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.
2nd Annual Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in the Modern Chinese Humanities
2nd Annual Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in the Modern Chinese Humanities will be held at Stanford University on April 22- 23.
When:
April 22, 2011 2:00pm to April 23, 2011 6:00pm
This conference is designed to provide a venue for graduate students in the Chinese humanities to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production. Together with a keynote speech by a leading scholar of Chinese studies, these presentations will provide an introduction to leading young scholars and new topics in the Chinese humanities.
This year's Key Note Speaker is Tani Barlow of Rice University.
April 22, 2011 2-6PM
Panel 1 From the Top: Cultural History in the PRC
Di Yin Lu, "Inventing the Shanghai Museum"
Michale Evans, "Newspaper Mastheads and the Authority of Calligraphy in Contemporary China"
Vivian Li, "The Measure of Revolution: Rent Collection Courtyard"
Megan Steffen, "Nationalist Legacies of the Great Wall: The Shift from the Chinese Tradition of Iconclasm in the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony"
April 23, 2011 10AM -6PM
Panel 2 Anxieties and Adaptations: Changing Visual Modes of Representation in Modern China
Fongfong Chen, "Screens and Shadows: Artistic Pursuit of Wu Youru and His Anxiety in Late 19th Century Art World in Shanghai"
Sarah Dodd, "Liaozhai zhiyi and its Adaption: the HUman and the Monstrous"
Yao Wu, "Chinese Sons' Solicitude: Modern "Pietas" by Pang Xunqin and Wang Guangyi"
Panel 3 Discourses of Sexuality: Citizenship, Bodies and Constructions of Space
Hongwei Bao, "Beijing and Berlin: Sexuality, Space and Urban Citizenship in Post-1989 Cities"
June Lei, "Natural Curves: Changing Aesthetics of Female Breasts in Republican China (1911-1937)"
Bryna Tuft, "Self-ish Women: Individualized Writing and Privacy in the Works of Lin Bai"
Panel 4 Wartime Productions: Memory, Consumerism and Literary Imaginations
Sara Bush, "Commemorating the Nanchang Uprising: How the Chinese Communist Party Legitimized Its Use of Force, 1933-1953"
Nga-li Lam, "Wing-On Monthly and Consumer Culture in War-Time Shanghai"
Evelyn Shih, "Writing China from Wartime Taiwan and Japan: Chen Fengyuan and Kobayashi Hideo"
Cost:
Free
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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.