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.
China’s Maritime Tradition: Origins through the Voyages of Zheng He and the Ming Treasure Fleet
Louise Levathes, journalist and author, describes China's early relations with the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
March 20, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Pomona College, , Hahn 101
420 Harvard Ave., Claremont
Followed by reception
Some 80 years before the voyages of Columbus, the celebrated Ming Dynasty Admiral commanded the largest fleet the world would know until World War I and extended China's trade and influence throughout the Indian Ocean Basin. Levathes, a journalist and author of When China Ruled the Seas (Simon & Schuster, 1994), a best-selling New York Times Notable Book of the Year, will explore the origin and legacy of the seven epic Ming voyages and describe China's early relations with the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
This is part of PBI’s Asian Diaspora Lecture Series: Asian Diasporas: Neither East Nor West. Through a lecture series, film festival, student video training and research program, and other coordinated activities, PBI will examine the connections between and across the Pacific basin region, emphasizing the movements of peoples, ideas, and commodities that link and sometimes divide the multi-dimensional cultures of the region.
This lecture series is made possible in part with assistance from the Bernard Chan Asian Visiting Scholars fund.
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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.