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, and sometimes surprising, this long-running and always popular lecture series incorporates audience discussion as experts from around the world join us to share their insights on Asia throughout time. This series drew inspiration from Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, focusing on the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan as well as the ways in which culture travels across geographic boundaries.
Write About Asia was offered following each SAAM public lecture and is facilitated by Mary Roberts. During the workshop, time was given to solitary writing in response to the morning lecture. The workshop nurtured educators as writers through self-reflection and group discussion, and took place after each lecture from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM.
Schedule for each Saturday University Lecture + Write About Asia:
- 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM: Saturday University public lecture.
- 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM: Solitary writing in response to the lecture and to a prompt provided by the program leader.
- 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM: Writing workshop with the Write About Asia group, during with educators shared their writing with each other.
This program took place in-person at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
University Lecture titles
Workshop details
Dates: February 10, February 24, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, 2024. A commitment to attend a minimum of two workshops was required in order to obtain clock hours.
Time: 11.30 AM to 1:30 PM, following the University Lecture Series public lecture from 10.00 AM to 11.30 AM.
Location: the University Lecture took place at the Stimpson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. The workshop took place in a different room at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (TBD).
Important: Participation to the public lecture was mandatory and free for Write About Asia participants.
Benefits
Free admission to the lecture and four free WA OSPI clock hours were available for attending each workshop and fulfilling online discussion requirements.
Write About Asia was offered at no cost to current, in-service teachers, and is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center (EARC) in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, with funding from a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).