Program Start Date: Nov 5 2026
Location: Online program
How have U.S. immigration and citizenship policies shaped who is considered American and who is treated as a threat? In this two-part virtual workshop series with the East Asia Resource Center and Densho, K-12 educators are invited to examine Japanese American incarceration within a longer history of immigration restriction, racial exclusion, citizenship, and detention in
Program Start Date: Nov 10 2026
Location: Online program
This program is now full and registration has closed. In this seminar, we will read selected short stories to introduce five modern Chinese women writers: Xiao Hong, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Fan Yusu, and Yu Xiuhua. Class meetings will include a lecture component that situates the text in modern Chinese cultural history as well
Program Start Date: Nov 11 2026
Location: Online program
China’s influence on the global south is one of the most important issues of our time. Made in Ethiopia offers a rare opportunity to follow three women, a Chinese factory director, a local factory worker, and a nearby farmer, as a massive Chinese industrial park transforms rural Ethiopia. Together, we will consider what “progress” and
Program Start Date: Nov 14 2026
Location: Seattle, WA
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 month.
Program Start Date: Jan 26 2027
Location: Online program
This program is now full and registration has closed. The seeds of Japan’s emergence to global prominence were planted during the Edo period, which spanned from 1600 to 1868. This seminar traces Japan’s transformation during this remarkable rule of the Tokugawa shoguns, also known as the Edo period. Our course will explore the numerous aspects
Program Start Date: Feb 16 2027
Location: Online program
Join us for a discussion of The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by Michiko Aoyama, sharing our reactions to this warm and uplifting novel while exploring the broader phenomenon of “healing fiction” from Japan, a genre that has recently taken off with readers in the US and UK. We’ll consider what defines healing fiction, why
Program Start Date: Apr 27 2027
Location: Online program
Participants will try their hand at translating a poem into English. No knowledge of another language required! We will learn by doing: explore how translation can strengthen close reading skills, deepen understanding of how language works, foster cross-cultural communication, build confidence in cultural and linguistic knowledge. We’ll also discuss practical ways to incorporate poetry translation
