Programs

Global Issues Through Literature: Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

Indigo Girl

Shiver, Junji Ito’s manga horror short story collection

Making Japan Modern: Japan’s Rise and the Pacific War

East Asian Design: Architecture and Urbanism

Contemporary Issues Course: Borders, Migrations, and Ethnicities: Three Case Studies in Teaching about China Today

Chinese History through Film and Literature: Two Case Studies for the Classroom

From Our Classrooms to Yours: Picture This! Traveling Through Time with Japanese Art and Manga

Our Classrooms to Yours: East Asian Studies in Human Geography, Population, Migration, and Innovation

Ties That Bind: Connecting the U.S. and East Asia

Connecting Students to East Asia with Images, Maps and Texts

Modern East Asia

Angel Island Immigration Station: The Hidden History

Imperial Beijing: The Design and Construction of the Northern Capital

No Steps Behind, with author Jeff Gottesfeld

Indigo Girl, with author Suzanne Kamata

Implementing Peace

Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War, a Conversation with author Susan Southard

Afro-Asian Ties: Sino-Black Relations

Japan through Children’s Literature: World War II Picture-book Biographies

Korea in the Ancient and Early Medieval World (1st c. BCE -1170CE)

Hong Kong on the Brink

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

Modern Japan, Part I: Meiji through World War II

Career Workshop: Politics, Business, and Economy in East Asia

The Samurai’s Garden

Drinking Tea in Japan

Sake: Beyond the Basics

The Influence of Japanese Ceramics

Grass

The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography

Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

Banned Book Club

The Satsuma Rebellion: Illustrated Japanese History – The Last Stand of the Samurai

Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History – The Americans Arrive

Continuity and Change in Japan Post-3.11

Okinawa: Environment, History and Peace Movements

Depopulation and Degrowth in Japan, post-1990

Teaching from Contemporary Asian Art: Student-Centered Engagement Strategies

A Resilient Spirit: The stories, experiences, and legacy of Hawai’i’s WWII Detention Camp

75 Years Later: Rethinking Japan, World War II and the Atomic Bombs

Ties that Bind: Chinese Women and the US

Teaching on the Silk Roads

Write About Asia: 2019 Freeman Award Winners

War and Peace: Voices from Japan

Ties that Bind: Peabody Essex Museum Asian Export Gallery

BEING DIPLOMATIC: How Art Helps to Spread Ideas (High School)

A PERFECTLY MATERIAL WORLD: Exploring Objects in East Asian Art (Middle School)

SYMBOL AND STORY: Investigating Imagery in East Asian Art

Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Crossing Boundaries In East Asia

The Mao Years through Primary Sources

Zoom Webinar: Teaching Contemporary China with Choices Units

Ties that Bind: Mississippi Delta Chinese

Ties that Bind: Japanese in New England (and beyond)

Ties that Bind: Chinese in New England (and more)

Sijo Webinars for Educators

Keeping Informed as Teachers: What We Need to Know About Xinjiang Today

Beyond Stereotypes, Asian Warriors

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Disillusionment, Dystopia, and Dreams: Insights from Three Contemporary East Asian Films

Day of The Western Sunrise: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Teaching

Integrating East Asia into Tennessee Social Studies and Humanities Courses

The Current State of Uighurs and Kazakhs in China

Summer Movie Night: Red Sorghum (China, 1987)

Connecting about China

Summer Movie Night: Your Name (Japan, 2016)

Summer Movie Night: Godzilla (Gojira, Japan, 1954)

Summer Movie Night: Maineland (US/China, 2017)

Teaching Contemporary China with Choices Units

Anti-Asian Racism and Covid-19

Summer Movie Night: Ode to My Father (2014)

Connecting Students to East Asia with Images, Maps and Texts

The Sound of (Japanese) Music

Two Koreas

What’s At Stake In Xinjiang