A large public panel entitled “Culture and Diplomacy” organized by the Institute (Zaprokul) will be held on MONDAY, November 28 at 7 p.m. in the Belgrade Youth Center (AMERIKANA hall).
This is another in a series of public panels intended for a wider audience, with the intention of starting a dialogue and improving the research of cultural diplomacy, awakening new ideas among the creators of foreign policy and cultural strategies, to initiate new research as well as public discussion on the issues of relations between culture and diplomacy. Zaprokul presented new topics and current views in the field of culture and diplomacy in the 173rd issue of the KULTURA magazine.
Through the prism of historical experience, recommendations from the past and looking at current relations in foreign policy, the participants in the panel organized by Zaprokul in the Belgrade Youth Center will present different understandings of cultural diplomacy and its application. The relationship between “soft and hard power”, the importance of cultural diplomacy of global powers in Serbia and the Balkans, as well as the importance of culture in the external relations of the European Union, the role of cultural institutions in strengthening Serbia’s cultural diplomacy, the role and importance of artists and scientists in the framework of diplomatic initiatives, are only some of the important topics that will be discussed on this panel.
The authors of the texts, as well as a wider circle of interlocutors from different fields, will participate in the panel:
prof. Dr. Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović, associate professor, Faculty of Dramatic Arts
Dr. Ognjen Pribićević, scientific advisor, Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade
prof. Dr. Nevena Daković, full professor, Faculty of Dramatic Arts
Mladen Lišanin, political scientist, Institute for Political Studies
Dr. Nemanja Radonjić, assistant professor, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
Dr. Ivana Vesić, senior research associate, Institute of Musicology SANU
Panel Moderator:
Dr. Aleksandra Kolaković, historian, senior research associate, Institute for Political Studies, editor of the topic “Culture and Diplomacy” in the magazine Kultura
