The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un  by Anna Fifield

How can we begin to understand the complex history of North Korea and its leader? Delve deeper into this question by engaging in a dynamic discussion with other educators, explore contemporary challenges facing North Korean society, and share diverse strategies for bringing North Korea into the classroom.

This book club is led by Tese Wintz Neighbor and by Ryan Hauck, and is open to current K-12 in-service and pre-service teachers. The registration fee of $10 includes a copy of the book, a light dinner, 4 clock hours, and resources.

The North Korea Book Club will meet in December in Seattle, Bellingham and Bellevue. This program is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center and the World Affairs Council in Seattle, and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).

Locations and dates:

Seattle –  Tuesday, December 3, 2019, from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM; University of Washington, Thomson Hall, Room 317, King Lane NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

Bellevue – Wednesday, December 4, 2019, from 4:30 PM to 7:30 P; Bellevue High School Room 2112, 10416 SE Wolverine Way, Bellevue, WA 98004.

Bellingham – Thursday, December 5, 2019, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM; Squalicum High School Room D 101, 3773 E McLeod Rd, Bellingham, WA 98226.

Free parking will be provided at all locations.

Benefits:

• a copy of the book

• resource packet

• four free Washington State OSPI clock hours

• light supper

Book club facilitator:  

The Book Club will be facilitated by EARC China Specialist Tese Wintz Neighbor and by Ryan Hauck from the World Affairs Council.

Book: The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield

• The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

  Publication Date:

  2019

“Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim’s past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. Skeptical yet insightful, Fifield creates a captivating portrait of the oddest and most secretive political regime in the world–one that is isolated yet internationally relevant, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons–and its ruler, the self-proclaimed Beloved and Respected Leader, Kim Jong Un.” (excerpt from book description on Goodreads)

Application

Click on this link to apply to the Seattle event.

Click on this link to apply to the Bellevue event.

Click on this link to apply to the Bellingham event.

The writing workshop Write about Asia, offered by the East Asia Resource Center in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas, is led by Mary Roberts and offered after each public lecture event. This series is titled “Silk Roads Past and Present: Ancient Afghan Treasure to China’s Belt & Road Initiative“. Join us for solitary writing, reflection and group discussion on Saturdays in October, November, December 2019 and January 2020. You can find all details here.

Tradition, Exchange, and Innovation in Art: An Introduction to East Asian Visual Culture and Beyond will look at moments in the transmission of culture vis-à-vis art forms produced and transmitted throughout and beyond East Asia. This course will focus on the production of art forms, such as scrolls, woodblock prints, ceramics, and architectural forms as episodes in exchange and innovation. This program is ideal for people who are interested in an introductory course on East Asian art history and cultural transmission, and those who are looking for a refresher on key art historical concepts. During this program, we will compare and contrast artistic productions of different styles and periods, while focusing on translating these artistic examples of tradition, exchange, and innovation into useful classroom materials.

Course material include primary and secondary source materials, art historical approaches, in addition to resources for inclusion in the classroom. No prior knowledge of the subject matter is required.

This seminar is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center (EARC), University of Washington, in conjunction with the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).

Details

July 15-19, 2019
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Monday-Thursday)
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m (Friday)
University of Washington, Seattle. May include field trips.

Leader

Melanie King, Art History faculty at Seattle Central College.

Benefits

Aside from the registration and housing fees (100$ each), this seminar is offered free of charge thanks to the Freeman Foundation NCTA grant to the East Asia Resource Center. Seminar benefits include:

• 40 Washington State OSPI clock hours (free) OR two 400-level UW credits for a fee of approximately $230

• A certificate of completion

• All course materials provided

• $100 for the purchase of additional teaching materials

• A one-year subscription to Education about Asia

• Morning snacks and lunches

• Dormitory housing, meals, and partial travel stipends of up to $300 for a limited number of out-of-town participants

Application

The deadline for applying is March 31, 2019. 

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The Supreme Court Summer Institute provides teachers with a valuable opportunity to expand their knowledge and learn new methods for teaching about the Supreme Court of the United States.

Spend six days with high-caliber instructors and expert resource people who lead in their respective fields.

Visit the Court to hear decisions and attend a private reception

Engage in thorough study of six Supreme Court cases

Participate in sessions on the certiorari process, judicial nominations, interest groups, the media, constitutional interpretation, and a moot court.

 Morning Session: Respond, Resist, and Resiliency

Hear from noted scholars to learn about and discuss how Americans of Japanese Ancestry responded and resisted U.S. military orders that forcibly removed and imprisoned them with out due process or evidence of wrongdoing. The workshop will include an investigation of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S. and the relevance to legal resistance and urgent issues of today. Educators will receive KI Curriculum Toolkits that include primary sources. Afternoon Session: KSPS - Injustice at Home Participants will explore teaching resources that emphasize the implications of Japanese American living outside the exclusion zone during WWII. Five short films created by KSPS - along with lesson plans - will examine choices and challenges that people faced, as well as those who stood against prejudice and oppression.

Dates:

May 4, 2019

ESD 105 Yakima, WA

June 1, 2019

Spokane Valley Tech High School Spokane, WA

8:30am – 4:00pm

Presenters:

Karen Korematsu, Founder & Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Institute

Leslie Heffernan, Social Studies Coordinator

Morgen Larsen, Teacher Librarian

Starla Fey, Teacher

To sign up, go to bit.ly/WAeducatorworkshops to register for either workshop. The first 30 teachers per workshop will secure spots. Each educator will receive a $100 stipend and clock hours upon completion of the workshop. The Workshops for Washington State Teachers are facilitated by the Fred T. Korematsu Institute (www.korematsuinstitute.org) and KSPS Public Television, and are made possible with generous support from the Kip Tokuda Memorial Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

“Write about Asia” is offered by the East Asia Resource Center in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas Saturday University Lecture Series. On March 16, March 30, April 6 and April 27 there will be a lecture followed by a writing workshop which will be facilitated by Mary Roberts.

Educators will attend the public lecture from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. and then meet for a writing workshop from 11:30 a.m – 2:00 p.m.  During the workshop, time is given to solitary writing in response to the morning lecture. The workshop will nurture educators as writers through self-reflection and group discussion.  Priority will be given to full-time K12 teachers.   Teachers must sign up for and attend two or more lectures in the application below.  Spaces are limited.

This upcoming series is titled “Trans Plants: Collecting, Gathering and Globalizing Plants”.  This five-part series will begin with “a consideration of plants in and out of their native environment, and of how plants become an art material in bonsai and Chinese gardens. Hear stories of a delicious mushroom that only grows in the wild, farming eucalyptus as a colonial endeavor, and a hunt for rhododendrons in China” (excerpt from the Gardner Center website).

Lecture titles

MAR 16

Saturday University: Bonsai, Southern Chinese Style

MAR 30

What Kind of Collection Was the Chinese Scholar’s Garden?

APR 6

The Charisma of Wild Mushrooms: Matsutake and the Forest Revitalization Movements in Japan

APR 27

The Golden Mountain Gate: Text and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China

Workshop details

March 16, March 30, April 4, April 27 (a commitment to attend a minimum of two workshops is required)
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheeff Auditorium

Benefits

Free admission to the lecture and four free clock hours are available for attending the lecture and fulfilling online discussion requirements.

Registration

Registration is on a first come, first serve basis.  Current full-time K12 teachers will be given priority.

REGISTER ONLINE

EAST ASIA RESOURCE CENTER

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies 
University of Washington 
Box 353650 
Seattle WA, 98195-3650

• earc@uw.edu

• (206) 543-1921

• (206) 685-0668

• Room 302 Thomson Hall

University of Washington

East Asia Resource Center, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195-3650

Room 302 Thomson Hall | Phone: (206) 543-1921 | Fax: (206) 685-0668 | Email: earc@uw.edu

Tokugawa Japan (also known as the Edo era) lasted from 1600 to 1868.  This unprecedented time of peace and relative prosperity for Japan were the seeds for what Japan became by the end of the nineteenth century—a powerful colonial power and Asia’s first industrial state.  During Tokugawa’s almost three-hundred-year period, Japan’s urban and rural populations were transformed; the art form of woodblock and the Kabuki theater emerged; and a political balancing act, known as the Baku-Han system kept Japan moving forward. As one observer noted, “Tokugawa Japan was pacified, bureaucratized, but not unified.”  This seminar will explore Edo Japan’s gender relations, social interactions, religious changes, artistic endeavors, and the Baku-Han system. This hybrid seminar will meet both in person at Boise State University and online.

Details

Face-to-face meetings at BSU:

• Monday, January 28, 2019 5:00PM to 8:00PM

• Monday, February 4, 2019 5:00PM to 8:00PM

Professor Woods will provide video lectures for the seminar to view after these meetings.

Presenter

Professor Shelton Woods

Benefits

• Books and materials provided

• Dinner and parking provided at the two face-to-face meetings

• $100 stipend for the purchase of additional materials

• A one-year subscription to Education About Asia

Apply by December 1, 2018.

An NCTA seminar for middle and high school teachers will be offered in Everett, WA.

The Silk Road was not one road but a great network of trade routes, which linked China to Europe and all the lands in between. Products were traded, but ideas and beliefs, techniques and works of art were also transmitted, which shaped the civilizations that flourished along the way. In this seminar, teachers will follow the ancient footsteps of merchants, monks and warriors. Teachers will also learn about the Silk Road’s history and examine contemporary Silk Road “explorers” such as Yo-Yo Ma and President Xi Jinping, who recently proposed a $900 billion “new Silk Road” trade/investment plan.

Dates: January 23, February 13 and March 20, 2019

Time: 4:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Location: Mariner High School in Everett, WA

Priority application deadline: December 1, 2018

In order to tackle this enormous topic in 12 short hours, we will first cover the major themes of Silk Road history/geography and grapple with the significance today. Topics will include:

• The role of merchants, monks, explorers, and warriors

• Significance of trade

• Spread of religions

• The development of powerful military forces and empires

• Diffusion of technologies and artistic motifs

• Geopolitics today

• China’s new Silk Road Economic Belt

Through readings, movie clips, class discussion, and lesson plans, you will gain the knowledge necessary to support your students as they grapple with the historical and continuing significance of the great Silk Road. Join us as we explore the Silk Road from its ancient camel routes to its 21st century high speed train tentacles. Tese Wintz Neighbor, China specialist and long-time teacher seminar leader, will facilitate.

The seminar is open to current K-12 inservice and preservice teachers. Space is limited to 20. There is no registration fee, but you must apply below.  Priority application deadline is December 1, 2018.

Teachers who complete the seminar will receive a $100 stipend, 20 OSPI clock hours (free) or two 400-level UW credits (for a fee of approx. $225), and a subscription to Education about Asia.

This seminar is sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center (EARC) in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington with funding from a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC) through an OSPI Kip Tokuda Civil Liberties grant is co-sponsoring a teacher workshop on the WWII Japanese American Department of Justice Camps experience.  The workshop is co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society and the National Park Service Confinement Sites grant program.

In the 1930s and 1940s numerous people living in the United States were identified as “enemy aliens” and placed on a secret government list called the Custodial Detention List.   Join your colleagues for open-ended inquiry to consider the question - How did being placed on the government’s Custodial Detention List impact the lives and communities of people of Japanese ancestry?

We take a close look at the Custodial Detention List and the political policies and climate that led to the incarceration of both citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry within hours of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Through dialogue, primary materials, personal stories, we piece together a more complex narrative and analysis about the earliest government actions, public response, and the trauma, resilience, and resistance of the individuals and communities of people of Japanese ancestry. Materials are written for secondary students, but can be adapted for middle school students.

The award-winning documentary film, Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story will be shown, and a tour of the Nisei Veterans Hall will also be available.  Participants will receive a copy of Honor & Sacrifice DVD, and site license for the film.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco; the National Park Service, the United Tribes Technical College, and the WA Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The website to sign up: 

https://www.njahs.org/teaching-untaught-histories-workshop/

There will be a $300 stipend for teachers, free clock hours, and a copy of the DVD "Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story" with site license.  Lunch and light refreshments.

An NCTA seminar for teachers of grades 2-8
 

July 23 - 27, 2017

8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (Mon-Thurs)
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m (Fri)

Seminar leader: Mary Roberts with guest segments led by authors, librarians and EARC master teacher, Oralee Kramer
 

Hear from authors, librarians and fellow teachers and make children’s and young adult books on East Asia a part of your teaching tool kit.   Discover how authors do research for their books and how book titles and cover illustrations are selected.  Gain confidence in making close readings and exploring character motivations with your students.   Find out how to authenticate the reliability of the material and learn about new databases on children’s literature.  Using three separate books on East Asia, including Freeman Award winners, teachers will examine three different genres with frameworks to support students’ critical thinking and inquiry. 

Please refer to the application for additional details and eligibility requirements.

An NCTA seminar for teachers of all grade levels

July 16 - 20, 2018
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Mon-Thurs)
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Fri)

Seminar leader: Melanie King, Art History faculty at Seattle Central College 

Art and Politics: Episodes in East Asian History will consider key moments in the history of East Asia as told through visual and literary responses by artists and writers of the time. Our approach will examine moments in the history of East Asia, beginning with a grounding in philosophical and religious traditions and their influence across space and time. Building on this foundation, we will examine representations and artistic responses to conflict, revolution, and war, which will lead us to a discussion of how we remember and memorialize the past. As we remember, whose stories are told? How do memorials help us remember or forget? Our study will also consider art movements and protests of change that are taking up issues with the government, international relations, the military, the environment, human rights, and a complex, interconnected history of East Asia.

Our course material will include primary and secondary source materials, art historical approaches, in addition to resources for inclusion in your classroom. No prior knowledge of the subject matter is required.

Please refer to the application for additional details and eligibility requirements. 

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The 2018 WSCSS Spring Conference will be held at Skamania Resort on March 9-11th, 2018

We are upgrading the conference to a new resort location for 2018!  Visit the Columbia Gorge, avoid the mountain passes, visit and meet with new friends from across the state, and more. Building Bridges is the theme for 2018!

Summit II will be held January 2018 where we will measure progress and move forward with the Civic Learning Initiative. We are honored to have U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor join us during this Summit. Justice Sotomayor will participate in a four-hour interactive session with participants from high-quality civic learning programs from our state, meet with law leaders and attend reception for 200. We will also officially launch the iCivicWashington.org.