Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

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…

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

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…

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

Sure would be a good time to have not laid off your entire Middle East bureau.

War is hell, mash meme

Careful what you ask for.

The demand is not, "Congress must vote to authorize this war."

The demand is, "Congress must vote to end this immoral and illegal war of aggression."

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

When you have live coverage of a closed-door event that reporters can’t be in.

Banner for the Association for Asian Studies' First Time Attendee Orientation at the AAS 2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver.

If you missed our #AAS2026 orientation session yesterday, the video is now available to catch you up! Learn how to get around the conference venues, where to find coffee, ways to approach the program, and so much more.

https://bit.ly/AAS2026-orientation

🎉Today we launch Running Notes, short-form commentary and dispatches from the Middle East and beyond. The pieces offer fast, sharp analysis alongside our long-form essays, giving our readers another way to engage with the stories that matter.
READ HERE:
newlinesmag.com/running-note...

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

Projecting Light in the Shadows After IndieChina's forced cancellation in New York, Chinese independent screening groups in Europe keep the projector running — quietly, carefully, hopefully.

A deep dive by Lingua Sinica: in the wake of the IndieChina Film Festival in New York's cancellation, a LS reporter describes the work involved in organizing independent Chinese-language film screenings in Europe. Groups operate on a shoestring, but with great enthusiasm and dedication.

Censorship and safety concerns cloud China’s plans to host science journalism conference Organizers of the 2029 World Conference of Science Journalists defend Beijing meeting as opportunity to connect with Chinese scientists

"Journalists who cover science for the world’s media outlets are divided over plans to hold the field’s flagship international conference in China, a country with one of the world’s most restrictive media environments."

Senior Correspondent, Politics WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Call for submissions: United States-Japan Foundation award for the best social science dissertation on Japan. Nominations (from departments) are due by June 15, 2026.

https://us-jf.org/en/news/usjf-now-taking-nominations-for-second-annual-phd-dissertation-award-in-japanese-studies

If you’re going to the @asianstudies.org this year, take a chance to attend the Early China conference! Info by scanning the flyer

15 days?!?

I'm going on tour in the US again! This time to the East Coast!

Starting next week I'll be doing a series of book talks for my new book "Contested Taiwan" at four universities AND an author meet-and-greet at this year's AAS!

Links for each event below!

If in #Vancouver/ going to #AAS2026 !

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 2:00-2:45pm, Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC

To register: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event...

"Boys, it's launch day."

-Tom Burgoyne, best friend of the Phanatic

Big day in Clearwater! It's the 2026 debut of the legendary Hot Dog Launcher

31 seasons of propelling hot dogs through the sky.

What a time to be alive

We’ve had more snow this week than any president in history. Nobody’s ever seen snow like this. Beautiful snow. We love to say the word snow, don’t we? It’s covering the sidewalks, closing the schools, tremendous traffic — really incredible.

Under Sleepy Joe? No snow. Very low-energy weather. Sad.

A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been “guerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made.

WaPo article on what happened when @jimmillward.bsky.social entered the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery with a “little stack of handouts, like a good professor,” seeking to educate visitors on text the museum had removed when it swapped out Trump's portrait.

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

I just got a copy!

Call for Proposals: “Global China: Transregional Connections Past and Present” Dissertation Workshop - Association for Asian Studies September 23-24, 2026Lahore, Pakistan Workshop mentors: William Callahan (Singapore Management University), Max Deeg (Cardiff University), Emily Wilcox (William & Mary) Thanks to funding from the Henr...

Call for Proposals: “Global China: Transregional Connections Past and Present” Dissertation Workshop in Lahore, Sept. 23-24, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. Apply by April 20!

USA Men’s hockey really screwed up bad - Trump’s SOTU rhetoric will likely be the most vitriolic, nonsensical, evil rambling bullshit we’ve seen. And their behavior has directly tied them and the NHL to this rhetoric, destroying gains they’ve made with women, minorities and LGBT folks.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.