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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 06/07/2026

The OAH has released a Statement on the White House Report, "Saving America’s Story." Read the full statement: ow.ly/4b5350ZkM67

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

tfw you're revising your OAH paper and fall into a minor rabbit hole about girl's clothing made out of fabric called nuns' veiling.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

***IEHS Solicited and Sponsored Sessions at the OAH - A Thread*** #OAH26 1/

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Long Nineteenth Century 1785-2026

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Grateful to @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social for sharing this, and for the community that made all this work possible. It’s been an honor to be part of this community.

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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

See what the Weatherhead Center has been up to this semester! Check out our fall issue of Centerpiece, our newsletter for life at Weatherhead: loom.ly/RN37aCw

A collage shows a mural depicting soldiers aiming rifles at civilians holding red roses inside an outline of Syria, with green, white, and black colors in the background. The right side of the image shows a graphic duotone red W with the word "Centerpiece."

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Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation Volume 34 Issue 2 is Now Available! This issue features articles featuring topics such as health, society, feminism, communication, and more! Read the articles here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Issue 34.2 of Religion & American Culture is available! Check out an article from Daniel Vaca on pauperization, influence, and more! Find the article and more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

If you’ll be in Boston for #AARSBL25, please join us on Sat, Nov 22 at 9am for a Religion and Eugenics roundtable I’m organizing. We’ll be in conversation with Jamie Marsella, Melissa Wilde, Beth Stroud, Charles McCrary, and Terence Keel—would love to have this urgently needed conversation together.

A promotional poster for an AAR 2025 roundtable titled “Religion and Eugenics: Critical Roundtable on Histories, Resurgences, and the Struggle for Bodily Freedom.” The event takes place on November 22 (Saturday), 9–11 AM, in the Sheraton, Stuart Room (third floor). The background features a soft pastel gradient. Speaker list appears in bold text on lavender blocks: Seokweon Jeon (Harvard, presiding); Irene Stroud (Methodist Theological School in Ohio); Melissa Wilde (University of Pennsylvania); Jamie Marsella (Columbia University); Charles McCrary (Eckerd College); Terence Keel (UCLA). At the bottom, the sponsors are listed: AAR 2025, Body and Religion Unit & Religion and Economy Unit.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024 | Religion and American Culture | Cambridge Core

Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

So excited for my colleague @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social — who just started her new role as Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School — and her fall course, Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity! It’s going to be such a fantastic class.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Garamond is the font that gently places the syllabus in your hands and whispers, “You won’t understand me now. But one day, you will.” Garamond doesn’t care if you miss the deadline. Garamond is the deadline. It’s not illegible—it’s just emotionally unavailable. (written in Garamond, obviously)

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The Anxious Bench @anxiousbench.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

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Rachel Held Evans And The Specter Of Scopes In Dayton

For Rachel Held Evans, living in Dayton, Ohio--of Scopes Trial fame--was a way to combat the legacy of fundamentalism in evangelicalism.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

On July 4, 1917, Henry Ford’s English School held its graduation. Immigrant workers in native dress descended from a mock steamship into a giant cauldron marked “Melting Pot” and emerged in suits, waving US flags. Assimilation staged as public ritual. Credit: The Henry Ford Collection, THF106481

In 1914 Ford Motor Company established the Ford English School, where the automaker's diverse immigrant employees could learn the English language and take civics lessons in preparation for becoming U.S. citizens. At the graduation ceremony, students wearing clothing from their native countries descended into a large "American Melting Pot" and emerged wearing homogenous suits and waving American flags.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It’s official — @historianca.bsky.social and I are moving to Charlottesville! I’m so excited to start a new job as an Advising Fellow at UVA, advising and teaching students as they start their college experience under the leadership of the wonderful @meirazk.bsky.social

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This has been the hardest week I've had since coming to Harvard. But then these books arrived, one by one, like gifts. They reminded me why I study, why I’m here, and what still calls me forward. Grateful for the scholarship and spirit of @tomtweed.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com,& Gordon Chang.

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Thomas Tweed @tomtweed.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I’m thrilled that my new book from @yalepress.bsky.social was officially published this week. Thanks to all the students, colleagues, archivists, and librarians who helped along the way.

Cover of Religion in the Lands That Became America

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Congrats Chanhee Heo on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis!! So excited to see the vital scholarship Chanhee will continue to bring to conversations on race, religion, and migration across the Pacific.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Please join the opening event of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new exhibition “Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.” Erika Lee, Eunsong Kim, and Shaina Lu will be talking with the curator Victor Betts. April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), 4PM ET RSVP here 👇

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Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives Opening Event | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Join us to mark the opening of the exhibition Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So thrilled to host 2025 Spring Harvard Study of Religion Book Talk with Melissa Borja (U. Michigan) for her multi-awarding-winning book, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change. 📅 Wednesday, April 16 🕔 5:00–6:30 PM 📍 Thomson Room at Barker Center

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Breaking: The Constitutional Court of South Korea has unanimously confirmed the impeachment and removal of President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives Opening Event | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Join us to mark the opening of the exhibition Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/03/2025

South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies falsified documents to make them more adoptable. Here’s what South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found. nyti.ms/3XYEsHJ

Two women kneel on the floor facing each other and holding hands in an emotional embrace. Text reads: "South Korea, World's Largest 'Baby Exporter,' Admits to Adoption Fraud" Photo by Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Please join an online event marking the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875! @iehs.bsky.social and @ihrc-umn.bsky.social are pleased to hold this joint event on April 22. Register below! umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Renee Tajima-Peña @rtajimapena.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A legend has passed. K.W. Lee was a towering figure in journalism, Koreatown, Asian America and the pursuit of truth and justice. So gratified that Julie Ha and Eugene Yi centered K.W. in "Free Chol Soo Lee." Deepest sympathy to his family and loved ones. asamnews.com/2025/03/10/f...

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Legendary journalist K.W. Lee dead at the age of 96 – AsAmNews

K.W. Lee's groundbreaking series led to the reversal of a conviction of Chol Soo Lee, a man wrongfully convicted of a Chinatown murder in San Francisco.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Harvard has just announced a University-wide staff and faculty hiring freeze to help the University preserve its “financial flexibility until we better understand how changes in federal policy will take shape.” The freeze will go into effect immediately across all of Harvard’s schools.

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Harvard Freezes Hiring Amid Anxiety Over Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced a University-wide staff and faculty hiring freeze in a message to Harvard affiliates Monday morning, citing uncertainty under the Trump administration.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

82 years ago today—Feb. 19, 1942—Executive Order 9066 was signed, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, 2/3 of whom were US citizens. The incarceration of Japanese Americans revealed how “enemy” and “citizen” are not opposites but shifting categories.

A black-and-white photograph captures Japanese American families at a transportation hub during their forced relocation under Executive Order 9066 in 1942. They are surrounded by piles of luggage, with identification tags attached. Some individuals appear solemn, while others, including children, wait amidst the crowd.

* Source: Japanese Americans wait with their luggage at the Santa Fe rail station in Los Angeles for trains that will take them to an internment
camp in the Owens Valley. (Russell Lee / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Classical Music Statistics 2024 via @bachtrack.com link: bachtrack.com/classical-mu... Top 10 Busiest Conductors 1. Klaus Mäkelä 2. Andris Nelsons 3. Jakub Hrusa 4. Iván Fischer 5. Manfred Honeck =6 Paavo Järvi =6 Sir Simon Rattle =8 Esa-Pekka Salonen =8 Cristian Macelaru 10. Daniel Harding

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All in the balance: Classical Music Statistics 2024

What changes did the classical music world see in 2024? Are existing trends continuing, or slowing? With more than 30,000 listings across 48 countries, Bachtrack offers a valuable snapshot into the cl...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element, “The Author in Early Christian Literature,” is officially out and free to download for the next 4 weeks! I hope you enjoy these thoughts on Paul, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Eusebius, and a host of other ancient folks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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The Author in Early Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - The Author in Early Christian Literature

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In this fascinating column for Time Magazine, Jane Hong dismantles the “demographic destiny” myth: Latina/o & Asian American voters are not political blocs but shaped by distinct histories—WWII incarceration, Cold War anti-communism, Prop 187 backlash, evangelical shifts, & generational divides.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Religion and Indigeneity in the Pacific and Asian Americas is hosting its third talk on Feb. 5. Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum (@kginlum.bsky.social) will join to share insights from her 2022 book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, and explore its broader implications. RSVP: tinyurl.com/4pjvk6ff

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I've been waiting for this book to be released and the pre-order page is finally live! Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad (UCP @ucpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Kevin O'Neill is a transnational ethnography of clerical child abuse and I’m thrilled it’s now within reach.

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Unforgivable by Kevin O'Neill - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I just watched The Brutalist, which ran almost 4 hours. While its striking cinematography and innovative stylistic flourishes are undeniable, the narrative lacks cohesion, with blunt storytelling choices and underdeveloped threads that fail to fully immerse the audience in László Toth’s journey.

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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The ACHA invites submissions on any topic relevant to the study of Catholicism for its annual meeting in Chicago from Thursday, January 8, through Saturday, January 10, 2026. To submit a proposal go to: achahistory.org/chicago2026/

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American Religions at Stanford @argcstanford.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Open to the public! Religion and the 2024 Election Tuesday January 28, 4:30pm PT In person and on Zoom

A flyer for a panel on religion and the 2024 election

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

JOB Opportunity Harvard's Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights seeks a Lecturer in Asian American Studies. Focus on interdisciplinary work engaging Asian diasporas, histories, and relational ethnic studies (inc. Pacific Islander studies). Position carries a 3-year term. Review begins 2/7/25

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Lecturer in Asian American Studies

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights seeks applications for a Lecturer in Asian American Studies. Especially encouraged to apply are candidates whose work foregrounds interdisciplinary method...

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Lecturer in Asian American Studies

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Call For Papers The Pasifika Religion & Spirituality Talanoa | Harvard, an interdisciplinary symposium, invites proposals critically engaging Pacific Indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, climate justice, and Pasifika well-being. 📅 Nov. 19-21, 2025 📍 Harvard (Cambridge,MA) 📝 Abstracts due: 3/31

A poster for the Pasifika Religion & Spirituality Talanoa | Harvard, an interdisciplinary symposium to be held November 19-21, 2025, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event precedes the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston, MA (November 22-25, 2025).

The Call for Papers invites proposals that critically analyze the role of Indigenous spiritualities and Christianity in climate crises, gender issues, and the well-being of Pasifika communities. The symposium will focus on talanoa (free-flowing discussion) and interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from Religious Studies, Moana Theology, Moana Biblical Criticism, Pacific Studies, and Indigenous Studies. Papers will be pre-circulated, and discussions will center around participants' short summaries.

Submissions are encouraged from Indigenous scholars, cultural knowledge holders, and allies from Oceania, including the Pacific Islands, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific diaspora. Suggested topics include Indigenous Methodologies, Pre-Christian Spiritualities, History of Christianity, Moana Biblical Criticism, Moana Theologies, and Rainbow MVPFAFF+ and the Church.

Important dates:

Abstract submission: March 31, 2025
Notification: May 30, 2025
Paper submission: July 31, 2025
Registration opens: September 2, 2025
Symposium dates: November 19-21, 2025
Harvard University acknowledges its location on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett Tribe. The symposium is facilitated by Therese Lautua, College Fellow in Indigenous Religion, with support from the Harvard University Committee on the Study of Religion.

Contact information: Abstracts (500 words max) can be emailed to csrpasiﬁka@fas.harvard.edu, including name, affiliation, paper title, and contact information.

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