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.
Remaking the Future in Socialist China: The Campaign Against Fortune Telling
Join Professor Baum of the University of California, Irvine on her talk about fortune telling.
When:
February 21, 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Where
Presenter: Emily Baum, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of California, Irvine
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party strove to eradicate “superstitious” thoughts and practices, among which fortune telling figured prominently. By demonstrating that the only way to influence the present and future was through physical engagement with the material environment, the CCP sought to undermine the view that a person’s fortunes could be manipulated by spiritual intermediaries. This talk will examine the campaign to suppress fortune telling in the early PRC, and will argue that the ultimate goal of the movement was to replace individual metaphysics with a Party-sanctioned materialism – one that bound the wellbeing of the individual to the collective prosperity of the nation.
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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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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.