Alex Murphy
@asmurphy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Modern Japanese literature, media, performance @ Clark University, RIJS Postdoc @ Harvard University 2024-25
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New edited volume focuses on the student movement at Kyoto University in the late 1960s. Contributors include some big names like Ukai Satoshi, Fujihara Tatsushi, Ueno Chizuko, Fuke Takahiro. www.seidosha.co.jp/book/index.p...
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 AM
New edited volume focuses on the student movement at Kyoto University in the late 1960s. Contributors include some big names like Ukai Satoshi, Fujihara Tatsushi, Ueno Chizuko, Fuke Takahiro. www.seidosha.co.jp/book/index.p...
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How do library specialists take boxes of documents and ephemera and turn them into our collections? 📦 At the EAJRS 2025, Toshie Marra spoke about the challenges of archival processing for the David W. Conde Collection at UC Berkeley! www.eajrs.net/david-w-cond...
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
How do library specialists take boxes of documents and ephemera and turn them into our collections? 📦 At the EAJRS 2025, Toshie Marra spoke about the challenges of archival processing for the David W. Conde Collection at UC Berkeley! www.eajrs.net/david-w-cond...
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Next week Seth Jacobowitz & Jonathan E. Abel will be launching the new book "Modern Japanese Literary Studies" at the University of Pittsburgh. Register for the virtual conversation at pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Next week Seth Jacobowitz & Jonathan E. Abel will be launching the new book "Modern Japanese Literary Studies" at the University of Pittsburgh. Register for the virtual conversation at pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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NCC has been part of the development of the Japan Studies field for decades! To help document this early work, we collect interviews from some of the folks involved in this early work. 🎙️ Learn more about their careers and labor from our Multimedia History Project! guides.nccjapan.org/multimediahi...
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
NCC has been part of the development of the Japan Studies field for decades! To help document this early work, we collect interviews from some of the folks involved in this early work. 🎙️ Learn more about their careers and labor from our Multimedia History Project! guides.nccjapan.org/multimediahi...
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What digital resources are available to us for research and teaching?💻 At our 2017 digital scholarship workshop, we featured a roundtable with Toshinori Egami, Nahoko Tsubouchi, Kazuaki Yamamoto, & Yasunao Kobayashi to showcase great databases & tools! See videos: guides.nccjapan.org/torontodigit...
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What digital resources are available to us for research and teaching?💻 At our 2017 digital scholarship workshop, we featured a roundtable with Toshinori Egami, Nahoko Tsubouchi, Kazuaki Yamamoto, & Yasunao Kobayashi to showcase great databases & tools! See videos: guides.nccjapan.org/torontodigit...
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Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante @DukePress #Chile #Argentina #Mapuche #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/the-noise-...
The noise of liberation
Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante, by Gavin O'Toole
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December 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante @DukePress #Chile #Argentina #Mapuche #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/the-noise-...
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Absolutely gutted to hear the news about Jonathan Sterne, whose work has been boundlessly inspiring to myself and so many others.
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Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
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March 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Absolutely gutted to hear the news about Jonathan Sterne, whose work has been boundlessly inspiring to myself and so many others.
dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Can't find a TOC anywhere, but this just came out and looks great:
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
Phonographic Modernity
www.press.uillinois.edu
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Can't find a TOC anywhere, but this just came out and looks great:
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
Quite shocking news; just attended a terrific conference in Sheffield in October that was organized by EAS faculty. They have a wonderfully vibrant department with so many brilliant and kind scholars. Please share widely:
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...
Sheffield Uni Needs East Asian Studies!
The University of Sheffield has been a global leader in East Asian Studies since its inception as the national centre for modern Japanese Studies in 1963. Korean Studies was introduced in 1979 and mai...
www.megaphone.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quite shocking news; just attended a terrific conference in Sheffield in October that was organized by EAS faculty. They have a wonderfully vibrant department with so many brilliant and kind scholars. Please share widely:
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...
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Next week!
MJHA presents New Books from Japan #8: "The Publishing Empire at War: A Cultural History of Defiance," featuring author Ko Youngran (Nichidai) in conversation with Naiyoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)!
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5974323
MJHA presents New Books from Japan #8: "The Publishing Empire at War: A Cultural History of Defiance," featuring author Ko Youngran (Nichidai) in conversation with Naiyoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)!
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5974323
January 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Next week!
MJHA presents New Books from Japan #8: "The Publishing Empire at War: A Cultural History of Defiance," featuring author Ko Youngran (Nichidai) in conversation with Naiyoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)!
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5974323
MJHA presents New Books from Japan #8: "The Publishing Empire at War: A Cultural History of Defiance," featuring author Ko Youngran (Nichidai) in conversation with Naiyoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)!
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5974323
