[Discussion on US-Russia Public Diplomacy at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES); from the preliminary program]

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aseees.org; on the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), see

[Boston, Sunday, December 9, 10:00-11:45 am ]

14-40 US-Russia Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] - Tremont, 1

Chair: Jennifer Hudson, U of Texas at Dallas

Papers: Meri Elisabet Herrala, U of Helsinki (Finland)
"Soviet Elite Performers in America in the 1950s and 1960s"

Jennifer Hudson, U of Texas at Dallas
"Cold War Grassroots Diplomacy"

Lyubov A Ginzburg, United Nations
"Performing as Global Citizens: UN Educational Outreach Activities in Studying History and International Relations"

Disc.: William Benton Whisenhunt, College of DuPage