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.
China’s Internationalized Development Strategy: What this Means for Latin America
A joint conference sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies and The Young Initiative on the Global Economy at Occidental College.
When:
August 28, 2017 10:00am to August 29, 2017 5:00pm
August 28, USC
1:30–3:30 Session I (Social Sciences Building, SOS B40)
Moderator: Clayton Dube
China’s Internationalized Development Strategy
Shoujun Cui (Renmin University, Beijing)
Benjamin Creutzfeldt (Johns Hopkins University)
The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Chinese Agribusiness Investment
Gustavo Oliveira (Swarthmore College)
Xu Siyuan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Is Chinese Infrastructure Investment Really the Next Big Thing?
Leonardo Stanley (CEDES, Buenos Aires)
Victoria Chonn Ching
3:30–3:45 Break
3:45–6:00 Session II (Social Sciences Building, SOS B40)
Moderator: Brett Sheehan
Latin America in China’s New Reform Era
Margaret Myers (Inter-American Dialogue)
Di Dongsheng (Renmin University, Beijing)
China’s Economic Relations with LAC: Soft Power, Hard Power, or Smart Power?
Carol Wise (USC)
Nicolás Albertoni (USC)
China’s ‘Strategic Partners’ in Latin America: Energy Politics
Yanran Xu (Renmin University, Beijing)
August 29, Occidental College
10:00–12:00 Session III (Johnson Hall)
Moderator: Sanjeev Khagram
What Difference Do Diplomatic Relations Make? Chinese Development and Diplomacy Politics
Monica DeHart (University of Puget Sound)
Sources of Development Bank Finance for Big Extractive Projects: Does it Matter?
Kevin Gallagher (Boston University)
Rebecca Ray (U-Mass, Amherst)
Trump’s Jettisoning of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Might This Mean for ASEAN?
Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres (Independent Scholar)
Sophal Ear (Occidental College)
12:00–1:30 Public Forum: Finessing the China Relationship in the Trump Age (McKinnon Global Forum)
Moderator: Sanjeev Khagram
Panelists: Shoujun Cui, Monica DeHart, Gustavo Oliveira, Leonardo Stanley
1:30–2:30 Lunch
2:30–5:00 Writers’ Workshop (Johnson Hall)
Discussion and planning for paper completion and publication as a special issue of a refereed journal.
Contact Information
For more information on the sessions held at USC, contact cis@dornsife.usc. For the sessions held at Oxy, contact Chamnan Lim at: limc@oxy.edu.
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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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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.