Program Start Date: Mar 16 2022
Location: Online program
Participants were expected to watch designated films on their own and then attend four mandatory Zoom sessions (2 hours each) to discuss the film/corresponding resources and share teaching ideas. Participants received an online resource packet that included an annotated list of documentaries and films for classroom use with guiding questions and lesson plans, free copies
Program Start Date: Nov 9 2021
Location: Online program
About the “Where We Are At” Series With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on East Asia and to grasp the relevance of the news we see. This online program series helps teachers with a recap of how China, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan stand on the domestic
Program Start Date: Dec 7 2021
Location: Online program
Teachers joined as we explored Amy Stanley’s Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and shortlisted for the Baillie-Gifford prize. Participants followed the extraordinary life of Tsuneno as
Program Start Date: Nov 2 2021
Location: Online program
About the “Where We Are At” Series With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on East Asia and to grasp the relevance of the news we see. This online program series helps teachers with a recap of how China, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan stand on the domestic
Program Start Date: Nov 16 2021
Location: Online program
About the “Where We Are At” Series With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on East Asia and to grasp the relevance of the news we see. This online program series helps teachers with a recap of how China, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan stand on the domestic
Program Start Date: Oct 26 2021
Location: Online program
About the “Where We Are At” Series With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on East Asia and to grasp the relevance of the news we see. This online program series helps teachers with a recap of how China, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan stand on the domestic
Program Start Date: Oct 19 2021
Location: Online program
About the “Where We Are At” Series With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on East Asia and to grasp the relevance of the news we see. This online program series helps teachers with a recap of how China, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan stand on the
Program Start Date: Oct 5 2021
Location: Online program
This workshop examined the Korean minority in Japan (commonly known as Zainichi) through a close reading and discussion of the revelatory documentary film Our School (Uri hakkyo) from 2007. The film follows the lives of students and teachers at one of the North Korean affiliated “ethnic schools” (minzoku gakko) established in Japan for the Zainichi
Program Start Date: Aug 12 2021
Location: Online program
Educators joined us for this series of standalone two-hour workshops focusing on artistic expressions of East Asia. The first session, East Asian Art History: Form, Content, and Connections on Monday, August 9, was an introductory overview of art historical concepts and forms for people who were new to East Asian art and art history
Program Start Date: Jul 1 2021
Location: Online program
Participants joined us as Professor David Bachman examined the last 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and looked ahead to what we might expect for the future of the CCP and China as a whole. The first hour of this online program consisted of a presentation by Professor Bachman, and the second hour was
