@roellinghoff
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. ๐จ๐ปโ๐ซ Views mine, like/repost โ endorsement.
From The Telegraph Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law German chancellor positions himself as Trump's closest European ally in condemning Tehran.
Not judging Germany by its history, but its current failure. How on godโs green earth did they put this man in the top position?!
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I genuinely don't understand what it is about the NYT that turns successful journalists into weird little sickos fixated on making life worseโin myriad ways, big and smallโfor their most vulnerable neighbors. Surely nobody gets into journalism WANTING to afflict the afflicted
The girlsโ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
And per this report yesterday, it was deliberate:
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
Today! All are welcome, including non-HKU affiliates.
I blocked him, too. I have not idea who he is but we have 58 mutuals. ๐
2/ My first book, โTerritorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,โ is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.
You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A poster with the text: "This talk examines how Japanese settlers reimagined and branded Mt. Asahidake, Hokkado's highest peak, to advance colonial goals. For the Ainu, it was a sacred and distant realm, but after Hokkado's annexation in 1869, settlers replaced Ainu cosmologies with new narratives. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Hokkaido government, educators, journalists, and alpine clubs sought to bring the mountain closer everyday life by promoting its sublime beauty and accessibility, while the Imperial Japanese Army elevated it as a symbol of Japanese spirit. These redefinitions transformed Mt. Asahidake into a symbol of Japanese imperial identity, illustrating how mountains served as tools of dominance and regional assertion within the empire. Chris Tsui Shuen Lau is a historian of modern Japan and a postdoc at the University of Tรผbingen, Germany. Her research focuses on cultural, social, colonial, and global history. Her current project explores modern mountaineering in the Japanese empire, using Mt. Asahidake in Hokkaido and Yushan in Taiwan as case studies to investigate how mountains were reimagined and repurposed for colonial objectives."
Tomorrow at HKU! All are welcome.
A talk by Chris Tsui Shuen Lau: "From Ainu Cosmologies to Imperial Symbols: The Colonial Narratives of Mt. Asahidake in Hokkaido, 1900s-1930s"
Date: March 4, 2026 (Wed)
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: CRT-5.41, 5/F, Run Run Shaw Tower,
Centennial Campus, HKU
Seeing these comments alongside a fresh batch of self-described "ashamed" Americans. The vector between these two useless, dangerous ideas is, of course, the same: the idea that whole world is an American frontier, including, as W.A. Williams wrote in 1955, "the rim of hell."
Seeing Canadians and Danes online all clamouring for nuclear weapons is horrifying -- it's a kind of barbarism.
brave to publish this on the very day netanyahu himself said heโs been wanting to do this for 40 years
Truly dystopic.
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Mass killing of elementary school girls - are they less human bec they are Iranian? Are they legit โcollateral damageโ? Means to an end? I doubt that this kind of mass killing would be even contemplated for, say, Denmark.
The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Stunned and deeply saddened to learn of the death of Vince Rafael, brilliantly innovative and transformative scholar of the Philippines - and a warm and generous friend and mentor. I knew he was unwell, but never thought he'd go so soon. I was in touch just a few months ago...
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He's 100% a SOB but he's also a political animal. I think he genuinely enjoys the wheeling and dealing of politics/diplomacy and is incensed by someone refusing to do so.
The mostly nuanced, empathetic public discussions coming out of this around disability and Gaza have been heartening. On the other hand, seeing some *academics* suggest that people with Tourette's deep down mean what they say or that, regardless, they ought not to go out in public fucking sucks.
The BBC censoring this but not the n-word is heinous. The BAFTAs not adequately apologizing or explaining the "disturbance" is a inexcusable.
What Chalmers Johnson called Americaโs โempire of basesโ
Scholarship that challenges white supremacy, colonialism, or state violence is labeled as divisive. Programs rooted in Indigenous, Latinx, and Black knowledge are consolidated, put under review, or dismantled. The result is not balanceโit is containment.
Ah, yes. The important difference between "nationalism" and "patriotism". One stinks of corpses, whiskey and mud, and the other is the last refuge of scoundrels.
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"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."
AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.
Iโm so sorry to hear this. The Promise of the Foreign and White Love were absolutely electrifying. And I only met him once but I know you were close. My condolences, Adrian.
Americaโs social relations are built on the Calvinist logics of a witch hunt.
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Job alert!
We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).
Triumphs over fascism and a dissertation committee in the same year, you love to see it