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 was offered following each SAAM public lecture from Fall 2025 to Spring 2026. During the workshop, time was given to solitary writing in response to the morning lecture. The workshop nurtured educators as writers through self-reflection and group discussion, and took place after each lecture.
University Lecture titles
Lectures took place in the Seattle Asian Art and at the Seattle Art Museum.
Tickets included 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 5:30 pm): Writing workshop with the Write About Asia group, during with educators shared their writing with each other.
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 were available for attending each workshop and fulfilling online discussion requirements.
Write About Asia was 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).