As the fall semester begins, USC's Center on Public
Diplomacy is once again fortunate to be able to call on the talents of
extraordinary students from the
Masters in Public Diplomacy program, which is
directed by Professor Nick Cull. These students, who come from all over the
world, provide research support for many of our projects and they infuse the
work of the Center with their energy, optimism, and
intelligence.
We are preparing for our first two events of the
fall. On September 8, here at the Annenberg School, CPD and the Journalism
School will co-host a panel, "
Iran: New Politics, New Media," featuring Roger
Cohen of the New York Times and Mike Shuster of National Public Radio. The
following week, we will be in Washington, D.C. for "
A New Public Diplomacy," a
book launch and panel discussion about ways that the Obama administration should address public diplomacy
issues. The panel will be followed by a reception, and if you're in Washington
on September 14, we urge you to come by the Newseum at 6:30 PM. And later in September,
another forum, this one
featuring Professor Teresa LaPorte, our Visiting Scholar from Spain's Universidad de
Navarra, who will discuss the EU's public diplomacy.
As you can see, we're getting off to a fast start.
There's always a lot going on here, and anytime you're in LA, we invite you to
drop by.
CPD Director Philip Seib writes the featured opinion piece in the September issue of Layalina's Perspectives. The article, '
As a followup
to his
Beginning September 1, Public Diplomacy in the News (PDiN) will be
available as a daily digest. PDiN is an aggregation of public diplomacy
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CPD is proud to announce the release of Toward a New Public Diplomacy:
Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by CPD Director 
Robert Banks