The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Barry A. Sanders for a discussion of his new book, American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host, Sarala Fernando, Fulbright Professional Scholar (Fall 2011) from Sri Lanka.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Bernard Duhaime, the incoming Canada-U.S. Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy, to speak about his work on international human rights and public diplomacy.

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About Bernhard Duhaime

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy was pleased to welcome Michael Posner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor for a dialogue on Internet freedom.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and USC Annenberg School of Journalism was pleased to host a discussion with Ramin Asgard, Director of Voice of America's Persian News Network.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Riffat Masood, the Consul General of Pakistan in Los Angeles for a conversation about Pakistan, U.S., and public diplomacy. Consul General Masood discussed how the relationship between Pakistan and the United States, could benefit from public diplomacy efforts initiated by each country toward the other.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies was pleased to welcome Douglas Kmiec for a talk titled, "Secularism Crucified?"

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy hosted a panel discussion looking at U.S. public diplomacy in the Arab world ten years after the 9/11 attacks.

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Setting the framework for the event, panelists were asked to consider the question that U.S. policymakers have grappled with, “Why do they hate us?” and then with the broader issues of the tone and substance of American public diplomacy.