Experience #AAS2026 in only 2 minutes! Many thanks to the videographers at Threshold Studios for capturing all these wonderful conference moments.
AAS Executive Director Hilary Finchum-Sung thanks all the people and organizations who helped make #AAS2026 in Vancouver a success! We had a wonderful conference in a beautiful location and couldn't have done it without our extended community.
I have three weeks worth of links for you as I finally catch up following #AAS2026 earlier in March. Plus, my Saturday watching the PWHL completely take over Little Caesars Arena in Detroit—the city is so ready to get its own women's hockey team.
Check out this University of Hawaiʻi News feature on Professor Emerita Barbara Watson Andaya, joint recipient with Benedict Kerkvliet of the AAS 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award at #AAS2026!
#AAS2026 Annual Conference photos are now available! Many thanks to Threshold Studios for capturing the memories of our time in Vancouver 😊
https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCPb6H
Two moments from #AAS2026 in Vancouver
From the panel on “Mobility in Taiwan Literature and Film” — bringing together IJTS board members and authors — to a warm IJTS-sponsored social hosted by Pei-yin Lin, it’s been wonderful to connect with Taiwan Studies colleagues and friends across formats.
AAS Quest logo with congratulatory message for Lehyla Heward winning a scavenger hunt at AAS 2026 by earning 1,300 points and winning a free registration and hotel stay for AAS 2027.
Lehyla Heward was a first-time attendee at #AAS2026 and made the most of her experience! She played our AAS Quest scavenger hunt in the Exhibit Hall and came away the grand prize winner, with free registration and hotel at #AAS2027 in Boston. Congratulations, Lehyla!
Group of students and their professor gather for a group photo in a convention center hallway.
Group of 13 attendees posing under a Welcome to AAS2026 banner at a conference entrance.
Simon Fraser University students got a taste of academic life at #AAS2026 thanks to Professor Jeremy Brown, who organized a group outing to the conference. "We had a fantastic conference from start to finish," Professor Brown reports!
Amazing pictures of our beautiful #AAS2026 host venue!
🌍 Deux membres du CIRGoM ont participé à #AAS2026 : @vifdesprit.bsky.social et Narae Lee
🎙️ Présenté sur energy transition and trade policy, à partir du cas de la Corée du Sud et du secteur des semi-conducteurs.
👉 Une contribution aux débats sur commerce, énergie et géopolitique
@esei-ul.bsky.social
A person in a black and pink sweater at a conference booth, holding an open book and smiling at the camera.
A person in a black blazer at a conference booth, reading a book.
A distant shot of the University of British Columbia Press conference booth with conference attendees perusing books.
The UBC Press conference booth with a participant filling out a form.
We had a wonderful time meeting visitors to the Association for Asian Studies conference. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth! #AAS2026
Couldn't make the conference? Take 30% off our Asian Studies titles online using code AAS26 (expires March 29, 2026): www.ubcpress.ca/asian-studies
Selfie showing Chunyan Shu, Iulia Ivana and Susan Huang
Our globetrotting editors @shu-brill.bsky.social and @iuliaivana.bsky.social were just in Vancouver for the @asianstudies.org annual conference, where they celebrated a fantastic win with one of our authors. #AAS2026
Digital screen displaying registration options for the AAS 2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver, March 12-15, with a Godzilla figure in front.
A Godzilla figurine stands in front of a touchscreen displaying a form to enter first and last names with an on-screen keyboard.
Laptop screen displaying a thank you message for attending the 2023 AAS Annual Conference in Vancouver with attendance stats.
Godzilla had a wonderful time at #AAS2026 in Vancouver (and caused very little destruction). If you'd like Godzilla to join you at home, make a donation to the Education About Asia For All fund by March 31 and you'll enter the raffle!
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Just back from #AAS2026 in Vancouver - saw some brilliant research papers, caught up with old friends and met some wonderful people.
We enjoyed seeing everyone at #AAS2026!
You can still enjoy our virtual exhibit and receive a 25% discount on the books listed using the discount code S26AAS, this offer expires 4/15/26.
@asianstudies.org
Promotional graphic for the “Off the Page” podcast Asian Studies Playlist: Authors in Conversation. The design features a blue background with the Off the Page logo (a microphone over an open book) and the text “Asian Studies Playlist: Authors in Conversation” at the top. Centered is a large smartphone displaying a Spotify-style playlist titled “Asian Studies,” showing multiple podcast episodes and runtimes. At the bottom, white text reads: “#ListenUP at cup.columbia.edu.”
#AAS2026 may be over, but you can keep the conversation going. Stay connected with our Off the Page podcast playlist featuring our Asian Studies authors. Insightful, engaging, and waiting for you to #ListenUP. buff.ly/8JPbRPV
Pardon our error, here is the corrected link to 40% off #AAS2026 books!: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
About to board my flight home. #AAS2026 was a lot of fun — there wasn’t time to see all the people and panels I’d been hoping to, but it was great to see old friends and meet others in person for the first time. See you in Boston for #AAS2027, if the 21st Century General Crisis permits.
Bye Vancouver. It’s been a hoot! 🦉 #AAS2026
As evidenced by cats with Big Opinions, safely home from a delightful time at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Totally exhausted but grateful I got to see so many of you in person, some for the first time! Thank you also for divesting me of so much @jppinfo.bsky.social merch for the return trip. 😌
Had a wonderful #AAS2026! Back home now and have decided to kick off a one-person pressure campaign to get AAS to Kansas City at some point in the nearish future.
Orange note with 'Out of Office' clipped on a blurred background, announcing a staff holiday closure on March 16 by the Association for Asian Studies.
Thank you to everyone who attended #AAS2026 in Vancouver. AAS staff is taking a short post-conference break-—we'll be back online tomorrow!
Wrapping up #AAS2026 with terrific art work in the Coast Salish Gallery at Vancouver Convention Centre. Great experience attending for first time and making some connections. Look forward to presenting during my next time at the conference. Thanks to all those who helped organize the event.
A Kwakwaka‘wakw carved transformation mask, shown in dramatic red light with shadows. The mask depicts, abstracted and with bold patterns, a raven with two layers of wings and a fierce humanoid expression.
As you’re leaving #AAS2026 don’t forget to pay homage to this dope transformation mask of the Kwakwaka‘wakw people, featured in the airport by gate 83.
Enjoyed meeting a lot of academics I know from online spaces in real life for the first time at #AAS2026. I was able to catch some very interesting research about translation studies, media studies, popular literature, and gender studies in a Sinophone and Chinese context
An accusatory-looking tortie cat sitting on top of a teal couch with a judging gaze.
An accusatory-looking cream tabby cat with a snaggle fang sitting on a teal carpet with a judging yet inevitably empty gaze, given his lack of brain cells.
“Where have you been, möther?” #AAS2026
Had so much fun at #AAS2026 meeting up with colleagues and friends old and new like @juliacbullock.bsky.social @jameswelker.bsky.social @paularcurtis.bsky.social @stephenchoi.bsky.social and so many others that I forgot to take commemorative photos 🥲
Many thanks to @yilinwriter.bsky.social for taking me on a whirlwind tour of secondhand bookstores post- #AAS2026, including one where I picked up a copy of Lin Tai-yi's translation of 鏡花緣 'Flowers in the Mirror' that apparently used to belong to Tim Brook.