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.
Religion and the Public Good in Taiwan
A talk by Robert P. Weller, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
When:
February 2, 2009 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Taiwanese religion over the last few decades has increasingly shouldered social responsibilities such as medical care, aid to the poor, and disaster relief. This has been most obvious in the new, global Buddhist movements, but has affected all kinds of religion. History shows a complex change in the role of religion over the course of the twentieth century. The presentation addresses this history as the story of a counterintuitive globalization, where conflicting forces of secular modernity and religious charity are ultimately reworked in Taiwan, and globalized anew from there.
* * *
Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. He took took his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University in 1980 for work on the role of religious variation in Taiwan's changing economy and society. His most recent book is Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan(Cambridge U. Press, 2006). Other books include Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia: Organizing Between Family and State (editor; Routledge, 2005), Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy (Westview, 1999), Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen (U. Washington Press, 1994), and Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion (U. Washington Press, 1987). He has also co-edited Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe and Latin America and Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China.
Professor Weller's present research concerns the development of the environmental movement and nature tourism in China and Taiwan in the context of economic growth. He is also looking at the role of local voluntary organizations as mediators between state and society in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, and he has consulted on poverty and unemployment relief in western China.
Cost:
Free
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(310) 825-8683
Featured Articles
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.
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/1zer188RE9dCS6Ho6
Events
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.