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.
Women
Iconicity and Advertising: Shanghai, Mukden, Tianjin and the Modern Commodity Girl
Tani Barlow discusses the advertisments aimed at female consumers in China today.
Prof. Zhen Wang: “Modern History of Chinese Feminism”
The UC Santa Barbara Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies presents a public lecture by Professor Zhen Wang of the University of Michigan.
China Onscreen Biennial: Painted Skin:The Resurrection (画皮 II)
PAINTED SKIN smashed box-office records this summer to become the highest-grossing Mainland Chinese film of all time about humans and demons equally obsessed by something they cannot have… or cannot be.
A Conversation with Judith Zeitlin and Margaret Francesca Rosenthal: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Courtesans
University of Chicago's Judith Zeitlin and Margaret Francesca Rosenthal of the University of southern California examine and compare courtesan culture and its representation in Qing dynasty China and Renaissance Italy.
Woman of the Southern Wind
Asian Educational Media Service presents the screening of a film about Taiwanese performance artist Mei-O Chen's creative revival of the endangered nanguan musical tradition.
'Leftover' Women and Gender Inequality in China
Dr. Leta Hong Fincher will discuss her new book at a National Committee program on Monday, July 21.
Detained at Liberty's Door: The Story of Liberty Lost on Angel Island
A new exhibit at De Anza College's California History Center tells the story of one woman who was trapped between a Chinese and an American life on the island.
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
The exhibition features paintings, books and illustrations in addition to a PBS video documentary, “My Name is Belle."
Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America
UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies presents a panel discussion on Confucian feminist activism.
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of Affect
Based on her new book, Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong will discuss the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, stressing the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and classstructures.
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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.