USC Center on Public Diplomacy Senior Fellow Benjamin Barber visits the Annenberg School for Communication on Wednesday, November 16 through Friday, November 18. Barber, a renowned political theorist, is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.

Benjamin Barber's discussion schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, Nov. 16 — open discussion with students, ASC 103 (Center on Public Diplomacy office) 2:00 p.m.

Eytan Gilboa discussed the relevance of his work in a colloquium entitled, ""The New Public Diplomacy: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Foreign Publics."

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CPD Contributing Editor and Senior Fellow John Brown spoke as part of the Transatlantic Security Relations Seminar Series.

Friday November 11, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
NYU's King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
Room 321

Panelists:

Josh Fouts, Director, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California
Czeslaw Jan Grycz, CEO, Octavo.com
Elizabeth Losh, Writing Director, Humanities Core Course, UCI
Kevin Roderick, former editor for the L.A. Times and founder and publisher of LAObserved.com

Moderator: Lynn Mally, Professor of History, UCI

The internet has spawned new genres of publication, with accompanying new vocabulary — blogs, wikis, and listservs — digital forms of diaries, journals, and newsletters.

Mary G. Bitterman discussed her career in public broadcasting at a student roundtable moderated by Nicholas Cull.

Ms. Bitterman detailed her early career as Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority, Director of the East-West Center's Institute of Culture and Communication, and Director of Voice of America.

(l-r): Geoffrey Cowan, Manuel Castells, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Fernando Calderon, Ernesto Ottone.

Guest Speakers:
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil
• Fernando Calderon, the Regional Advisor for the United Nations Development Program in Latin America
• Ernesto Ottone, the Chief of the Strategic Analysis Unit of the President of Chile

John Brown, Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and author of the widely read Public Diplomacy Press Review met with faculty and students on October 25th from 4-5 in ASC 103. He spoke about such issues as the appointment of Karen Hughes as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and discussing his article A Failed Public Diplomat in which he critiques Hughes’ recent trip to the Middle East.

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