Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Italy 2013

The Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Italy will present, explore, and analyze Italy's historic and current foreign relations, and will place emphasis on the ways in which the country has directly and indirectly used Cultural Diplomacy as a tool to improve its international standing and its relations with other countries. Examples from the public sector, private sector and civil society will be reviewed, with particular emphasis on the ability of successful Cultural Diplomacy practices to ameliorate relations between Northern and Southern Europe in order to overcome the current crisis and to alleviate the long-standing Italian North-South Divide.

Speakers for the Symposium include:
• Adele Chatfield Taylor - President and CEO, American Academy in Rome
• Antonio Paolucci - Director, Vatican Museum; Former Minister of Culture of Italy
• Alessandro Masi - Secretary General, Società Dante Alighieri
• Amb. Bruno Bottai - President, Società Dante Alighieri
• Emmanuele Emanuele - President, Fondazione Roma; President, Fondazione Mediterranea
• The Hon. Francesco Rutell- Former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy; Former Mayor of Rome
• Franco Frattini - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy
• Giovanna Melandri - President, MAXXI Museum; Former Minister of Culture of Ital