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About Travis

I am a scholar of Japanese & Okinawan history with a particular interest in the history of arts and culture, and inter-Asia interactions, in the early modern period. I have been fortunate to enjoy the opportunity to live in Okinawa for six months in 2016-17, and in mainland Japan on multiple occasions, including from Sept 2019 to now.

Book Announcement: Japanese Feminist Debates

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Travis

Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor by Ayako Kano University of Hawaiʻi Press, June 2016, $68 hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8248-5580-2 From the publisher’s website: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Japanese feminism … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Amerasia Journal Special Issue: Exhibiting Race and Culture

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Travis

(h/t H-Japan) Call for Papers: Amerasia Journal Special Issue: Exhibiting Race and Culture Guest Editors: Constance Chen (Loyola Marymount University) Melody Rod-ari (Loyola Marymount University) Publication Date: Issue planned for Summer/Fall 2017 publication Paper submission (5,000-6,000 words excluding endnotes) due … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Verge Issue 3.2 – Between Asia and Latin America: New Transpacific Perspectives

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Travis

(h/t H-Japan) Call for Papers: Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 3.2 – Between Asia and Latin America: New Transpacific Perspectives Submission deadline: August 1, 2016 Edited by Andrea Bachner (Cornell University) and Pedro Erber (Cornell University) Asia and the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: A History of the World in 100 Objects

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Travis

Back in 2010, the British Museum put out a series of 100 short podcasts, using objects from their vast collection to highlight episodes or thematic aspects in world history. Right: A helmet from Sutton Hoo, one of the most famous … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Travis

A project many years in the works, University of Hawaiʻi Press is proud to announce (and I am excited to share with you all) the publication of Lina Terell & Bob Huey’s translation of Akamine Mamoru’s important monograph, 琉球王国～東アジアのコーナーストーン (Kôdansha, … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Samurai Problems on Twitter

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Travis

This July, a new Twitter account appeared, and began tweeting out incredible small-scale, everyday, “truth is stranger than fiction” sort of stories about life in Edo period Japan. https://twitter.com/samuraiproblem/status/748925092445491200 Just precisely which graduate student or professor is behind the account … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: “Writing and Picturing in Post-1945 Asian Art”

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Travis

Call for Papers SYMPOSIUM “Writing and Picturing in Post-1945 Asian Art” (Part II: Graduate Student Workshops) Dates: April 21–23, 2017 Place: Department of Art History, University of Chicago (reposting from Japan Art History Forum mailing list) The Center for the … Continue reading →

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Resource: Tobunken-Sainsbury Institute Research Collections Database

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Travis

The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) has just made available a new online database adding in English-language publications and media on Japanese arts, compiling books, exhibitions, etc. released/published within the last few years (and … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Verge AAS panel on Operations of Forgetting

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Travis

Verge: Studies in Global Asias will be proposing a panel about the operations of forgetting in the Asia-Pacific region for AAS (Association for Asian Studies) in Toronto next year (March 16-19, 2017). For this panel, we solicit scholarship about the … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Travis

Reiko Tomii, Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan, MIT Press, 2016. Description from the publisher: 1960s Japan was one of the world’s major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, … Continue reading →

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