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.
Tibet
The Universe Within: Art by Govinda Sah 'Azad'
The Tibet House presents Govinda's early paintings featuring the figure in a Himalayan landscape, an element that came to inspire his visual explorations of cloud formations as symbols of creation, fertility, and heaven.
Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing at the Derge Parkhang
This exhibit will present photographs, interviews and artifacts collected in Derge Parkhang.
Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet
Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet explores photojournalist Marissa Roth’s inner and outer journeys to this majestic land and her literal and impressionistic views of Tibetan Buddhist practice and devotion. (Exhibition dates: September 23, 2017 - February 18, 2018)
Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China
Dr. Enze Han explores the influence of ethnic minority groups on Chinese national identity.
The Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist View
Sogyal Rinpoche will speak on the concept of transforming the mind in Tibetan Buddhism at Stanford University.
Vagabond - Art by Chungpo Tsering
Tibet House US invites you to the exhibition Vagabond, art by Chungpo Tsering, whose work blends political and cultural themes to visualize the political oppression of his homeland and national identity.
A Conversation with Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister, Tibetan Government in Exile
Dr. Lobsang Sangay will discuss Tibet's future, prospects for genuine autonomy within China, and aspirations of the Tibetan exile community.
From Our Eyes: Community Media and Visual Ethnography in China
This event showcases two recent documentary films produced through community media and participatory video training projects organized by From Our Eyes, a cultural heritage and media NGO based in Kunming, Yunnan Province. The film screenings, including a collaboratively produced short by art students and a Baiku Yao filmmaker and a feature-length documentary by first-time a Tibetan filmmaker from Sichuan Province, will be followed by discussion with two co-directors of From Our Eyes and an anthropologist researching rural media in ethnic minority China.
Karjam Saeji and Chaksam-pa: Tibetan Song, Dance and Opera
Together for the first time, singer Karjam Saeji and Tibetan Dance and Opera Company Chaksam-pa share their stories with us and each other.
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Pearl of the Snowlands: Printing and Tibet's Living Heritage
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a talk by Patrick Dowdey on the importance of the Derge Sutra Printing House to the people of Eastern Tibet.
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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 Mike 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.