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JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Notre Dame 20th century US political history apply.interfolio.com/170552

Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Brosnan, who is the recipient of the inaugural Provost’s Manuscript Finishing Fellowship, awarded through the OU Arts & Humanities Forum. 1/2

Applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program are open! This program is a joint activity of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and #NEHgov. Learn more: ow.ly/xrfN50VcFXX

This looks intriguing….

A familiar battle is growing in northeast OKC as a scrapyard hopes to expand, much to the discontent of locals already dealing with explosions nearby.

Congratulations to history major Sofia Givens, who has been awarded a grant from OU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program for her capstone project, “A Comparative Look at the Memorialization of the Arctic Convoys,” under the direction of Dr. Melissa Stockdale. 1/2

Graduate student Taylor Cozzens published an article, “Workers in the Field and Lawyers in the Court: Environmental Justice, Poverty Law, and the California Rural Legal Assistance,” in the Winter 2025 Pacific Historical Review. Great work, Taylor! online.ucpress.edu/phr

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Eppler Janda (OU PhD ‘02), who is being inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Historical Society Awards Banquet this month! 1/3

Public history is one way to connect our classrooms to lived experiences. Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Dr. Alan Christy to learn about The Okinawa Memories Initiative, an international collaboration on postwar Okinawan history, archives, and memory! 📸 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Welcome, new Bluesky users! A friendly reminder that we have a starter pack for Japan & Asian Studies Institutions/Organizations! We're glad to see new accounts in recent weeks from colleagues around the world! We'll keep updating the pack. 😊 go.bsky.app/H54gyeg

This year marks the 101st anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. If you’re looking for research & teaching resources, see our incredibly useful LibGuide & interactive map “The CDDP Great Kantō Earthquake Project: A Collaborative Mapping Project” #関東大震災 guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/Kanto_e...

Today marks the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, a spectacle heightened by a show of force mission flown by hundreds of aircraft Judging by post-flight interrogation forms submitted by each crew, some were less than enthused to make the trip from Saipan

Are you headed to the archives soon? What sort of info do researchers need before they take off? ✈️📰 Learn tips & hints from this talk & guide materials by Izumi Koide (Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation) and Kuniko McVey (Harvard Library) from our 2012 workshop! guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=3557...

Historical materials on lady benshi! 😍

Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the transnational history of commercial whaling in the 19th Century from the mobile viewpoint of whaleships as they crossed and recrossed the ocean, urging scholars to adopt a “liquid area” approach to transformations in the Asia-Pacific region. apjjf.org/2024/3/morri...

Interview with Sayaka Murata by @susiemesure.bsky.social for The Gentlewoman

This is an apt observation.

Slaying the Anglo-American serpent, as featured on a poster board placed on the streets of Tokyo's Ginza district in Feb. 1942

Happy #ToriiTuesday! Today's post is a bit meta, it's #ToriiTuesday in the NEWS! ⛩️📰 Thanks to the London Japanese National Tourism Organization office for the invite to contribute a short &sweet article abt how #torii come in all the colors of the rainbow. ⛩️🌐🌈 www.japan.travel/en/uk/inspir...

This month we are delighted to share a new #NCCSpotlight featuring Toshinori Egami (@egamiday.bsky.social; Librarian, 国際日本文化研究センター), discussing his career path in library resources and global perspectives on Japanese library resources! 📖💻🗾🌏 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Episode 121 is out on "A Special Journal Issue on Pandemics" with Neeraja Sankaran and Stephen Weldon. Lee and I talked about histories of disease, pandemics and their impact around the world, and how people studied these events. Find it: infectioushistorians.com/2024/02/03/spe

What is spatial history & what can it teach us about the history of East Asia? 🗺️ Revisit our #NCCSpotlight introduction to “Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History” by Drs. Kate McDonald and @borderlander62.bsky.social to find out! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

JPP is excited to host a Recent Publications 新刊 page showcasing in one centralized place the latest book & journal publications related to Japanese humanities around the world! 📚 Publishers can register with us to help make their materials more visible! 🔎 japanpastandpresent.org/en/resources...

A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to running the @jppinfo.bsky.social booth over #AAS2024! Michael Emmerich, @bmychui.bsky.social, @ippikiookami.bsky.social, Nadia Kanagawa, Elizabeth Leicester, & Rebecca Corbett did an amazing job repping the project & getting word out to the community. 🥰🌟

In recent acquisitions news, Tomoko Kitayama Yen (Japanese Studies Librarian, UBC Asian Library) reports new rare books are available at UBC, including Ikoku jinbutsuzu 異國人物圖, providing a glimpse into Edo period worldviews of the 18th century! 😍🌏 #NCCShowcase about.library.ubc.ca/2023/11/07/u...

Did you know that the Notable Japanese Collections in North America dashboard is celebrating its second year? 📚 With some 25 new additions and containing a total of 227 collections, you won’t want to miss exploring it for your Japan Studies research needs! guides.nccjapan.org/notable_coll...

🗃️ I know it's not worth engaging Guelzo, but this is just exhibit A in why you cannot blindly apply 21st (& 20th) c. understandings of party politics onto the 19th c. It's a fundamental misreading of party dynamics & culture to think 19th c partisanship looks like Guelzo's "party animal" of today 1/

The National Diet Library is offering a wonderful training opportunity for students, scholars, and information specialists to learn more about locating information on Japan Studies materials! 🗾 They're making the video available from 2/1~2/29! ⬇️ www.ndl.go.jp/en/library/t...

NCC has been an important part of the development of Japan Studies for decades! 🗾 To help document this early work we collect interviews from folks involved in this early work. 🎙️ Learn more about their careers & labor from our Multimedia History Project! guides.nccjapan.org/multimediahi...

Thanks @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social !

Two years after the Tulsa Race Massacre.

This week Historians At The Movies talks immigration, hope, growth, and Korean-American experiences in the United States. Join us on @netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, December 10 for MINARI. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

So, it's official: the Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed series, edited by James Lang and Michelle Miller, has launched with Oklahoma University Press, and I'm honored to serve on its advisory board. See the series page here: www.oupress.com/teaching-eng...

Congratulations to Drs. Anne Hyde and Alexander Finkelstein (a 2022 PhD alum of ours) for the publication of their edited volume, Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism, with University of Nebraska Press!

We hear the skies are blue here. 🌥️😌 Follow NCC in the sky for the latest information on Japan Studies resources!

@paularcurtis.bsky.social got me here finally.