihiro Miwa, one of #Japan’s earliest most visible LGBTQ+ icons, singers, and film stars, has died at 91. Their best known role overseas was in 1968's Black Lizard. www.sankei.com/article/2026...

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