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.
Art
Brauen, The Dalai Lamas - A Visual History, 2005
Martin Brauen's book was reviewed by Jose Cabezoon for H-Buddhism
Tethered Tiger, Captured Dragon: Clearing Out Demons from Mountain Woods
Carma Hinton of George Mason University will be speaking at Princeton University.
Apolitical Romance 水餃幾兩: New York Asian Film Festival
New York Asian Film Festival in association with Asia Society presents a screening of the film "Apolitical Romance 水餃幾兩".
Impressions of China Photography Exhibition Opening Reception
Lan Su Chinese Garden is pleased to host the premiere opening of the Impressions of China Photography Exhibition. The exhibition showcases China’s cultural wonders via photography.
Evenings With Ai Weiwei - Disturbing the Peace
The University of Washington presents a screening of Disturbing the Peace by Ai Weiwei.
Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics
The Peabody Essex Museum presents an exhibition that features 30 objects that date from the Neolithic era to 2004 in a range of media including paintings, jade, textiles, porcelain and prints.
The Significance of Color Symbolism in Himalayan Sacred Arts: As Seen through Costumes, Textiles and Jewelry
The Society for Asian Art presents a talk with Tamara Hill on how “five-colored” and rainbow-hued patterns are integral to Buddhist traditions and how the colors are auspicious metaphors for luck, hope and impermanence.
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.
Sacred Spaces with The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
The Rubin Museum presents an exhibition that reflects on sacred spaces by focusing on devotional activities in awe-inspiring places. In particular the exhibition presents three distinct but related environments shaped by acts of veneration. What spaces are sacred to you?
Bodhisattva Precepts (śīla) and Monastic Codes (vinaya) in Fifth-sixth Century Chinese Buddhism
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a lecture on Chinese humanities.
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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.