Write About Asia is a recurring, annual writing workshop offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series, during which participants delve into new themes with a different speaker each week. Challenging, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising, this long-running and always popular lecture series incorporates audience discussion as experts from around the world join us to share their insights on Asia throughout time.
Write About Asia is offered following each SAAM public lecture from Fall 2025 to Spring 2026. During the workshop, time will be given to solitary writing in response to the morning lecture. The workshop nurtures educators as writers through self-reflection and group discussion, and took place after each lecture.
University Lecture titles
Lectures take place in the Seattle Asian Art Museum Stimson Auditorium. Please note, the September lecture will take place downtown at the Seattle Art Museum.
Tickets include gallery access.
Lecture: Museums, Collections and Social Repair
Sat, Sep 13, 2025 – 10:00–11:30 am (please note, this lecture will take place downtown at Seattle Art Museum)
Lecture: Spaces of Creative Resistance
Sat, Oct 11, 2025 – 10:00–11:30 am
Lecture: Sherman E. Lee’s Collecting and Exhibitions of Chinese Art
Sat, Nov 8, 2025 – 10:00–11:30 am
Lecture: The Temple Room and Beyond
Sat, Dec 13, 2025 – 10:00–11:30 am
Lecture: Representations of Transnational Adoptees in Contemporary Korean Dramas
Sat, Feb 14, 2026 – 2:00–3:30 pm
Lecture: Photography and the Afterlife of the War in Vietnam
Sat, Mar 14, 2026 – 2:00–3:30 pm
Lecture: Blue and Black Panthers
Sat, Apr 11, 2026 – 2:00–3:30 pm
Lecture: Why Get a Japanese Dragon Tattoo?
Sat, May 9, 2026 – 2:00–3:30 pm
Schedule for each Saturday University Lecture + Write About Asia:
- 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (beginning in February: from 2:00 to 3:30 pm): Saturday University public lecture.
- 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (beginning in February: from 3:30 to 4:30 pm): Solitary writing in response to the lecture and to a prompt provided by the program leader.
- 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (beginning in February: from 4:30 to 6:30 pm): Writing workshop with the Write About Asia group, during with educators shared their writing with each other.
Location
The University Lecture and the following Write About Asia Workshop takes place at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, unless stated otherwise.
Important: Participation to the public lecture is mandatory and free for Write About Asia participants.
Benefits
Free admission to the lecture and four free WA OSPI clock hours are available for attending each workshop and fulfilling online discussion requirements.
Registration
This program is free and open to in-service, current teachers of all grades and subjects. To register, please follow this link.
Write About Asia is offered at no cost to current, in-service teachers, and is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center (EARC) in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, with funding from a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).