Joseph Henares

The next online lecture in the Miki Kiyoshi lecture series will be by Dr. Arisaka Yoko. The title is "Miki's Philosophical Anthropology: Everydayness as Ontology." (Jan. 22 7pm-9pm EST / Jan. 23 9am-11am JST). I will be moderating discussion. All are welcome!

In case it's useful for teaching or research, a text version of Carol Gluck's recent 2024 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, titled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Modern Japanese History: Time Past, Present, Future," is now available here: tinyurl.com/yktc58py

2024/25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Samurai, Knights, and Nationalisms: Japan and the Medievalization of the Modern World - Department of Asian Studies With Professor Oleg Benesch (University of York)

I'll be back in Vancouver for the first time in far too long on Jan 30 give a talk on how samurai became a global icon and how societies around the world also searched their own supposedly medieval pasts to find similar symbols and ideals (livestream also available)
asia.ubc.ca/events/event...

The Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze - Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire Introduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Japan seized Germany’s territories in the North Pacific, having invoked its formal alliance with t...

A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already!

japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...

MJHA bilingual series is hosting another exciting book talk from Japan! (トークは日本語でどなたでも参加できます）

January 17 (Friday): 9pm Japan Time.
出版帝国の戦争：不逞なものたちの文化史
The Publishing Empire at War: A Cultural History of Defiance
Presenter: 高榮蘭
Discussant: Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke University)

#MJHA #Japan

An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

This year @vierth.bsky.social & I will again teach our East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities introductory workshop via Zoom in June! This is a 4-day crash-course in all things DH & their use in an EAS context. Apps due 3/7. Please share widely with your networks! web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

It’s more productive to view AI as a form of architecture like a library or smart city that the New Man must navigate in the future. There’s an interview between Hiroki Azuma & Hui Yuk that discusses how the West is too preoccupied with AI as Homo Deus. (AI as a God).

'Kin' selected as the kanji of 2024 after strong year for Japanese athletes The choice also reflected the Liberal Democratic Party’s slush-fund scandal and the spate of robberies involving shady part-time jobs.

After a year marked by the exploits of Shohei Ohtani and a spate of robberies, the kanji “kin” (金), which means gold or money, was selected by the public Thursday as the character that best represents 2024.

The next online lecture in the Miki Kiyoshi series will be on Dec. 11 7-9pm EST/Dec. 12 9-11am JST. Dr. Melanie Coughlin will be presenting. Sova P.K. Cerda will be giving a 15-minute response, followed by open discussion. I will be moderating. All are welcome!

TIL about 馬来語熱, "Malay Fever," a surging popularity in the study of the Malaysian language in wartime Japan, spurred largely by ideas of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942

I and the editors of the following would say yes regarding it being significant (I can send a PDF, if you like):
Roger Brown, “Sun Yatsen: ‘Pan-Asianism,’ 1924,” in Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Vol. 2, 1920-Present, Sven Saaler & Christopher Szpilman, ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, 75-85.

Primary Sources on Taiwan Visit the post for more.

Bluesky folks, sharing our website on primary sources on Taiwanese history. Consider including a few of these in your spring classes on colonialism, education, medicine, indigenous histories, and East Asian histories.

taiwanprimarysources.com

国際シンポジウム2024<br>「グローバルに核被害をとらえ直す―いま改めて『ノーモア・ヒバクシャ』」 English Below 広島平和研究所では、2024年11月30日、中国新聞ヒロシマ平和メディアセンター、長崎大学核兵器廃絶研究センターとの共催で、下記のとおり国際シンポジウムを開催いたします。&

I will be giving the keynote talk at the HPI's annual International Symposium on Nov 30 here in Hiroshima.
My lecture title is, "Nuclear Weapon Development and Possession as Violence: The Global Hibakusha"

See link

#NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHum #Hiroshima

www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/symposium/20...

Learn about The Chinese Historical Review Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc...

Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

L’historien et résistant Marc Bloch va entrer au Panthéon Emmanuel Macron a annoncé ce samedi 23 novembre, à l’occasion d’un déplacement commémoratif à Strasbourg, que la nation allait rendre hommage à l’auteur de «L’étrange défaite», fusillé par l’occupant ...

Marc #Bloch va entrer au #Panthéon. Un professeur d'histoire, un résistant, un penseur décisif et visionnaire du dialogue entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales.

www.liberation.fr/sciences/his...

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke was apparently close friends with an Irishman who hated George Bernard Shaw.
(His possible one-time mistress!) Katayama Hiroko had deep thoughts on W. B. Yeats's Nobel Prize victory in 1923.
Akutagawa translated Yeats!

Really surprised I didn't know all this years ago.

【発売予告】12/18刊行予定

岡野原大輔『生成AIのしくみ──〈流れ〉が画像・音声・動画をつくる』☞ iwnm.jp/029728

お近くの書店・ネット書店でご予約受付中です。

著者によるサポートページ
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St. Thomas Aquinas Relic Veneration — Thomistic Institute The Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas will visit two locations in Washington, D.C. Friday, November 29, 2025 | St. Dominic Catholic Church Saturday, November 30, 2025 | Dominican House of Studies

These folks and #UCL neeed to arrange a joint event with Bentham.
thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-eve....

Detail from a mid seventeenth century painting of the shogun's district in the fortress of Edo

Very excited to be participating in "Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History" next March at the University of Tokyo. This promises to be a brilliant conference - I will talk on English political conceptualisations of the archipelago of Japan, c.1600-1623. Looking forward!

I made a #history of #philosophy starter pack.

Have I missed anyone? Do you object to being on the list? Let me know.

#WorldPhilosophyDay #philsky #academicsky

Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Before Beatlemania, there was Bergsonmania: my review of a new biography of Bergson www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

I will be talking about Daishima Haruhiko's film and issues surrounding memory and the New Left in Japan at a symposium at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, on November 30. www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium/zi...

Fascinating lineup of philosophers here: Yuk Hui,
Takahiro Nakajima, Bret Davis, Hang Kim, Fernando Wirtz, and Sana Sakihama

母の恋文 - 岩波書店 大正十年、多喜子は哲学を学ぶ徹三と出会い、手紙を通して愛を育む。両親の遺品から編んだ、珠玉の書簡集。寄稿・内田也哉子。

Tanikawa Shuntaro, poet and son of philosopher Tanikawa Tetsuzo, has passed away. He wrote about his parents and their love letters in a book published earlier this year. www.iwanami.co.jp/smp/book/b64...

Poster with details about talk includes QR code. Scan for more!

Thursday: A different talk (same book project) at UC Riverside.

A screencap of the introductory text for the webpage "East Asia-related Job market Data in Progress (2024-2025)," which showcases job data information in East Asian Studies.

19 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2024-2025! See the details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search by category/keyword. 🌏📊 Now 580 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

ISEAP 2024 Conference Click here for Program and Abstracts (Last updated: 17 Nov 2024) Online Audience Registration (Deadline: 6 Dec 2024) Date: December 14-15, 2024 (Saturday and Sunday) Venue: Fukuoka University,…

The International Society for East Asian Philosophy has released its official program for its Dec. 14-15 hybrid conference! Registration for online attendance is available until Dec. 6. See iseap.jp/iseap-2024-c... for more details.

The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include…

I'm the Associate Editor at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social in Japan. We publish the famous (& open access!) Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, among other things. The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions comes out in Dec! uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-ne...

With Yale and Harvard searching for positions in Japanese religions last year and UCLA and Columbia adding positions this year, it feels like a new era is about to emerge in the field, a changing of the guard. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...