We are proud to share that Keita Moore, currently finishing his dissertation, “Grand Designs: Videogames, Social Regulation, and the Politics of Wasted Time in Contemporary Japan,” has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the Ohio State University. Congratulations, Assistant Professor Keita Moore!
We are pleased to announce that Carl Gabrielson has successfully defended his dissertation, “Ambassadors, Apples, and Adversaries: American Military Narratives of the U.S. Japan Alliance,” an ethnographic exploration of the ways that U.S. military personnel in Japan make sense of Japanese culture and their place in it, and the intended and unintended consequences of encountering a foreign culture within a militarized context. Please join us in congratulating Carl on earning his PhD!
PhD Candidate Kaitlyn Ugoretz has published a chapter on her research into global Shinto communities in a new volume, Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia, edited by L.W.C. van Lit and James Harry Morris (De Gruyter 2023). The volume explores the limitations and potential opportunities of applying a digital humanities approach to pre-modern Asian religions. Ugoretz’s chapter, “Consuming Shinto, Feeding the Algorithm,” analyzes the impact of social media software on digital habitus and global religious aesthetic formations through a case study of posting practices relating to domestic altars in digital Shinto communities on Facebook.
Congrats, Kaitlyn!
On January 25-26, 2024, Prof. Sabine Frühstück will deliver the keynote address at the conference: “In Service of Security: The Gendered Politics and Everyday Experiences of Military Labor Across Asia,” at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
The Japanese translation of Sabine Frühstück’s book, Playing War (University of California Press, 2017) is now out from Jinbun Shōbo, Kyoto, 2023. 『「戦争ごっこ」の近現代史—児童文化と軍事思想』
