by Cami Hofstadter | Jun 5, 2017 | Posted June 5, 2017
Recently many of us read or heard about the suspension from duty of the honorary consul of a European nation (for the purposes of this blog it doesn’t matter what country she represented in a small part of the U.S.), for her political activity on social media. The...
by Cami Hofstadter | Mar 15, 2017 | Posted March 15, 2017
In my previous posts (and more extensively in chapter The Tiff over Titles in my book) I have written about the many confusing titles that consular officials may claim. All this makes for interesting (and fun!) social and official situations to observe. Most recently,...
by Cami Hofstadter | Jun 10, 2016 | Posted July 10, 2016
Do consuls have an impact on the strategic internationalization goals of today’s universities? I started thinking about that when I ran across a newspaper tidbit from 1964 about how the then-mayor of Coral Gables actively sought to attract consuls to his city. At that...
by Cami Hofstadter | Jan 29, 2016 | Posted January 29, 2016
You know the old saying that “if I had a penny for every time I’ve heard [fill-in-the-blank], I’d be rich.” Well, some day it’s a dead body – a corpse – that’s going to make me very, very rich. Lest you suspect some sinister motives here let me rush to...
by Cami Hofstadter | Dec 2, 2015 | Posted December 2, 2015
When I gathered all my notes for my consular reference book a couple of my beta-readers commented, “Why so much emphasis on titles?” This led me to repeat the commonly-stated explanation of how people in distinguished positions — think judges, politicians —...
