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ROBERT ALBRO

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The Arts of International Affairs: Time for a New Conversation about Culture

Once again the debate about the arts and their relationship to the economy has been enjoined, this time in the UK. The terms are by now entirely familiar, and certainly loom in any discussion of the “value” of the arts in the US as well. This is particularly true for the US during recessions and […]

Posted in Arts diplomacy, Creative economy, Cultural diplomacy Tagged arts diplomacy, Creative economy, Cultural Diplomacy, Culture, graffiti, International affairs 1 Comment

Risk Assessment in Encounters between Culture and Security

Since at least the late 2000s, I have been observing – sometimes organizing, and sometimes participating in – diverse forums featuring different combinations of politicos, policy decision-makers, academics, and applied practitioners, which have broached the relationship between “culture” and “security,” sometimes in overlapping but often in notably different ways. At times, the purpose is to […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Culture and the Securityscape Tagged Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Cultural property, Cultural security, Culture, Military Leave a comment

“Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

As the Obama Administration’s new “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” has made clear, the “big data” era is officially upon us. The term – “big data” has been used in multiple ways, but most generally refers to the avalanche of “raw data” generated by the internet and other new kinds of data-capturing sensor and […]

Posted in Applied cultural research, Cultural Policy, Culture and the Securityscape Tagged Anthropology, Applied Cultural Research, Big Data, Cultural Policy, Culture, Culturomics, Encoding/decoding, semiotics Leave a comment

Aspiring to an Interest-free Cultural Diplomacy?

When I hear from people about the relative advantages of cultural diplomacy, they often point to the apparent “neutrality” or “apolitical” basis of, say, cultural exchange. Coming from an anthropological background, this often advanced claim has always puzzled me. At least historically, when anthropologists have talked about cultures – for example, in the typical mode […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Cultural relativism, Propaganda Tagged Cultural Diplomacy, cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Cultural relativism, Culture, Intercultural Dialogue, Propaganda Leave a comment
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  • 3 Quarks Daily
  • Anthropology Now
  • Anthropologyworks
  • Arts Diplomacy Network
  • Aspen Institute's Global Initiative on Culture and Society
  • Crooked Timber
  • Cultural Heritage Web
  • Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago
  • Culture Matters
  • Ethnography Matters
  • Exchange — The Journal of Public Diplomacy
  • Intermap
  • International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
  • John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
  • MountainRunner
  • Public Diplomacy Council
  • Savage Minds
  • Slate's Future Tense
  • Take Five
  • The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
  • USC Public Diplomacy Center Blog

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Recent Posts

  • Global Dialogues among Cultural Producers in an Era of Nativist Travel Bans
  • Inauthenticity and the Tweet Tweet of Digital Diplomacy
  • Cultural Diplomacy of and by the Book
  • Troping the Enemy: Culture, Metaphor Programs, and Notional Publics of National Security
  • The Arts of International Affairs: Time for a New Conversation about Culture

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