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.
Third Annual China Undisciplined Conference
The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies present, China Undisciplined, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
When:
May 14, 2010 9:00am to May 15, 2010 5:30pm
Where
Friday, May 14th 2010
9:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-11:15 Panel I: Religion and Ritual
Discussant: Natasha Heller
Kaiqi Hua (University of California, Merced): The Auspicious Land of the Southeast: The Fengshui Application in Imperial Hangzhou (890-1276
Hanmo Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles): The dog-killing ritual and early concept of “gu "
Joseph Howard (University at Buffalo, State University of New York): Religious Terminology in the Words of Deng Xiaoping: A Close Reading
11:15-12:15 Panel II: Speaking Chinese
Discussant: Ni Eng Lim
Lin Lin (University of California, Los Angeles): Rethinking of the Chinese Demonstratives in the Columbia School Framework
Stephanie Kim (University of California, Los Angeles): The New French? An Examination of Chinese Language Programs in the United States
12:15-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:45 Panel III: Border Crossings
Discussant: Min Li
Tom Narins (University of California, Los Angeles): Assembling Modern China with World Trade Centers not Empire State Buildings
Lizhi Liu (Stanford University: Impact of Chinese Exports on East Asian Countries’ Exports - Crowding out?
Josh Herr (University of California, Los Angeles): Defining premodernity?: The Sino-Vietnam border before the age of high colonialism
2:45-4:00 Panel IV: Regulating the Nation
Discussant: Ted Huters
Clara Iwasaki (University of California, Los Angeles): The Anatomy of a Nation: (De)colonial hygiene in Xin shitou ji
Tian Luo (Ohio University): The Road to a Harmonious Society: towards Prosperity of the Third Sector
Leksa Chmielewski (University of California, Irvine): The Construction of the Chinese Museum-Going Subject
4:00-4:15 Coffee Brea
4:15-5:30 Panel V: The Urban Generation
Discussant: Cameron Campbell
Pang Qin (City University of Hong Kong): The Chinese National Pride among the Urban Young Generations in PRC: Derogating Neighboring East Asia Countries but Promoting East Asian Consciousness?
Xiaolei Wu (University of California, Los Angeles): The Ideology, Experience, and Agency of Chinese Mothers: A Comparative Analysis
Sylvia Lindtner (University of California, Irvine): Google.cn and beyond: The Culture and Politics of Digital Media in China
Dinner at Shaherzad (optional)
Saturday, May 15th 2010
9:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-11:15 Panel VI: Changing China
Discussant: Andrea Goldman
Roanna Cheung (University of California, Los Angeles): Sinicizing Modernity: Translation and the Evolving Epistemological Paradigm in Early Twentieth Century China
Guangyi Li (University of California, Los Angeles): “Xinnian meng” and the (Re)Conceptualization of World in Cai Yuanpei's Utopian Vision
Emily Baum (University of California, San Diego): A Behaviorist’s Fate: Guo Renyuan and the Life of the Mind in Republican China
11:15-12:15 Panel VI: Using Language
Discussant: Brian Bernards
CedarBough Saeji (University of California, Los Angeles): Discourses of Place in Tibetan Song: Comparison and Contrast of Recordings Produced in and out of China
Thomas Chen (University of California, Los Angeles): Cuicui's Blush: Verbal Dramatic Irony in Shen Congwen's Border Town
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Panel VIII: Envisioning the Past
Discussant: Lothar von Falkenhausen
Yali Yun (University of Science and Technology, Beijing): Characteristic features on bronze artifacts excavated in ancient west Dian region of Yunnan province in the Bronze age (12th BC ~ 5th BC
Yanlong Guo (University of British Columbia): The Heroic Fantasies of Immortality in Contemporary/Classical China: Freud, the Terra-cotta Army, and The Myth
Zhe Li (University of Sydney): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture?
Wei Wang (Washington University in Saint Louis): Reading Illustrations of the Novel Xiyoubu
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 Panel IX: China and the World
Discussant: Yin Wang
Zachary Scarlett (Northeastern University): The world in the Cultural Revolution
Hsin-Pei Liu (University of California, Los Angeles): Building a Modern Nation-State: The Influence of Meiji Japan on Chinese Intellectuals Huang Zunxian and Jiang Baili
Nicolas Testerman (University of California, Los Angeles): Badiou, Mao, and Political Subjectivity
Closing Discussion (4:30-5:30 PM)
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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.
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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.