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, Borderlands & The Greater Mekong Region, II: Cultural Heritage
The University of Chicago will hold a conference on cultural heritage in the Greater Mekong Region.
When:
April 23, 2011 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
Presenters:
Gillen Wood (Department of English, University of Illinois)
The Seven Sorrows of Yunnan: Translating Famine Poetry of the Late Qing Dynasty
Tami Blumenfield (Department of Anthropology, University of Washington)
Na Ethnic Associations and the Culture Industry on the Yunnan-Sichuan Border
Robbie Barnett (Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University)
Imprinting the State on Architecture: The Question of "Nationality Characteristics" and Urban Modernization in Lhasa
Dan Shao (Department of History, University of Illinois)
Remote Homeland, Contested Borderland: Territoriality, Identity, and Manchus' Manchuria
Wei Zhao (School of Architecture, University of Illinois)
Local versus National Interests in the Promotion and Management of a Heritage Site
Tzu-kai Liu (Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois)
Re-constructing Cultural Heritage, Imagining Wa Primitiveness: State-Promoted Ethnic Tourism and the Vernacular Built Environment in the China/Myanmar Borderlands
Yongming Zhou (Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin)
Road Building, Spatial Reconfigurations and Cultural Branding in Yunnan, Southwest China
Jeffrey Adams (Global Heritage Fund)
Underwater Archaeology and Its Cultural Heritage Implications
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(217) 333-3616
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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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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.