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juliendavis.bsky.social
faculty @upenn, often thinking about early modern prints and books in Japan; sometimes writing about them, too.
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Highly recommend Kathy Peiss’s INFORMATION HUNTERS: WHEN LIBRARIANS, SOLDIERS, AND SPIES BANDED TOGETHER I. WORLD WAR II EUROPE (Oxford University Press). Exists as audiobook too!

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Ready to give yourself the gift of exploring a fascinating world of rare Edo pubs? 😍 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by @juliendavis.bsky.social & Lynne Farrington (UPenn) to learn about these 1200+ treats in “The Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

So happy to see my book in this round up press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... #skystorians #histstm #academicsky

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

How did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

Thinking of creating some snarky academic starter packs like: Academics who think their ideas are WAY more important than they actually are Academics who peaked a while ago Academics whose questions are more like comments Academics who always go over their allotted time

submitted 114 days ago • 24 comments

OP went back to their childhood home and found this Pokemon card they drew b/c they couldn't buy them as a kid

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote about the coordinated right-wing campaign to manipulate voters into believing Trump is the favorite to win the presidency, and highlighted some trustworthy data that might make you feel slightly better about things. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/you-are-bein...

submitted 141 days ago • 45 comments

Art HistoryJob at Sarah Lawrence College: "History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750)" #earlymodern www.idealist.org/en/job/1b50d...

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Just here to report that I said no to doing something extra.

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4 years ago today

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The New York Times revealed that the #Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of “posture” photos of college students. Beth Linker explains why this was only a part of the incredible #history of 20th century America’s #posture panic. hubs.ly/Q02z9Hf50

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Thanks @paularcurtis.bsky.social for posting some of the saucier images from our workshop! Here are a couple of action shots of us looking at rare (and rare-ish) Japanese illustrated books. #ArthurTressCollection

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Looking forward to nerding out this week with @paularcurtis.bsky.social Amaury Garcia Rodriguez, Ann Sherif, Kyoko Kinoshita this week to think about metadata and Japanese illustrated books tinyurl.com/yrhhusj4

submitted 311 days ago • 1 comment

Such an amazing lineup!!! Smith literally wrote the book on Shōgun & history ("Learning From Shōgun," 1980), Pitelka wrote a book on Tokugawa Ieyasu (the model for "Toranaga"), Berry wrote a book on Ieyasu's predecessor Hideyoshi (the "Taikō"), and Hubbard wrote a book on English sailors c.1600.

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Context is everything in Japanese poetry, and a poem plays a pivotal role in the climax of “Shogun.” The problem is, the subtext is difficult to understand in subtitles. Hiroko breaks it down here (mild spoilers): blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/the-art-of...

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There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?

submitted 340 days ago • 17 comments