Infinitely Scrolling Through the Past
Last night I was looking through documents from British North Borneo and came across a record from 1886 about the murder the previous year in Palawan, then under Spanish rule,…
Engaging With Vietnam #15 Grand Event
The “Grand Event” of the 15th Engaging With Vietnam (EWV) conference, to celebrate the conference’s fifteenth anniversary, will be held in Hanoi from 12-16 December 2025 with the collaborative support…
Grokipedia and the Hồng Bàng Dynasty
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s company xAI released the first version (version 0.1) of an alternative to Wikipedia, called Grokipedia.It appears that the creation of Grokipedia was the result…
Going on a Mission
Oh, all this talk about the evils of area studies has made me nostalgic for the past. I'm going on a mission for a bit and won't be updating this…
Is the End of Area Studies Finally Here?
I grew up in Vermont near a small liberal arts college, Middlebury College. Every summer the campus would transform, as the college would hold its “language schools” where students would…
The Seventeenth-Century Rise of Hà Tiên and Singora
One of the first papers I ever published was called “Thoughts on a Chinese Diaspora: The Case of the Mạcs of Hà Tien” (2000). I wrote it as a final…
James A. Anderson’s “The Dong World”: An AI Reading
A while ago I became aware that historian James A. Anderson has published a new book entitled The Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State…
They’re Coming!!
When I was working in the US, I never got an email from a predatory/scam journal.Then I went to work at a university in Southeast Asia, and I immediately started…
You Don’t Think AI is a Threat, but You are Also Using the Wrong Model
I see a lot of academics brushing off AI, thinking that it’s not a threat. How do they reach that conclusion?As far as I can tell, in many cases they…
Professors Will be Eliminated by Progressive Logic
The other day an opinion piece from The Conversation popped up in my news feed with the title, “Some unis are moving away from in-person lectures. Here’s why that’s not…
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