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.
Music
Shredding for the Motherland: The Guitar in China
Stanford University's Center for East Asian Studies presents a talk by James A. Milward on the guitar's history in Chinese society.
Guru Drum Group
The Miller Outdoor Theatre hosts a performance by Shanghai-based Guru Drum Group.
Music in the Chinese Garden - Langchou Chu on guzheng
A different solo musician will perform each week inside the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi, sheng, pipa, erhu, and zheng.
Composition Colloquium: Yao Chen
The music of YAO Chen strikes audiences with its innovative ways of bringing the traditions of Chinese and Western music and its poetic telling o
Performance: Shanghai Quartet
The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art, Freer/Sackler, present the Shanghai Quartet, playing Schubert's Quartetsatz; Bartók's Quartet no. 4; Beethoven's Quartet op. 132; and new arrangements of Chinese folksongs by Yi-Wen Jiang.
Chinese Opera Film Series - Double Feature: Romance of the Western Chamber and Two Stars in the Milky Way with Live Accompaniment by Donald Sosin
The University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, Department of Cinema and Media Studies presents this double feature with live accompaniment of Chinese Opera.
East Meets West XII
Dance of Asian America and Mitsi Dancing School present dances that unite some of the best from the east and the west.
The UCLA Asia Institute: Asia in LA 2011
The third annual Asia in LA day showcases the many sounds of Asian music and considers what we can learn about Asia by listening to its melodies more closely.
Michael Tilson Thomas at 70: The London Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang
Acclaimed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas returns to his hometown of Los Angeles for an unforgettable evening featuring the music of George Gershwin alongside Thomas's original compositions. Powerhouse pianist Yuja Wang will add sparks to an already electric concert.
Global Baroque: Four Nations Ensemble
Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux joins this leading baroque ensemble to explore little-known Western classical music from eighteenth-century China and the Americas.
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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.