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.
As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis
Judith Shapiro will discuss the domestic and international implications of China's environmental crisis, with a focus on problems of governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and the displacement of environmental harm.
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Judith Shapiro is the director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development program for the School of International Service at American University. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after US-China relations were normalized in 1979, and she taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha, China. Her research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy, the environmental politics of Asia, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of seven books, including China's Environmental Challenges (2012), Mao’s War against Nature (2001), Son of the Revolution with Liang Heng (1983), and After the Nightmare with Liang Heng (1987).
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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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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.