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 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi
China historian Ruth Rogaski from Vanderbilt University will be giving a talk at the Indiana Memorial Union as part of Indiana University Bloomington's Nineteenth Century Modernities Colloquium.
Where
Friday April 2
University Club of the Indiana Memorial Union
1:00 pm Michael Leja (Art History, University of Pennsylvania), “Problems in Early Mass Visual Culture”
2:30 pm Coffee Break
2:45 pm Jan Goldstein (History, University of Chicago), "Political Affiliations of the Flesh in Nineteenth-Century France."
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm Jane Thrailkill (English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina), "Darwin's Children: Henry James, Stephen Crane, and the Art of Immaturity"
Reception: 5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Club
Saturday April 3
Walnut Room in the Indiana Memorial Union
9:30 am Ruth Rogaski (History, Vanderbilt University) “The 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi”
10:45 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), “Mapping a Mobile Land: Landscape and Governance in Colonial India."
1:30 pm Lara Kriegel (History, Florida International University), "’A New Order of Valour’: The Victoria Cross, the Crimean War, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernity”
3:00-4:00 pm Roundtable with
Sarah Burns (Art History, Indiana University)
Michael Dodson (History, Indiana University)
Rebecca Spang (History, Indiana University)
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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
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.