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.
ABCs of Iconography: The Body, Speech and Mind of Buddhist Art
The Newark Museum presents an exhibition of sculptures that project an explicit body language of postures and gestures specific to peaceful and wrathful deities.
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Reorganized around the Buddhist themes of Body, Speech and Mind, gilded sculptures project an explicit body language of postures (asana) and gestures (mudra) specific to peaceful and wrathful deities. The power of speech in Tibetan tradition will be seen through carved prayer stones, prayer wheels and luxurious bookcovers. Superlative examples of early Buddhist called stupa (reliquaries), whose shape is representative of the historical Buddha’s mind, will also be exhibited. Additionally, a section of important ritual implements not highlighted in other galleries, will be placed on view here as some of the tools that assist enlightenment.
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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.