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 Population Challenges
Barbara Pillsbury examines population policy, family planning dynamics and the dilemma of the aging population in China.
China, with the world's largest population, is facing some of the world's most dramatic population challenges. Dr Pillsbury will summarize major challenges and invite discussion on the following topics:
• Population policy and family planning dynamics
• Two Chinas and Migration for a better life
• The dilemma of the aging population
• People facing epidemics: AIDS, SARS, Avian flu and what next?
Dr. Barbara Pillsbury is a cultural and medical anthropologist, specialized in the design, management and evaluation of socioeconomic development programs in developing countries, especially in Asia. She has worked extensively in China, conducting research, training workshops, evaluations and strategic planning for Chinese governmental agencies and international organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Agency (UNFPA) and UNICEF. Most recently she was team leader for the 2008 Review of the Government of China-UNFPA Country Programme (which contributed to renewal of the U.S. government’s contributions to UNFPA). Dr. Pillsbury brings to China comparative perspectives from work in other parts of the world with many governmental and non-governmental agencies. She has published widely (including in Chinese) and held numerous academic appointments, including UCLA, USC, Taiwan Normal University, and Columbia University. Her early career focused on ethnicity and Islam (PhD dissertation on Islam in China, for Columbia University).
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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.