Programs

Twin Pandemics: Resilience and Healing of Asian American Communities

Introduction to East Asian Visual Culture

Okinawa: Past, Present, and Future

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde at Portland Japanese Garden

Food in Contemporary Japanese Literature, a workshop for K-12 educators

East Asia Since 1800

Economic Systems with Junyan Jiang, Columbia University

Legislative Systems with Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

Executive Systems with Xiaobo Lü, Columbia University

Social Movements & Adaptation of Social Policy with Xiaobo Lü, Columbia University

Behind the Headlines: Hong Kong

Behind the Headlines: Japan

Behind the Headlines: China

Behind the Headlines: Xinjiang

Behind the Headlines: North and South Korea

Social and Political Cleavages with Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

Centering Taiwan in Global Asia: A Resource Workshop for K-12 Educators

Behind the Headlines: Taiwan

China Planet: Environmental Implications of the Rise of China

Online literature workshop: The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart

Modern Shanghai/The Age of the Sensationalists: Unraveling the Culture and History of Chinese modernism

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde

Voyage of the Phoenix of Hiroshima (1954-1958)

Applying Classical Chinese Philosophy to Contemporary Politics and Culture

“Viewing the Moon” through Chinese Poetry – How the Moon Connects Us Across Time and Space

Teaching Natural Sciences Through East Asian Picture Books Professional Development Workshop

Teaching Natural Sciences Through Picture Books, Part 1: China and Taiwan

Japan in the World: Premodern History

Teaching Korea through Young Adult Literature: K-Pop Revolution

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

Understanding Chinese Sources: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Kaiser Kuo

War and Peace: Voices from Japan

Asian Book Discussion Club

East Asian Pop Culture

National Narratives, Personal Memories: Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Sorrows

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World, an online book discussions group

Three Frontiers of China: An Introduction to Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia

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

Ties that Bind: On the Ground in Boston

Japanese Government and Politics, Lauren McKee

Teaching East Asia Seminar Series

Contemporary East Asian Art

Summer Online Book Club Explores Chinese Culture

Virtual Sijo Workshop: Comparing Verses from Korea, China, & Japan

Science Fiction in China: From BC to AI

Exploring Japanese Art and Aesthetics: The Beauty of Wabi-Sabi

Viewing Socialist China Via Propaganda Posters

Chinese Fantasy in Literature – Drawing on the Past to Imagine the Present

Summer Online Book Club Explores Japanese Culture

The Age of the Samurai: Teaching Tokugawa Japan

Centering Southeast Asia: Teaching Modern Vietnam

The Curious Relevance of Japan

Exploring Asian Art: Trade, Transmission, and Cultural Exchange

Write About Asia: 2022 Freeman Award Winners

East Asian Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism

Real and Imaged Rivers of Japan and China

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde: Workshop and Film Screening at Minneapolis Institute of Art

Exploring the Two Koreas II

Walking the Tōkaidō Virtual Seminar

Eric Carle ❤️ Japan

Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence

Teaching East Asia: A Virtual Workshop in Honor of Arlene Kowal

Online Book Talk – Mind, Body & Soul in “Shadow Life” by Hiromi Goto

China’s Cultural Revolution featuring Professor Andrew G. Walder

Vietnam Today: MAIKA, the Girl from Another Galaxy; a workshop for K-12 Educators

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: War Trash by Ha Jin

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting

Teaching East Asia Foundational Summer Seminar: Art & Literature

The Dalai Lama at 89: Looking Back and Reflecting Toward the Future

Disaster and Resilience: Lessons from Minamata

Foundational Seminar: Exploring East Asia Through Illustrative Juvenile Literature

Teaching about China: Resources for teaching about timely topics

Arts of Protest in Modern Korea

The Music of Vietnam

East Asian Culture

Objects And Ritual In Japanese History

Great Books of East Asia: Tale of the Heike

Strike the Zither, with author Joan He.

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance by Louisa Lim

The Red Palace, with author June Hur

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden, with author Zhuqing Li

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden

Huawei, 5G, and the China-US Technology Race

East Asian Cultures: Influencing the Globe

Memories of Trauma: The Carnegie International Exhibition and Social Emotional Learning

Women in Premodern East Asia: De-marginalizing Their Lives and Voices

Image, Text, and Language at the Intersection of Cultures – East Asia and Beyond

The World of Origami: Intersection of Japanese culture, history, people, religion, society, and beyond

Teaching East Asian Literature

The View from Ground Zero: Teaching the Bomb through Literature

Two Koreas

China and the World

East Asia: Origins To 1800

Collaboration and Subversion—Reconsidering Colonial Era Cinema in “Tuition”(1940)

Wabi Sabi: The perfection of imperfection

Journey to the West: Empire, the Arts, and Modernity

Chinese Acrobatics, Priscilla Tse