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Monday, April 30, 2012

Culture Vultures Meet in Salzburg, Austria (Day 2, April 29)

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Culture Vultures Meet in Salzburg (Day 2, April 29) ( for the program of the Seminar,  see ) I'm one of the participants taking p...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Seminar: Public and Private Cultural Exchange-Based Diplomacy: New Models for the 21st Century

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Public and Private Cultural Exchange-Based Diplomacy:  New Models for the 21st Century Abstract At the onset of the 21st centu...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Can the Humanities Be Saved?

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Can the Humanities Be Saved? Posted By Janice Fiamengo at pjmedia.com on April 22, 2012 @ 12:00 am In Uncategorized |  74 Comments ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Exclusive Interview with U.S. Diplomat Peter Van Buren on American Public Diplomacy

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Interview with American Diplomat Peter Van Buren Image from 1. Public Diplomacy (PD) is a hard term to define. Some say it’s j...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Loving Like?

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"I do not like eggs in the file. I do not like them in any style." --Dr. Seuss If there is one word in the English language I...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

On the Secretly Serviced and Pubic (no typo) Diplomacy

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POTUS Visits and Public Diplomacy: Doing Nothing While Waiting for Nothing to Do - John Brown, Huffington Post, November 13, 2010;   i...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

BBG Reception iho New Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Soneshine

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April 10, I had the pleasure of attending a late-morning Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)- organized reception in honor of Tara Sonensh...
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John Brown
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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