Month: March 2024
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Weekly Wanderings: March 31, 2024
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates, and happy final day of March to anyone else who feels like this month has been extra-long. March is always weird for me because the AAS conference falls somewhere in its latter half, so I spend the first couple weeks preparing for that, speed through five high-adrenaline days on…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 24, 2024
I’m mostly punting on this week’s post because I’ve enjoyed having a very lazy weekend after returning from Seattle late Friday night and don’t feel like raising the energy level around here now. (Aside, that is, from dealing with two suitcases full of laundry.) But I did stay on top of stories about the new…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 18, 2024
The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference has now come and gone, with over 3,000 participants traveling to join us in Seattle for four days of sessions and socializing. This is my eighth year as an AAS staff member, and I feel like I’ve finally figured out how to work at the conference without completely…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 10, 2024
It’s a short one this week—just some recent book reviews from me—because I’ve been in full-tilt AAS 2024 Annual Conference preparation mode for the past seven days. My suitcases are on the living-room floor, half packed; dry cleaning will be ready for pickup tomorrow; there are several dozen table tent cards in my office that…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 3, 2024
Signs of spring have arrived in southeast Michigan: there’s a pile of asparagus in my kitchen waiting to be trimmed for dinner, I can hear birds chirping through the porch door that I’ve cracked open, and I’m wearing flip-flops instead of fluffy slippers. I’m sure we’re due for at least one more bout of bitterly…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 