March 13 AAS/AATJ session on Joshua Mostow

[Laffin, Christina]

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are delighted to invite you to join a session on the occasion of Joshua Mostow’s upcoming retirement, hosted by the Bungo Special Interest Group at AAS. Please come take part if you are in Vancouver for AATJ/AAS—we are looking forward to enabling many to offer brief comments.  

 

Christina

Christina Laffin クリスティーナ・ラフィン (she, her, hers)
Associate Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Asian Studies
The University of British Columbia | xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Traditional, Ancestral, Unceded Territory

 

 

Critical Crossings: Gendered Readings across Textual and Visual Media

Bungo Special Interest Group

Friday, March 13, 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm

Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

 

The Bungo Special Interest Group will meet during AATJ and AAS to celebrate Joshua S. Mostow’s monumental contributions to Japan Studies spanning over close to four decades. His wide-ranging expertise in Japanese poetry, women’s writing, gendered representations, translation, textual reception, and visual culture has established him as a leading scholar of Japan. Mostow’s work seamlessly bridges what are often considered distinct fields—art history and literature, premodern and modern, as well as diverse methodological approaches—transforming our understanding of Japan’s past and present, and proving the scholarly potential of boundary crossing. The presenters will highlight aspects of Mostow’s work that have served as a catalyst for further scholarship. We welcome all to join us in offering reflections on Mostow's impactful career.

 

Anne Commons, Associate Professor, University of Alberta

Torquil Duthie, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Kurtis Hanlon, Assistant Professor, Palacký University

Asato Ikeda, Associate Professor, Fordham University

Gergana Ivanova, Associate Professor, Meiji Gakuin University

Christina Laffin, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia