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.
Teaching Confucius in Beijing
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion with Professor Sam Crane of the Williams College on the limits of the Confucian revival in China.
Where
Click here to watch a video of the presentation.
This talk will consider the limits of the Confucian revival in China, especially the ways in which rapid modernization works against a macro-political assertion of Confucian principles. Reference will be made to Professor Crane's experience this past summer teaching a course on Confucianism at the International Summer School at Renmin University in Beijing.
Sam Crane is the Chair of the Political Science Department at Williams College where he teaches, among other topics, contemporary Chinese politics and ancient Chinese philosophy. His most recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao: Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life (Wiley 2013), interprets contentious social issues in the US (abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia) using concepts drawn from pre-Qin Confucianism and Daoism. He blogs at The Useless Tree.
Driving Directions to Campus
For maps and directions to campus, visit the University Park Campus Map & Driving Directions page.
Suggested Parking ($10 on campus):
Parking Structure X (PSX)
Enter at the Figueroa Street Entrance at 35th Street (Entrance 3)
Parking Structure D (PSD)
Enter at Jefferson Blvd. and McClintock Avenue (Entrance 5).
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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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Events
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.