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Dr. Kristen Luck

@resplendentluck.bsky.social
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Japanese law, society, politics, then add gender and stir. Librarian, Okinawa Collection and Japan Resource Center, George Washington University. Views are my own, but who’s paying attention?

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The GW Okinawa Collection & Japan Resource Center is delighted to launch a book club for our patrons — and warmly invite the broader community to join as well. Our first in-person gathering will take place September 22nd, featuring a discussion of "Mina's Matchbox" accompanied by light refreshments.
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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Reminder! The deadline for this survey is approaching (3/31)! Please share with your library specialists so we can help support them (and you)! 📨
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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The deadline is also approaching for our researcher survey (3/31)! Let our Library Services Team know what kind of support you need. ⬇️
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Please join the GW Okinawa Collection to discuss the shifting political landscape in Japan and its impact on Okinawa. This webinar, cohosted with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, will feature leading experts Dr. Mike Mochizuki , Dr. Fumiaki Nozoe, and Dr. Shawn Harding.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Please join the GW Okinawa Collection and Okinawa Prefectural Government for a webinar on Thursday, March 19th, 2026 at 7:00 pm (EST), "80th Anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa." Registration: gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Can someone kindly explain the yellow highlight thingy to me?
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Eric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025
This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can't wait!
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I hate North American book covers so much.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Happening now! You can still join virtually!
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Tomorrow! Register to attend in-person or virtually! www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I get to do one of those annoying "come work with me" posts. But seriously-- come work with me. GW is a great workplace! Data Services Librarian - lnkd.in/eWNHzt3H - Research Services Librarian for Business and Data - lnkd.in/eTCsZSAB -
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you are in the DC area, you don't want to miss this screening and discussion at the GW Sigur Center and East Asia National Resource Center. Please share! "Mark--A Call to Action" with Director Ron Small and Paul Bookman, Mark's father. www.eventbrite.com/e/mark-a-cal...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
What is the Japanese saying that is the equivalent of "Jinx! Knock on wood!" when you and another person say the same thing at the same time? I heard this somewhere and cannot recall it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Heartbroken. Thoughts with the victims and their families. I regularly fly out of DCA and drive by it everyday. Stunned.
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Plane Crashes Into Helicopter Near Reagan National Airport: Live Updates
The American Airlines jet, flying from Wichita, Kan., plunged into the Potomac River after it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter operated by the Army. There were 64 people on board.
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Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Be my colleague at the Harvard-Yenching Library! We just opened our search for the next Librarian for #JapaneseStudies, who will become a core member of our small but mighty team. As with every job, you don't need to satisfy every qualification to apply. www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/harv...
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Harvard-Yenching Library : Librarian for Japanese Studies – CEAL: Council on East Asian Libraries
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Excited to be working with @risahatanaka.bsky.social, Nobu, @resplendentluck.bsky.social, and @billytringali.bsky.social! 🥳
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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Have you explored library travel grants to assist with your research? University of Maryland Libraries just opened their “Awards for 20th Century Japan Research” grant, supporting travel to work with their archives on modern Japan! Deadline 1/31! For more info, see: www.lib.umd.edu/about/awards...
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...
Book cover for Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952 by Alison J. Miller. The cover has a Meiji period print of a Japanese empress in Western style dress, with the emperor sitting in a Western military-style outfit behind her and some ladies in waiting also in Western garb with big bustled skirts and large hats.
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Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Join us at Japan Foundation Los Angeles on 12/4 at 7pm for "An Evening with Tomoka Shibasaki: Readings & Conversation"! 📖 Tomoka Shibasaki, Yanai Initiative Visiting Professor, will discusse her literary works, including the award-winning Spring Garden (Haru no niwa). www.jflalc.org/event-detail...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
MJ, my man.
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...
An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
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Sharon Domier @sharonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Speaking of Japan Foundation, please sign up for their digital library card and borrow ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines for free using the Libby app. Love the fact that it isn’t just English but also Japanese. www.jflalc.org/libby
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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
So excited that the advance copies have just arrived of my book!! Will be officially out (also in full open access) December 3rd from @ucpress.bsky.social!
The author's hand picks up a copy of the book Expanding Verse from a just-opened cardboard box filled with other copies of the same book.
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Dylan Faden Fan Club @thornsperfected.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 06/11/2024
Dissent “is the intellectual steel which strengthens the self in the face of the tyrant’s weapon of induced panic.” A good time to reread Elizabeth Janeway's The Powers of the Weak—a guide to using power when you're not in charge. neglectedbooks.com?p=4586
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 04/11/2024
Are you a translator or publisher with a new translation from Japanese coming out in 2025? Consider letting RJL know via DM or our website. RJL's "New & Upcoming Japanese Fiction" list has become one of the earliest, most-comprehensive, and most findable lists online with almost 13k views in 2024.
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2024 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases
*Updated as of September 19, 2024. Titles from Japan translated into English for publication in 2024. Does not include manga, light novels, or picture books. Listed released dates listed are tentat…
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
You know when you buy that one tiny souvenir and it’s so teensy you lose it on the way back and you think it fell out in some rando place but you find it years later? I hope that’s what happened to the micro book I bought in Okinawa whose title I can’t remember and disappeared from my luggage…
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
After driving in Japan for two weeks with courteous drivers who follow road rules, I resolved to bring this unbothered vibe back to driving in DC. It lasted less than 24 hours.
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
The deadline for our Library Services Team at JPP is only 1 week away! We can't wait to review applications! 😀
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I was just told I look like the Pink Power Ranger. I don’t know her.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
I was today year's old when I learned that Coachella is an actual place, not a concert named after girls who like Coach bags.
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two women are sitting on a couch and one of them is crying and the words just give me my purse are on the screen
ALT: two women are sitting on a couch and one of them is crying and the words just give me my purse are on the screen
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Me: Barely makes flight because I will only fly chic, pressed, and perfectly coiffed. Also Me: Gets drenched at the airport in a downpour during taxi drop off. Bonus Round: Doused by a car speeding through a puddle.
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 17/09/2024
My review of Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder): “Like a sepia-toned photograph beginning to curl at the edges, [Matchbox] is a wistful story of the blink-and-you-miss-it moment between childhood and adulthood set at an important but easily-overlooked moment in Japanese history.”
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“Mina’s Matchbox” by Yoko Ogawa
Tomoko lost her father when she was six years old. Now that she’s twelve, she will spend a year living with her mother’s wealthy sister in Ashiya while her mother goes back to school to study dress…
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Please join us in person or virtually on September 11th, 2024 at 4:00 pm EST for an academic roundtable discussion featuring Okinawa's Governor Denny Tamaki, Dr. Sheila Smith Dr. Jennifer Kavanagh, and Dr. Mike Mochizuki (GWU). sigur.elliott.gwu.edu/2024/09/03/9...
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[9/11/24] Okinawa’s Subnational Diplomacy: Promoting Cooperation and Preventing Conflict in East Asia
At the Elliott School of International Affairs
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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
JPP is pleased to announce we will hold an international symposium on May 29-31, 2025 on the theme of "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field," to be hosted at Waseda University! 🎉🗾🎤 japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Japanese translation/copyright question: If a scholar wants to translate an academic article from Japanese to English, is it correct that they only need permission from the author/copyright holder to do so? Is there a website, libguide, or other source that indicates this?
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
When you spot “your people.” There are some ideas crawling through that teetering jenga tsundoku.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
There's a giant truck backing up on my street called Bookstore Movers and I am trying to remember what in the hell I ordered. . .
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Nothing says "end of the semester, no memory to give any effs" than just leaving your entire purse and wallet at home.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 04/05/2024
Your institution (department/university) probably does not love you, and that's not its role. Instead of demanding they make political statements you agree with, insist on the freedom to make your own statements without repercussion. Academic freedom is the gift that keeps on giving
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
So basically Google is going to shove AI summaries down your throat whether you want them or not. . .
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
I'm not sure if my posts gain much attention, but if anyone is reading: what Japanese literary magazines do you follow or do you recommend? I know the usual suspects, but I am trying to whittle down the back issues in my Amazon JP cart. (And unfortunately, my institution does not subscribe to any.)
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Glad we cleared that up.
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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Please join us for our next webinar, "U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa: Assets or Liabilities?" featuring Dr. Shino Hateruma and Dr. Mike Mochizuki and moderated by Dr. Steve Rabson. Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm Register here: forms.gle/97pdfN34Tggt...
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