Faculty and graduate students from the Michigan State University History Department contributed to the recent MCAA (Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs), held at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame in September. Dr. Ethan Segal spoke as part of a roundtable on the ways that Japanese history is used in contemporary pop culture. Ph.D. candidate Adam Coldren presented research from his forthcoming dissertation in a paper titled “Making Martyrs, Branding Traitors: Using the Dead to Define the Nation in Meiji Japan, 1868–1890.” Graduate student Daniel Feldbaum presented the paper “What’s in a Wave: Maritime Commodities of a Thirteenth-Century Japanese Estate,” and graduate student David Marchionni presented the paper “Dancing against Disease: Queer APIDA/A Nightlife amid the HIV/AIDS Crisis.” The full conference program is available here: https://mcaaconference.nd.edu/assets/583398/2024_mcaa_program_web.pdf