Dr. Sam Cherribi

FEAR, MASS MEDIA, & RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN EUROPE, ASIA, & AMERICA

The Burke Nicholson Interdisciplinary Forum

FEAR, MASS MEDIA, & RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN EUROPE, ASIA, & AMERICA

March 28-29, 2005

This forum on perceptions of religious minorities across the world interweave two issues. How do mass media shape public opinion and in turn how are they shaped by proactive journalism and scholarly thought? How does media coverage of religious minorities reflect this process? Today, migration, religion, and ethnicity are a source of divisiveness and social and political conflict. This forum will discuss the challenge of writing about religion and other complex topics for a public audience; the relationship of mass media, journalism, and religious minorities; and the interplay of government, fear, and religious minorities in case studies of the Falun Gong in China and Islam in Germany.

Ian Johnson, and award-winning international journalist who has covered reigious minorities in China and Germany, will be the guest scholar for the forum.

Great Decisions 2005

Foreign Policy Lecture/Discussion Series

Coordinated in Georgia by the Georgia Council for International Visitors

Thursdays, January 27 to March 17, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Dunwoody United Methodist Church, 1548 Mt. Vernon Road

Registration includes briefing book:  $25.00, $10.00 for spouse if book shared.  Contact:  Rosalie FitzPatrick

770-393-9571 or e-mail:  rdfitzpatrick@mindspring.com

Increase your understanding of world affairs through this eight-week series based on a briefing book published annually by the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Association.  The series helps participants develop an informed opinion on the role the United States should play in world affairs

Earle and Barbara Scarlett

Two former US career diplomats with global experience in hotspots demystify the "arcane" profession and provide guidance on exciting careers in the State Department and other foreign affairs agencies.

Earle and Barbara Scarlett joined the US foreign service as a tandem couple in 1976 and served as diplomats in Cameroon, Brazil (twice), Philippines, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, and Ireland. Their State Department assignments in Washington included the Middle East, China, East and West Africa, and Latin America. Earle was Dean Rusk Fellow at Georgetown University/Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and Director of Political Training at the Foreign Service Institute. Barbara is a graduate of the National Defense University and a recipient of Superior Honor Award for her work on the Kyoto Protocol. Earle was Senior State Department Adviser to Commander of Maxwell Air Force Base and taught at the Air War College. He is a recipient of "The Secretary's Career Achievement Award". Both were foreign service examiners.

 

Center for the Study of Public Scholarship Visiting Fellows

Tuesday, march 8, 2005

4:30pm

White Hall, room 205

For more information please contact anne walker at

404-727-7602 or awalker@emory.edu or visit our website:

www.csps.emory.edu.

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Burke Nicholson Lunch Invite

with special guest Jacques de Decker

Friday, March 11, 2005
12:00pm
Le Giverny at the Emory Inn
1641 Clifton Road

Jacques De Decker, born in Brussels in 1945, is a versatile writer. A Germanist trained at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he has taught at the Royal Conservatory. De Decker has also been a prolific literary critic for over twenty years: since 1971, he has collaborated with the Belgium’s largest francophone daily newspaper Le Soir. His works are also found in a wide variety of other publications, notably the Magazine Littéraire. De Decker is also the author of many diverse essays: “Les années critiques” (1990), “En lisant, en écoutant” (1996), “La brosse à relire” (1999), and “Un baggage poétique pour le 3ième millénaire” (2002), which received the Robert Giron Scholarship from the jury of the Prix Interallié. An author, he has written “La Grande Roue” (Grasset, 1985), “Parades amoureuses “ (Grasset, 1990), and “La ventre de la baleine” (Labor, 1996), which has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Romanian. De Decker is also a playwright whose pieces have been performed worldwide, as far as Australia. A translator as well, he is responsible for the French versions of Shakespeare, Goethe, Marlowe, Kleist, Schnitzler, Wedekind, and other contemporary English, Dutch, and German authors. De Decker runs “Beaumarchais” in Paris, the association in charge of cultural programming at the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs dramatiques. In Brussels, he also is at the helm of the Belgian section of the Institut International du Théâtre (UNESCO). Since January 2002, he has been the Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature Françaises de Belgique.

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The Emory-Tibet formal agreement

The Emory's India trip web log:

Link: : H.H. The Dalai Lama watches Dean Paul sign the Emory-Tibet formal agreement .

After our discussion concluded, the formal agreement was signed by His Holiness, the IBD director Geshe Damchoe Gyaltsen and Dean Paul. As we rose to leave, we approached the Dalai Lama one by one to be introduced and to receive his blessing. As we bowed our heads, he draped the khatag around our necks and pressed our folded hands together between his own.