Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Author Talk and Presentation with Belle Yang
Belle Yang presents her illustrations, paintings, comic book pages, work environment and images of her family in Carmel and old China.
When:
July 16, 2011 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Where
Artist and author Belle Yang will explore how the Chinese culture and history, from which she had distanced herself as a young immigrant to the United States, came to inform her artistic and philosophical journey as a writer and artist of a graphic novel, illustrated prose memoirs and picture books. She will present a Power Point presentation of her illustrations, paintings, comic book pages, work environment and images of her family in Carmel and old China. Examples include Forget Sorrow; An Ancestral Tale, a graphic novel documenting the hardships of 20th century China. The talk is in Mandarin. A book sale by Readers Bookstore follows the event.
Related exhibition: Forget Sorrow, Main Library, Jewett Gallery, July 2 – August 19, 2011.
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October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.