Programs

Sijo Workshop

Spinning Reels: Teaching Throne of Blood, Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth

East Asian Futurisms: Exploring Speculative Fiction’s Commentaries on Power, Identity, and Society

Write About Asia: 2021 Freeman Award Winners

Sacred Spaces and Experiences

Exploring Asian Art: Storytelling, Identity, and Spirituality

Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan

Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching about Chinese Language and Culture

Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching about Asia

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei

Mongolia Today: Modern Culture and Foreign Relations

Traveling the Silk Road: Culture and Commerce in Medieval Asia

Traveling the Silk Road: Culture and Commerce in Medieval Asia

Teaching Tolerance and Exploring Asian Identity through Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Touchstones: Teaching East Asia Foundational Seminar

The Politics of Asia through Literature – The Late Homecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

The Politics of Asia through Literature: China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

The Politics of Asia through Literature: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

East Asia Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers

Exploring the Two Koreas

China’s Search for a Green Future: Clean Energy, Air, and Water

Understanding Contemporary China: Perspectives from the Periphery

Reconsidering East Asia in the Early Modern World: Maritime Histories, 1350-1750

East Asian Design: Architecture & Urbanism

The Politics of Asia through Literature: Green Island: a novel by Shawna Yang Ryan

Who’s Who in Civil Rights and Community Activism in Asian American History

Walking the Tōkaidō

China’s Films: History, Culture, and Society

While I Was Away, with author Waka T. Brown

*Almost* American: A Book Chat and Zine-Making Working

More than a Game: A Look at US-Japan Relations through Baseball

East Asian Culture

A Dance of Letters: How East Asian Writing Systems Work

Things Left Behind: Integrating Social Emotional Learning into the Classroom

China and Japan Between 1860 and 1912

Beethoven in Beijing: Nixon, Mao, the Cultural Revolution and the Philadelphia Orchestra

Mao and Music: Songs and Memories of the Cultural Revolution

The Week that Changed the World? Nixon and the Beginning of US-China Engagement

Contemporary Art and Ecology

Women in East Asia

Beijing on the Eve of the Olympics

Teaching Asian Literature Workshop

Teaching about Asia

Japan’s Economic Rise and America’s Wartime Fears

Japan: Where We Are At

Through a Lens: Exploring Contemporary China Through Film, Documentary and Social Media

Land of Big Numbers: Linking Literature and Contemporary Issues

Japan through Children’s Literature

Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

Modern Japan: From Occupation to the 2011 Triple Disaster

Chinese Literature through History, Part II: 20th Century

Modern East Asia

Ancient East Asia

Mapping Past & Present: Spirits and Beasts of East Asia

Exploring Manga, Science, Peace & Politics: The Path of Snakes & Ladders

Global Issues Through Literature: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

From Recognition to Rivalry: 50 Years of US-China Trade Relations

Where We Are At: North and South Korea

Teaching English as a Second Language in Taiwan

Where We Are At – Hong Kong

Where We Are At – Xinjiang

Where We Are At – China

Where We Are At – Taiwan

Strong Women of Asia: A Memoir Book Group

Strong Women of Asia: A Memoir Book Group

Women in East Asia

Modern East Asia

Locating Korean-ness in Postcolonial Japan: Zainichi Korean Identity in the documentary film “Our School”

Message for Peace from East Asia: East Asian Language, History, Art, and Empathy

Overview of Taiwan: From History to Now

Asia Today – Contemporary Cultures and Politics

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tastings

Virtual Kyoto Garden tours

Women Travelers in Early Modern Japan

Animating Religion: Shinto in Japanese Pop Culture

Serving America in the Far East: Servicewomen in the Cold War

Exploring Taiwanese Black Tea with Hugosum

Shinto: Exploring Japan’s ‘Way of the Kami’

Two Trees Make a Forest

Beethoven in Beijing: Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker

The Study of Asia: from Revolution to Rebirth

A Contemporary Journey through Asian Politics and Society

Shattering Myths: Teaching About the Diversity of East Asia in the K-12 Classroom

East Asian Foodways Across Borders

Teaching Korea through Children’s Literature

Teaching Japan through Geographic and Historical Lenses

Land of Big Numbers: Linking Literature and Current Issues

Modern Japan, Part 1: Meiji through World War II

Reading the Graphic Novel Tiananmen: Our Shattered Hopes

Chinese Literature through History, Part I: Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties

Racial and Social Justice in East and Southeast Asia

Dynasty Smackdown

East Asian Case Studies in Human Geography: Agricultural and Urban Geography

Artistic Expressions of East Asia: Histories and Legacies

Teaching With East Asian Film

Virtual Kyoto Garden Tour

Virtual Kyoto Garden Tour

More than Sports: Using the Olympics to Teach Modern East Asian History

Mapping Myths, Mapping Asia: Rediscovering Asia’s Physical & Human Geography