Upcoming Events & Sustainability Activities

As the NCTA program has grown and expanded across the country, we have become increasingly interested in exploring ways that we can strengthen NCTA alumni teachers' interest in and commitment to improving teaching about East Asia. Within the Pittsburgh region we will support the following types of sustainability activities:

• Support for seminars and workshops
• Support for professional development including trips to museums and other cultural events
• Networking opportunities for NCTA alumni
• Purchase of Asia-related teaching materials
• Support for attendance at professional conferences

 

NCTA Program with Author Linda Sue Park

NCTA Alumni will be able to take part in a program featuring Linda Sue Park, author of A Single Shard. The program will take place on Feburary 18, 2013 at Winchester Thurston School in PIttsburgh. More information about the event, including registration, will be forthcoming.

 

 

NCTA Seminar Series: 2012-13

Beginning in the Fall of 2012 we are inaugurating a new Seminar Series exclusively for NCTA alumni and associates. This new format will begin with a brief presentation by the speaker to be followed by open discussion based on the questions of the participants.  Therefore, it is essential that attendees read and prepare questions based on the reading(s) which will be sent to all those who register.

 

Note: you do not have to attend all of the seminars, since each seminar stands on its own.

 

Seminar 1: "China’s Maternal Welfare and Child Care Policy:  20th Century Approaches and Future Challenges"

WEDNESDAY  DECEMBER 5, 2012  6:00 P.M. TO 8:P.M. 4130 Posvar Hall

 

Discussion leader/speaker:  Dr. Tina Phillips Johnson, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Chinese Studies Program at St. Vincent College.  Tina received her PhD from Pitt in 2006 and teaches courses in both ancient and modern East Asian History.  Her book, Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity, was published in August of 2011.  For those of you who register for this seminar we will send you an article entitled, Maternal and Child Health in 19th to 21st Century China.  We are fortunate to have limited access to this article since it will be one chapter in a forthcoming publication in the China Medical Board’s centenary publication on Western medicine in China. This material will provide the basis for our seminar discussion.

 

To register for Seminar 1, please email Patrick Hughes at hughespw@pitt.edu by November 30, 2012 with your name, the school at which you teach, and the subject(s) you teach.

 

For more information and a registration form: China's Maternal Welfare flyer

 

 

Seminar 2: SATURDAY  JANUARY 12, 2013  10:00 to noon  4130 Posvar Hall

Discussion leader/speaker:  Jay Li, Duquesne University

Jay’s recent book focuses on the Chinese view of the US throughout the twentieth century.  I think the most interesting parts of his research deal with the ‘50’s, 60’s and ‘80’s.  Jay was, of course, living in China during those years and brings a lot of personal experience to this subject.

 

Seminar 3: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2013  6:00 to 8:00 P.M.  4130 Posvar Hall

Discussion leaders/speakers:  Pam Burrett, Patrick Hickey, Jennifer Kraar, NCTA teachers from Mt. Lebanon, Frick Pittsburgh, Winchester-Thurston

These three teachers participated in the Hangzhou Summer Residential Program in July, 2012.  They will share with you their implementation projects based on the summer experience.  The topics to be covered are Religion in Contemporary China, Readers in China, and Tangible/Intangible Culture: Tea, Religion, Folk Tales.

                 

Seminar 4: SATURDAY MARCH 9, 2013  9:00 TO 1:00 p.m.  4130 Posvar Hall

Discussion leader/speaker:  Cindy McNulty, NCTA teacher from Oakland Catholic

During the summer of 2012 Cindy participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities institute, “Chinese Film and Society”, run by the University of Illinois.
Here is Cindy’s comment on the program’s focus.

 Our program exposed us to Chinese cinema from the silent era and the "leftist films" of the 1930's to the Fifth Generation films of Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuang Huang. After establishing this foundation, the curriculum shifted to the Sixth Generation and documentary film makers who are much more concerned about contemporary China than the previous directors and film makers who seemed to have the need to examine China's past, particularly the Mao years and the Cultural Revolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For information about previous seminars and events, see Past Enrichment Seminars.