Joseph Seeley
@josephaseeley.bsky.social
assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Recently published new book Border of Water and Ice is OA! https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49
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In twelve hours!
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In twelve hours!
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
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This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!
Excited to dig into Hannah Shepherd's new book, out in December from UC Press:
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-na...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-na...
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!
Not even an unusually heavy rain could dim my excitement at returning to my alma mater today! 6년만에 스탠포드. 懐かしすぎる.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Not even an unusually heavy rain could dim my excitement at returning to my alma mater today! 6년만에 스탠포드. 懐かしすぎる.
Highly idiosyncratic Hangul spelling of the word "조선" (Korea) on the cover of a 1930 colonial Korean magazine. Almost looks like a completely different script.
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Highly idiosyncratic Hangul spelling of the word "조선" (Korea) on the cover of a 1930 colonial Korean magazine. Almost looks like a completely different script.
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I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
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Needed some happy news, so I was thrilled to see that both of my panels had been accepted for next year's @asianstudies.org conference! Look forward to seeing Asian Studies friends and colleagues in Vancouver!
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Needed some happy news, so I was thrilled to see that both of my panels had been accepted for next year's @asianstudies.org conference! Look forward to seeing Asian Studies friends and colleagues in Vancouver!
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job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
Excited to be returning to my PhD alma mater (first time since graduation) for a book talk in a few weeks!
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ceas.stanford.edu/events/borde...
September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Excited to be returning to my PhD alma mater (first time since graduation) for a book talk in a few weeks!
ceas.stanford.edu/events/borde...
ceas.stanford.edu/events/borde...
An influential Koreanist once described Soviet-occupied North Korea as an "isle of tranquility," but the stories of those who fled South after Korea's 1945 division suggest otherwise. Yumi Moon’s chapter in this great new volume helpfully elucidates this refugee experience.
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An influential Koreanist once described Soviet-occupied North Korea as an "isle of tranquility," but the stories of those who fled South after Korea's 1945 division suggest otherwise. Yumi Moon’s chapter in this great new volume helpfully elucidates this refugee experience.
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A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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apjjf.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
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On Monday!
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On Monday!
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
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My review of BREAKNECK, by Dan Wang, an insightful and balanced look at the Chinese engineering state—both its strengths and shortcomings—that offers a much-needed contrast to fear-mongering China books.
Bookshelf: Breakneck
The first copy of Breakneck I received looked like the quintessential fear-mongering China book. Against an inky black background a red graphic appeared—somewhat difficult to identify, but it seeme…
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August 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My review of BREAKNECK, by Dan Wang, an insightful and balanced look at the Chinese engineering state—both its strengths and shortcomings—that offers a much-needed contrast to fear-mongering China books.
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So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
As the Osaka Expo remains ongoing, for those interested in the deeper history of exhibitions in Japan, please check out this online book talk event I am moderating in less than two weeks!
mjha.org/event-6239996
mjha.org/event-6239996
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
As the Osaka Expo remains ongoing, for those interested in the deeper history of exhibitions in Japan, please check out this online book talk event I am moderating in less than two weeks!
mjha.org/event-6239996
mjha.org/event-6239996
Excited to be presenting at this conference as well! I will be sharing new work on North Korean animal history for those interested.
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited to be presenting at this conference as well! I will be sharing new work on North Korean animal history for those interested.
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I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
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Looking forward to participating (virtually, alas) in this event at SNU later this week, for anyone interested:
www.snu.ac.kr/snunow/event...
I'll be sharing a new essay that uses the life and letters of Conrad Totman, pioneer of East Asian environmental history, to map out the state of the field
www.snu.ac.kr/snunow/event...
I'll be sharing a new essay that uses the life and letters of Conrad Totman, pioneer of East Asian environmental history, to map out the state of the field
August 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Looking forward to participating (virtually, alas) in this event at SNU later this week, for anyone interested:
www.snu.ac.kr/snunow/event...
I'll be sharing a new essay that uses the life and letters of Conrad Totman, pioneer of East Asian environmental history, to map out the state of the field
www.snu.ac.kr/snunow/event...
I'll be sharing a new essay that uses the life and letters of Conrad Totman, pioneer of East Asian environmental history, to map out the state of the field
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The last known Rodrigues parakeet died exactly 150 years ago. This story ticks a lot of natural history museum bingo boxes:
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums
Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.
theconversation.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The last known Rodrigues parakeet died exactly 150 years ago. This story ticks a lot of natural history museum bingo boxes:
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
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Herewith a thread of some of the more interesting reactions to the Emperor's August 15 surrender announcement I've collected over the years:
First up, a personal favorite (and teaser for an essay I have forthcoming on gardening in the ashes of Japan's urban wastelands in 1945):
First up, a personal favorite (and teaser for an essay I have forthcoming on gardening in the ashes of Japan's urban wastelands in 1945):
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Herewith a thread of some of the more interesting reactions to the Emperor's August 15 surrender announcement I've collected over the years:
First up, a personal favorite (and teaser for an essay I have forthcoming on gardening in the ashes of Japan's urban wastelands in 1945):
First up, a personal favorite (and teaser for an essay I have forthcoming on gardening in the ashes of Japan's urban wastelands in 1945):
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In a dusty box, a Nagano man finds proof his father served in Nanjing, China, with Unit 1644, part of Japan’s covert biological weapons network during World War II. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...
August 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In a dusty box, a Nagano man finds proof his father served in Nanjing, China, with Unit 1644, part of Japan’s covert biological weapons network during World War II. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...