Announcements
Angus Taylor Simmons, a senior Foreign Service Officer at the Department of State, has joined the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as its sixth U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence.
As part of the ongoing Research Project on Confucius Institutes, led by CPD University Fellow Jian (Jay) Wang, CPD is pleased to introduce the newly updated and most comprehensive map of the locations of the Confucius Institutes and Classrooms across the United States.
The seventh annual CPD Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy concluded on August 3rd. Twenty-three participants spent two weeks engaging in vigorous study, critical debate, and dynamic teamwork designed to enhance the practice of public diplomacy.
CPD Director Philip Seib spent time in Washington, D.C. speaking at events at the German Marshall Fund and at the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.
CPD recently published "Public Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: Russia, Georgia and the EU in Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the 7th issue of CPD Perspectives on Public Diplomacy for this year.
CPD has published a compilation of its blogs, PDiN Monitor articles, CPD Perspectives essays and other material on China and Public Diplomacy as its first eBook. Contents include pieces on China's Public Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, the Shanghai Expo 2010 and China in the News originally published by CPD between October 2009 and August 2012.
In his review of Dennis R. Hoover and Douglas M. Johnston’s newly edited text Religion and Foreign Affairs, CPD Director Philip Seib notes the vital importance of an understanding of the role of faith in foreign affairs.
CPD is pleased to host Visiting Scholar Natalia Grincheva for Summer and Fall 2012. While at the Center, she will be researching new museology, cultural diplomacy, and social media.