Speaker to address Burma-US relations

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    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A retired U.S. Foreign Service worker who served in Burma’s U.S. embassy will discuss “Burma and the United States: New Directions in a Time of Change” during her Feb. 14 talk at the University of Louisville.

    Priscilla Clapp’s free, public talk will begin at 1 p.m. in Room W104, Ekstrom Library, as part of the UofL Center for Asian Democracy’s Asia in Focus series.

    Clapp, a retired minister-counselor with the U.S. Foreign Service, had a 30-year government career that included the 1999-2002 stint as chief of mission-Burma as well as service in South Africa, Russia and Japan.

    She now is senior adviser to the Asia Society and Blue Moon Fund and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies and U.S. Institute of Peace’s international advisory board. She co-authored books including “Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy” and two volumes about U.S.-Japanese relations.

    For information, contact Amanda LeDuke at 502-852-2667 or alledu01@louisville.edu

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    Judy Hughes
    Judy Hughes is a senior communications and marketing coordinator for UofL’s Office of Communications and Marketing and associate editor of UofL Magazine. She previously worked in news as a writer and editor for a daily newspaper and The Associated Press.