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.
Religion and Globalization in Asia: Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the Coming Decade
Speakers in San Francisco explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the established and emerging religions of South and East Asia.
When:
March 13, 2009 12:00am to March 14, 2009 12:00am
Join us in beautiful San Francisco as keynote speakers Mark Juergensmeyer
(UC Santa Barbara), Saskia Sassen (Columbia), Nayan Chanda (Yale)-and ten
other presenters -- explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the
established and emerging religions of South and East Asia. How do
communication technologies, capital flows, security issues,
transnationalism, immigration and migration, and identity politics
contribute to social conditions in which some kinds of religious belief
and practice prosper and proliferate, while others are adversely affected?
Additional themes and issues can be found on our website at
http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/religionandglobalization.html.
If you wish to present a paper, please submit a 200 word abstract and
brief CV to the CFP address listed on our website no later than August 30,
2008. Each presenter will be awarded an honorarium of $350 to help defray
travel and conference expenses. Open registration for the
conference--which will be limited to 120 participants--will begin August
15 and end November 30, 2008. Sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific
Rim.
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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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Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.