Program Start Date: Aug 6 2024
Location: Online program
Write About Asia: 2023 Freeman Award Winners The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE) at Columbia University sponsor the annual Freeman Book Awards for new young adult and children’s literature. The awards recognize quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an
Program Start Date: Jun 4 2024
Location: Online program
In this program, we explored the 1930s and 1950s Taiwan through the eyes of Tsai Kun-lin, a boy who was born in Qingshui. This true story begins with Tsai growing up in Japanese occupied Taiwan. Through Tsai’s eyes and the graphic artist’s pen, the reader comes face to face with a changing Taiwan: from an
Program Start Date: May 15 2024
Location: Online program
Director Hamaguchi Ryūsuke burst into the cinematic mainstream with his Best International Feature Film Oscar win for Drive My Car in 2022, but few are aware of his already prodigious filmography. Coming from a theatrical background and with a penchant for working with amateur actors, many of Hamaguchi’s films focus on the impact of the 3/11 Triple
Program Start Date: Aug 3 2024
Location: Seattle, WA
Educators spent three days exploring works of Asian art on display at the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum. Utilizing the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, we considered the original context within which objects were created and followed them along their paths of trade, transformation, and influence. This study included close consideration
Program Start Date: May 23 2024
Location: Online program
What does it mean to be a family—or for that matter, a man or woman—in a rapidly changing society where traditional structures of meaning find themselves under siege? As the final installment of Ang Lee’s (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain; Hulk) “Father Knows Best” trilogy and his only film shot entirely in Taiwan, Eat
Program Start Date: May 21 2024
Location: Online program
Teachers joined art historian Melanie King for a continuation of the introductory to East Asian visual culture workshops. These 90-minute, stand-alone sessions each had a unique focus and are intended for people new to East Asian art history or people looking for a refresher course. During each session we spent time exploring artistic, historical,
Program Start Date: Apr 3 2024
Location: Online Program
Many know Ai Weiwei as China’s most controversial and perhaps most dangerous artist. Perhaps you have walked around or under or on one of his installations. Or maybe you have watched one or more of his documentaries. Perhaps you joined us two years ago when we gathered to discuss his first memoir, 1000 Years of
Program Start Date: Jun 26 2024
Location: Seattle, WA
Course Description When Edo (present day Tokyo) became the military capital of Japan in 1604, it was a minor and remote fishing village. Yet by the mid-1700s the city had become the largest city in Japan and rivaled the older cultural hubs of Osaka and Kyoto, surpassing Paris and London in size. Material culture produced
Program Start Date: Apr 25 2024
Location: Online Program
Are you intrigued by the evolving public and private dimensions of outer space policy? Did you follow the Odysseus Moon lander, the first privately build spacecraft and first U.S. one to land on the moon in 50 years? Do you think about the potential for both cooperation and conflict among nations in outer space,
Program Start Date: Jun 3 2024
Location: Online Program
Participants explored “Asia” in its many manifestations through the lens of Global Asias (the notion of studying Asia transnationally and transculturally through the movement of people, ideas, and culture across place and time). Through a curated series of online book groups designed for high school teachers, this course focused on stories that center the human experience
