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.
Third Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley hosts a conference with guest speaker Xiaobing Tang.
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Keynote Speaker: Xiaobing Tang
The conference will bring together keynote speaker Xiaobing Tang and twelve graduate students to present innovative research on modern Chinese cultural production, from early modern to contemporary, in various humanistic disciplines. This year's presenters take different approaches from economic history to art history, narrative analysis to religious studies and quantitative method.
Presentations take place over the course of two days, beginning 12pm on Friday, April 13, and are open to the public. The keynote speech this year is titled: "On the Legacy of Socialist Visual Experience," and will take place at 4pm on Friday. Panel topics include " Circulating Myth and
Meaning: Mediation of Socialist and Post-Socialist Culture," "Planning Art and the Art of Planning: Private Tastes and Public Desires in Republican China," "Looking at Language: Exploring Changing Forms of Discourse," and "Narrative Crossings: Recontextualizing Chinese-ness Across Boundaries."
Evelyn Shih, conference student chair
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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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Events
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.