The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School and the Center for International Studies were pleased to welcome the 2008 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy, Evan Potter, to USC for a conversation on Nation Branding.

ABOUT EVAN POTTER

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was delighted to welcome Senior Fellow, Benjamin Barber, back to USC for a conversation on Public Diplomacy on “Obama vs. Hillary vs. McCain: Does Anyone Understand Public Diplomacy and Interdependence?”

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School and the USC Center for International Studies were pleased to host a conference entitled, AFRICOM: The American Military and Public Diplomacy in Africa. The first of a series of conferences on public diplomacy, this conference was held on Thursday, February 7 and Friday, February 8, 2008 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Evan Potter, Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, recently joined the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School as the Canadian Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy for 2008.

On January 28, 2008, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy hosted Harris Diamond, CEO of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, for a private discussion on the intersection of public relations and public diplomacy. The session was attended by graduate students in the Master of Public Diplomacy program.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed Mark Dillen, a leading authority on international media and cross-cultural communication, to USC for a talk on “Overseas Advocates: Expatriate Americans and Their Changing Role in U.S. Elections and Public Diplomacy."

About Mark Dillen

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed Professor Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, to USC for a talk on “Public Diplomacy: Why It Matters and How To Fix It."

About Robert Lieber