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.
Penjing Talks
Learn about the history and art of penjing, or miniature landscapes, and how to care for them in this series of informative talks.
When:
March 5, 2017 3:00pm to March 12, 2017 4:00pm
Learn about the history and art of penjing, or miniature landscapes, and how to care for them in this series of informative talks. Penjing is the ancient Chinese art of translating the world landscape into the minuscule and can been traced back to 221 BCE. Chinese gardens are a form of miniaturization, capturing mountains, lakes, waterfalls and all of nature in a smaller scale. Owners of Chinese gardens would have a collection of penjing, enjoying the idea of miniature within miniature.
March 5: Glin Varco, Lan Su Chinese Garden Director of Horticulture
March 12: Aarin Packard, Pacific Bonsai Museum
Included with Lan Su membership or admission; no registration is required.
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Phone Number:
(503) 228-8131
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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.