University of San Francisco - A Conversation with former Chief of Mission for Burma

USF Center for the Pacific Rim presents:

"Burma's Buddhist Crucible: Myanmar's Murdered Monks"
A Conversation with Priscilla A. Clapp, Chief of Mission,
U.S. Embassy Burma (1999-2002)

Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. As a diplomat she has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs and Chief of Political-Military Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Japan.

Her first book was published by Harvard University Press, and she has worked at MIT and the Brookings Insitution where she authored a chapter on Burma in The Worst of the Worst (Brookings 2007).

Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 5:45 p.m.
USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall
(Enter from Parker Street between Golden Gate & Fulton)

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828.

Cosponsored by the Asia Society Northern California, the Mechanics' Insitute, USF's Asian Studies Program, the USF Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning. Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF

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