Leo Chu
@Leo_CL_Chu
Postdoc at UNSW. Studying agricultural development in Taiwan & the Green Revolution. Loads of side projects (mostly about anime).
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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS! 2026-28 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies Application Deadline: January 15, 2026 Read the full call here: societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/mellon-postdoc… 📷: Ryan Young
Exciting PhD opportunity at Basel and Birmingham looking into history of synthetic fertilizers in Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa! @Europainstitut data.snf.ch/grants/grant/1…
Call for Proposals: University of Pittsburgh conference on "The Future(s) of International and Area Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, Goals," May 8-10, 2026. Submit proposals by December 4; hybrid participation possible. global.pitt.edu/future-interna…
Please join us with @jamestwotree on Friday, November 28, 2025 for a public lecture, “In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan.” 3–5 PM (PST), Liu Institute for Global Issues, xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees) RSVP: sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/g…
This @AAPNewswire article features our new report ‘Australian public and institutional responses to Taiwan Strait crises’, warning 🇦🇺 is not “equipped to provide an effective response should tensions escalate in the region.” 📚👉 bit.ly/43BHggS canberratimes.com.au/story/9101425/…
"...rather than having to know that the injury is here and there and there and there and everywhere he can turn his eyes, that all the shelves and all the rooms and all the streets up and down the city are covered with blood, slaughter, battle, and war"
Glad to publish in @AmbixtheJournal on the Chinese American Chemical Society and science diplomacy in the 1970s-80s! Very grateful for the generous financial & research support of @SciHistoryOrg tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
New article in @socialhistsoc on how government tried to reduce "wasteful behavior" in folk religious practices in postwar Taiwan. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Job! Thanks to a generous donation from anonymous donors and matching funding from UNSW, we are advertising for 2 x two-year postdocs in History. Any region. Any period. Any method. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5355… Connection to Australia or NZ, via residency or education is required.
The ebook is just out! Can't wait to read the rest of the volume🦸🏽♂️🦸🏾♀️
As a former shop floor worker of the Burton @Waterstones, who spent years looking at their shelves, this one is just lovely to see. 😊 The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Carl Wilson | Waterstones waterstones.com/book/the-routl…
Another fun side project I wrote at the end of my PhD, just published by Science Fiction Studies 📖 🤖 online.ucpress.edu/sfs/article-ab…
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Prosthetic KokoroTechnics and Affects in Japan’s Robot and Idol Anime
This paper examines the Japanese television series Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007) by reading its creative mix of robot and idol anime genres alongside Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of technology....
Wrote a review for the excellent "Modern Chinese Foodways" edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A. Klein @mitpress muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
The Weatherhead Scholars Program invites applications for the Sang Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellowship from early-career scholars whose research focuses on East Asia and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China). Application Deadline: October 15 tinyurl.com/2emzpr5y
My short essay on @somatosphere: This analysis expands biopolitical frameworks by incorporating a question of affect and temporality while also rethinking queer futurity by interrogating the relationship between queerness, biopolitics, and right to life. somatosphere.net/queer-ties-wei…
The final article from our special section of @WomensHistNet is out! Important work from @catherinekevin5 'Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Call for Papers: "Traversing Trans-Asian Imaginaries: Anime, Manga, and Media Cultures," Mechademia 2026 Conference - to be held at National University of Singapore, May 29-30. Submit paper and panel proposals by October 15. mechademia.net/conferences/as…
So excited to share my new article in Past & Present: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" academic.oup.com/past/advance-a… (Open Access)
About 14 million people are displaced; at least 150,000 people have died in Sudan's civil war. "But no statistics can express the sense of pointlessness, of meaninglessness, that the war has left behind alongside the physical destruction." From my new Atlantic cover story
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