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.
Trade, Religion, and Islam Along the South China Coast: Doing Historical Fieldwork
Robert Antony, Distinguished Professor at Guangzhou University, will discuss his experiences doing historical fieldwork along the coast of China.
When:
May 8, 2017 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Where
In this presentation Dr. Antony will discuss his experiences doing historical fieldwork along the coast of South China over the past ten years, and the importance of doing fieldwork for historical studies. His talk will focus on the interface between trade and religion over the past several centuries. He will be highlighting the Muslim traders who created a diasporic community and the Great Mosque in Canton in the Tang dynasty, as well as the Muslim Chinese mariner Zheng He, who sailed across the Indian Ocean in seven voyages in the Ming Dynasty. He will end by looking at the resurgence of the Muslim community in Canton, South China, today.
Cost:
Free
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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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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.