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Conferencing Time Part II
And here's the second paper--again, just copying and pasting at the moment, so ignore any formatting issues. Enjoy, leave feedback, and I'm sure you'll be able to see the differences and some...
View ArticleHisashiburi...
[EDIT: My apologies to anyone coming to this post looking for my video presentation. I've decided that I will be using it as a baseline for a presentation at the AAS conference next year in Chicago,...
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Nagashino III: Return to Shitaragahara!
Hello, everyone. It's your all-too-infrequent author, back from 6ish weeks in Japan, where the Army sent me because speaking Japanese is critical for my job, and amazingly enough I do not get too many...
View ArticleMethodology Madness I
I'm getting ready for another conference in October: “Battlefield Archeology: Global Perspectives on Research and Preservation”, in Palo Alto, Texas. This time, I'm an invited speaker, complete with...
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SPIDERS, SPIDERS, SPIDERS!
Well, %^@#*!!Why is a picture of a closed Lincoln Memorial on a Japanese military history blog?Because the conference I've been prepping for next week is "postponed" for the time being. It's being held...
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The Operational Level of War, from Horseback
Sometimes when you're struggling with a problem, a solution arrives from a source you never would have seen coming.For the last few days I've been working on my presentation for the Palo Alto...
View ArticleHitting the Reset Button
In emails back and forth yesterday with one of the Palo Alto organizers, I found out that the conference is likely to be pushed back to February or later. This isn't a bad thing for me, because I'll be...
View ArticleRest In Peace, Original Nagashino Presentation
I realized that I've never shared my original (though heavily modified over the iterations) presentation on Nagashino, other than the dusty old Youtube version from the Japan Studies Conference. So to...
View ArticleChanges and Technical Notes
I'm doing some reorganizing, and hopefully most of the changes will be invisible to you, the reader. But some of you may have noticed a "site under construction" message over the last 24 hours if you...
View ArticleMethodology Video Series & Conference Update
Well, I finally have an update on the Palo Alto conference: it will not happen as originally conceived. No trip to Brownsville, TX for me. However, it will take place in a modified form. The organizers...
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More Conferencing! Chinese Military History Society/Society for Military...
More conference news! This week I received my notice of acceptance to the Chinese Military History Society's annual conference next April, in Kansas City, Missouri. Once again they've opened their...
View ArticleFields of Conflict Conference 2014
Giving my paper today at the Fields of Conflict Conference 2014 here in Columbia, South Carolina. Apologies for the lack of posts recently (since December I think I've been home a grand total of 3...
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And thus (hopefully) ends a really busy 5 months
Yeah, I've been pretty bad about updating. And as usual, I'll apologize and promise to write more. No really, this time I mean it!Since December has been non-stop, between work travel and conferences....
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Remind me never to make promises...
So...yeah. About that last post, and how I said I'd be posting more frequently...Just after that, I got word that I was moving. Oh, and I had to take a work trip to Alaska (shame how it coincided with...
View ArticleTemporary setbacks
Last post I hinted at some news coming in the next week. Well, it came, but it wasn’t what I was hoping for, exactly. Over the summer I organized a panel proposal for the Association for Asian Studies...
View ArticleMoving in a positive direction
Last post was clearly tinged with a bit of disappointment over not getting our panel picked up at AAS. And honestly, much of the disappointment was because I was looking forward to not only presenting,...
View ArticleBook reviews and conference papers
Sorry for the recent rash of navel-gazing the last few posts. There's certainly some anxiety present as I come to the last year of my time in the Army, and look to lay the groundwork for what comes...
View ArticleAAS/SEC Schedule out
The schedule for the Association of Asian Studies--Southeastern Conference is out here. The conference will be at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Jan 15-17. My panel is here:1/5....
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Empathizing with the Enemy
As I've said here before, my primary research interest lies in the decision making of daimyo and other samurai leaders during the 16th century, and what inputs/philosophies shaped those decisions. So...
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AAS-SEC and New Project
(Note: I STARTED writing this post in January, right after the AAS-SEC Conference. I then left for a month in Japan and...well, got busy. So if some of the text sounds like I'm writing about things in...
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A kid in a candy store...
Not a long post today, as too much to do in a short amount of time, but I just had to share--I'm at the Harvard-Yenching Library, and I feel like a kid in a candy store!!! So much to read and copy and...
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No, I haven't forgotten...
First of all, greetings to all of my new guests. Somehow I got linked from the amusing website "Badass of the Week" and their article on Kôsa Kennyô. All of a sudden my traffic feed seemed to...
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Giving Up the Myths, Part I
Something came up on the way to Tanegashima.Today I will start reviewing a book on Japan's use of firearms. However, it won't be Lidin's book on the introduction of guns by Europeans in 1543. I will...
View ArticleGiving Up the Myths, Part II
Moving into the actual book, we continue our look at Noel Perrin's "Giving up the Gun". My first impressions are here. For the background, etc., read that first and then return here.So, to review what...
View ArticleConferencing Time!
Hello everyone--it's been a pretty busy few weeks at work, and I'm now at Day 1 of the Society for Military History conference. Preparing two papers for that (a paper for the Chinese Military History...
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