OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

East Asian Studies


  • Seminar: Breezes from Lands Below the Winds in the Ryukyus (8/22/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Talk Story Discussion on Okinawan Identity (9/5/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Women Executives in Corporate Japan: Navigating the Tensions between Family and Fortune (9/10/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Seidensticker Retrospective (9/14/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: The Walking Meditation to the 88 Sacred Temples of Shikoku (9/20/2007)
  • History that Opens the Future: A Conference Concerning a Multinational East Asian History Textbook (10/8/2007 - 10/9/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Genji and the Will of Sumiyoshi (10/15/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: The Crossing of Boundaries between the Religious and Social Constructions of Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives: The Case Study of Chujohime (10/25/2007)
  • Nippon Culture Day (11/2/2007)
  • 4th East Asian Tea Culture Symposium (11/3/2007)
  • 4th Panel Discussion: Culture and Peace in East Asia (11/4/2007)
  • "Pre-war History of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Japan Collection" (11/5/2007)
  • "Where Shall Libraries Go from Here" (11/7/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Pumping for the Friends, Fueling the Debate: Japan in the Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) (11/8/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: Classifying Kokugaku: Nativism and Exceptionalism in Tokugawa Japan (11/16/2007)
  • Newsletter: East Asia Digest, 2007 (12/1/2007)
  • Newsletter: J-Current Fall Issue (12/1/2007)
  • CJS Seminar: The Problems of Loudspeakers in Japan (1/17/2008)
  • Workshop: Gender Problems with a Focus on the Japanese Language (2/7/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Amorous Watermarks (2/14/2008)
  • Japan's Economic Ties with China: A Focus on Industrial Investment and Technology Transfer Policies (3/1/2008)
  • Hybrid Online Language Course Using TV Program and Movies with Focus on Listening and Speaking (Korean) (3/5/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: The Last 10 Years in Hiroshima (3/6/2008)
  • Program Evaluation Activities in the Undergraduate Japanese Language Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (3/8/2008)
  • Workshop on Migration Projects with the University of the Ryukyus (3/8/2008)
  • Andrews Chair Lecture: Okinawan Language Revitalization (3/17/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Japanese Traditional Medicine in Cosmic Harmony (3/19/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Insights on the Academic Job Search (3/20/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Bashofu, Japan's Mingei Movement and a Creation of a New Okinawan during the Occupation Years (1945-1972) (3/31/2008)
  • Physical Space VS Cyberspace: Stories, Issues, and Vision of Chinese Collections (4/4/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: National Branding Japan (4/10/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Illustrated Classical Texts for Women in the Edo Period (4/17/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Kitty Subversion: Turning Cute on its Head (4/18/2008)
  • CJS Seminar: Political Ties of Visible and Invisible Social Movements in Contemporary Japan (4/24/2008)
  • Newsletter: J-Current, Spring 2008 (5/1/2008)
  • Proficiency through Korean TV Dramas (6/27/2008)
  • Chinese Language Immersion Sports Camp (7/3/2008 - 7/25/2008)
  • Chinese Language Teacher Training Workshop (8/3/2008 - 8/9/2008)
  • CJS Co-Sponsored seminar Java and Japan A new view of the Yayoi revolution (9/5/2008)
  • Japans Economic Ties with China A Focus on Industrial Investment (9/16/2008)
  • Seminar Careers Seminar with Jonathan Henick (9/25/2008)
  • Background, Motivation, and Reading Ability of Students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (10/16/2008)
  • CJS Seminar Reconstructing the past the medieval reception of Manyoshu (10/30/2008)
  • Enhancing Evaluation of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature Programs at UHM Developing Online Student Exit Survey System. Strengthening Student Success Assessment in Action (11/10/2008)
  • CJS Seminar From Kokusaika to Tabunka Kyosei (11/13/2008)
  • CJS Seminar Media, Memory and the Repatriation of Koreans from Japan to North Korea (1/29/2009)
  • Chinese Language Workshop for Elementary Teachers (2/1/2009 - 3/8/2009)
  • CJS Seminar The Internationalization of Nihonga Japanese painting (2/12/2009)
  • Chinas Telecommunications Revolution and Implications for a Future International Role (2/17/2009)
  • CJS Seminar In Search of Takeda Omis Legacy The Karakuri Ningy (3/5/2009)
  • Teaching Heritage Language Studies Definition, Placement, and Curriculum Development (3/5/2009)
  • 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation ICLDC Supporting Small Languages Together (3/12/2009 - 3/14/2009)
  • CJS co-sponsored seminar Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence The Japanese Experience. (3/13/2009)
  • Tenshu Monogatari (3/13/2009)
  • Chinese Language Workshop for Community School Teachers (3/15/2009)
  • Discussion on the Photo Exhibit Muslims in Asia at the Winston-Salem State University in N. Carolina (3/15/2009)
  • Examining Approaches to Advanced-Level Foreign Language Competence in Less Commonly Taught Languages (3/19/2009)
  • Where is Okinawan Studies Headed? conference (3/19/2009 - 3/21/2009)
  • Workshop for training teachers in Japanese Foreign Language Instruction (3/19/2009)
  • Korean Language Media Resources for Teachers (3/31/2009 - 4/30/2009)
  • Teacher Training, Foreign Language Teachers, 9-16 (4/4/2009)
  • CJS Seminar A Japanese in every Jet (4/16/2009)
  • CJS co-sponsored seminar Japanese Womens Participation in Transnational Womens Activism, 1870s-1880s. (4/17/2009)
  • Becoming Proactive about Assessment and Evaluation Approaches, Benefits, and Challenges (4/18/2009)
  • Introducing, Read Chinese! Project (4/29/2009)
  • CJS co-sponsored seminar The Earliest Peopling of Japan and its Role in the Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions Debate. (4/30/2009)
  • CJS Seminar A matter of life and death Looking at Old works of art through the eyes of Kawabata. (4/30/2009)
  • Introducing, Read Chinese! Project (5/1/2009)
  • Introducting Encounters Chinese Language and Culture (5/2/2009)
  • The Politics of Muslim Migration in Japan (5/12/2009)
  • Mingei Yanagi Soetsu and the Folk Art Movement Art Academy Exhibit (5/15/2009 - 9/6/2009)
  • Dr. Robert Skipp Orr Luncheon (5/28/2009)
  • Pre-College Summer Program Junior Track middle school Class A and Class B (6/15/2009 - 7/10/2009)
  • Pre-College Summer Program Senior Track KOR 211, 212, 301, 302 (6/15/2009 - 7/24/2009)
  • Newsletter J-Current Spring Issue (6/18/2009)
  • Curriculum Development for Advancing Heritage Language Competence (6/22/2009)
  • NFLRC Online Summer Institute for Non-Native Teachers of Chinese and Japanese (6/22/2009 - 7/3/2009)
  • K-12 Korean Language Programs in the U.S. (6/26/2009)
  • Pre-College Summer Program Part 1 (6/26/2009)
  • Pre-College Summer Program Part 2 (6/26/2009)
  • Toward a Comprehensive Model of K-18 KFL Articulation (6/26/2009)
  • Karate From Okinawa to Hawaii (7/1/2009 - 8/28/2009)
  • Okinawan Karate Exhibit at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii (7/1/2009 - 8/28/2009)
  • Chinese Development Policies (7/29/2009)
  • 2nd Chinese Language Workshop for Elementary School Teachers (9/28/2009 - 11/9/2009)
  • Second Cultura Conference Web-based Intercultural Exchanges (10/10/2009 - 10/11/2009)
  • Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (10/11/2009 - 10/13/2009)
  • The Changing of the Guard in Japan Its impact and significance for Japans domestic politics and relations with the United States, China, Asia, and Europe (10/13/2009)
  • Salute to Madame Kawakita at the Hawaii International Film Festival (10/16/2009 - 10/18/2009)
  • Ukiyo-e and Kabuki Performance (10/19/2009)
  • Gender and Labor in Korea and Japan (10/23/2009)
  • Building Blocks Cultivating Relationships in Japan for the 3rd Annual U.S. Army, Pacific Equal Opportunity Leaders Conference (11/4/2009)
  • Japanese Girl Stuff Trends and Innovations in Popular Culture (11/9/2009)
  • Freaks, Misfits, and Other Maimed Souls Kirino Natsuo and the Allure of Grotesque (11/13/2009)
  • Film screening of Harimaya Bridge (2/7/2010)
  • 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (2/9/2010 - 2/13/2010)
  • China and Issues of Cyber Security (2/11/2010)
  • The Kanrinmaru Arrives at San Francisco A crucial Turning Point in the 150 -Year History of Japan-U.S. Relations (3/12/2010)
  • Awaodori dancers from Tokushima, Japan (3/15/2010)
  • Developing the Next Generation of Global Leaders (3/15/2010)
  • Korean Ways of Politeness through Authentic TV Dramas (3/25/2010)
  • Coercion, Compliance and Resistance in Wartime Japan, 1942-1945 (4/5/2010)
  • The Fragility of Sobriety Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan (4/9/2010)
  • What Every Teacher Should Know about Classroom Testing (4/10/2010)
  • Advanced Japanese Online Implementing Instructional Design for Teaching the Four Skills (4/29/2010)
  • Chinas Economic Development (4/29/2010)
  • Kokugaku and Wagaku Usages and Meanings, Edo and Meiji (4/30/2010)
  • Make Your Class More Vivid Teaching Chinese with Modern Technology (5/1/2010)
  • Summer STARTALK Chinese Language Program (7/1/2010 - 7/23/2010)
  • Moving Up and Out The Shop Girl in Interwar Japan (9/24/2010)
  • Utsushi The Art of Copying (10/12/2010)
  • Preparing Learners for the Real World The Challenges of Teaching Advanced Oral Skills for L2 Learners (10/21/2010)
  • Enduring Landscapes Subjective Formation and Governance in a Central Japanese Forest (10/22/2010)
  • Kabuki Symposium Negotiating Historical, Geographical and Cultural Borders (11/13/2010)
  • Lets Learn Korean (12/3/2010)
  • K-16 Articulation for Korean Old Challenges and New Successes (1/20/2011)
  • 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (2/9/2011 - 2/13/2011)
  • Aging with Robots in Japan A Future with Emotional Technology (2/11/2011)
  • Film Screening Cant Go Native? (2/18/2011)
  • Korean Language Teacher Training Workshop (2/19/2011 - 3/19/2011)
  • Kabuki Lecture Demonstration (2/26/2011)
  • Kabuki Scene and Prop Construction Workshop (2/28/2011 - 4/4/2011)
  • Center for Japanese Studies Pecha-Kucha night (3/4/2011)
  • Creating Content-Based Teaching Materials for Advanced Japanese Courses (3/5/2011)
  • On Training Junior Korean Studies Librarians at the 2nd Kyujanggak Workshop for Overseas Korean Studies Librarians (3/15/2011)
  • Lecture-Demonstration of Kabuki Percussion (3/19/2011)
  • Kabuki Percussion Improv (3/20/2011)
  • The Convergence of Literacy Instruction and Online Technologies in a Balanced Curriculum of Chinese for Professionals (3/24/2011)
  • Explicit Instruction of Discourse Pragmatics for Advanced JFL Learners Preparing Learners for L2 Use after Graduation (3/28/2011)
  • Assessing Learning Outcomes for Post-basic Japanese Language Learner (4/2/2011)
  • Be Informative and Engaging Teaching Advanced JFL Learners to Manage Discourse Pragmatic Challenges (4/2/2011)
  • Tour of the Honolulu Fish Auction (4/2/2011)
  • Arbitrating Japan Traders as Critics of Capitalism (4/4/2011)
  • Charting New Possibilities for the Center for Japanese Studies (4/8/2011)
  • Kabuki Performances The Vengeful Sword Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba in English (4/8/2011 - 4/23/2011)
  • Pre-Show Chat at the Kabuki (4/9/2011)
  • Pre-Show Chat at Kabuki Performance (4/23/2011)
  • 2011 Summer Institute Online Learning Communities for Less Commonly Taught Languages (7/11/2011 - 7/15/2011)
  • Maintaining the Tradition of Hawaii Kabuki (8/11/2011)

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