Two one-week workshops to study the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, interpreting local sites in their geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.

Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers to study the history and commemoration of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In most history books, Pearl Harbor is reduced simply as an event: a treacherous Japanese “sneak attack that incites “slumbering” America to war and ultimately to its victory. Missing is the complexity of causes and legacies of war, including social and cultural—the important lessons of history. This proposal outlines a plan for two weeklong workshops for 80 teachers, held in Honolulu, Hawaii in June and July 2007. The workshop will engage teachers in examining the Pearl Harbor attack and investigating the structuring of that history within broader social, cultural, and historical contexts that emphasize multiple perspectives and connections to global forces, events, and ideas. Participants will apply their workshop learning in web-based lessons and collaborative projects that they develop in peer groups. Project work will begin in October 2006 and end in December 2007.

This proposal outlines a plan for two one-week workshops that provide 80 humanities teachers with training and experience in the use and interpretation of the USS Arizona Memorial, the historic site devoted to honoring those who died in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and related material and archival resources. Through historic site visits, lectures by scholars, and sessions led by experienced teachers, participants will explore the historical significance and meanings of the attack. Participants will also develop technology-enhanced lesson plans that apply their new understanding in their teaching.

Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on World War II landmarks in and around Pearl Harbor in Hawai'i.

This submission proposes two one-week workshops for community college faculty on "History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War" (July 25-30; August 1-6, 2010). Utilizing resources associated with Pearl Harbor and Hawaii's World War II historic sites, the workshops will consider the importance of culture(s) of commemoration for understanding and teaching Pacific War history. The program will examine a number of key sites of memory in Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia, and provide an opportunity for participants to pursue individual research and teaching interests relevant to a range of disciplines,including history, anthropology, Asian and Pacific studies, international politics, and religion. The workshops will be cosponsored by the East-West Center, the Arizona Memorial Museum Association and the National Park Service World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument.

TO SUPPORT a series of regional workshops focusing on comparative dimensions of the African and Asian cultural experience, and the development of Web-based and print materials on related topics.

To conduct a seminar of 30 established humanist-legal scholars for use in liberal arts-law courses in American colleges and universities

A five-week summer institute for 25 undergraduate faculty members on the diverse cultures of Southeast Asia and on the religious, philosophical, artistic and secular influences that have affected their development.

A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers designed to strengthen the teaching of South Asian religion and philosophy, and infuse aspects of Indian culture into the undergraduate curriculum.

A five-week national institute for 25 non-specialist college and university teachers to improve teaching about Japanese history, culture, and society by studying the theme of authority in Japanese cultural context.

A five-week institute for twenty-five college and university teachers on Confucianism in Asia.

"Confucian Asia: Traditions and Transformations, an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers" is proposed as a five-week program for college and university teachers that explores the origins and influence of Confucianism as an evolving system of thought and practice, including its impacts on social dynamics, the arts and politics. Offering deep and context-rich engagement with key traditions and primary texts (in translation), the multidisciplinary program will enable participants to appreciate how common Confucian values were given different practical and institutional expression as they were carried from China to Korea, Japan and Vietnam, and as East Asia embraced the global ideals of modernization and industrialization. The program will introduce participants to current scholarship on Confucianism and enable them to develop new curricular materials for use in a wide range of humanities and social science courses.

A four-week institute for twenty-five college and university faculty examining how Buddhism has shaped East Asia, to be held on the adjacent campuses of the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center.

"Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics" is proposed as a four-week summer institute that will enable educators from community colleges, liberal arts colleges and universities to develop curricular content reflecting how Buddhism has both shaped and been shaped by cultures and societies in East Asia for nearly two thousand years. The program will enable participants to understand how Buddhism offered East Asians a new "total care system" that addressed both personal and social needs in ways that were inseparable from the dynamics of cultural interaction, artistic production, trade and politics, and will build on lessons learned from the very successful 2015 institute on "Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions and Transformations."

A four-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to study womens roles in and contributions to Buddhism.

This 4-week, Level II residential institute program for college and university teachers is planned to take place June 6 to July 1, 2022. The Institute will be offered by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), a national initiative of the East-West Center, and is designed to meet the needs of twenty-five educators in community colleges, liberal arts colleges and universities.

A five-week summer institute on Southeast Asia for twenty-five college teachers to explore the history of religion, literature, art, music, and politics in this crossroads of Asian cultures.

A five-week institute in Hawai'i for twenty-five college and university teachers on the historical dynamics of cultural change in China.

The Ideal and the Real: Arcs of Change in Chinese Culture is being proposed as a five-week summer institute to be held in Hawai`i under the auspices of the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), a national collaborative project jointly sponsored by the East-West Center and the University of Hawai`i. Through the proposed institute, 25 non-specialist, undergraduate educators will examine the historical interplay among religious, philosophical, social, political and artistic ideals and realities as a means of understanding the historical dynamics of cultural change in China and continuing through the country’s stunning re-emergence as a global leader.

A five-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university faculty exploring the ways in which Southeast Asian societies have historically coped with diversity and striven for unity.

The Dynamics of Cultural Unity and Diversity in Southeast Asia is being proposed as a five-week summer institute designed to enable undergraduate educators infuse significant content on Southeast Asian cultures and societies into their teaching. The challenges of teaching about a region as geographically and culturally varied as Southeast Asia will be met by investigating how its cultures and societies have themselves negotiated impulses for both unity and diversity, with a particular focus on how the interplay of indigenous and outside cultures of authority have distinctively shaped Southeast Asian religious, political, literary, artistic and historiographical traditions.

A five-week summer institute for twenty-five college faculty on Buddhism in Southeast Asian  societies.

"Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions and Transformations" will introduce undergraduate educators to Buddhism as a religion that has both shaped and been shaped by cultures and societies throughout Asia for more than twenty-five hundred years. The program will explore how Buddhism spread as a "total care system" that addressed both personal and social needs in ways that were inseparable from the dynamics of cultural interaction, artistic production, trade and politics. Through context-rich engagement with key traditions, practices, and primary texts (in translation), the institute will enable participants to appreciate how Buddhism served as a powerful cultural bridge in Asia, comparable to Christianity in the West, and to develop curricular materials applicable in a wide range of humanities courses, including courses in religion, philosophy, history, art history, and literature, but also courses organized around such themes as globalization and cultural pluralism.

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A cooperative agreement for a three-year project on cultural pluralism in the context of East and Southeast Asian history and traditions for faculty and academic administrators from fifteen community colleges.

The East-West Center develops a professional and curriculum development project that engages community college faculty and academic administrators in an examination of "the historical dynamics of cultural interaction in China and Southeast Asia," focusing on the arts, literature, religious traditions, knowledge systems, and trade. Participating campuses are organized in geographically based clusters led by Middlesex Community College (MA), Community College of Philadelphia, Johnson County Community College (KS), City College of San Francisco, and Community College of Baltimore County. Project activities open with a ten-day symposium in Honolulu where participants engage in intensive study with leading scholars and develop plans for new courses or curricular revisions. Symposium readings include historical studies of East and Southeast Asia, The Analects of Confucius, and a philosophical examination of the concept of diversity, as well as supplemental readings on the regions drawn from history, politics, philosophy, religion, art, and literature. Over the next two years, Asian studies scholars visit each community college cluster in order to mentor participants as they implement plans developed at the opening symposium. In addition to conducting faculty development workshops, the mentors give public lectures. These activities are supplemented by an online conference featuring project-related research. The project concludes with a two-day conference (site to be determined). In addition to the project director, lead scholars include Thomas Kasulis (philosophy, Ohio State University), Stanley Murashige (art history, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Morris Rossabi (history, Columbia University), and University of Hawai'i faculty members Roger Ames (philosophy), Paul Lavy (art history), and Barbara Andaya (history). Mentoring scholars are chosen based on the interests and needs of the participants.