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.
Print in the Early Modern World: Integrative and Contemporary Perspectives
USC and the Huntington Early Modern Studies Program have sponsored a event on globalization and the integration of Print in the Early Modern World.
When:
April 30, 2010 10:00am to 5:00pm
Morning Session: Toward a Globalized History of Printing
Cynthia J. Brokaw, Brown University
“Woodblock Printing and the Spread of Book Culture in Late Imperial China.”
Round-table I: New perspectives
Lori Meeks, USC, Lindsey O’Neill, USC, Ramzi Rouighi, USC, Michael Gasper, Occidental College.
Round-table II: The Eisenstein Legacy
Lynn Hunt, UCLA, Peter Mancall, USC, and John E. Wills, Jr., USC.
Afternoon Session: Back to the Future?
Richard Baum, UCLA
“China Today: Media Transformed and Not Quite Controlled.”
Craig Calhoun, NYU and Social Science Research Council
“The Public Sphere in the Ages of Print and Web.”
Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA
“Picart’s Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all the People of the World and the First Global Vision of Religion.”
For more information on the Early Modern Studies Seminar, please contact Karin Huebner at emsi@college.usc.edu
Recommended Reading:
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (second edition, 2005), especially the “Afterword.”
“Conversation” with Eisenstein in Sabrina A. Baron et al., Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
RSVP to emsi@usc.edu for electronic versions of these texts.
Event Website URL:
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