Announcements
Director Philip Seib's article, "Defining Influence, Balancing Power: News and Foreign Policy," is included in the collection of essays recently published in the Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, edited by Stuart Allan.
CPD Director Philip Seib participates in a roundtable, "Winning Hearts and Minds: American Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century," on November 16 at Johns Hopkins University's Washington DC Center.
CPD Director Philip Seib joins a "Media and Politics" panel and moderates another at the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) International Conference in Cairo Nov. 7-10.
In addition to audio recordings on the website, the Center is expanding its new media offerings to include podcasts of CPD speeches and events. To visit the Center's iTunes station, follow the link.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to USC for support of a project on "Engaging Intensely Adversarial States: The Strategic Limits and Potential of Public Diplomacy in U.S. National Security Policy."
This month's issue of CPD's Perspectives on Public Diplomacy features a paper by Nicholas Cull titled "Public Diplomacy: Lessons from the Past."
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is hiring students to assist with two recently launched research projects on Russian and U.S. Public Diplomacy.
On October 20, 2009, Ambassador Claudia Fritsche visited CPD to discuss the role of Liechtenstein in today's changing global financial order. The session was attended by graduate students and faculty of the Master of Public Diplomacy program. A full text transcript of her remarks is available.