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Thursday, April 1, 2004
Landscape, Food, and Performance Arts
12:30-1:00 pm Registration, University of Maryland
 

 

ASY Atrium Lobby
1:00 pm

 

Depart by bus for US National Arboretum
1:30-5:00 pm Exploring Culture through Landscape:
 

 

Knot and Herb Garden Tour with Jim Adams, curator of the National Herb Garden
 

 

Bonsai Collection Tour and Workshop with Jack Sustic, curator of the National Bonsai Museum
5:00 pm Return by bus to University of Maryland
5:30-7:00 pm Exploring Culture through Food
 

 

Comparative Food Lecture by Margaret Anne Coyle, University of Maryland, over an Elizabethan Style Dinner
 

 

CSPAC (Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland) 1809
7:30-10:00 pm Exploring Culture through Performance
 

 

Comparative Theater Workshop and Puppet Performances, directed by Ben Fisler, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
 

 

CSPAC 3730
   
Friday, April 2, 2004
History, Textiles, and Visual Arts
8:30-10:00 am Exploring Culture through History: England and Japan   (A.D.1500 to 1800)
 

 

Comparative Cultures Lecture by Tom Rimer, Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Pittsburgh
  English Style Breakfast Buffet
  ASY 2203
10:00 am Depart by bus for The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
10:30-1:00 pm Exploring Culture through Textiles: The Kimono in Edo Japan
 

 

The Textile Museum Tour and Workshop with Theresa Esterlund, Director of Education, and Lydia Fraser, Assistant Curator for Eastern Hemisphere Collections
1:00 -2:00 pm Travel by bus to the Freer and Sackler Galleries--Bento box lunches from the Tako Grill, Bethesda, MD en route
2:30-5:00 pm Exploring Culture through Visual Arts: Exploring Tokagowa Japan through the Visual Arts
 

 

Freer and Sackler Galleries Tour and Workshop with Elizabeth Benskin, Museum Educator for School and Teacher Programs
5:00-5:30 pm Travel by bus to the Japan Inn, Washington, DC
5:30-7:30 pm Traditional Japanese Dinner at the Japan Inn
8:00 pm Return by bus to University of Maryland
   
Saturday, April 3, 2004
Teaching Comparatively
8:00-8:30 am Coffee and conversation
  Display of Books and Media for Classroom Use
8:30-9:30 am Exploring Culture through Comparative Literary Arts
 

 

Comparative Literature Lecture, "Poetry and Women's Roles in Heian and Later Japan and Elizabethan England," by Jane Donawerth, Department of English, University of Maryland
 

 

ASY 3203
9:30-10:00 am Coffee Break - ASY Third-floor lobby
10:00-10:50 am Concurrent Workshops:
 

1. Exploring Culture through Theater and Film

 

 

Shakespearean Drama as a Classroom Bridge to Japan: Hamlet/Chushingura, Romeo and Juliet/Love Suicides at Amijima, Macbeth/Throne of Blood with Lee Viccellio, Independent Scholar
 

 

ASY 3207
 

2. Exploring Culture through Textiles

 

 

Clothing Workshop with Debra Kim Sivigny, Department of Theatre, University of Maryland

 

 

ASY 3203
11:00-11:50 am Concurrent Workshops:
 

1. Exploring Culture through Visual Arts

 

 

Landscape Representation in Renaissance Art with Phoebe Avery, Department of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland
 

 

ASY 3211
 

2. Exploring Culture through Theater and Film

 

 

Shakespearean Drama as a Classroom Bridge to Japan: Hamlet/Chushingura, Romeo and Juliet/Love Suicides at Amijima, Macbeth/Throne of Blood with Lee Viccellio, Independent Scholar
 

 

ASY 3207
12:00-12:50 pm Picnic Box Lunches - ASY Third-floor lobby and sundeck
1:00-1:50 pm Concurrent Workshops:
  1. Exploring Culture through Textiles
 

 

Clothing Workshop with Debra Kim Sivigny, Department of Theatre, University of Maryland
 

 

ASY 3203
  2. Exploring Culture through Visual Arts
 

 

Landscape Representation in Renaissance Art with Phoebe Avery, Department of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland
 

 

ASY 3211
2:00-3:00 pm

Exploring Culture through Objects: Learning through Artifacts: Japanese Culture Revealed through Artifacts

 

 

With Larry MacDonald, Associate Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region Japan-in-the-Schools (MARJiS), University of Maryland
 

 

ASY 3203
3:10-4:45 pm Exploring Culture through Performance and Participation
 

 

Tea Ceremony presented by The Urasenke Foundation Washington, DC Branch
 

 

West Gallery - ASY 1309
 

 

ASY3211 - dressing room
4:45-5:30 pm Wrap-Up and Evaluation
  ASY 3207
   
   

FOLLOW-UP SESSION I: TEACHING COMPARATIVELY

October 30, 2004
University of Maryland
8:30 am-9:00 am Registration and coffee
9:00 am-9:30 am Greetings, introductions, brief demonstration of CAST website, and group goal setting for formatting and posting lesson plans
9:30 am-10:30 am Exploring Culture through Textiles: Symbolism in Edo Period Textiles
    Lecture and discussion with Ann Marie Moeller, textile scholar and author
10:30 am-12:30 pm 10-minute demonstration/presentations of lesson plans by 12 participants
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Japanese noodles catered lunch
1:30 pm- 4:30 pm 10-minute demonstration/presentation of lesson plans by 18 participants
4:30 pm-5:30 pm Exploring Culture through Ceramics: Creating Tea Bowls
 

 

Demonstration and hands-on workshop with ceramics teacher Terry Murray
5:30 pm-6:00 pm Question/Answer/Evaluation
   
   
FOLLOW-UP SESSION II: SHARING COMPARATIVELY
April 30, 2005
National Gallery of Art
10:00 am Meet at the National Gallery of Art
10:30 am-12:30 pm

Guided tour of National Gallery of Art Interior Gardens including Japanese Garden in East Building, Courtyard Gardens in West Building.

12:30 pm-1:30 pm Lunch on own at the National Gallery Cascade Café
1:30 pm-4:00 pm Exploring Culture through Art: Landscapes in Art
 

 

Guided tour of landscape painting in the National Gallery of Art
4:00 pm-4:30 pm Tea Break
4:30 pm-5:00 pm Question/Answer/Evaluation Discussion