Teaching Tea
April 27–28, 2024

The Teaching Tea symposium and workshop will take place at the Japan House Los Angeles and at UCLA April 27–28, 2024.

The public-facing portion of this event on April 27th will consist of short presentations and roundtable discussions among tea scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines (art history, anthropology, history, literature) on their approaches to teaching chanoyu.

A private workshop will follow to workshop the teaching materials that will later be uploaded to the Japan Past & Present site as open-access resources.

This project has two major goals: first, to provide an open, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge about tea history, culture, practice, and pedagogy that bridges the academic and practitioner/public divide. Second, to create high quality lesson plans and materials for instructors both experienced and inexperienced in Tea so that they may improve the depth and clarity of their pedagogical approaches to teaching about Tea practice in and beyond academic settings.