Now that I'm back in Michigan and have done all the laundry under the sun, I can get back to getting my life in order. Phew! #AAS2018 was great for meeting new folks and connecting with old ones. If you're a new Twitter follower, hello! 👋🎉
@AASAsianStudies is an incredible community at so many levels, and I hope we continue to keep fostering connections and dialogues across regions, periods, locations, languages, and more! Thanks to all the organizers who made #AAS2018 possible!
Some fuzzy final AAS thoughts: Aside from all the amazing panels I got to see (not enough time to see them all!), at #AAS2018 I also reconnected (and roomed!) with my marvelous BA advisor who set me on this path,
Happening now with a great turnout for a final Sunday panel! “Staying Afloat: Creative Social Networking Practices in Medieval Japan" #AAS2018 #medievaltwitter
In all the great #DH conversations yesterday, it was reiterated that we need to share resources, compile accessible materials, & think about contributions to both our work and classrooms. Consider contributing Eng-lang resources to the collaborative database! #DHAsia #AAS2018 💻
Before you rush out to the dreaded real world today, come to the #medieval Japan panel at 10:45AM! "Staying Afloat: Creative Social Networking Practices in Medieval Japan" Royal women! Warrior kinship! Survival strategies of the elite! 👀🇯🇵 Madison A, Mezzanine Level! #AAS2018
Happening now: Writing Japanese History for the Cambridge History of Japan. 🇯🇵 Hearing from 3 scholars editing the new premodern, early modern, and modern volumes of Japanese history soon to be published. #AAS2018
Happening now: Digital Technologies in Asian Studies working group! How do we get digital studies and technologies we use in our research and teaching to be taken seriously by large organizations? How do we assert our presence at conferences? #AAS2018
At The Future of Digital Japanese Studies: Thomas Conlan (Princeton) discussing komonjo (old Japanese documents) to a full room. #AAS2018 #DHJPN
Ducking in to “Overcoming Nativism: New Approaches to Discourses of Identity in Japanese History” to see Nadia Kanagawa (USC) speak on “Transforming the Realm: Foreign Lineages in the Shinsen shōjiroku.” One of the few working on ancient/classical Japan! #AAS2018
Did we ever find out what the Marriott Wardman scandals were though? 👀 #AAS2018
Lovely to see the first title in our Sinotheory series at the @DukePress #AAS2018 booth!
SOMEONE TO TALK TO by Liu Zhenyun, translated ✒️ by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin. And beautiful 📕cover by the talented @amyruthb.
One of the first things I suggest to my students every beginning of term. #AAS2018
Was told by my lunch companions that it was a bit 三八 to have hailed @jwassers from across the atrium - but it’s not everyday I run into my @LARBchina co-conspirator #AAS2018
Happening now: Disability in Early Modern East Asia - Case Studies from China, Japan, Korea, ca. 1500-1870. #AAS2018 #histmed
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
How can journals be more transparent?
Panel: More professionalization. Become familiar with basic best practices with reviewing/editing. Most programs don’t have that, but journals are in a good position to convey that information.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Panel: Yes, as editors of journals we are the “gate-keepers” so to speak, but we’re looking for reasons to hold the gate open for you.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
How important is the “impact factor” of a journal?
Panel: Bibliometrics! You can’t ignore it, but it shouldn’t be the deciding element of why you select a journal. Five-year impact factor is something you should consider (rather than 1)
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Panel: Book reviewing for younger scholars is an important part of engaging w/ scholarship, intellectually stimulating and rewarding work, but they’re also in a more vulnerable position. Challenge is being considerate, thoughtful, & diplomatic.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Panel on book reviews:
We choose book reviews from major university presses; associate editors often choose reviewers though you can sign up too.
Some journals have limited issues and therefore space for reviews.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Panel: What can you take away from a boiler plate rejection? Honestly, it’s not you, it’s the paper! Rework and try again. 📝
Scholarly Pubs on Japan #AAS2018:
Comment: More recently younger scholars have remarked they want to work more on publishing in edited volumes instead of journals b/c they get a sense of community and being shepherded through the process of publishing more than with journals.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Comment: Why should we publish in Japan-focused journals?
Panel: Our journals allow you to get into the nitty-gritty of the sources, the Japanese scholarship, etc in a way a more general one would not.
Scholarly Pubs Japan #AAS2018:
Panel: On rejection at desk review level: 50%-60% submissions are rejected at the desk review stage-- authors didn't adhere to guidelines of the journal, or it wasn't appropriate content for the journal.
