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.
Environment
Combustion Particles and Global Health: Cooking, Smoking and Climate
Lectures by Kirk Smith, professor of Global Environmental Health and chair of the Graduate Group in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley.
The Early Chinese Garden: Warring States through the Tang Dynasty
The Huntington Library presents a lecture by Michael Nylan
China’s Energy Consumption and Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation to Address the Effects of China’s Energy Use
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing in Washington, DC.
How Low (on Energy and Carbon) Can Buildings in China and the U.S. Go?
The Wlison Center's China Environment Forum presents a panel on the growing movement to reverse energy use increases in homes.
Robert B. Marks, "China’s Environmental History over the Very Long Term"
Drawing from his recently published book, China: Its Environment and History, Professor Marks will highlight what he sees as some of the major themes in China's very long environmental history, as well as some of the contentious issues in its understanding and interpretation. Presented by Harvard University's Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies.
Green Paradoxes: Literature and Environmental Crises in China and Japan
Karen Thornber will speak on environmental crises in China and Japan at Harvard University.
Soil and Society on the Loess Plateau, c. 1850s-1950s: A History from the Bottom Up
UC Berkeley hosts a talk with Micah Muscolino
Water: Asia's New Battleground
Asia Society's Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative (PCSI) presents a panel discussion on Asia's battle over water.
Fighting Polluters from the Grassroots Up: Zhou Xiang of Green Anhui, China
Please join environmentalist Zhou Xiang for his discussion on Green Anhui and the challenge of working as a civil society organization in China.
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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.