You can register for my event at the SFPL next Saturday on Eventbrite! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...

Sorry, yet another typo: *with a new introduction* NOT a new translation! Very useful intro as we think about gender, sexuality, and transness in times before the present.

Also known as Torikaebaya monogatari とりかへばや物語. Please forgive my messiness with the kana above in failing to use 歴史的仮名遣.

Torikaebaya Monogatari | Stanford University Press Torikaebaya monogatari is a twelfth-century Japanese tale like no other. As suggested by its title, which literally translates to "if only I could exchange them" (torikaebaya) "story" (monogatari), it...

Does everyone know that the Rosette Willig translation of The Changelings (Torikaebaya とりかえばや) was reissued with a new translation by my pal Gus Heldt? www.sup.org/books/asian-...
Great work to read if you are interested in queer and trans studies and/or premodern Japanese literature and culture.

Grateful to Japan Foundation Toronto for enabling this stop in Vancouver during the launch of Kanako Nishi's Sakura, translated by Allison Markin Powell.

Sakura Nishi Kanako A Novel Translated by Allison Markin Powell Text over drawing by Nishi of two hands petting a happy shiba inu with its tongue out

Looking forward to being in conversation with Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell on the translation of Sakura. Join us next Friday thanks to the UBC Asian Library!
asian.library.ubc.ca/sakura/
www.harpercollins.ca/978006338994...
More from Markin Powell on translating: lithub.com/when-persist...

got a ride home from a rehearsal yesterday by a German friend who is a new citizen and can vote in the municipal election for the first time. was trying to explain to her Vancouver party politics and it already sounds insane when you only explain the ones that have had councilors in the past decade🥺

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

This discount code should get you 30% off the Meditation Sickness volume AAS2026 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/medita...

New Book Announcement: “Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China” by Andrew Schonebaum @uwapress.uw.edu asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Update: 18 months since @ubcmedicine.bsky.social SPPH let me go for speaking out about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Faculty Asscoiation grievance filed 14 mon. ago. Process is painfully slow & no arbitration has been scheduled. As I've said before: I will not sign an NDA as a condition of settlement.

#histbookchat #sinology New book from Hilde de Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social - out in UK on 12thJuly 2026

Have feedback on Vancouver's parks? Vancouver Residents (18+): Take this 10-minute survey to help improve your parks! We're a group of UBC students conducting a class project for our Geography methods course and are interested in studying how people value, access, and use parks in Vancouver post-pandemic.

Hey #Vancouver folks: you should take this survey on Vancouver's parks! ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

UBC Public Talk: Prof. Sadiah Qureshi - An Empire of Unnatural Extinction

Seminar will explore the origins of the modern notion of extinction and what it means to discuss extinction as a political choice with significance for all life on earth.

edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event...

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.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

🧵1/x Lots of blunt and contradictory conclusions by (de)generative AI on extent of #DEI in #AsianStudies projects that had received funding from #NEH

History and Medicine - Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure - McMaster University This role is designed for an exceptional scholar whose work bridges humanities-based historical inquiry and contemporary infectious diseases scholarship, with particular emphasis on the history of pla...

Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!

History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University

Apply by March 31st

niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...

#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 • Celeste Trianon Numerous anti-trans bills, such as healthcare bans, were filed in Canada over fall 2025, and this trend is poised to intensify during 2026.

March 2026 Canadian Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map

(TL;DR: Québec 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! 😍🖊️ 楽しみにしています。

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! 💻🗾 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. ✌️ 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.

“The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi To start: a confession. Academics often speak of imposter syndrome—the sense that we lack real expertise on the topics about which are talking or writing. Although it’s largely a psychological illu…

Today in ARB: @irapley.bsky.social reviews “The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits @uchicagopress.bsky.social & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi (JPIC) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ryukyu-i...

When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act This article develops the concept of ‘AI resignation’ to capture how young people encounter AI not only as a helpful or flawed tool, but as an overpowering and seemingly inevitable force that can for...

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 people’s self-efficacy and, as an affective formation, sustains power in digital capitalism.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

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
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Great context from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social.

Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.

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 Canada’s requirement that the students submit biometric data — fingerprints and photographs — to finalize their visa applications.

Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.

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...