Bianca Chui

Tangible Knowledge: Japan’s Shōsōin and the Making of Manuscripts, Treasures, and Archives Knowledge takes tangible forms. Books and artworks do not simply convey information; they also embody technical knowledge such as papermaking or weaving and manifest the processes of thinking that ena...

Conference putting the Shōsōin, an 8th-century Japanese treasure house, and its manuscripts and treasures in dialogue with work on Dunhuang and the Cairo Geniza. March 1-2 2025 in Princeton. We have $$ for grad students to attend; DM me for details. Spread the word.
csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

How to apply - Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships 2025-26 The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships, established in 2000 through generous funding from Lord Sainsbury of Turville, are designed to strengthen academic ties with Japanese studies programmes across Asia, Europe, Oceania and North America. The Fellowships provide recipients with an invaluable opportunity to work in a scholarly environment, ideal […]

[Call for applications] Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships 2025-26, 1 year post-doc position for Japanese visual and material culture scholars in Norwich, UK, from Sep 2025. Apply by 28 Feb 2025. Find out more here: www.sainsbury-instit...

#historians @paularcurtis.bsky.social + others

Do anyone have a good, comphrensive English list of dynasties and kingdoms for China and Korea? Even really small and obsure ones like 中国・渤海 or 中国・契丹? I want a reliable source for vertfication purposes.

Thank you in advance!

日本ジェンダー史シンポジウム 2025 (2025 Japanese Gender History Graduate Student Symposium) *English follows Japanese 日本ジェンダー史シンポジウム 2025 JFフェロー交流会 @青山学院大学附置スクーンメーカー記念ジェンダー研究センター 青山学院大学ジェンダー研究センター会議室 1月28日（火曜日）2025年　10時~16時 国際交流基金と青山学院大学附置スクーンメーカー記念ジェンダー研究センターの共催「プチ学会」の開催にあたり、ジェンダー史・女性史を研...

If you have or are a grad student working on gender history, there's a bilingual (日・英) mini conference coming up in January at Aoyama Gakuin University--deadline December 13! 日本ジェンダー史シンポジウム 2025 (2025 Japanese Gender History Graduate Student Symposium): forms.gle/4kWEWm4UyP82...

When I joined Bluesky last year, alt-text was new to me, and it seemed tedious, and kind of scolding.

Since then, I feel it as an act of kindness, care, and inclusion, and it’s become automatic to include descriptions on every image.

I hope it becomes like 2nd nature for you too.

It feels good.

SLC Research Seminar - Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Te Kura o ngā Reo me ngā Tikanga-ā-iwi / School of Languages and Cultures | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington This seminar explores stories of Pacific Islanders who arrived in Japan via whaleships and Japanese castaways rescued by whalers before Japan's 1853 'opening'.

Listen up, Asian studies folks! Our research seminar with a wonderful guest, Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, TOMORROW! Zoom link is available on the website. Check it out!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/slc/about/ev...

Mine too!

Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹

I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵

Four images side by side. The first is a photo of a cream tabby named Fox who is making a one-brain-cell face with his eyes wide and mouth hanging open. The second is a medieval Japanese handwritten document with black calligraphy on dark gray recycled paper. The third is a tortie cat named Rigatoni, gazing sadly at the viewer from her Trash Jail (a black mesh trash can turned upside on top of her because she is a naughty demon child). The fourth is an early modern painting of several Japanese metal casters in various states of sweaty dress pouring hot metal into a mold.

Hello new Bsky folks! If you've just followed, I'm a historian of medieval Japan working on metal caster networks and documentary forgery. I manage @jppinfo.bsky.social, which helps facilitate greater equity and inclusion in the the Japanese humanities. I also do East Asia + DH and post cat chaos. 🐾

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. 🥰🌟

#AAS2024 last chance to buy #GirlScout cookies on the corner outside the convention center! This local troop needs to sell 200 more boxes this weekend (it’s the last weekend for sales) so the girls can take an educational trip to New Orleans! Buy some cookies!

Like prints, play & humour? Join us at our #AAS2024 panel where we discuss the remediating early 19C prints!

Friday 2pm with myself, Laura Moretti (Cambridge) & Kobayashi Fumiko (Hosei), with Tom Gaubatz as our discussant 🤩

I’ll be speaking on sugoroku 🎲 See you there 🙇‍♀️

Happy #ToriiTuesday! Today's #torii are for all my friends traveling to Seattle, WA for the annual national Association for Asian Studies conference. And of course for all the rest of my fellow torii-taku.

Are there torii around Seattle? You betcha! ⛩️☕ 1/🧵 #AAS2024

Are you getting excited for #AAS2024? 👀 Japan Past & Present will have a booth in the @aasasianstudies.bsky.social Exhibition Hall (#202)! Come by to say hello, get some swag, and learn more about our activities within JPP & at the Yanai Initiative! 🗾 s6.goeshow.com/aas/annual/2...

Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) annual Essay Prize are now open for 2024.

Submit your work! Our committee this year spans disciplines (East Asia, Latin Am, EM Europe), and so there should be good fights.

rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-...

Bad news: I wrote to the Museum of Maritime Pets in Maine to ask how cat poops and pee were handled on ships before litter was invented. They didn't know! But they're very curious, too, and want me to keep them updated. We can all make educated guesses but I want to see what actual records say.

When I get left alone successfully it's mostly because people don't have a clue what I'm doing anyway.

My first book is out! The digital version of my book on video game characters is now available on Amsterdam University Press. The great news is that it’s Open Access and for free!

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Another work of mine is out! It’s a pleasure to have an article to be part of the Mechademia 16:1, special issue on the media mix: ”The Genshin Impact Media Mix: Free-to-Play Monetization from East Asia.”

muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Scrabble edition? 🔠

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

I came to make sure the Curtis cat content continues to exist in my feeds 🐈🐈🐈

Why deal with the crowds when you can have a ‘mundane Halloween’ online? People are busy thinking up costumes at Halloween, so will yours be flashy and outrageous? Well, an online trend proves 'bland' can be just as fun.

Ever heard of ‘Jimi (mundane) Halloween,’ the relatively new Halloween tradition in Japan? I hope you enjoy my bilingual article!

地味ハロウィンについて日英で書いてます。読んでね！
www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/10...

Happy #ToriiTuesday! Today's #torii are CONCRETE. Specifically, ferroconcrete! ⛩️🏢

It might not be flashy, but at one point it was a symbol of Shinto modernity!

(Sadly this concrete giant at Hakozakigū 筥崎宮 in Fukuoka, built in 1930, was demolished in 2018.) 🧵 #AsianStudies

The first issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (JJRS) I've had the privilege to work on as Assoc Editor is out today! The journal is open access on our website. Please check it out!

Keywords: Buddhism, gender, motherhood, newspapers, transportation, material culture, war, organization

I finally made the plunge mostly for the cats…