Lecture by Laura Tedesco on "What Price Culture? United States Public Diplomacy and Cultural Preservation in Afghanistan since 2001"

 "What Price Culture? United States Public Diplomacy and Cultural Preservation in Afghanistan since 2001"

Laura Tedesco, PhD
Cultural Heritage Program Manager, Office of Press & Public Diplomacy, Bureau of South & Central Asian Affairs U.S. Department of State

Thursday, February 26
12:00pm

Breasted Hall
Oriental Institute
1155 East 58th Street

Free and open to the public

Since the 2001 reestablishment of offical diplomatic ties with Afghanistan, the United States Embassy in Kabul and the State Department have engaged in cultural diplomacy and cultural preservation projects to improve relations and incrase mutual understanding between the two nations. Projects cover a broad range of Afghanistan's rich and diverse cultural heritage, including the restoration of historic sites and monuments across the country and the preservation, through documentation of intagible heritage traditions in poetry and music.