Programs

Disaster in China and Japan; what can we can learn from them?

Travel and Mobility in East Asian History

The Uyghur Crisis and Islam in East Asia: What Everyone Needs to Know

Reading Contemporary Beijing Lives

Ikebana: More Than Just Pretty Flowers

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Dynasty Smackdown

What do the Olympics Mean? Japan ’64, South Korea ’88, Beijing ’08 Japan 2021

East Asia Through the Lens of Visual and Material Culture – 2022

East Asia Through History and Art: a NCTA seminar with the Minneapolis Institute of Art

East Asia—Art and Everyday Lives: A Seminar for K-12 Educators

Takami Nieda on Translating and Teaching Go: A Coming of Age Novel

Stories of Resilience and Hope in Japanese Children’s Literature

Cultural Identities and Cross Cultural Connections in East Asia: Influences from the Classical Period to the Present

China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Action: Economic, Environmental, Social and Political Impact

Walking the Tokaido: Self-guided Multi-disciplinary Experience

The Journey of East Asia: Adventures Through Stories, Games, and Maps – an introduction to East Asia for K-12 educators

The Shanghai Taxi

Write About Asia – Sites of Memory in Asia: Remembrance and Redemption

Japan: The Meiji Restoration and Japan’s Pacific War

Vietnam: More than War

South Korea Today

China: Will the Dragon Soar Higher Than the Eagle?

Ancient Chinese History and Thought

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Worldviews and Belief Systems

East Asian Literature Workshop

Behind the Scenes: Exploring the Environments of Edo Japan through the documentary Edo Avant Garde

Sashiko: A Japanese Needlework Art

Japanese Culture Through Video Games

Chinese Film Workshop

Teaching About Asia Seminar

Ghosts of the Tsunami

The Silence of Bones, with author June Hur

Engaging Students with the Lessons of 3.11: What, Why, How.

Japan’s Triple Disasters 10 Years Later: Aftermath, Recovery, and Lingering Issues

AP Human Geography: Agriculture and Urban Geography

Considering Early Modern East Asia through Maritime History

East Asia Beyond the Headlines: Contemporary Issues in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea

Write About Asia Winter 2021 – Art and Renewal in Times of Crisis in Asia

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Shibori – the Japanese Art of Shaped Resist Dyeing

Teaching Empathy and Understanding: Asian Pacific Islander American Communities, Our Celebrations, and Our Stories

Basho and the River Stones, with author Tim J. Myers

Teaching the Global Water Crisis: A Multi-Disciplinary Mini-course

What’s Happening in Xinjiang and Why Is It Important?

The Three Gorges Dam: From River Town to Now

Enriching Online Class Discussion – Using Modern Japanese Texts

“Migration in/from/around Asia” by Southeast Regional AAS conference

Lost Japan, with author Alex Kerr

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 in China through Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diaries

East Asia: Origins To 1800

Contemporary China

Pandemic Pedagogy: COVID-19 and Education about Asia

Ukiyoe: Depictions of the Tōkaidō

Ukiyoe: Depictions of the Tōkaidō

Walking the Tōkaidō Road: Who, Why and How

Sports in Japan: The Olympics and More

More than Just K-Pop: Take the Journey of Korea

Lost Japan, by Alex Kerr

Teaching the Qin and Han Dynasties” and “Teaching the Song Dynasty and Heian Era”

China, Korea, Japan

Behind the Screens: Exploring the Artistic Environments of Edo Japan

From Our Classrooms to Yours: The Joy of Tangrams

Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China by Lihong Shi

Human and Physical Geography of East Asia

Human and Physical Geography of East Asia Virtual Seminar

Japan through Children’s Literature: Basho’s Edo Japan

Korea (1945-Present): Division and Globalization

Modern Japan Part II: Reinventing Japan. From the Occupation to the 2011 Triple Disasters

Japan’s Approaches to Modernization and Responses to Imperialism

China’s Approaches to Modernization and Responses to Imperialism

Girls on the Line

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

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S. through Literature and Writing

Chinese Literature through History, Part II: 20th Century

Stranger in the Shogun’s City, with author Amy Stanley

Understanding the Chinese Landscape Tradition

Japanese Seminar Discussions: Session 1 – Women in Japan Session 2 – The Samurai

From the Silk Road to the Belt and Road: Economies, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges in Eurasia from the Classical Age to the Present.

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Midnight in Broad Daylight, with author Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Constitutional Crossroads: A Case Study of Japan’s Post-WWII Constitution in the 21st-Century World

Recovery and the Challenges of Success: Continuity and Change in Japan Since 1945

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Tibetan Buddhism in the Social Studies Classroom

The Japan Disasters Digital Archive: An Archival Tool for Researchers, Educators and the Community

Hong Kong: Where We Are At

Japan: Where We Are At

Taiwan: Where We Are At

South and North Korea: Where We Are At

China: Where We Are At

The Last Days of the KMT in Shanghai through Film and Memoir

Teaching the Impact of Japan’s Invasion of Manchuria: The Lin Family Shop

Public Art + Dissent: Art, Protest, and Public Spaces

Teaching About Climate Change with Choices: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, and Action

Perspectives in East Asian Art

Teaching China in the Age of Covid-19

Asia for Your Classroom: World History, Current Events, and Asian Studies

“Has China Won?”

Write About Asia – Color in Asian Art: Materials and Meaning

The Chinese World View: Beyond Confucianism and Daoism

East Asian Case Studies in Human Geography: Population, Migration, and Innovation

Ties That Bind: Connecting the U.S. and East Asia (for Minnesota teachers)