(Photos courtesy of Betsy Malpass)

 

 Photos from our Luncheon on February 18, 2025

CFFS Luncheon - 18 February 2025

University Club, 3100 Tower Blvd. 17th Floor, Durham, NC 27707

Members of the Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service and their guests (as well as anyone interested in international relations) are invited to the upcoming CFFS Lunch at 11:30am on Tuesday, 18 February 2025. The venue for the lunch is the University Club located off US 15/501 just north of the overpass connecting US 15/501 to I-85.  As usual, we will gather for the social period at 11:30, moving to our tables around noon. 

 

Speaker Bio and Topic:   

Our speaker is Julia Soplop

She is a science writer and the author of Information Crisis: How a Better Understanding of Science Can Help Us Face the Greatest Problems of Our Time, and Equus Rising: How the Horse Shaped U.S. History, and Documenting Your World Through Photography. She is the recipient of two Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards, a Feathered Quill Book Award, and a Best Book Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic, Summit Daily News, and Entrepreneur. She also develops thought leadership for organizations that address issues of scientific, social, or technological concern. She holds a bachelor’s from Duke University and a master’s from the medical journalism program at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in Pittsboro with her husband, three daughters, and their pandemic rescue pup. You can visit her online here.

The topic of her presentation is:  Word by Word: (Re)Building Trust in Science

Julia will discuss her award-winning book, Information Crisis: How a Better Understanding of Science Can Help Us Face the Greatest Problems of Our Time, including strategies to become a more discerning and less vulnerable consumer of health and science news and information. She will also explore how rethinking the ways we articulate science can help us frame more accurate, nuanced, and meaningful conversations and communications.

 

The lunch will be buffet-style, and the cost of the lunch is $35. It will include a variety of options including vegetarian dishes. A cash bar is also available.

Make checks for your reservation payable to the Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service and mail them to:

 

Joyce Namde

5210 Kemmont Drive

Durham, NC 27713

 

You may also submit your payment using PayPal (www.paypal.com) by clicking the link below.

Pay Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service using PayPal.Me

 

Reservation and payment must be received no later than Tuesday, February 11.

 

PLEASE NOTE:  We welcome anyone who has an interest in diplomacy, foreign policy and international relations. The name of our organization says it all Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service. We do not require members to be retired Foreign Service or Military Service personnel. We would like you to encourage your family and friends to become members of CFFS. 

 

We look forward to seeing you at lunch on 18 February.

 

Regards,

 

Gregory C. Flood

Chair, CFFS Steering Committee

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Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (www.wipo.uni-jena.de), Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Trade, University of Adelaide.
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He focuses on German and international economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination.
Andreas Freytag is also Director of Tutwa Europe (www.tutwa-europe.eu), member of the CESifo Research Network, a STIAS Fellow, and associated with a number of think tanks.  Freytag is also a founding member of the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network (https://g20tirn.org).
Prof. Freytag has worked for the European Commission, the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, German ministries and numerous think tanks, foundations and private clients. In the Fall of 2023, Freytag was a DAAD Fellow at the American German Institute in Washington D.C. 
Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals. He contributes to blogs and for over ten years had a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine (http://www.wiwo.de/themen/Freytags-Frag).