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.
A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints
Royal Ontario Museum presents the exhibition, A Third Gender, exploring the complex system of sexual desire and social expectation from 1603 to 1868 in Edo Japan.
When:
May 7, 2016 10:00am to November 27, 2016 6:00pm
Where
Where:
Four hundred years ago in Japan, male youths, called wakashu, were the objects of sexual desire for women and men. Creating a third gender, wakashu looked different from both women and adult men and played distinct social and sexual roles.
The exhibition, A Third Gender, explores the complex system of sexual desire and social expectation from 1603 to 1868 in Edo Japan. Featuring stunning woodblock prints, paintings, illustrated books, kimono, and armour, it tells a pivotal story in the history of human sexuality. Unsettling contemporary North American values, A Third Gender invites you to think differently about gender and sexuality.
A Third Gender Program Series
Japanese Visual Culture: Gender & Sexual Diversity
May 12, 2016
Asato Ikeda, the curator of A Third Gender, will examine the role of male youths in Edo-period Japan, and how this gender and sexuality system can be understood from a contemporary North American persepctive.
Free with Museum Admission. RSVP here
It's Complicated: Gender Ambiguity in Early-Mondern Japan
June 7, 2016
Explore the roles of gender, sexuality and erotic art in Japanese culture with internationally renowned scholar Joshua Mostow.
*Please note this lecture will contain explicit images and discussions of a sexual nature, and is not reommended for those under the age of 18.*
Register here
Lost in Translation? Gender and Sexuality Across Time and Cultures
June 21, 2016
How do we understand representations of sexuality, including same sex sexuality, across different historical and cultural moments without imposing contemporary norms? Join our panel as they explore concepts surrounding our exhibition A Third Gender.
Register here
The Art of Japan
October 16, 2016
Experience the fundamentals of Japanese art in this in-depth workshop lead by ROM Educator George Hewson. This full day workshop includes a guided visit of the exhibition A Third Gender, and lunch.
Register here
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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 Mike 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.