Program Start Date: Feb 24 2026
Join us for a discussion of the narratives contained within and beyond a painting, sculpture, or larger artistic program. In this series we will explore artistic objects and religious sites by considering the iconographic details, historical context, and larger story told when we examine the function and purpose of each object. These sessions are
Program Start Date: Aug 3 2026
Program Details Join the East Asia Resource Center and the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Conservation Center for an up-close and in-depth exploration of East Asian paintings. Over the course of this five-day institute we will study East Asian painting formats, functions, and the ways in which materials, styles, and conservation impact
Program Start Date: Feb 10 2026
Staying informed about global events, especially in East Asia, can be overwhelming with the constant flood of news. That’s why we offer Behind the Headlines, an online series designed specifically for teachers. This series provides a clear and insightful overview of recent developments in Japan, China, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong.
Program Start Date: Dec 4 2025
Photograph: Getty Images via The Economist. While much of today’s news emphasizes growing U.S.-China tensions, Dan Wang’s Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future offers a fresh perspective on China and sheds light on the United States in the 21st century. Combining sharp analysis with engaging storytelling, Wang presents a vivid portrait of a
Program Start Date: Feb 14 2026
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.
Program Start Date: Feb 9 2026
This program is currently full and application has closed. This seminar explores Japan and China during World War II, with presentations covering topics such as military victories and defeats, the first six months of 1942, Japan’s six aircraft carriers that reshaped global history, and the diplomatic, economic, and domestic crises of the 1930s that led
Program Start Date: Oct 13 2025
Most standard curricula related to Chinese socialist culture in the United States relied on popular memoirs and films that reflected upon the horrors of the Chinese socialist period in retrospect. Many of these materials were written originally in English, primarily targeted a Western audience, and tended to affirm a lingering Cold War paradigm that regarded
Program Start Date: Dec 15 2025
In this online seminar, we explored literary texts from the Chinese reform era and new millennium as a lens for examining the consequences of China’s rapid modernization. Each week focused on a different contemporary crisis and include a secondary reading related to that topic. Our anchoring novel for the seminar was Yan Lianke’s Dream of
Program Start Date: Nov 19 2025
In this one-day program, we examined Japan’s declining birth rates through the lens of “care” (kea, ケア) and the evolving discourse of “who cares” that gained renewed attention in the aftermath of the 3.11 disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic. With guidance from Professor Andrea Gevurtz Arai, we explored how these conversations have centered on reproductive
Program Start Date: Nov 5 2025
Educators joined Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Professor of Japan and East Asia Studies and Cultural Anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies, for an online program exploring the newly published volume Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia, which she curated and edited. This collection brings together a cross-national, interdisciplinary group