Apr 191 minThe recording of my talk on YoutubeI usually do not want to share my own lecture videos. But I have been inquired so many times about my talk at Harvard, so there you go....
Apr 61 minA Talk at University of VirginiaI hear so many people, more than 110 people, tuned in during my talk at Harvard last week. Thank you! I got many exciting questions and I...
Mar 291 minA Talk at HarvardOn April 4, I'm giving an online talk, hosted by the Program on US-Japan Relations, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese...
Mar 291 minThe AAS Hawaii panel 2022I always regret not flying to AAS conferences but this year was particularly painful. Thankfully, Dr. Sungyun Lim and I organized a...
Feb 42 minA talk at Lund UniversityI just had an opportunity to give a Zoom talk at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University. Thank you for those...
May 12, 20213 min(Mostly) Love and hate with the ScanmarkerA while ago, I purchased a Scanmarker. It is a pen-type text scanner. I hoped it would make my life as a researcher easier, if I do not...
May 8, 20211 minComing "back" to a new lifeI could not update this page over the last 14 months. Many things happened in between. Pandemic. The Ramseyer Scandal. Twitter storm. New...
Feb 8, 20201 minTalks in the US (2)I'm giving talks on my new project at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Yale this coming week: https://ceas.yale.edu/events/emotional-topograp...
Feb 8, 20201 minA Series of talks in the US (1)I just gave a lecture at Boston College. Thank you Professor Franziska Seraphim for inviting me! I had a great time discussing my book...
Jan 13, 20201 minChoice AwardChoice Magazine, thanks to the generous review by Professor Ericson, gave me an "Outstanding Academic Title" award to my book,...
Jan 11, 20201 minConferenced well.I had great fun at the AHA annual meeting! This was my first presentation on the current research, and it made me realize how much we...
Dec 16, 20191 minJanuary 4: Giving a presentation in AHA in New YorkI will be attending American Historical Association's annual meeting in New York to give a presentation on Japanese wives in the...
Nov 12, 20191 minMost fruitful timeThis is the end of the semester at NUS, and after a semester-long experimental journey of teaching a newly designed large lecture course,...
Nov 7, 20191 minRe-thinking History: Singapore and Global HistoryProfessor Kevin Blackburn invited me to give a presentation at a conference for secondary-school and junior-college teachers. Presenting...
Oct 15, 20191 minIt is true, unfortunatelyWe just had a week of lecture and tutorials on "women and society" in our history 101 course. We instructors were excited to teach it,...
Oct 8, 20191 minA powerful supporter of the "nation-empire" concept I have heard from multiple friends that my former advisor has mentioned my name and my argument in her speeches, and I was curious of...
Sep 26, 20191 minReceived a review in Choice!I got a very generous review in Choice Reviews. Thank you Professor Ericson! I am extremely honored to find the expressions...