Dr. Sam Cherribi

The Africa Business Council's reception

The Africa Business Council

an African Chamber of Commerce

The Goizueta Business School Sustainable Development Initiative and the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship of Emory University

in collaboration with

the Georgia Minority Business Awards

cordially invites you to a reception on Friday evening, the eighteenth of February

from six until eight o’clock at the Jenkins Commons, first floor Goizueta Business School of Emory University 1300 Clifton Road Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Special Guests

• Joseph Ganda,

Archbishop of Freetown and Bo

Sierra Leone

• Wangui W. Mwai,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Kenya

Daughter of President of Kenya

2005 Georgia Minority Business Award Recipients

RSVP: Nell Naye Diallo, President, Africa Business Council africabusinesscouncil.com or 404-408-7611

Is South Asia the Most Dangerous Place on Earth?

The Center for the Study of Public Scholarship and the Asian Studies Program of Emory University present

Is South Asia the Most Dangerous Place on Earth?

RAJU G. C. THOMAS

Allis Chambers Distinguished Professor of International Affairs Marquette University

Monday, February 28, 2005

4:30pm

White Hall, Room 205

Following the nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998, U.S. officials and the American media have called South Asia the most dangerous place on earth. In 2001 Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage called Kashmir "the most dangerous place in the world." Indeed, during the American bombing of Afghanistan to root out the Al Qaeda terrorist base, tensions escalated over Kashmir between these two newly-armed nuclear weapon states. Pakistani leaders have threatened the use of nuclear weapons if India were to launch a conventional attack on Pakistan to stop cross border terrorism. Stemming the hemorrhage in Indo-Pakistani relations and the slide towards a nuclear war constitute a concurrent challenge for the United States as it pursues its war objectives in Afghanistan and Iraq and the elimination of terrorist networks everywhere.

RAJU G. C. THOMAS is the Allis Chalmers Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thomas has published/edited over a dozen books, 35 book chapters and 30 articles in academic journals. Some of his most recent works include Nuclear India in the 21st Century and Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention. Currently, he is co-editing with Stanley Wolpert a 4-volume Encyclopedia of India. He has delivered numerous overseas lectures. Thomas has an M.A. degree in Industrial and Monetary Economics from Bombay University, a B.Sc.Econ. degree in Economics and International History from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA.

For more information, please contact Anne Walker at 404-727-7602 or awalker@emory.edu.

WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT NEWS...

The Center for the Study of Public Scholarship and the Journalism Program of Emory University present

WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT NEWS...

AND WHY IT'S WRONG

Kevin Barnhurst

Professor and Interim Head, Department of Communications University of Illinois at Chicago

Monday, February 28, 2004

12:00 Noon

Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Lunch will be served. Please email awalker@emory.edu to reserve your space.

Common sense would say news today has gotten shorter and faster, more event-packed, more focused on people, and more localized. But measurements of the who, what, when, where, and why of news show the opposite. During the past century, journalists have instead focused more on their own judgments, opinions, and predictions. Interpretation replaced news. The fast-paced, 'round-the-clock, 24/7 new clothes of what I call the new long journalism hide these changes in plain site. Ideological work takes place behind the scenes, unobserved and not consciously hidden. In the case of news, U.S. journalism during the twentieth century enhanced its power over political deliberation behind a curtain of counter-factual beliefs.

KEVIN BARNHURST’s areas of specialization include political communication, narrative studies of news consumption, critical analysis of journalism, visual media culture, and qualitative methods. His most recent book, The Form of News, A History, with John Nerone, won the ICA Outstanding Book Award, the MEA Suzanne Langer Award for outstanding scholarship on symbolic form, and the AEJMC Covert Award for best research on the history of the media. His more than 100 scholarly publications include several journal articles, book chapters, and shorter pieces in English and Spanish. He lectures frequently at universities in Latin America and Europe, and has been a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City, and Faculty Scholar of the UIC Great Cities Institute.

For more information, please contact Anne Walker at 404-727-7602 or awalker@emory.edu