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.
The Taiwan Issue in American Politics and US-China Relations
The George Washington University holds a lecture on the Taiwan issue.
When:
November 9, 2011 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Speaker:
Shelley Rigger -- Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science, Davidson College
Dr. Rigger will lecture on historical and modern-day relations between Taiwan, China, and the United States. Afterwards, we will have open student discussions on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China. Refreshments will be provided.
Shelley Rigger has a Ph.D in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). She is the author of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (2011) as well as two books on Taiwan's domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (2001). She has published articles on Taiwan's domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, "Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and 'Taiwan Nationalism'" was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people's perceptions of Mainland China.
Please RSVP to cdubwang@gwmail.gwu.edu.
Cost:
Free
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