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-US Economic Law Conference
On February 11, 2011, the University of Michigan Law School, the Wayne State Law School and the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies will jointly convene a one day academic conference to discuss legal and regulatory aspects of the U.S.-China economic, trade and investment relationship.
Where
The strong focus of the meeting will be on how the relationship works through the WTO mechanism (with debate on current cases and controversies), but will also touch on the currency question, labor issues, technology sharing and cross-investment, and environmental policy and climate change negotiations.
A flyer with more detail on the panels and presenters is attached in PDF format. Attendance is free of charge (other than a nominal charge for the lunchtime keynote presentation), but we ask people to register at the site noted below.
Confirmed participants at the meeting include:
Charlene Barshefsky, former USTR
Sungjoon Cho, Chicago Kent Law School
Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan Economics Department and Ford School of Public Policy Merit Janow, Columbia University and former WTO Appellate Body member Li Yongjie, Director, PRC MofCom Department of Treaty and Laws Julia Qin Ya, Professor, Wayne State Law School Tim Stratford, Partner, Covington & Burling and former Director USTR China Desk Zang Dongsheng, University of Washington Law School Zhao Minyuan, Ross Business School Zhang Ruosi, WTO Secretariat, Geneva
A number of our ChinaPol colleagues will also participate, including Mary Gallagher, Scott Kennedy, John Ohnesorge, Amy Porges, Dan Rosen and Mark Wu.
You can register for the conference at
law.wayne.edu/us-
(313) 577-3620.
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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.
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/1zer188RE9dCS6Ho6
Events
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.