Kelly Chan

Excerpt of a Japanese painting in light colors with a beige background showing a hawk looking to the left. To its left is a sprig of pink flowers, and to its right the truck of a pine tree with pine needles surrounding it.

ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（JPP）は、このたびウェブポータル「江戸絵画の世界」を公開いたしました。本サイトは、ドキュメンタリー映画『江戸アバンギャルド』(Edo Avant Garde)の監督であるリンダ・ホーグランド氏を中心に企画されたもので、世界各地の美術館に所蔵されている、動物や自然を題材とする江戸時代の魅力的な作品200点以上を紹介しています。 edoart.japanpastandpresent.org/jp/

Anti-ICE protest in Northeast LA! Here’s your basic Vietnamese language lesson. Can you figure it out?

An ukiyo-e print depicting an Ainu hut. To the left appears to be several pikes with bear skulls on them. In the foreground are two small Ainu children, and to their right several people gather around a bear cub trapped in a cage.

An ukiyo-e print depicting the inside of an Ainu hut with all the items inside labeled. In the foreground two Ainu appear to be supplicating themselves before three men.

Despite my terrible flight karma I did manage to drop by 神保町 during my brief stopover in Japan this month. I'm planning a new class focused on the "Other" in premodern/early modern Japan (I think!) and managed to pick up these great 1870s Ainu prints to hopefully teach with.

Looking to globalize your approaches to history, gender, & art? 🗾 There are online resources that can help! Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Carrie Cushman & Kelly McCormick: “Behind the Camera: Digital Interventions in the History of Japanese Women Photographers”! 📸 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

supports & resources for anyone impacted by the terrible events at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, please share: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

I have a better solution. Don't vote for these fuckers.

To my Canadian colleagues: you should know that a key component of what the US is doing right now involves purging scientists & research programs for ideological impurity & (illegally) reclaiming their funds.

If you don’t want a repeat of what happened down south here in Canada, PP is not your guy

Danielle Smith insists Trump helping Poilievre not foreign interference once we become 51st state EDMONTON - Following a Breitbart podcast interview where Danielle Smith recalled requesting the Trump administration pause tariffs in order to help Pierre Poilievre's campaign, the Alberta Premier ins...

Danielle Smith insists Trump helping Poilievre not foreign interference once we become 51st state

Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

Just when you think she can’t sink any lower, Danielle Smith goes again on far-right American radio, this time to push the US to interfere in our election because Poilievre would be “very much in sync” with Trump.

Conservatives: in it for a win, but not in it for Canada.

Let’s make sure they lose.

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.

Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

I don’t understand how anyone could think Rustad is a moderating influence. Just to add to the list: Rustad himself is a climate change denialist, and he supported another BCC candidate in an effort to overturn the election results. Not to mention people like Brent Chapman are still in that party.

I have this book on my to read list! Looking forward to reading it. I’ve read Yellowface and it’s one of my favourite books. The narrator is SO insufferable, and the book addresses important issues relating to racism, cultural appropriation, and plagiarism.

📢 Scholars and all who believe Indigenous Studies programs are needed, please consider signing. York University has suspended admissions to their Indigenous Studies program.

I used to have the Chrome extension “Make Donald Drumpf again,” and I think that was taken down as welll…

Israel says it is stopping the entry of all aid and supplies into the Gaza Strip The prime minister's office did not elaborate on the decision but warned of “additional consequences” if Hamas does not accept what Israel says is a U.S. proposal for an extension of the ceasefire.

Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza

Residential School Denialism Is on the Rise. What to Know | The Tyee And how to confront it. Because without the truth, there can be no reconciliation.

I've given a number of interviews re: Dallas Brodie's residential school denialism that I'll share when they appear, but this is how she and other denialists are pouncing on errors and twisting truth to protect the colonial status quo, by @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023...

The "peace candidate" Trump wants to force 2 million Palestinians from their homes, give another $1 billion in weapons to Netanyahu, and enact a "plan" to turn the decimated Gaza strip into a billionaires' Riviera.

If this is his "peace" policy, I'd hate to see his war policy.

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Just picked up a copy of Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffe! Looking forward to reading it. 📚

Attacks on higher ed are also attacks on the economy. Pass it on.

THE SYMPATHIZER ends the year with a bang. Hoa Xuande won Breakthrough Actor in a TV series from the Asian American Awards a couple of weeks ago. Check out some of the alternative posters featuring Hoa that A24 and @sebsmakesart came up with for the show.

Image shows a poster for the symposium "Japanese Cinema: What Is It?", to be held online on January 13 from 10 am to 5 pm.

Come check out this online symposium on Japanese cinema! I'll be giving one of two keynotes and look forward to a group of really fascinating papers. Contact Motonori Sato at motsato@keio.jp for a Zoom link.

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As someone who is from Alberta (where it gets as cold as -30 C), this is how I feel about people in Vancouver. 🤣🤣

An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...