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.
2017 Global Exchange Workshop
The Global Exchange Workshop, now in its tenth year, is an intensive documentary filmmaking workshop on the theme of “LA as a Global City.” USC student filmmakers collaborate with student filmmakers from Communication University of China to tell stories about Los Angeles.
2017 GLOBAL EXCHANGE WORKSHOP
May 22 - July 7, 2017 (CTPR515 18606D 2 units, 7 weeks)
The Global Exchange Workshop was founded by Professors Marsha Kinder and Mark Harris and is now in its tenth year. It is an intensive documentary filmmaking workshop on the theme of “LA as a Global City.”
This summer, 8 MFA students from the Communications University of China in Beijing will fly to Los Angeles to collaborate with 8 USC students to work in pairs and create short documentaries.
Recent films from this course have won awards at: The 6th China Academy Awards of Documentary Film: “The Lost Tribe”; the 2016 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival: “Go Gentle into the Good Night;” The Fujian Student Film Festival: “Alone With 5 Million Fans;” The 2nd Asia University Film Festival” in Pusan, South Korea, and the Gold Award of the 5th Shanghai University Student Film Competition: “The Unclaimed.”
USC course enrollment is by application.
The faculty will be Prof. Pablo Frasconi (USC) and Prof. Hugo Zheng (CUC).
Contact: Professor Pablo Frasconi
Pfrasconi@cinema.usc.edu
213-740-7244
Please click on these links to watch films produced in earlier workshops: 2006 | 2008 | 2009 | 2011 | 2014
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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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Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.