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Osiris’ latest issue: “Animal Mobilities” journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/cur…

Weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is our upcoming events🧵 In June Thai & Cambodian's orgs called on both govt's to deescalate the border situation. They didn't listen. This week civilians have been killed & migrant workers have been attacked #NoWarThaiCambodia 1/

About 14 million people are displaced; at least 150,000 people have died in Sudan's civil war. "But no statistics can express the sense of pointlessness, of meaninglessness, that the war has left behind alongside the physical destruction." From my new Atlantic cover story

So excited to share my new article in Past & Present: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" academic.oup.com/past/advance-a… (Open Access)

Call for Papers: "Traversing Trans-Asian Imaginaries: Anime, Manga, and Media Cultures," Mechademia 2026 Conference - to be held at National University of Singapore, May 29-30. Submit paper and panel proposals by October 15. mechademia.net/conferences/as…

The final article from our special section of Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn is out! Important work from catherine kevin 'Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My short essay on Somatosphere: This analysis expands biopolitical frameworks by incorporating a question of affect and temporality while also rethinking queer futurity by interrogating the relationship between queerness, biopolitics, and right to life. somatosphere.net/queer-ties-wei…

The Weatherhead Scholars Program invites applications for the Sang Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellowship from early-career scholars whose research focuses on East Asia and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China). Application Deadline: October 15 tinyurl.com/2emzpr5y

Wrote a review for the excellent "Modern Chinese Foodways" edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A. Klein The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Job! Thanks to a generous donation from anonymous donors and matching funding from UNSW, we are advertising for 2 x two-year postdocs in History. Any region. Any period. Any method. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5355… Connection to Australia or NZ, via residency or education is required.

Another fun side project I wrote at the end of my PhD, just published by Science Fiction Studies 📖 🤖 online.ucpress.edu/sfs/article-ab…

The ebook is just out! Can't wait to read the rest of the volume🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♀️

This Australian Associated Press (AAP) article features our new report ‘Australian public and institutional responses to Taiwan Strait crises’, warning 🇦🇺 is not “equipped to provide an effective response should tensions escalate in the region.” 📚👉 bit.ly/43BHggS canberratimes.com.au/story/9101425/…

New article in SocialHistorySociety on how government tried to reduce "wasteful behavior" in folk religious practices in postwar Taiwan. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Glad to publish in AmbixtheJournal on the Chinese American Chemical Society and science diplomacy in the 1970s-80s! Very grateful for the generous financial & research support of Science History Institute tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"...rather than having to know that the injury is here and there and there and there and everywhere he can turn his eyes, that all the shelves and all the rooms and all the streets up and down the city are covered with blood, slaughter, battle, and war"

Please join us with James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social on Friday, November 28, 2025 for a public lecture, “In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan.” 3–5 PM (PST), Liu Institute for Global Issues, xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees) RSVP: sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/g…

Call for Proposals: University of Pittsburgh conference on "The Future(s) of International and Area Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, Goals," May 8-10, 2026. Submit proposals by December 4; hybrid participation possible. global.pitt.edu/future-interna…

Exciting PhD opportunity at Basel and Birmingham looking into history of synthetic fertilizers in Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa! Europainstitut Basel data.snf.ch/grants/grant/1…