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.
An Evening of Taiwanese Short Films and Meeting with Young Taiwanese Filmmakers
The USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Los Angeles invite you and a guest to a special meeting with Young Taiwanese Filmmakers and a screening of several Taiwanese Short Films.
Where
Four young and talented Taiwanese directors currently working in Hollywood, whose short films have won and been nominated for international awards, will screen selected shorts and participate in a post-screening panel discussion. These promising directors include: Chihwen Lo, who was granted rare status as an Extraordinary Outstanding Artist by the United States government in 2009; Ignatius Lin, who won Best Short at the 2011 Macau International Movie Festival; Posheng Chiang, who earned the prestigious nomination for Best Director at the 2010 Seoul International Drama Awards; and Marshall Law, whose works have won dozens of international commercial awards.
Screenings will include:
-- Stranger Now, 4 minutes (Premiered at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival)
-- Homecoming, 30 minutes (Nominated for Best Director, Seoul Int'l Drama Awards)
-- Voodoo Bear, 1 minute (Best commercial, College Television Emmy Award)
-- Undie Bear, 1 minute (Nominated-- National Addy Awards)
-- Teddy Bear, 30 seconds (9 Commercial Awards)
-- Angel In The Shoe, 30 seconds (W3 Awards)
-- An Unquiet Mind, 6 minutes (Screened in more than 40 international film festivals)
Q&A will follow the screenings.
Check-In & Reservations
This screening is free of charge and open to the public. Please bring a valid USC ID or print out of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your e-mail account upon successfully making an RSVP through this website. Doors will open at 6:30 P.M.
All SCA screenings are OVERBOOKED to ensure seating capacity in the theater, therefore seating is not guaranteed based on RSVPs. The RSVP list will be checked in on a first-come, first-served basis until the theater is full. Once the theater has reached capacity, we will no longer be able to admit guests, regardless of RSVP status.
Parking
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is located at 900 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $10.00 at USC Entrance Gate #5, located at the intersection of W. Jefferson Blvd. & McClintock Avenue. We recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or Parking Structure D, at the far end of 34th Street. Please note that Parking Structure D cannot accommodate tall vehicles such as SUVs. Metered street parking is also available along Jefferson Blvd.
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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.