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.
USC Global Exchange: Summer 2009
USC School for Cinematic Arts presents seven documentary films by USC students who where in Beijing as part of the USC Global Exchange program.
- Fly seven USC students to Beijing
- Mix well with seven CUC students
- Shape into seven documentary films
- Bake for 6 weeks
- Cool and serve
“Jiang Hu Session”
Sparks fly in unexpected directions when an American Hip Hop artist meets a Beijing Hip Hop artist and they compose a song.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
“Children of the Sun”
In an orphanage for children of incarcerated parents, a boy misses his mother.
Justin Feldman
"Shadow House”
A visual ode to an odd commune of Shadow Players who struggle to keep a dying art alive.
Laura Yilmaz
“Invisible Wall”
A family is forced to leave Beijing and move back to the country in order for their children to get an education
Adan Avalos
“Turn of the Harvest”
A married couple, simple farmers, lead a complicated life.
Tani Ikeda
“Little Monk”
A 42-year-old monk who has just entered a monastery ponders his life decision.
Lulu Hansen
“Big RedHeart”
A performance artist wears a signboard declaring his love for his fiance, but she has other ideas.
Nahil Sharkasi
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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.