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.
Creative Labor: Precarity and Freedom: A Critique of the Creative Industries
Geert Lovink will discuss the overhyped and under-researched field of "creative industries." He will address the notion of precarity and immaterial labor as they apply to creative industries in China and continental Europe.
USC Annenberg Center for Communication 101
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Geert Lovink is a media theorist, a critic and the author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks, My First Recession, The Principle of Notworking and Zero Comments. He is co-founder of Internet projects The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is director of the Institute of Network Cultures, part of the Interactive Media School at Amsterdam Polytechnic and associate professor at the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam.
His blog may be found 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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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.