Program Start Date: Dec 14 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: Jan 14 2025
This program is now full and registration has closed. Author/artist Teresa Wong pursues an emotional connection with her parents by researching and documenting their (extra)ordinary stories of escape from China during the Cultural Revolution in the graphic novel All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey. Although deeply personal, Wong’s book covers lessons in
Program Start Date: Jan 21 2025
Join Tese Wintz Neighbor, an experienced NCTA seminar leader with a deep connection to China, as she leads her final seminar session. Tese’s journey with China began in 1976 when she was captivated by a professor’s lecture on “Red China” at Indiana University. Since then, she has never looked back. Among the first Americans
Program Start Date: Jan 27 2025
This program is now full and application has closed. 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 begins
Program Start Date: Feb 6 2025
Update: this program is now full. Join historian Tracy Lai and art historian Melanie King for an exploration of Japanese American Incarceration through an examination of first person accounts, visual culture, and literary expressions. Taking place over three sessions, this program will center around Traci Chee’s We Are Not Free and will include the work of other Japanese American
Program Start Date: Jun 2 2025
When: June 2 to June 6, 2025 Where: University of Alaska Anchorage (Anchorage, AK) Join us for a week-long exploration of the origins of East Asian Civilization with Paul Dunscomb, Professor of East Asian history and Melanie King, Art historian. In this seminar we will trace the deep and far reaching influence of Chinese culture
Program Start Date: Jul 14 2025
When: July 14 to July 17, 2025 Where: Seattle Art Museum and University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Join the East Asia Resource Center and the Seattle Art Museum for a unique opportunity to partake in a close study of Ai Weiwei’s work from the 1980s to the present in his largest-ever US-based exhibition, Ai, Rebel: