Coming to Vancouver for #AAS2026? If travelling light, I highly recommend taking the Skytrain directly from YVR airport to conference site (and nearby hotels). Only $10 CAD, clean, comfortable. Takes only 30 mins and way cheaper than taxi or Uber. 2 zone fare, get off at last stop, 5 min walk.
๐งต1/x Lots of blunt and contradictory conclusions by (de)generative AI on extent of #DEI in #AsianStudies projects that had received funding from #NEH
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine โ Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure โ McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Attending #AASVancouver? Be sure to check out the Entangled Territories exhibition and special events at @moaubc.bsky.social
#himalaya #tibet #anthropology #AAS2026
I rarely attend academic conferences these days but since I'm based in Vancouver I'll be around lurking at the #AAS2026 next week, for any academic folks i know passing through who might want to meet up
March 2026 Canadian Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map
(TL;DR: Quรฉbec gets risk level bumped up; B.C. sees the country's worst bills; and Alberta's UCP is going to continue being the UCP.)
celeste.lgbt/en/2026/03/m...
A closeup of Japan Past & Present merchandise sitting in an open window. On the right is a closeup of a black textured notebook with the white "Japan Past & Present" logo, next to which is a white chip clip with the logo in black and a white pen with the logo in black. On the left is a vertical banner that says "We're Exhibiting AAS 2026 Vancouver." Below that is the Yanai Initiative logo, which has a red rectangle with the name underneath in black.
We're exhibiting at #AAS2026! Come see us at the Exhibition Hall this week to learn more about recent projects and programs from JPP and the @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social. Plus, get that sweet new swag! ๐๐๏ธ ๆฅฝใใฟใซใใฆใใพใใ
An advertisement split into teal and white backgrounds with an outline of Japan made up of pixel squares (the logo for Digital Humanities Japan). It says "Association for Asian Studies 2026 Meeting-in-Conjunction. Join us to catch up on the latest in digital Japan Studies! Interested in having a few minutes to introduce a new project or idea? Email Paula R. Curtis (prcurtis@g.ucla.edu) before the conference! Since this is the lunch hour, come early and we'll end within an hour. saturday March 14, 12:15pm to 1:15 pm VCC Room 119.
Reminder! If you're going to be at #AAS2026 this week, we'll be holding the Digital Humanities Japan meeting on Saturday! ๐ป๐พ Since this is the lunch hour we will begin at 12:15 and finish within an hour so folks can grab a bite to eat. โ๏ธ cdmcd.co/qdwrXZ
I'll be in Vancouver for AAS next week. Join us on Friday the 13th for our panel on Japanese Occupation at 9am! #AAS2026
Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. and Beyond) - Sponsored by AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Sat, March 14, 2026 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Location: VCC, Room 212 Over the last decade, higher education has experienced a disconcerting variety of threats which have taken a variety of forms at institutions globally, include but are not limited to restrictions on academic freedom, budget cuts and the adjunctification of instruction, the elimination of entire departments, surveillance, and much more. In recent years, the United States in particular has been a site of further and accelerated existential attacks on the infrastructure of the humanities, area studies, higher education as a whole, and students whose identities or activism make them vulnerable, destabilizing the foundations of critical pedagogy and rejecting the necessity of diversity, equity, and justice for educators and students alike. The reckless and often extractive push towards new and little-understood technologies like generative AI without consideration of their influence on teaching, research, or student development further hinders instructors of every discipline and background. Finally, the militarization of campus security, including intensive surveillance technology, has restricted free speech. With repercussions far beyond North American academic circles, these trends both echo and resonate with the experiences of colleagues and institutions around the world. These targeted forms of disempowerment have effects well beyond US borders, necessitating that we both raise awareness of these issues and collaborate on strategic paths forward.
As we get closer to #AAS2026, a number of scholars on the Diversity and Equity Committee panel "Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. & Beyond)" have found that they cannot attend the conference due to visa issues. We are therefore encouraging scholars to stop by and share in this important discussion.
Today in ARB: @irapley.bsky.social reviews โThe Ryukyu islandsโ by Gregory Smits @uchicagopress.bsky.social & โThe Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdomโ by Takara Kurayoshi (JPIC) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ryukyu-i...
Happy to share a new paper with @awitschas.bsky.social & @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social.
We introduce AI resignation as a form of subjectivity that hollows out young peopleโs self-efficacy and, as an affective formation, sustains power in digital capitalism.
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Mayor Ken Sim has said he was shown a photo that led to him making a false accusation against Coun. Sean Orr.
There IS a fake AI image that came out around Christmas that sort of matches the allegations. @kehyslop.bsky.social asked Sim about this yesterday. #vanpoli
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Great context from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social.
Khaled and Raneen have both have been accepted into a Canadian university to continue their studies in medicine, but a major stumbling block has been Canadaโs requirement that the students submit biometric data โ fingerprints and photographs โ to finalize their visa applications.
It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.
Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.
truthout.org/articles/can...
The girlsโ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
The 19th annual Coastal Dance Festival, honouring Indigenous stories, song, and dance from across Canada and around the world, is on now at @moaubc.bsky.social
At B.C.โs universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.
A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canadaโs go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
AAS Member Spotlight: Vincent Chan
Vincent Chan has been an AAS Member since May 2025 and works as a secondary school educator at Burnaby School District in British Columbia, Canada. He currently teaches courses...
Profile of Vincent Chan, a secondary school educator in Burnaby School District, featured in the Association for Asian Studies Member Spotlight.
Ahead of #AAS2026, we have a Vancouver local in the AAS Member Spotlight! Vincent Chan teaches secondary school in British Columbia and looks forward to meeting other members at the Annual Conference next week.
https://bit.ly/AAS-Chan
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โThis is a photo of Ghandi Hospital in Tehran, Iran after being damaged by nearby airstrikes on March 1, 2026. Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA.โ
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What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girlsโ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
What is inspiring is how various members of that same linguistic group (Chinese in this case) + the larger community would find this tactic & behavior from an elected council member unacceptable in a multicultural democracy, call it out, & seek accountability 2/3
Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!
