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.
Screening - Stray Dogs
The latest feature from the celebrated filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs is a poetic portrait of an alcoholic father (played by Tsai's longtime partner Lee Kang-Sheng) and his two young children surviving in modern-day Taipei.
Where
In person: Vincent Wang, producer They eat food left over from supermarkets and seek shelter in abandoned buildings—until one stormy night when they encounter a woman from the past. Tsai won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Venice Film Festival and was named best director at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards for this film. "If nothing else, you're left with a master class in directing, and a film that anyone who's serious about cinema needs to make the time to see” (Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist). (Dir.: Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France, 2013, 138 min., D-Cinema, Mandarin with English subtitles) |
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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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Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.