The Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) was launched in 1991 to enhance teaching about Asia at American two-year and four-year colleges and universities at the undergraduate level. In recent years, ASDP has also included Asian faculty in selected programs. Since its inception, more than 2,500 professors from the U.S. and Asia have participated in ASDP programs [read ASDP Mission here].
A joint program of the East-West Center and the University of Hawai‘i, ASDP offers a variety of content-focused faculty and institutional development programs and activities centered around summer residential institutes, field seminars in Asia, workshops on the U.S. mainland, and an annual academic conference.
ASDP Summer Workshops 2022
Women in Buddhism: An Introduction
June 10-11, 2022 |
This two-day online workshop will offer participants an introduction to women and their agency in Buddhist Asia. The program will include four lecture presentations, each followed by a content and curriculum development discussion. The program will conclude with breakout group curriculum dicscussions and a final plenary panel discussion with speakers. Prior to the workshop, participants will be provided short readings and bibliographies for each session.
> Registration is $35. Click here to register.
Letters of invitation will be sent to those who register for the program, and a certificate of completion to those who attend the full two-day program.
Modern China in Three Keys: History, Culture and Social Change
August 10-11, 2022
Understanding modern China is indispensable to understanding our contemporary and future worlds. This two-day online workshop will offer participants an intensive introduction to modern China through the lenses of history, the arts and ethnicity. The program will include three lecture presentations, each followed by small group and plenary curriculum development discussions. The workshop will conclude with a plenary panel and classroom application session. Prior to the workshop, participants will be provided short readings and bibliographies for each session.
> Registration is $35. Click here to register.
Letters of invitation will be sent to those who register for the program, and a certificate of completion to those who attend the full two-day program.
Postponed to Summer 2023
NEH Seminars and Institute Program
Women in Buddhism: Religion, Politics, and the Arts
Enhancing Undergraduate Chinese Studies and Southeast Asian Studies | Project Webpage
Modern China into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Contact ASDP
General Contact Information:
Asian Studies Development Program
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
Tel: 808-944-7337
FAX: 808-944-7070
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.eastwestcenter.org/asdp/
ASDP Listserv
ASDP Staff:
Peter Hershock, East-West Center Director of ASDP
Office: 808-944-7757
E-mail: [email protected]
Program Assistant
Office: 808-944-7337
E-mail: [email protected]