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.
2009 Triangle East Asia Colloquium: Animals in East Asian History and Culture
The annual Triangle East Asia Colloquium will explore the topic of animals in East Asian history and culture.
When:
April 16, 2010 5:15pm to April 17, 2010 5:00pm
Tentative Program:
Friday, April 16, 2010:
5:15-6:30 pm
Keynote Address: "The Establishment of Monkey Parks in Postwar Japan," John Knight, Queen's University Belfast
Saturday, April 17, 2010:
9:00-10:30 pm
Presentation: "Mohammed Ali and Other Creatures of the Japanese Colonial Imagination," Ian Miller, Harvard University
Discussant: David Ambaras, North Carolina State University
10:30-10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 pm
Presentation: "Water, Toxins, and the Creaturely in Cinema," Christine Marran, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm
Presentation: "'When Chickens Fly Up to the Trees and When Ducks Refuse to Go into the Water': Animals and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China," Fa-ti Fan, State University of New York, Binghamton
Discussant: Michael Tsin, UNC Chapel Hill
3:00-3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 pm
Presentation: "Wheels on the Silk Road: Camels and Horses in Han and Tang China, "Wei-Cheng Lin, UNC Chapel Hill
Discussant: Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University
5:00 pm
Reception and Tour of the Ackland Art Museum's Silk Road Exhibit
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October 20, 2024
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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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.