Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

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Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

If we kill and eat him, maybe we can gain his powers

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

Please recommend to me the best books about the Balkans. Nonfiction or fiction, whatever you like!

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

Given the recent funding restrictions to Western civ, I’m relieved to see this fellowship back! Happy to answer questions on it, though rumor suggests that JUSFC-NEH is no longer awarding three scholars per year 😭

the entire state of Massachusetts turns against RFK Jr.

#CFP 23rd Chinese Internet Research Conference at University of Alberta, June 22-23. Submit abstracts on "The Chinese Internet in the Era of Uncertainty" by March 20.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/china-institute/events/latest/2026/circ/index.html

Mentor sessions are now easier to find in the online program/mobile app:

aas2026.eventscribe.net/SearchByBuck...

OMG

Calls for Papers Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...

|| NEW CALL FOR PAPERS || To mark the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, we are planning an issue on memories and lessons from the Mao era. We invite contributions revisiting overlooked experiences, questioning established interpretations, or reflecting on what Maoist China can teach us today.

Understanding the Public History Workforce. Download Now!

For the past few years, I've been working on a research study at @aaslh.org exploring who works in public history, how they're paid, and how they feel about their work. This week, we published our first report. Please read and share! aaslh.org/history-work...

It's a weird Tudor/Southern California McMansion mashup.

I grew up in an old house and understand the frustrations—but omg, that new design is *not* in the same league as the original house!

I Tried AI, Part II: "Imitate Alexis Coe" The Alexis Coe Compensation Act of 2026

"I had been led to believe AI would use the intellectual labor it stole to best me and swallow my livelihood whole. It did neither. It managed a passable impression only when leaning on my actual language — sometimes plagiarism, never originality." @alexiscoe.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

a black and white drawing of a stack of books with the words `` my tbr list '' written on it . Alt: a black and white animated drawing of a stack of books that grows, with the words "my tbr list" written above it.

Update: returned two books, borrowed three.

Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.

Does commemoration bind a divided country or simply expose the fractures it hopes to mend? Jill Lepore considers what we can learn from America’s celebration of the Bicentennial in 1976.
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Beijing spins its narrative of history in today's Hong Kong Museum exhibit extols suppression of 2019 protests, celebrates National Security Law

"In our digital age, as completely erasing memory seems less and less feasible, an increasingly attractive solution for autocrats is to proactively refashion narratives in a brazen way that suits the state's objectives." Victoria Jones & @jwassers.bsky.social on history in Hong Kong (and the US).

📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Work-in-Progress Workshop 2026
Society for Hong Kong Studies

Submissions to be sent to: info@hkstudies.org
Include: title, abstract (250 words), keywords, and project type (paper, chapter, article, etc)

Submission Deadline: 23 March 2026

#cfp #ecr #HongKongStudies

Join us for the film screening & special presentation by Producer Prof. Helen F. Siu on the documentary film 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑦 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 灣區變形記.

📆 Wed 11 March
⏰ 5:30-7:30pm
🎞️ Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC
Registration:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/bhk2026-docu-screening/

Announcement for Education About Asia Relaunch Celebration on March 3, 2026, from 7-8 pm Eastern Time by AAS Digital Dialogues.

There's still time to register for today's Education About Asia relaunch webinar ! Join us online at 7pm ET tonight for an online celebration of EAA's return.

https://bit.ly/EAA-relaunch

Why China Is Doing So Little to Help a Friend Under Fire Beijing sees risks in offering more than rhetorical support despite its longstanding friendship with the regime in Iran.

As the U.S. and Israel have pummeled China’s closest partner in the Middle East, killing Iran’s leader and calling for its people to overthrow the government, Beijing has responded with sharp denunciations, but little more.

www.wsj.com/world/iran-c...

My personal experience of translating pre-Qin texts makes me more than a little dubious about this 🤔 Can an AI bang its head against a wall for hours, I mean, turn a phrase delicately over in its head until the meaning snicks into place like a lockpick? (Both are simultaneously true)

Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚

a china state media graphic of Xi Jinping in a suit, waving, and golden text reading 'a new journey in spring'

HBO Just Dropped a White Lotus Season 4 Teaser And Fans Are Unswervingly Embracing The Fully Correct Path Of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics For The New Era

a boy is carrying a stack of books on his shoulders in a living room . Alt: a boy is carrying a huge stack of books on his shoulders in a living room. He staggers to the table and drops them all on its surface.

I haven't been managing my library holds carefully enough and now ...

From Calcutta to Columbia • EQUATOR A memoir of disenchantment

One theme of Equator is the post-American world – the end of the era when people everywhere saw the US as a model for their own futures. This memoir by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, about leaving India for American academia, is a study of global disenchantment:
www.equator.org/articles/fro...

Today marks the first day of Women's History Month; yesterday was the last day of Black History Month.

Every day is for women's history and Black history and Black women's history.

Because these are not histories that are separate from histories of war and economy.

Weekly Wanderings: March 1, 2026 Does anyone else feel like the first two months of 2026 have included enough activity and events for a whole year? I suspect I’m not the only one who has already maxed out. Let’s keep the chaos and upheaval to a minimum in March, hmmm? Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Reviews This week’s theme is “mystery/thrillers set in the United States written by British authors.”

Weekly Wanderings: March 1, 2026

Does anyone else feel like the first two months of 2026 have included enough activity and events for a whole year? I suspect I’m not the only one who has already maxed out. Let’s keep the chaos and upheaval to a minimum in March, hmmm? Thanks for joining me this…