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.
REL 479: Christianity in Asia
A new USC course in Fall 2017 that explores the Christianities, past and present, of Asia, including the Middle East, South, Southeast, and East Asia.
Did you know Christianity is growing rapidly in Asia?
Are you aware there are already more Christians in Asia than there are in Europe?
Did you know that Christianity has impacted the politics of modern Asia, including in nations like China, where it is mostly illegal and practiced in secret underground churches?
This course explores the Christianities, past and present, of Asia, including the Middle East, South, Southeast, and East Asia. We will first consider the Middle Eastern origins of Christianity before examining the turbulent histories and uncertain futures of Middle Eastern Christians, including those groups today persecuted by ISIL and controversially protected by Trump’s first travel ban. We will then explore Christianity in the contexts of South, Southeast, and East Asia, paying particular attention to India, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. In doing so, we will examine the ways that Christianity first entered into these regions (by imperial force or via western missionaries) and also the processes of indigenization through which Christianity absorbed Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and other local ideas and practices to transform into entirely new, distinctly local (even perhaps unrecognizable) religious movements. We will witness Asian Christianities inspire violent rebellions, threaten modern political regimes, change personal identities, and redefine relations between Asia and the West. As we will grow to see, Asian varieties of Christianity have become so large and widespread that any attempt to understand Asia today and tomorrow will require knowledge of these rapidly growing, yet still frequently persecuted, Asian Christian traditions The course will be of interest to anyone studying Asia or the relations (business, political, cultural, or otherwise) between Asia and Europe and the USA.
The course is open to all USC students, regardless of major or disciplinary background. No prior study of Asia or Christianity is required.
For more information contact Dr. Christopher Daily, cdaily@usc.edu
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
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
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.