Yukari Hirata, Harrington and Shirley Drake Chair in the Humanities; Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures; Director, Linguistics Program;

Co-Director, Center for Language and Brain

“How does the Japanese Tea Ceremony fit into Liberal Arts education?”                  

I have been exploring ways to introduce the Japanese tea ceremony as a compelling vehicle for students’ cultural study and embodied learning at Colgate. I will talk about findings from my semester-long tea ceremony practice in Kyoto, my recent tea room renovation project at Colgate by bringing specialists from Japan, and students’ experiential learning in Lawrence Hall. Finally, I will perform a portion of the tea ceremony in the new tea room as a demonstration of multimodal experience, and hope that someone from the audience can be the guest to receive a bowl of tea.

All are welcome.

Refreshments provided.

Reception begins at 4 PM.  Lecture begins at 4:15 PM.