Announcements
CPD Director Geoffrey Wiseman to moderate panel on Global Approaches to Cultural Diplomacy at the APDS "Cultural Diplomacy: Clash or Conversation?" Symposium on March 27, 2009.
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School is proud to announce the publication of Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: Track Two to Peace? edited by Joseph Popiolkowski and Nicholas J. Cull.
In February 2009, the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at the University of Southern California launched the inaugural issue of PD the first student-run magazine focused exclusively on Public Diplomacy issues.
As part of his course entitled "International Broadcasting: Influence and Power in the Age of Information," CPD Research Associate Shawn Powers has launched the Global Media Monitor blog to monitor how different international broadcasters are covering and framing global events.
On January 29, 2009, Monroe Price, professor and director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School, delivered the keynote address at the opening night dinner of the 2009 Center on Public Diplomacy Spring Symposium, The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Public Diplomacy Triumph or Public Relations Spectacle?
On January 22, 2009 Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean of the U.S.C Annenberg School for Communication, led a roundtable discussion on his recent experiences as a member of the Presidential Transition Team for the Obama administration.
Professor Andrew F. Cooper joins the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as its 2009 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair.
CPD releases An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming, a multi-method evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of Alhurra's news broadcasting to the Middle East.