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FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to announce a weekend-long history institute on “Teaching Japan,” featuring a series of lectures by leading scholars in several fields. This program is specially designed for secondary school teachers and curriculum supervisors. Our aim is to enrich teachers’ understanding of Japan— from ancient times to the 21st century — covering history, culture, politics, society, and foreign relations. Participating teachers will have the opportunity to interact with nationally known scholars in Japanese studies and will be provided with information on high-quality instructional materials to help translate the weekend experience directly into the classroom.
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PRE-MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY
Jurgis Elisonas, Boskey Visiting Professor of History,
Willaims College, and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages, Culture
and History; co-editor of Proliferating Talent: Essays on
Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era (Univerity of Hawaii
Press, 1997) and author (as George Elison) of Deus Destroyed: The Image
of Christianity in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 1973).
MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY AND THE OCCUPATION
George Packard, President of the U.S.-Japan Foundation;
former director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where
he held the Reischauer Chair in East Asian Studies. The author of
eight books on Japan and East Asia, he received his Ph.D. from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
JAPANESE POLITICS
Leonard Schoppa, Associate Professor of Government and
Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia; author of Bargaining with Japan:
What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (Columbia University Press,
1997), and of articles in Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Japanese
Studies, and International Organization.
THE JAPANESE ECONOMY: THE MIRACLE AND THE MALAISE
Edward Lincoln, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution;
former Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale in Tokyo
(1994-96); author of Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic
Reform (2001) and Japan’s New Global Role (1993).
U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS AND EAST ASIAN SECURITY
Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton
University; author of many books on Russia, China, and Japan, writing
extensively on how each of these countries perceives the others; his books
include Russia and East Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment
(M.E. Sharpe, 1999) and Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to
Normalization (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SOCIETY
Anne Imamura, a sociologist who has taught at Sophia
University (Tokyo), the Univ. of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), the Univ. of
Maryland, and Georgetown University, where she is an Adjunct Professor;
Chair, Asia Studies, National Foreign Affairs Training Center; editor of
Re-Imaging Japanese Women (Univ. of California Press, 1996)
JAPANESE EDUCATION
Lucien Ellington, UC Foundation Professor of Education at
the University of Tennessee and Editor of Education about Asia, a
K-12 teaching journal sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies;
has published extensively on Japan, and his books include Education in
the Japanese Lifecycle: Implications for the United States and Japan:
A Global Studies Handbook (ABC CLIO, 2002).
(The conference begins 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 19, and concludes at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 20.)
Social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors and junior college faculty are invited to apply for participation in the History Institute. Forty participants will be selected to receive:
To apply, please send a résumé and a short statement describing your current teaching or professional assignments, your reasons for wanting to attend, and how your students or school district will benefit from your participation. IMPORTANT NOTE: At the time of application, you are asked to make a commitment either to prepare a curriculum unit based on the weekend or to do in-service activities based on the weekend.
SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS BY AUGUST 15 BY MAIL, FAX, OR E-MAIL TO:
Alan H. Luxenberg, Director, Wachman Fund
Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel. 215-732-3774, ext. 305
Fax 215-732-4401
E-mail fpri@fpri.org
Space is limited; so please apply early. If you cannot attend but would like to be on our mailing list, please let us know by phone, fax, or email.
Founded in 1955, FPRI is an independent, nonprofit organization devoted to advanced research and public education on international affairs. It brings the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests abroad. Its Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education sponsors public lectures and programs for high school teachers designed to promote understanding of America’s role in world affairs. FPRI publications include Orbis, a quarterly journal of world affairs edited by David Eisenhower, and E-Notes, a weekly bulletin disseminated by email to 18,000 key people in 85 countries.
In 1996, FPRI inaugurated a series of weekend history institutes, chaired by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall. Eight history institutes have been held to date, with keynote addresses by the nation’s leading historians, including William McNeill on “What We Mean By the West” and William McNeill, again, on “Multiculturalism in World History”; Gordon Wood on “The Lessons of History”; John Lewis Gaddis on “What We Now Know about the Cold War”; George Herring on “The Lessons of Vietnam,” Walter McDougall on “The Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy,”; Paul Griffiths on “What is Religion and Can It Be Taught?”; and Jeremy Black on “Mapping: Past and Present.” Materials from each of the history institutes are being made available on this website.
Foreign Policy
Research Institute
1528 Walnut St, Ste 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel. 215-732-3774
Fax 215-732-4401
fpri@fpri.org
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