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.
Film Screening: Yartsa Rinpoche: Precious Caterpillar
Duke University Asian Pacific Studies Institute presents a screening of the documentary Yartsa Rinpoche: Precious Caterpillar that shows the impacts of the global coffee trade upon the lives of Tibetans
When:
April 11, 2016 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where
Film Screening: "Yartsa Rinpoche: Precious Caterpillar"
(Dorje Tsering Chnaktsang, 2013, 101 min, China/France, in Tibetan w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)
"Cordyceps sinensis" (in Tibetan, "Yartsa-gunbu") has been called "Tibet's golden worm" and "The Viagra of the Himalayas." When it was discovered 30 years ago as a natural remedy, it became a boon to Tibetan nomads. Today, some nomadic Tibetan communities bring in as much as 80% of their income collecting it. "Yartsa Rinpoche" follows Darlo, an elder in the Amdo region, who with his family forms a group of 30 that treks 800 kilometers to collect the "worm," while exploring its larger implications.
-- Winner for Best Documentary in Libertas Film Festival and in San Francisco Black Film Festival (2006)!
-- "Poetic and hard-hitting critique of the global coffee industry... Beautifully shot and edited" -- Washington Post
Yartsa Rinpoche: Precious Caterpillar Trailer from Trace Foundation on Vimeo.
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
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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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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.