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.
Documenting China's Wild Places and Conservation Efforts
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a conversation with award-winning conservation photographer and writer Kyle Obermann. His work documents the evolution of China’s nature reserves, national parks, and grassroots environmental groups.
China’s efforts to protect and restore its panda population are well-known, but relatively few know much about its other work to protect wilderness areas and preserve habits for other endangered species. The country has created ten pilot national parks to help accomplish this. Kyle Obermann has been working in these parks and elsewhere to document these conservation efforts and the challenges of also providing a livelihood for area residents. He’s also worked with a variety of non-Chinese firms which have wanted to support the conservation cause. His presentation will draw on his experiences and reporting.
Kyle Obermann 欧阳凯 is an award-winning conservation photographer and writer based in Chengdu, China. Fluent in Mandarin, his work documents the evolution of China’s nature reserves, national parks, and grassroots environmental groups. He has worked with National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, BBC, and Chinese National Geography. He was runner up for Adventure Photographer of the Year and Exploration of the Year in China in 2018 and 2019 as well as honored with an Outstanding Alumni Award by Peking University for his work in China. He is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, Explorers Club, and conservation ambassador for Key Conservation and The North Face in China.
Instagram: @kyleobermann
Twitter: @KyleExplores
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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.