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.
Conference on Buddhist Ethics
The USC East Asian Studies Center presents a conference on the application of Buddhist ethics to modern social issues.
Where
The conference host is Rongdao Lai, assistant professor in the School of Religion at USC. Like the first conference, held at Dickinson College in the summer of 2016, the conference organizers envision a small, intimate gathering of scholars who have an interest in the application of Buddhist principles to important social issues. The 2018 conference will consider Buddhist resources for thinking about two or three important topics (yet to be determined). It is hoped that the conference will help to nurture a community to promote the study of Buddhist ethics.
To achieve the goal of a small, intimate gathering, participation in the conference will be by invitation only. The conference organizers will invite an array of scholars who work in the areas to be discussed, attempting to get a mix of different specialties and people who are in different stages of their careers. Each session will begin with a presentation of not more than 30 minutes in which a speaker will summarize the principle resources in Buddhist texts for the area, provide historical context, and raise questions for discussion. The questions will have been circulated to participants in advance of the conference. There will then follow a discussion moderated by one or more of the conference organizers and the speaker.
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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.