Program Start Date: Mar 12 2024
Educators joined Paul Dunscomb, Professor of East Asian history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, for an online program about the fascinating history and impact of baseball in Heisei Japan. Participants received a free copy of Professor Dunscomb’s book on the subject after the program. The crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004 tells us much
Program Start Date: Jun 8 2024
Write about Asia is a 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,
Program Start Date: Jun 13 2024
Course Description Remember when Japan was poised to rule the world at the end of the 1980s (probably not)? Since 1989 the dominant narrative of Japan has been one of decline and increasing irrelevance. There are elements of truth in this story. Japan is a much different place today than it was thirty-five years ago.
Program Start Date: Mar 14 2024
Teachers joined the Committee for Teaching About Asia (CTA) for CTA Day 2024 – Stories of Asian Art: In Consideration of a Decolonial Narrative. This year, we headed to the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) to hear the stories of the SAAM collection and the curatorial decisions behind the make-up of the collection through a
Program Start Date: Mar 7 2024
Understanding China in the headlines. Exploring China outside the headlines. Investigating China between the lines. This four-part NCTA seminar explored contemporary topics in detail: Xi Jinping as the President of Everything? China as a Model and Inspiration? How Do We Bridge the US-China Divide? How Do We Wade Through the Media to Teach China
Program Start Date: Jan 16 2024
A grandmother teaches her grandchild how to create rice cakes filled with sweetened red beans, a young girl and her cousins watching YouTube videos together as they gather with their family for their yearly New Year’s feast, a mochi-making tradition is shared on Instagram to online followers–these time-honored rituals of celebrating the New Year have
Program Start Date: Feb 26 2024
Compared with ancient Asian states like China and Japan, the United States was the new kid on the block. But as soon as the U.S. came into existence, its officials and entrepreneurs set their sights on engaging with East Asian civilizations. This online 5-week seminar began with America’s first interactions with China and Japan, and
Program Start Date: Nov 28 2023
Teachers joined Tese Wintz Neighbor – and the “voices” of 22 Tibetan writers – and explored their shared sense of loss and shared search for home. In the book The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie gives us a powerful, intimate, and engaging portrait of modern Tibetan life –
Program Start Date: Nov 9 2023
Participants joined art historian Melanie King for a series of introductory workshops to East Asian visual culture. Each one-hour online session focused on a different aspect of art history and is intended for educators new to East Asian culture and art history and people looking for a refresher course. Participants chose to attend one or
Program Start Date: Nov 16 2023
In 2020, the American Public Health Association declared racism a public health crisis. We have experienced the twin crises of COVID-19 and Racism and while COVID is no longer a public health emergency, the effects of anti-Asian hate persist. In this session we examined the longer history of anti-Asian racism in the United States and