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 Rising
Principia College's Public Affairs Conference celebrates its 60th anniversary by presenting a conference on China's rise in politics, economics, resources, and culture.
When:
April 2, 2009 12:00am to March 4, 2009 12:00am
Public Affairs Conference 2009
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, Principia College's Public Affairs Conference is the oldest student-run conference of its kind in the United States. Every year at PAC, student delegates gather together with professional experts and faculty to discuss the most relevant issues of the time. This year's conference will be on China Rising - particularly on China's politics, economics, resources, and culture.
Speakers confirmed for this year's PAC include Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and recent lecturer for the BBC Reith Lecture Series; Minxin Pei, senior associate in the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Cheng Li, senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center and the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College. Other speakers will include Elizabeth Economy, David Michael Lampton and Nicholas Lardy.
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Program:
Thursday, April 2
8:00 – 10:00 pm David Michael Lampton The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds
Friday, April 3
9:00 – 10:30 am Panel Session 1: Regional Perspectives on Rising China
* Speaker 1- China and its Asian Neighbors
* Speaker 2- China and Africa
* Speaker 3- China and Latin America
10:45 – 12:15 pm Panel Session 2: The Chinese Economy
* Nicholas Lardy - Understanding China’s Remarkable Economic Growth
* Speaker 2 - The Experience of Foreign Business in China
* Daniel Wright - The U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
12:30 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 pm Elizabeth Economy: China’s Environmental Crisis
2:45 – 5:30 pm Policy Workshops according to assignment.
6:30 – 7:45 pm Banquet
8:00 – 10:00 pm Cheng Li and Minxin Pei: China’s Political Future: Decay or Development?
Saturday, April 4
9:00 – 10:00 am Albert Willner: China: Security Perspectives
10:15 – 11:45 am Panel Session 3: Human Rights in China
* Speaker 1- The Current Human Rights Situation
* Speaker 2- Human Rights and Outside Pressure
* Speaker 3- Tibet
12:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch in Workshop Groups followed by Workshop Presentations
3:00 – 4:30 pm Jonathan Spence: China and the United States: Past and Future
Cost:
$60
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