The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is proud to host Professor Jing Wang as part of the Center's Distinguished Speaker Series on the Public Diplomacy of the Emerging World Powers. Join us this fall as Professor Wang discusses the Public Diplomacy efforts of China and her latest book Brand New China.
Book signing and light reception to follow.
About Jing Wang
Jing Wang is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, and S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture. She is the founder of the MIT International Committee of Critical Policy Studies of China, and co-organizer of the Policy Culture Research Project with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before joining MIT, she was the Director of the Center for East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies and the Chair of the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature at Duke University.
Her field of specialization is Chinese Cultural Studies, with a recent focus on advertising, media, consumer culture, and popular culture of contemporary China. She has also published on the topics of modern Chinese literature, intellectual history, and the tradition of Chinese narrative fiction dated back to the pre-modern period.
About the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series
In 2008, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy launched the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series to bring leading experts in regional public diplomacy to USC to discuss the current state and future of public diplomacy.
The study of public diplomacy has traditionally focused on the powerful nations of the world. However, CPD recognizes that nations of all sizes and influence engage in public diplomacy. This three-year Speaker Series will analyze systematically and sequentially how nations of varying influence engage in public diplomacy:
2008-09 - Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Powers (Brazil, Russia, India and China)
2009-10 - Public Diplomacy of the Influential Middle Powers
2010-11 - Public Diplomacy of the Dynamic Small States
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Shashi Tharoor: India CPD Distinguished Speaker Series
March 3, 2009
5:00 PM Venue: USC
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is proud to host Shashi Tharoor, Chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, as part of the Center's Distinguished Speaker Series on the Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Great Powers. Join us as Dr. Tharoor discusses the Public Diplomacy efforts of India.
About Shashi Tharoor
Dr. Shashi Tharoor was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, and included key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
Dr. Tharoor is also the award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds and book reviews in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek and The Times of India. He has served for two years as a Contributing Editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. Since April 2001 he has authored a fortnightly column in The Hindu and since January 2007 in The Times of India.
His six non-fiction books include: Reasons of State (1981), a study of Indian foreign-policy making; India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), which was cited by President Clinton in his address to the Indian Parliament; Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), a biography of India's first Prime Minister, and a collection of literary essays, Bookless in Baghdad (2005). His three novels are the classic, The Great Indian Novel (1989) which is required reading in several courses on post-colonial literature; Riot (2001), a searing examination of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India, and Show Business (1992) which received a front-page accolade in the New York Times Book Review and has since been made into a motion picture, "Bollywood". His most recent book, The Elephant, the Tiger, & the Cell Phone India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007) which highlights why India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society over the past 25 years. Shashi Tharoor’s books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.
Born in London in 1956, Dr. Tharoor was educated in India and the United States, completing a Ph. D. in 1978 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he received the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student. At Fletcher, Shashi Tharoor helped found and was the first Editor of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, a journal now in its 31st year. A compelling and effective speaker, he is fluent in English and French.
In January 1998, Dr. Tharoor was named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was named to India’s highest honour for Overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, in 2004. He serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute India, and the Advisory Boards of the World Policy Journal, the Virtue Foundation and the human rights organization Breakthrough. He is also a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities.
He is married to Christa, a Canadian who is Deputy Secretary of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, and is the father of twin sons Ishaan and Kanishk.
About the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series
In 2008, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy launched the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series to bring leading experts in regional public diplomacy to USC to discuss the current state and future of public diplomacy.
The study of public diplomacy has traditionally focused on the powerful nations of the world. However, CPD recognizes that nations of all sizes and influence engage in public diplomacy. This three-year Speaker Series will analyze systematically and sequentially how nations of varying influence engage in public diplomacy:
2008-09 - Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Great Powers (Brazil, Russia, India and China) 2009-10 - Public Diplomacy of the Influential Middle Powers 2010-11 - Public Diplomacy of the Dynamic Small States
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Public Diplomacy Triumph or Public Relations Spectacle? CPD Spring Symposium
January 30, 2009
5:00PM Venue: USC
Join the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as we bring scholars and practitioners together to share research on China's public diplomacy strategies, and on the impact of these games on global attitudes towards a rising China.
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Paulo Sotero: Brazil CPD Distinguished Speaker Series
November 11, 2008
5:00 PM Venue: Tyler Prize Pavilion, USC
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is proud to host Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, as part of the Center's Distinguished Speaker Series on the Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Great Powers. Join us as Mr. Sotero discusses the Public Diplomacy efforts of Brazil.
About Paolo Sotero
Paulo Sotero is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. For the last seventeen years, Paulo was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. He has also been a regular commentator and analyst for the BBC radio Portuguese language service, Radio France Internationale, and Radio Eldorado, in Brazil. Since 2003 he has been an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University both in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the Center for Latin American Studies of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
A native of the state of São Paulo, Sotero started his career in journalism at Veja weekly magazine in 1968 and held positions as staff reporter in Recife, stringer in Paris, full-time correspondent in Lisbon, assistant editor for Latin American in São Paulo, and correspondent assigned to cover the Palácio do Planalto, the Brazilian President's office, in Brasília.
Sotero is a frequent lecturer on Brazilian and Latin American affairs at U.S. universities and think tanks, and has appeared on national radio and television news programs. In addition to his work for Estado, he has contributed to newspapers, magazines and journals in Brazil, the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
In 1987, Sotero received the Maria Moors Cabot Award Special Citation from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. He is also the recipient of the 1993 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer award from the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. In Brazil, he was awarded the 1978 Prêmio Abril de Reportagem for a Veja cover story on Paraguay and for an investigative report on the assassination of Chilean general Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires. Mr. Sotero is a 1971 alumnus of the Inter-American Universities Association Summer School Program at Harvard University. He is a member of the Grupo de Conjuntura Internacional, a forum of discussion of Brazilian foreign and trade policies at the University of São Paulo, and the Fernando Braudel Institute of World Economics, also based in São Paulo.
About the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series
In 2008, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy launched the CPD Distinguished Speaker Series to bring leading experts in regional public diplomacy to USC to discuss the current state and future of public diplomacy.
The study of public diplomacy has traditionally focused on the powerful nations of the world. However, CPD recognizes that nations of all sizes and influence engage in public diplomacy. This three-year Speaker Series will analyze systematically and sequentially how nations of varying influence engage in public diplomacy:
2008-09 - Public Diplomacy of the Emerging Great Powers (Brazil, Russia, India and China) 2009-10 - Public Diplomacy of the Influential Middle Powers 2010-11 - Public Diplomacy of the Dynamic Small States
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Friday, Oct 17, 2008
6:00 PM Venue: Washington, DC
Celebrating Meridian International Center’s success in promoting global understanding
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