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.
Modern East Asian Law in Global Perspective
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute will host a conference on East Asian Law.
When:
April 15, 2017 10:00am to 6:00pm
Where
Speakers
Tristan G. Brown, Columbia University
Yue Du, New York University
Maura Dykstra, California Institute of Technology
Jooyeon Hahm, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Kreitman, Columbia University
Chien Wen Kung, Columbia University
Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
John Lee, Harvard University
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Amherst College
Thomas Lafontaine Odom, Columbia University
Andrew Sartori, New York University
Eric Vanden Bussche, Sam Houston State University
Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University
Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University
Taisu Zhang, Yale University
Organized by Tristan G. Brown, Columbia University; Colin Jones, Columbia University; and Idriss Fofana, Columbia University
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403
No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History
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9:45 – 10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00 Panel I: Law and Territory
Commentator: Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca, Amherst College
“Cosmology After Empire: Negotiating Situated Knowledge of Landed Property in Early Twentieth Century China”
Tristan Brown, Columbia University
“Crime, Legal Practices and Colonial Rivalries along the Sino-Burmese Borderlands, 1902-1940s”
Professor Eric Vanden Bussche, Sam Houston State University
“Negotiating the Japan-Hawai’i Border: The Hawaiian Board of Immigration, 1886-1894”
Professor Paul Kreitman, Columbia University
“Translating Sovereignty: The Tibet Conventions between Britain and China, 1904-1906”
Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 3:00 Panel II: Sources of Law
Commentator: Professor Taisu Zhang, Yale University
“Some Notes on the Local Case:?An Institutional Approach to Doing Justice in Qing History”
Professor Maura Dykstra, California Institute of Technology
“Whose Interest is ‘Public Interest’??Public Order and Good morals in Chinese Contract Law”
Thomas Lafontaine Odom, Columbia University
“Knowing Communists: Mass Arrests and the Chinese Information Order in the Philippines and Taiwan, 1952-1961”
Chien Wen Kung, Columbia University
3:15-5:15 Panel III: Law and the Modernizing Enterprise
Commentator: Professor Andrew Sartori, New York University
“Father’s Blood and Mother’s Love: Parental Rights and Obligations in Modern Japan, 1868–1945”
Jooyeon Hahm, University of Pennsylvania
“Revolutionizing Parentally-Arranged Marriage in Early Republican China, 1912-1927”
Yue Du, New York University
“The Pirates’ Law:?Chinese Booksellers’ ‘Copyright’ Regime and its Western Copycat”
Professor Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University
“For Whom the Tree Falls: Forest Regulations in Chos?n Korea’s Last Century, 1800-1910”
John Lee, Harvard University
5:30 – 6:00 Roundtable: What Do We Want from Global History?
Professor Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University; Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca, Amherst University; Professor Taisu Zhang, Yale University; Professor Andrew Sartori, New York University
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
Event Website URL:
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
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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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.