Dear gep-ed colleagues, Forgive my troubling you with an odd request....
I'm looking for an "in" with or access to high-profile Sino-U.S. academics, writers, or public intellectuals for a program I'm helping facilitate with Semester at Sea <http://www.semesteratsea.org/fge/>. Last year's program boasted the likes of Sandra Day O'Connor and Julian Bond, and the year before featured Desmond Tutu. We've got some great people on the Chinese side, but are scrambling a bit for "household names" from the U.S. side. I've approached NYTimes columnist and pundit Tom Friedman, but he's otherwise engaged. James Fallows<http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows/#bio>comes to mind as another person who'd fit the bill, but I don't have special access to him in a way that I do for Friedman. Does anyone on the list have a connection to Fallows, or a connection to someone who does? OR, do you all know of other individuals that you might suggest to keynote a three-day conference, on a cruise ship, on Sino-U.S. relations with a whole lot of movers and shakers in the audience? A direct email to me, rather than a posting to the list, will do. Many thanks, Mike Maniates
