Programs

Free Spirits: Katsushika Oi and Her Father Hokusai

Culture and Society in Contemporary Japan

The Jesuit Mission to China

Layers of History and Identity: Summer Study in Taiwan

Taiwan Today with TECO Boston

Summer Study Tour to South Korea

Teaching Through Chanoyu at Shoseian Teahouse

Freeman Awards Book Talk: Explores Vietnamese Culture via “A Banh Mi for Two”

Imprinting the Past: Learning about East Asia Using Woodblock Prints and Printing Techniques

Asian Topic Discussions: Korean Poetry

Asian Topic Discussions: Poetry of Vietnam

Asian Topic Discussions: Tale of Genji

Asian Topic Discussions: Haiku and Haikai

Asian Topic Discussions: Tang Poetry Highlights

Asian Topic Discussions: China’s Literary Tradition, 1050-771 BCE

Asian Topic Discussions: Chinese Poetry, The Book of Songs

Using Education about Asia in the Classroom

Cycling Korea

Outcasts in Medieval Japan: Lives, Stigmas, and Agency

Japan at War: The Rising Sun During World War Two

“Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang

Granny & Me: A Documentary

Using Education about Asia in the Classroom

Music in Early Chinese Society

Economy and Family in Post-War South Korean Cinema

Tokaido, Origami, Temples and Shrines (TOTS) Japan Series: A Virtual Japan Experience

East Asian Book Club

Japan 1945 Series: Imperial Redefinition

Japan 1945 Series: Setting A New Course

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Yun Suknam (b. 1939) and Her Friends

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Chaekgeori – Books and Things in Late Joseon Korea

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Buncheong Ceramics from Joseon

Art in the Classroom: Korea – The Water-Moon Avalokiteśvara of Goryeo

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Silla Gold Crowns

Biography Through East Asian Picture Books: China

From Bandung to the Belt & Road: China’s Evolving Role in Africa

Japan 1945 Series: Ending and Beginning

China’s Demographic Transition: Population Decline in the Post-One-Child Era

Religion in East Asia: Diversity and Diffusion

Modern China Transformed: Xi Jinping’s Policies and their Human Impact

Teaching Biography through East Asian Picture Books

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

In Prints: Japanese Art and Culture

Pitt NCTA Alumni Book Group – Three Tigers One Mountain

Chinese Fantasy in Literature

Teaching with the Japanese Garden at the Huntington

China and the World

Unfolding Futures: Chinese Genre Fiction and Cultural Crossovers

Japan Society – Meiji era (How Japanese were doing during 1931-1945)

Teaching with the Chinese Garden at The Huntington

Modern Japan Emerges: Tradition in Transition – Tea, Samurai, and Gardens in Japan’s 19th Century

Modern Japanese Literature

East Asia Since 1800

Epochs & Change-Makers in East Asian Urbanism, Architecture & Art

Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Care, Crisis Discourses, and Collaborative Responses

Social Change Projects in East Asia

Dream of Ding Village: Crises and Controversies in Contemporary China

Chinese Socialist Culture

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories

Studying China in Early Modern Europe

World of Terracotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum

Exclusion and Belonging: Teaching Chinese American History through Story and Image

Asian Art Adventure

Asian Herstory – First they Killed My Father

Asian Herstory – Secret History of the Mongol Queens

Asian Herstory – Wild Swans

Violence in East Asian Literature

Currency in Asia: Constructing National Identity in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan

Two Koreas

Asian American History in Arkansas and Beyond

Foundations of East Asian Civilization: Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism

2025 Sijo Summit: Verses from Korea, Japan, and China

Reel Asia: A Lens on Film

Chin Languages Workshop

Freeman Awards Book Talk: “Hokusai’s Daughter” by Sunny Seki

Japanese Garden at Taconic Ramble State Park

The Dalai Lama’s “Voice for the Voiceless”

Other Japans: A Film Series

Chinese Calligraphy in the Classroom – LACMA On-site Tour

Chinese Calligraphy in the Classroom with LACMA

Lunar Phases: Korean Moon Jars – A Hands-on Workshop

The Crossbow of Destiny, with author Brandon Hoang

China’s Space Dream: Teaching China’s Space Program

East Asian Art, History & Literature: Summer Residential Seminar

Mascots, Cryptids, and UFOs: Civic Monsters in Contemporary Japan

Life of a Peasant in Medieval Japan

Teaching Traditional East Asia: a summer residential seminar

Studio Ghibli in the Classroom

Walking the Tōkaidō: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of History and Culture

Cycling Taiwan: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of History and Culture

Japan and the World in the Age of Shogun

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Okinawan

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Zainichi

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Uyghur

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Tibetan

Local Connections to Japan

A Century of East Asia Impacting the World

The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart, with translator Takami Nieda

The History of Modern East Asia