|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JUL 15, 2011
Fireworks kick off Stratford festivities
London Free Press
Stratford Summer Music Festival starts Monday at Lower Queen's Park with fireworks at dusk and 10th-anniversary music composed by former Stratford Shakespeare Festival music director Bertie Carriere..."It's a perfect example of cultural diplomacy," Miller commented...
Read more...
JUL 14, 2011
Grapevine: Hail to the Maple Leaf
Jerusalem Post
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, both in office and in the opposition, has demonstrated staunch support for Israel, and Canada Day proved to be a great opportunity for Israelis to show their appreciation for that country’s friendship.
Read more...
JUL 14, 2011
Tal Brody: Changing basketball shoes for ‘hasbara’
Jerusalem Post
But Brody, now a 68-year-old grandfather, hasn’t stopped representing Israel in the international arena. After embarking on a successful career as an insurance agent for many years, the tall, trim former star has embarked on what he calls his “third career”- advocacy for Israel.
Read more...
JUL 14, 2011
China to hold education exhibition in Kenya
Xinhua Net
China will open a two-day education exhibition on Friday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to promote local understanding about the Asian country's higher education and attract more Kenyan students to study in China.
Read more...
JUL 14, 2011
Nationalism and Cultural Diplomacy
Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence
Cultural relations work really looks different if you make the connection with the role of nationalism in European politics in the period after 1850. The theory and practice of nationalism places language and culture at the heart of what makes the nation. It was the rise of nationalism that corroded multinational empires and consolidated national states in Europe.
Read more...
JUL 14, 2011
Bollywood Moguls Scout Israeli Locations
The Middle Line
Vinod Kumar and over half a dozen top Bollywood film moguls are wrapping up a visit to the country where they scouted location sites and explored the possibilities of joint ventures. While some spoke of scripts in the making and cooperation with local animation companies, others were looking for a synergy that would take India’s mammoth $20.4 billion film and television industry to new niches.
Read more...
JUL 13, 2011
Call to scrap ‘biased’ Chinese culture classes
Sydney Morning Herald
''The teaching of Chinese language and culture is welcome in NSW schools but it should be available free from the influence of the Chinese Communist Party doctrine and censorship.'' China pays NSW schools more than $200,000 to promote its language and culture through the Confucius Institute, based at the Education Department's Ryde office.
Read more...
JUL 13, 2011
Fear of the Unknown: Filmmakers from the Tribal Region of Nagaland Debut Work in Rochester
University of Rochester
A rare cultural exchange will take place ...when a group of young filmmakers from Nagaland... visit the United States ....The seeds for this trip to America were planted last December when [Profs[ Bailey and Layton were invited to Nagaland for two weeks to foster international relations and promote the arts as a form of cultural diplomacy.
Read more...
JUL 13, 2011
Forum on soft power as diplomacy engine
Korea Herald
The government needs to establish a body dedicated to cultural diplomacy using the country’s soft power, a group of foreign affairs experts said Wednesday calling for a related law
Read more...
JUL 13, 2011
‘Public, cultural diplomacy crucial to bolstering clout’
The Korea Times
This was the latest in the U.S. ambassador’s activities in line with a “public diplomacy” mission and experts here claim that this is the direction that Korean diplomats should follow to help bolster the country’s diplomatic clout.
Read more...
Previous posts : « First < 75 76 77 78 79 > Last »
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
