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.
Politics
Taiwan and Tibet: An Open Asian American Student Conversation
A student conversation about the state of Taiwan, Tibet, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Taiwan Roundtable: "Winners or Losers in the TPP? Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the United States"
George Washington University presents a roundtable on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the pace of the flagging free trade agreement picked up last Fall. Speakers include Mireya Solís, Shihoko Goto, and Derek Scissors.
Religious Policies and Practices in China: An Overview
Professor Liu Peng will discuss the history of religious policies in the People's Republic of China and examine the contemporary situation.
"Chairman Mao Can Vote and So Can We": A History of Elections as State-Building Rituals in Twentieth Century China
Stanford Center For East Asian Studies hosts a discussion of the role of elections in 20th Century China as a ritual rather than a right.
Educator Workshop: IOKIBE Kaoru on U.S.-Japan Relations
IOKIBE Kaoru (University of Tokyo) will focus on U.S.-Japan relations in historical and contemporary contexts.
Chinese Labor Unions in an Era of Great Transformation: Challenges and Best Practices in Guangdong
This colloquium focuses on the changing dynamics of Chinese labor politics
Who Accommodates Chinese Interests? Exploring Variation in National Responses to a Rising China.
Scott Kastner, Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Maryland collaborates with the Stanford China Program to examine China as a major political and economic actor on the world stage.
Film Screening: Human Harvest
In the award-winning documentary Human Harvest, Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world’s worst crimes against humanity. This screening is organized by the UNC-Chapel Hill Falun Dafa Club.
Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A 'Control Rights' Theory
This talk explores the development of a theoretical model on authority relationships in the Chinese bureaucracy
Bottom-Up Enforcement? Legal Mobilization as Law Enforcement in the PRC
UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies hosts Mary Gallagher who will give a talk about worker's rights and labor laws in China.
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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
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.