The USC Center on Public Diplomacy hosted Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, as part of the Center's Distinguished Speaker Series on the Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Great Powers.

About Paulo Sotero

On Tuesday, October 21st The Center on Public Diplomacy hosted an exciting roundtable book discussion with CPD faculty fellow Nicholas Cull about his most recent critically acclaimed publication, "The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989".

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy held its 2008 Summer Institute in Advanced Public Diplomacy from July 20 to August 1, 2008. In its third year, the Summer Institute is an intensive two-week course designed to immerse participants into the increasingly critical study of public diplomacy by combining traditional classroom instruction with collaborative hands-on exercises.

TheUSC Center on Public Diplomacy sponsored the 16th International Symposium on Transformational Public Diplomacy, which was organized by the Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminsterand co-sponsored by the United States Embassy in London.

Join students and faculty for a presentation by the British documentary film maker, photographer and educator, Pratap Rughani. His topic: Photographing Atrocity. Rughani is especially well known for his treatment of issues of inter-cultural conflict. His present project is still photography recording the aftermath of a series of caste-based murders in India. This presentation will explore the ethical issues of representing such events and ask whether images of suffering, war and atrocity necessarily exploitative or are we protected from fuller coverage of horrors?

The USC Annenberg School for Communication, the USC Center on Communication Leadership and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy are delighted to host a roundtable discussion and reception in honor of the March 2008 publication of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

The University of Southern California has been honored with one of four inaugural Benjamin Franklin Awards for Public Diplomacy, a prestigious new honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of State.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented the award in a ceremony on April 8 in Washington, D.C. (Watch the video or see photos from the ceremony).