Joseph Seeley

Flights were horribly delayed and I barely got into Vancouver after midnight, but I'm here at #aas2026 ! Yay! Even brought an old AAS tote bag since there's not a new one this year (someone remind me what year was green?)

My first client I signed on the first month of this year is having her first cover reveal! I'm so excited!!!
@mengxiseeley.bsky.social #writingcommunity #coverreveal #historicalromance #silkandsensibility #janeaustinretelling

Gearing up for #AAS2026! I'll be on two panels this year--one as discussant and the other as presenter. Excited to reconnect with friends and colleagues and learn more about the field in a whirlwind of nerdy revelry.

“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!

This to me is the most interesting—that research on Uyghurs is now considered DEI (but not another oppressed group, Mongols in China). Learned Islamophobia or just nonsensical maybe?

More rich fruits of the imperial turn in Japanese Studies! One of the panels I'm most looking forward to at #AAS2026.

Hear about the newest books on #JapaneseEmpire at #AAS2026 on March 14, 5:45-7:15pm, with Kristin Roebuck, @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social, Holly Stephens, and me, Laura Hein as mod

@asianstudies.org @columbiaup.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

🧵1/x Lots of blunt and contradictory conclusions by (de)generative AI on extent of #DEI in #AsianStudies projects that had received funding from #NEH

Coming June 2026: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I got a discount code for sales of my book in March!

Territorial Natures A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.   Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded int...

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.

You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I'm a bit late to this announcement but wanted to share that the newest issue of the JJS is now out! Very proud of the essays and book reviews inside. My coeditor Sabine Frühstück, the book review editor Jessamyn Abel, and our managing editors David and now Athena all did incredible work.

By happy coincidence, the latest issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies features my review of Stefan Huebner et al's great new edited volume, Oceanic Japan, and Huebner's review of my own book Border of Water and Ice. Check out JJS to see our evaluations of each other's work!

Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question
Sakura Christmas｜The University of Chicago Press
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Yay!!!

So incredibly excited and happy for Anri.
A huge congratulations for such a well-deserved recognition of your brilliance.

mjha.org/First-Book-P...

very excited to share the cover for our forthcoming book by susan burns on the history of medical modernization and public health in tokyo! featuring a bunch of color images and cool maps!

This watchful owl hits a little different when I'm seeing it on a digital scan and not the paper original, but still, I'll be careful! (Translation: "Warning: please do not put saliva on your fingers to open the pages"--from 1930s library book in Japanese-occupied Korea)

I'm excited to announce that my debut novel is going to be published! September 2026!

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Okay yes this looks cold but also kind of beautiful! Hope you stay warm.

What a Voice Studies Perspective Can Tell Us About the Success of KPop Demon Hunters - Association for Asian Studies By Donna Lee Kwon Born with voices that could drive back the darkness, singing songs of courage and hope. But hunters are more than warriors. Our music ignites the soul and brings people together.…

Maybe you've watched (and re-watched, and re-watched again ...) KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, but have you considered what the voices of its characters convey? Donna Lee Kwon examines the film from a voice studies perspective.

Next Thursday (1/22) at 8:00pm EST I am excited to chair an online discussion with Jung Lee (Ewha) about her new book on Japanese botany in colonial Korea, with Ian Miller (Harvard) as discussant. Welcome all interested in histories of Korea/Japan, plant science, and empire!

mjha.org/event-6304789

Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner

They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Manchuria: a “utopia” created by opium [Premium A special] : The Asahi Shimbun This is the dark history of Manchukuo based on fact. In Manchukuo, which was a puppet state of Japan, opium was rampant, and the sales of opium supported the national finances and were used as funding...

Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manc...

Thankful to Adam Cathcart for his thoughtful review of Border of Water and Ice in the new issue of American Historical Review. Please check out @sino-nk.bsky.social for Adam and colleagues' cutting-edge analysis on the Sino-Korean border and broader PRC-DPRK relations past and present. sinonk.com

Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…

We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic

Pleased to share the Spring 2026 schedule for the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA online seminar series @ Harvard!

Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST.

REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪

Thanks for the additional information!