Programs

Riding the Strong Currents: 20th and 21st Century Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum

On Translation: Process and Language Play with Takami Nieda

Write About Asia

Geostrategic Forecasting: a workshop on Asia

Innovative Ways to Teach about Asia

Movie Night: A Chinese Odyssey

Asia and the Cold War

Freeman Awards Book Talk: “An Echo In The City” By K.X. Song

Freeman Awards Book Talk- “Chinese Menu: The History, Myths And Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods”

Learning And Teaching about Japanese American Incarceration

Panels from the Past: Using the Graphic Novel, The Boy From Clearwater, to Teach about 20th Century Taiwan

Pop Culture and Teaching About Asia Forum for K-12 Educators

Asian Book Club: Women from East Asia

Behind the Headlines

Pacific Maritime Trade: Visit to the New Bedford Whaling Museum

What is Nori? with Yoko Segerstrom

Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific

Exploring Gender Intersections in Contemporary South Korea

Fermentation in Japan

The Medieval Samurai – Myths and Realities

Modern Chinese Women Writers

The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag

Sonoko Sakai, author of Mai and the Missing Melon

Kōdo Kimura, co-author and illustrator author of Yukie’s Island: My Family’s World War II Story

Japan Through Children’s Literature: Children’s Lives in Mid-20th Century Japan

Our Story: A Memoir of Love & Life in China

East Asia in National Geographic Perspectives

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

Poetry in the Classroom: Korea

Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History

Teaching Geography Through East Asian Picture Books

NCTA Alumni Online Book Discussion Group: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

Chinese Gardens with Philip Bloom

East Asia Since 1800

Japanese Religions

Virtual Green Tea Tasting

Virtual Green Tea Tasting

A History of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples and the State

Understanding Korean Society Through Popular Culture

Reinventing Japan, 1945 – 1989

Femininity in Colonial Korean Literature

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

Teaching Korea in a Global World

Economy and Family in Post-War South Korean Cinema

Exploring East Asian Visual Culture

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form

Graphic Novels Teacher Workshop

Teaching Modern China: A Century of Revolution

Write About Asia: 2023 Freeman Award Winners

Exploring Asian Art: Form, Function, and Interpretation

Precarious Japan

Asia Through the Eyes of Youth – Book Study

Graphic Memoir: “The Boy from Clearwater”

Agriculture and Agricultural Products in Taiwan, with Prof. James Lin

The Phantom 1940 Tokyo Olympics, with Prof. Robin Kietlinsk

Author Julie Checkoway and Prof. Kelli Nakamoto discuss ‘The Three Year Swim Club’ and Soichi Sakamoto

Centering Taiwan in Maritime History, with Prof. Robert Murowchick

Bicycle History and Sustainability in Taiwan, with Prof. Li-Hsin Chen

History and Geography in Taiwan Tourism, with Prof. Richard Wu

African Samurai book group

East Asian Design: Architecture & Urbanism

Great Books of East Asia Series: The Book of Tea, Modern Approaches to a Classic Text

Childhood in Asia: Cultural Connections in Children’s Literature

‘The Three-Year Swim Club’ Summer Book Group

In a League of Their Own: Exploring Taiwan’s Colonial Past through the Baseball Film ‘Kano’

‘Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat,’ with author Lev Nachman

Teach Taiwan with ‘The Boy from Clearwater’

Teaching the Bomb(s): Alternatives to Oppenheimer from Japanese Visual & Popular Culture

Banned Book Club, with authors Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada

Elections in China with John Kennedy, University of Kansas

Pirates and Bandits: Teaching the Myths and Realities in the K-12 Classroom

Sports and Leisure in East Asia: a summer foundational seminar for K-12 educators

Teaching Modern East Asia, a summer foundational seminar for K-12 educators

Double Desire: Navigating Post-3/11 Relationships in Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Asako I & II” (2018)

East Asian Popular Culture

Environment and Politics in the People’s Republic of China

Poetry in the Classroom: Japan

Japanese Classical Literature

Spring Online Book Club Explores Taiwan Via Graphic Novel /Manga

Robert Wells Discusses “Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea”

East Asian Foodways Across Borders

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

Cycling Taiwan

Walking the Tōkaidō

East Asian Visual Culture

Father Knows Best: Sex, Love, and Kinship in Ang Lee’s “Eat Drink Man Woman”

‘The Boy from Clearwater,’ with translator Lin King

Exploring the Material Culture of Edo Japan

Post-postwar Japan: Its Fall and Rise

Outer Space Policy

“Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei (2024)

East Asian History and Culture

Family and Femininity in Modern China

Global Asia Book Group

Teaching About Contemporary Japan Through Manga and Film

Write About Asia, Winter 2024

Japanese Baseball: When You Come to the Fork in the Road, Take It

Ukiyoe: History, Art and ELA

Kai and the Dancing Butterfly, with author Crystal Z. Lee

Women in Modern East Asia: Understanding their Challenges and Successes