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.
Culture
Portraits of New York Chinatown
An oral history project addresses the Museum of Chinese in America's (MOCA) role within the communities of Chinatown, Little Italy, and SoHo.
East Asian Garden Lecture Series - Popcorn on the Ginza: Literature, Art, & Photography from Tokyo's City within a City
Author and social commentator Robert Campbell discusses the position occupied in Japanese literature by Ginza, an area in Tokyo that has long stood as an emblem of luxury.
Asia in LA 2011: Musical Measures of Asia
From classical traditions to the global transmission of pop music, this day-long program brings performers, critics, scholars and students of Asian music to UCLA.
Sound and Image: Chinese Poets in Conversation with Artist Xu Bing
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute will host a panel of Chinese poets including Bei Dao, Ouyang Jianghe, Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming, Zhou Zan, and Contemporary Artist Xu Bing.
Screening: We the Workers
The USC U.S.-China Institute presents a screening of the film We the Workers 凶年之畔, which follows labor activists over a six-year period as they find common ground with workers, helping them negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. The screening will be followed a Q&A with Han Dongfang, founder and director of the China Labour Bulletin.
CHINGLISH by David Henry Hwang
CHINGLISH, the most recent play by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), makes it regional premiere with Black Lab Theatre and Asia Society Texas Center after critically acclaimed productions on Broadway and at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
Density vs. Diversity
The USC School of Policy, Planning and Developments presents a talk by the dean of USC School of Architecture, Qingyun Ma.
What is Laozi's Ziran (naturalness): from Ancient text to Modern Implication
Professor Xiaogan Liu of the City University of Hong Kong present a new interpretation on "Naturalness" based on close textual analysis of Laozi.
Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art presents an exhibit from February 25 to June 25, 2017 displaying contemporary Chinese American art.
2017 Annual Gala Dinner
Asia Society Southern California will host their annual gala dinner to celebrate and honor Angella and David Nazarian, Donald Tang, Adrian Zecha, and the Cast of “Fresh Off the Boat”.
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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.