[asiacouncil] Asia Council Faculty Development Workshop Reminder

[David L Starling]

Good Afternoon:


The Asia Council's Faculty Development Workshop on April 7th and 8th.   We have a great line-up of speakers.  (See below). Please make your faculty aware of this opportunity.


The link for the registration is:

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A Faculty Development Workshop - April 7–8, 2017 Location: Georgia State University Perimeter College Dunwoody Campus, NC-ND Building 2101 Womack Rd, Dunwoody, GA 30338






Brian Woodall ▪


Dr. Woodall is Professor of Political Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has held full-time faculty positions at Univ. Cal. Irvine and Harvard, with visiting appointments at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Tohoku University. His research focuses on issues of comparative political economy, comparative politics, international relations, and energy and environmental policies, with an emphasis on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. He is the author of Growing Democracy in Japan: The Parliamentary Cabinet System Since 1868 (University Press of Kentucky); Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works (University of California Press); and Japan's Changing World Role (Japan Society). Dr. Woodall has been interviewed on CNN, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Asahi Shimbun, and other media outlets.  He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in comparative politics, East Asia, Japanese politics and political economy, and U.S.-Japan relations.



Cheryl Crowley ▪


 Dr. Crowley is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Emory University and Director of the East Asian Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is Past President of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Her main research interests are literature and art of early modern Japan (1603-1868). Most of her publications focus on haikai, the ancestor of modern haiku. Her courses on Japanese and East Asian literature and culture include: Intro to East Asian Studies; Intro to Japanese Culture; Nature & Culture in Japan; Tale of Genji: Sensuality & Salvation; Samurai, Shôguns, & Women Warriors; Literary & Visual Culture in Japan; and Chinese Calligraphy.


Yoshi Domoto ▪


Mr. Domoto has dedicated his career to promoting mutual understanding between Japan and the U.S. through ties in commerce, culture, education and politics. He has worked with Japan-America Society of Georgia (JASG) since 2004, serving as Executive Director since 2008. He has been featured on television and radio, helped produce three documentary films – one on the history of Georgia-Japan relations, and spearheaded raising $400.000 for the 2011 Earthquake & Tsunami Relief. He was selected as Georgia Asian Times Top 25 Most Influential Asian-Americans in 2016.


Denis Gainty ▪


 Dr. Gainty is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as president of the Southeast World History Association and on the Executive Council of the World History Association. He is currently editor of the World History Bulletin. His publications include several book chapters and articles, translations of Japanese scholarship, and a world history reader. His first monograph, Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan, explores the meaning of martial arts for Japanese visions of nation and state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Gainty is currently writing a book on the history of bluegrass music in Japan.



Adam Lyons ▪


Mr. Lyons is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University (defending Spring 2017). His research focuses on religion and law in modern Japan. His dissertation topic is prison chaplaincy in Japan, and he has conducted archival research throughout Japan in addition to fieldwork inside the Japanese prison system. His research examines the role of religion in secular Japan by asking how religious ideas and rituals are both concealed and perpetuated in institutions of governance. Lyons has taught at Harvard University and at Keio University in Tokyo, and he has also lectured with the Common Good Atlanta program which offers college courses at Phillips State Prison in Georgia. JAP


David Starling
Chair, Asia Council
Valdosta State University

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