Highly recommend Kathy Peiss’s INFORMATION HUNTERS: WHEN LIBRARIANS, SOLDIERS, AND SPIES BANDED TOGETHER I. WORLD WAR II EUROPE (Oxford University Press). Exists as audiobook too!

Ready to give yourself the gift of exploring a fascinating world of rare Edo pubs? 😍 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by @juliendavis.bsky.social & Lynne Farrington (UPenn) to learn about these 1200+ treats in “The Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

So happy to see my book in this round up press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... #skystorians #histstm #academicsky

How did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life

Thinking of creating some snarky academic starter packs like: Academics who think their ideas are WAY more important than they actually are Academics who peaked a while ago Academics whose questions are more like comments Academics who always go over their allotted time

OP went back to their childhood home and found this Pokemon card they drew b/c they couldn't buy them as a kid

I wrote about the coordinated right-wing campaign to manipulate voters into believing Trump is the favorite to win the presidency, and highlighted some trustworthy data that might make you feel slightly better about things. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/you-are-bein...

Art HistoryJob at Sarah Lawrence College: "History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750)" #earlymodern www.idealist.org/en/job/1b50d...

Just here to report that I said no to doing something extra.

4 years ago today

The New York Times revealed that the #Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of “posture” photos of college students. Beth Linker explains why this was only a part of the incredible #history of 20th century America’s #posture panic. hubs.ly/Q02z9Hf50

Thanks @paularcurtis.bsky.social for posting some of the saucier images from our workshop! Here are a couple of action shots of us looking at rare (and rare-ish) Japanese illustrated books. #ArthurTressCollection

Looking forward to nerding out this week with @paularcurtis.bsky.social Amaury Garcia Rodriguez, Ann Sherif, Kyoko Kinoshita this week to think about metadata and Japanese illustrated books tinyurl.com/yrhhusj4

Such an amazing lineup!!! Smith literally wrote the book on Shōgun & history ("Learning From Shōgun," 1980), Pitelka wrote a book on Tokugawa Ieyasu (the model for "Toranaga"), Berry wrote a book on Ieyasu's predecessor Hideyoshi (the "Taikō"), and Hubbard wrote a book on English sailors c.1600.

Context is everything in Japanese poetry, and a poem plays a pivotal role in the climax of “Shogun.” The problem is, the subtext is difficult to understand in subtitles. Hiroko breaks it down here (mild spoilers): blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/the-art-of...

There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?

#OTD in 1703 the 47 rōnin died by seppuku after avenging their lord. 💀 This nishiki-e print by Utagawa Toyoharu from the late 18th/early 19th cen shows the night attack in Chüshingura with an impressive use of perspective! #忠臣蔵 Held by the Honolulu Museum of Art:  honolulu.emuseum.com/objects/2711/

Trying to make the point in recent discussions that scheduling lectures at 5:15 or later is not good for all kinds of good reasons and bakes inequity into an already inequitable system. Can folks help me remember where the data is to support stopping at 5?

I am gobsmacked to have received the honorable mention for the John Whitney Hall prize in Japanese studies. It's an honor to be on the podium!

Thrilled to be included in this lineup! Honorable mention, with colleague Lynne Farrington, for the Sumie Jones Japanese Humanities award for our collaborative project, Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book, exhibition, website, and catalogue. Thanks to all contributors and supporters.

Did you know that UPenn received a donation of 1200+ early modern & modern illustrated Japanese books in recent years? 😱 Learn all about the Tress Collection's treasure of printed materials in this #NCCSpotlight by @juliendavis.bsky.social & Lynne Farrington! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...