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.
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies will host a workshop for Taiwan studies.
When:
April 7, 2017 1:30pm to April 8, 2017 5:30pm
Where
Organizer: Professor David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Sponsors: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Discussants: David der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh, Michael Berry, Mei Chia-ling
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1PM – 5PM
Panel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities, 1934-1949, 1pm – 3pm
- Dingru Huang: Mapping a Mapping a Mapping a Strange Home: Strange Home: Strange Home: Weng Nao, the K?enji Neighborhood of Tokyo, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s
- Chun -yu Lu: Lovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan, 1937-1945
- Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang: Trauma and Diaspora of 1949: History, Memory, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies
Panel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance, 1950s-1970s, 3:30pm – 5pm
- Yang Fu-min: When “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s “How I Write”
- Cheng-chieh Chang: Remembering Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s
- Lo Yichen: Of the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan
SATURDAY APRIL 8, 10AM – 5:30PM
Panel Three: Politics and Poetics, 1979-1980s, 10am – 11:30am
- Kevin Luo: Revisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts, 1979-1987
- Chung Chih-wei: “Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists
- Po-hsi Chen: An Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan
Panel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks, 1990s-2016, 1pm – 3pm
- Kyle Shernuk: Sinophone Tidalectics, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization
- Lily Wong: Affective Labor and the Sinophone Lens in “The Fourth Portrait”
- Dalton Lin: Can-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts
- Jaw-Nian Huang: Between State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan, 1949-2016
Roundtable, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Cost:
Free
Phone Number:
(617) 495-0711
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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
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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.