Make-up Assignments

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If you need to miss a session (no more than three in the duration of the seminar), please let us know. You will need to make up each missed session. Please note that the four Saturdays count as two sessions each. If you miss a Saturday, you will need to submit two make-up assignments.

• Attend an event (lecture/meeting/discussion panel, etc.) that focuses on issues related to East Asia or visit a museum exhibition or performance relating to East Asia. The U.S.-China Institute offers at least one public event each month.
• Submit a 150-200 word summary of what you learned, and post it in this thread. 

Attached is a list of resources to help give you an idea of events/places to visit around Los Angeles

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[Brigid Schmidt]

I had the opportunity to attend the live virtual lecture by Professor Tom Narins from the University at Albany. Although I did not know much about the topic, I still found his lecture engaging and filled with interesting information. He discussed the Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, which is a set of infrastructural and institutional frameworks organized and forwarded by the Chinese government. He explained global sovereignty to be power which is borderless that spans the entire world. I learned that China has now taken the helm as a leader of Globalization of the world economy and institutions. He stated that smaller countries neighboring China are very concerned about the economic dependency on China as the BRI progresses and advances. I found it interesting that this initiative relates or stems from Silk Road as my students were studying those trade routes from the second century BCE. I am embarrassed to say that I did not realize this was an economic route still used today. He mentioned it as a digital Silk Road suggesting growth and changes in in our world currently. While I still have much more to learn about the BRI and the way sovereignty works, I am glad I was able to dip my toes into this subject.

[Esther Dupree]

https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

I took a virtual tour of The British Museum.  This is such a fantastic resource.  They have a beautifully designed graphic interface where you can choose to explore one of the following:

• Art and Design
• Living and Dying
• Power and Identity
• Religion and Belief
• Trade and Conflict

Then you can choose from one of these areas of the world to explore:

• Africa
• Americas
• Asia
• Europe
• Oceania

Then you can scroll through a timeline and choose to look at specific exhibits from a specific time period.  I couldn’t have designed a better way to explore their resources.  I honestly would rather do a virtual tour than a live one because it is organized so intuitively.  I can piece things together in a coherent manner.  When I am in a museum I get overloaded and overwhelmed.  This virtual tour allows me to study items that have a cohesive geographic and thematic connection.  Each exhibit has a map showing where the item is from along with a detailed description of what it is, what it was used for and the historical context and significance of each item.  The site also shows connections of each exhibit and how it connects to other areas of the world and other time periods.  This is one of the most important things that teachers can do—show how everything connects.  I will definitely be using this virtual tour—even if only for my own learning.  But I hope to use what I have learned from this site to provide examples of architecture for my architecture lessons that I am implementing this year thanks to this course.

 

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