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.
Japan
The Resonance of Clay: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection
The Pheonix Art Museum presents a collection of contemporary Japanese ceramics.
Hiroshige’s City: From Edo to Tokyo
How does a city develop a distinct visual identity? This question became a major theme in Japanese art during the Edo period (1615–1868).
Japan and the West: From First Encounters to Contemporary Global Issues
Japan and the West will focus on points of intersection between Japan, Europe, and America from their first encounters to the present. The seminar will be of particular interest to teachers of World History, Art, and Contemporary Global Issues, but the application is open to all K12 teachers who want to expand their horizons and are willing to adapt the content to their classrooms.
JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970
Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art presents an exhibition highlighting Japan-America exhibition exchange.
Intimate Rivals: Japanese Politics and a Rising China
Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies hosts a talk with Sheila A. Smith on her recent book discussing the impact of China's rise on Japan.
Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan
The Saint Louis Art Museum presents an exhibition following Japan's rise as a military power through the Russo-Japanese war.
Sites of Extraction: Perspectives from a Japanese Coal Mine in Northeast China
Colombia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents a lecture by Victor Seow in Japanese coal mining in Northeast China.
A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints
Royal Ontario Museum presents the exhibition, A Third Gender, exploring the complex system of sexual desire and social expectation from 1603 to 1868 in Edo Japan.
Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection
The Minneapolis Museum of Art presents the finest private collection of Japanese and Korean art of its kind outside Japan.
China and Japan: Nara to Now
Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University hosts a talk with Ezra Vogel on the history of Sino-Japanese relations.
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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.