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01.17.12
Time: 12 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: MILFORD BATEMAN, University of Juraj Dobrila of Pula, Croatia; LAMIA KARIM, University of Oregon; DAVID ELLERMAN, University of California, Riverside
Topic: "Microfinance Panel"
Series:
ABSTRACT: There is no dearth of magic bullets when it comes to solving the problems of underdevelopment of the Global South. Every few years, Western development community comes up with a new idea that is promoted as the new panacea that will end poverty, transform poor societies and put them on the track of sustainable growth and development. In the past two decades, it was microfinance that was rewarded with the status of poster child for successful development: Not only has it been supported by all the major multinational institutions like World Bank and UN, but it has also been embraced by celebrities, high-profile politicians, and the private sector. The meteoric rise of the microfinance movement globally culminated with the award of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, also known as "the father" of microfinance. Nevertheless, the last two years have been tough times for microfinance. A series of impact studies carried out by MIT's Poverty Lab using randomized control trials have been unable to find any evidence supporting the positive effect of microfinance on reducing poverty. Furthermore, microfinance bubbles in Bosnia, Morocco, Nicaragua, and finally last year in India's Andra Pradesh region- this one accompanied by a rash of suicides among microfinance borrowers- caused a global backlash against microfinance institutions, and brought the entire movement under closer public scrutiny. In this special event, our speakers will present their views about the benefits and drawbacks to the microfinance model as an instrument to facilitate sustainable poverty reduction and bottom-up development, and its connection with the neoliberal economic ideology; discuss the current state of the microfinance movement; and deliberate on possible alternatives.
Discussant: Yesim Ince, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC

01.18.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: KATHRYN SIKKINK, McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science, University of Minnesota
Topic: “The Justice Cascade: A Presentation and Critique”
Discussant: BRONWYN LEEBAW, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside

01.24.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: JACQUELINE BRAVEBOY-WAGNER, Professor of Political Science, The City College of New York (CUNY)
Topic: “Seeing/Writing International Relations and Foreign Policy Differently: Some Perspectives From the South”

01.25.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: CARLOS SCARTASCINI, Lead Economist of the Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank
Topic: "Why Don’t We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World"
Discussant: Christina Faegri, Political Science and International Relations Phd candidate, USC

01.31.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: MICHAEL INTRILIGATOR, Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy Emeritus, UCLA
Topic: "Why We Need a New Manhattan Project to Address Climate Change"
Series: OECD Development Dialogue series organized by Daniel Paly, USC student ambassador to the OECD

Road to the White House 2012: The State of the Campaign

Wednesday, Jan. 18th 12-1pm

The Forum (RTCC 450)In the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Free Food Served at 11:30am Discussion begins at noon

Featuring: Rob Stutzman, Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Hector De La Torre, Former California State Assemblyman, 50th District Representative, College Democrat Alex Davidson, Director of External Relations, College Republicans

Co-Moderated By: Dan Schnur, Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics Rachel Bracker, News Editor, Daily Trojan

Battle For Congress

Wednesday, Jan. 18th 6:00 - 7:00pm

Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240 Free Food Served at 5:30pm

Featuring:Jon Wilcox, former Communications Director, Darrell Issa for Governor of CaliforniaJohn Shallman, President, Shallman Communications Aaron Taxy, Membership Director, USC College Democrats Alex Kludjian, Public Relations Director, USC College Republicans

Moderated by: Dan Schnur, Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of PoliticsElyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner, Executive Director, Annenberg TV News

Soft Power through China’s Confucius Institutes: A Conversation with Jian (Jay) Wang
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy

Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:00 PM
Venue: USC; SOS 250 - NEW ROOM

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to welcome Jian (Jay) Wang, CPD University Fellow and Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism to discuss his research project on China's Confucius Institutes in the United States.

His CPD-sponsored project examines the Confucius Institute as a platform for China’s cultural diplomacy within the larger context of U.S.-China relations. It aims to develop a framework for better understanding the opportunities and challenges facing organizations of cultural diplomacy in contemporary times.

This presentation focuses on the question why the Confucius Institute has grown so fast by identifying the driving forces underlying its rapid expansion and analyzing its organizational and operational model.

For more information about Professor Wang's research project, please visit this page.

To follow the Confucius Institutes Media Monitor, please click here.

To view the Confucius Institutes Interactive Map, please follow this link.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, however a R.S.V.P. is required.

On-campus parking is available in Parking Structure "X", located at USC Gate #3 (3400 S. Figueroa St.). You can purchase a daily permit for $8.

02.01.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: MUHAMMAD SAHIMI, NIOC Chair in Petroleum Engineering, USC and political columnist at Tehran Bureau
Topic: “Iran: Internal Developments and the Possibility of Military Attacks by the West”
Discussant: Laurie Brand, Professor of International Relations, USC

02.07.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: NAEEM INAYATULLAH, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Ithaca College
Topic: "Capitalism, First and Last"
Discussant: Organized by Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations, USC

02.14.12
Time: 2 - 3:30 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: A. COOPER DRURY, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia; Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Analysis
Topic: "Trends in the International Relations Subfield: A View from the Journal Foreign Policy Analysis"
Series: Publishing Editor series organized by Scott Wilbur, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC

02.23.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: LEONARD SCHOPPA, Associate Chair and Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Topic: “Japan’s Declining Population: Clearly a Problem, But What’s the Solution?”
Series: Organized by Scott Wilbur, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
Discussant: Saori Katada, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC

02.27.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: JEFF DAYTON-JOHNSON, Associate Professor of International Trade and Development, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Topic: “The Latin American Decade”
Series: OECD Development Dialogue series organized by Daniel Paly, USC student ambassador to the OECD

02.29.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: RICHARD PRICE, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Topic: "Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban"
Series: Organized by Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations, USC

A View From an FSO: A Conversation with Atim Eneida George, U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy

Thursday, February 2, 2012
12:00 PM
Venue: USC; SOS B40

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased host Atim Eneida George, U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence for a conversation about the role of an experienced Foreign Service Officer.

Atim is a veteran practitioner in the field of public diplomacy as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) with posts in Nigeria, Ethopia, South Africa, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

Atim will discuss the lessons learned during her 25-year career and how the role of the FSO has changed. In addition, she will impart her thoughts and ideas about the future of role and the implications for public diplomacy in a rapidly changing world.

During her time at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Atim will be researching the impact of public diplomacy on echo-boomers/millennials in the markets around the world through their impact in fields such as sports, business, the arts, fashion, public policy and international relations.

During the Spring 2012 semester, Atim will be teaching a class in the Master's of Public Diplomacy program, "Listening to the Echo: Examining the Impact of Echo-Boomers in Public Diplomacy" on Thursdays from 9:00am-11:50am.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, however a R.S.V.P. is required.

On-campus parking is available in Parking Structure "X", located at USC Gate #3 (3400 S. Figueroa St.). You can purchase a daily permit for $8.

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Global Branding and Public Diplomacy: A Conversation with Simon Mainwaring CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy

Thursday, February 9, 2012
12:00 PM
Venue: USC; SOS B40

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to host CPD Advisory Board Member, Simon Mainwaring for a discussion about his recent New York Times bestselling book, We First.

We First is a new way of looking at the role of the private sector and social media in our world. Mainwaring explores how global social issues can be addressed by business using social technology. The implications and implementation for the public diplomacy student and practitioner include:

• How do we use social media to share and amplify relevant and timely messages to home and foreign audiences?

• What is the role of U.S., foreign, and multinational corporations in a mutually dependent global community?

• How can social media be used to create cultural bridges between countries in the same region or across the world?

• What are the long term implications of social technology for business and public diplomacy?

• How do brands and customers form meaningful partnerships that can leverage mobile, social and gaming technologies to build a better world?

Please join us as Simon Mainwaring shares the thinking behind We First and the implications for public diplomacy at home and abroad.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, however a R.S.V.P. is required.

On-campus parking is available in Parking Structure "X", located at USC Gate #3 (3400 S. Figueroa St.). You can purchase a daily permit for $8.

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Water Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Imperative A CPD Conference

Monday, February 27, 2012
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Venue: USC Davidson Conference Center, Board Room

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to host a major conference on water diplomacy. Water is essential to humankind’s existence, is increasingly unavailable because of pollution, failure to develop conservation programs, and mismanagement of water resources. During the near future, water shortages could lead to conflict in many parts of the world. Water-related problems are global in scope, and although international bodies actively support initiatives to conserve and fairly allocate water, not enough is being done to address this critical topic.

CPD’s Water Diplomacy Initiative includes research and programming that will contribute to the following three objectives: achieving a greater understanding of the impact of water diplomacy on the recipients of current and future programs; assessing best practices in the field; and developing technological and policy recommendations to governments and organizations conducting Water Diplomacy.

For more information about CPD's Water Diplomacy Initiative, please click here.

Conference Agenda, Monday, February 27
USC Davidson Conference Center

• Welcome: Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and Philip Seib, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

• Keynote: Jaehyang So, Managing Director, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), The World Bank

• Panel 1: Listening: Water Diplomacy on the Ground

Panelists & Chair:
• Nicholas J. Cull, Director, Master of Public Diplomacy Program, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC (chair)
• Úrsula Oswald Spring, Professor, National University of Mexico UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca
• Ruben van Genderen, Research Fellow, Water Diplomacy, Institute for European and International Policy, KU Leuven
• Stella Williams, Former Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

• Panel 2: Implementation: Water Diplomacy in Practice

Panelists & Chair:
• John O'Brien, Executive Vice Dean of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC (chair)
• Jerome Delli Priscoli, Senior Advisor, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Frank Rijsberman, Director, Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Initiative, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Lunch & Conversation with Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director, Friends of the Earth Middle East, and Philip Seib, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School

• Panel 3: The Future of Water: Technology & Policy

Panelists & Chair:
• Richard Little, Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, USC (chair)
• Mark Bernstein, Senior Vice President, Energy, Clean Tech and Sustainability Practice, MWW Group
• Katherine Bliss, Director, Project on Global Water Policy and Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT, and Director, Public Disputes Program and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

• Concluding Remarks: Philip Seib, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

The conference will begin at 8:30am with a continental breakfast and the program will start at 8:45am and will conclude at 4:30pm.

This event is free and open to the public, however you must R.S.V.P. below.

Parking is available on the USC campus for $8. Please enter through USC Gate 4 at Jefferson Blvd., just west of Figueroa St., and purchase parking for Parking Structure D.

This conference is co-sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies

03.20.12
Time: 12 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: (Tentative lineup: Peter Knaack, Mariano Bertucci, Hong Pang)
Topic: “International Studies Association Conference – Student Practice Presentations”

03.21.12
Time: 12 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: (Tentative lineup: Nicolas De Zamaroczy, Simon Radford, Kate Svyatets)
Topic: “International Studies Association Conference – Student Practice Presentations”

03.27.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: Michael Behiels, Professor of Canadian Political & Constitutional History, University of Ottawa
Topic: Topic TBA (Canadian Studies Series)

International Cultural Relations in the 21st Century with CEO of the British Council Martin Davidson
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy

Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:00 PM
Venue: USC; ASC 207 Geoffrey Cowan Forum

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to welcome Martin Davidson, CEO of the British Council, the UK’s cultural relations organization to discuss international cultural relations in the 21st Century.

This discussion, moderated by CPD director Philip Seib, will address how the British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries, and builds trust between them worldwide. With 191 offices in 110 countries, the British Council works through the arts, education, and society to create long-term relationships with the UK that provide cultural, educational, diplomatic and economic benefits.

About Martin Davidson
Martin Davidson became the British Council’s Chief Executive in 2007, having been Deputy Director-General since 2005. When he joined the British Council as Assistant Representative in Beijing in 1984, British Council China was an operation of 6 people working in a converted bicycle shed at the British Embassy. Davidson played a pivotal part in building this fledgling presence up to its present strength of more than 230 people in four offices. He has also held various posts in the British Council’s Geographical Directorate with responsibilities that have included South East Europe, in a particularly troubled time in the region’s history, the Middle East, East Asia and the Americas.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, however a R.S.V.P. is required.

On-campus parking is available in Parking Structure "X", located at USC Gate #3 (3400 S. Figueroa St.). You can purchase a daily permit for $8..

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04.05.12
Time: 12 am
Location: Location and Time TBA
Speaker: CATHERINE MAVRIKAKIS, French-Canadian author and Professor of French Literature, University of Montreal
Topic: Topic TBA (literature on AIDS)
Series: Organized and co-sponsored by the USC Francophone Resource Center

04.05.12
Time: 12 pm
Location: Location and Time TBA
Speaker: SHAUN BRESLIN, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Topic: “China's response to the Global Crisis”

04.11.12
Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
Location: SOS B-40
Speaker: DANIEL LYNCH, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC
Topic: "Chinese Images of the Future: Economics and Politics"

04.24.12
Time: 12 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Forum Room
Speaker: KELLEY LEE, Associate Dean of Research and Director of Global Health, London School of Tropical Medicine
Topic: "A Struggle for Relevance: The Future of the WHO"
Series: 2011-2012 GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURES SERIES
sponsored by the USC Institute for Global Health and the USC Center for International Studies