Past Workshops – East Asia National Resource Center

Classroom at the Fairfax County Public School with teachers sitting at desks on both sides and watching a projected screen on the white board.

[8/21/2019] District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Workshop

September 13, 2019March 30, 20202019-2020, Past WorkshopsLeave a Comment

Classroom at the Fairfax County Public School with teachers sitting at desks on both sides.

Workshop Overview

This session will trace the spread of Chinese technology – such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder to other parts of Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe. It will introduce the social and cultural context for Chinese technological innovations, how Chinese technology disseminated to other parts of the world by the means of empire expansion and trade routes, and how this technology change the world.

Presenter

Ting Zhang joined the History Department at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in 2014. She received her BA and MA from Peking University and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She is a cultural and legal historian of late imperial China, with a particular research interesting print culture and the circulation of legal knowledge. Her current project, “Printing, Law, and the Making of Chinese Legal Culture,1644-1911,” explores the production and the role of legal information in the formation of early modern Chinese legal culture. For this research, she draws upon 131 different editions of the Qing code and many other legal imprints, using sources in libraries and online digital open source collections.

Ting Zhang has received fellowships or grants from the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the China Scholarship Council, and the Association for Asian Studies. Before joining the University of Maryland, she has taught courses at Peking University,Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delaware, and UC San Diego. Her publications, in English and Chinese, include four journal articles, five book chapters, and two translations.

Presentation Audio

[8/21/2019] GW East Asia National Resource Center FCPS Out-Service Workshop

July 17, 2019March 2, 20222019-2020, Past WorkshopsLeave a Comment

NRC Curriculum Developer Aika Okishige standing in front a bricked wall of the Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. holding an NRC flier.

Workshop participants, Okinawa Collection/Japan Resource Center Librarian Mitsuyo Sato, and Librarian for the China Documentation Center and the Taiwan Resource Center Yan He at the Okinawa section of the Global Resource Center at the Gelman Library.

Workshop participants and Okinawa Collection/Japan Resource Center Librarian Mitsuyo Sato at the Okinawa section of the Global Resource Center at the Gelman Library.

Workshop participants, Librarian for the China Documentation Center and the Taiwan Resource Center Yan He, and NRC staff members touring around the Global Resources Center while holding resource guides from the Taiwan Resource Center.

Workshop participants, Librarian for the China Documentation Center and the Taiwan Resource Center Yan He, Okinawa Collection/Japan Resource Center Librarian Mitsuyo Sato at the Taiwan section of the Global Resources Center at the Gelman Library.

Below are videos provided by the Korean Cultural Center (KCC) to introduce prominent aspects of Korean culture. These videos were shown during the presentation .

Workshop Overview

The East Asia National Resource Center at The George Washington University would like to invite you to an out-service workshop in affiliation with Fairfax County Public Schools to take a deeper dive into East Asian studies.

Agenda

10:00am – 12:00pm: Korean Cultural Center (KCC)

Presentation and overview about contemporary Korean issues
Discussion of resources available to integrate into classroom lessons

KCC Address: 2370 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

12:00pm – 12:30pm: Lunch / free period

12:45pm – 2:00pm: GW Global Resources Center (GRC)

Tour of the GRC’s primary language and multimedia resource collections
Discussion with library staff about resources available to integrate into classroom lessons

GRC address: 2130 H St NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20052

**Please bring a valid form of ID, such as a driver’s license, to be admitted into the Gelman Library**

For any questions or concerns, please send an email to gweanrc@gwu.edu
Thank you for your interest in joining our workshop!

A man in a black attire speaking at a podium at a school auditorium while teachers sit on red and black chairs listening.

[6/4/2019] Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Workshop

July 1, 2019July 14, 20202018-2019, Past WorkshopsLeave a Comment

Teachers sitting on red and black chairs, staring at a projected screen entitled "Contemporary Issues in East Asia and the Middle East" at a school auditorium.

High school teachers sitting on red and black chairs with laptops open interacting and discussing at a training workshop.

A man with glasses wearing a black shirt and blue cardigan speaking at the podium in front of high school teachers, who are sitting on red and black chairs with laptops open.

A lady in business casual attire speaking in front of a podium and a projected screen entitled "Challenges & Wins" at a school auditorium while teachers sit on red and black chairs listening.

A man wearing a blue shirt and cream-colored pants speaking at a podium at a school auditorium while teachers sit on red and black chairs listening.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

8:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Rocking Horse Road Center
4910 Macon Road Rockville, MD 20852

Topic: digital journalism, media, and politics in Japan. How has the globalization of information, as a result of social media, digital media, and other non-print or non-traditional ways of gathering information, impacted how the news is shared in Japan? Has this trend made an impact on contemporary culture and society in Japan? What could this mean for other areas in the world, like the US?

The workshop’s guiding prompt is:

Analyze how globalization has impacted cultures including changing gender expectations, the spread of popular culture and consumerism, the demand for human rights, and growth of urban areas. Key terms include (but not limited to): gender inequality, mass media, digital media, materialism, human rights, international affairs.

Immanuel Kim is Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies. Prior to working at the George Washington University, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He is an authority on North Korean literature and film and is the author of a recent book on North Korean literature, Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction (University of Hawaii Press, 2018).

Immanuel Kim's Presentation Audio

Immanuel Kim's Q&A Audio

Nobuyuki Okumura is currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He is also a professor at Musashi University in Tokyo. He was originally a news producer/reporter at TV Asahi mainly covering politics and diplomacy. He has been actively covering various issues in journalism since he started his academic career as a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto in 2005. His research topics range from journalism storytelling to telecommunication policy and he has been contributing various web news sites. He holds an M.A. degree from Sophia University in International Relations. He was also awarded the Fulbright Journalist Program award in 2002-03 and conducted research at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.

Nobuyuki Okumura's Presentation Audio

Nobuyuki Okumura's Q&A Audio