The Fourth Annual International Conference of The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy . . October 19-20, 2023, DePaul University, Chicago . . . . To what degree do local acts of diplomacy taking place within cities serve to impact the ways a city diplomatically projects itself at the national as well as international levels? The concept of Urban Diplomacy, which The Grace School defines as diplomatic acts which take place within the boundaries of a single city, examines a broad array of activities ranging from the diplomatic efforts of municipal political leaders to the work of private sector actors, community organizers, artists, religious leaders and the intimate acts of diplomacy which take place among neighbors. While City Diplomacy, as conceived by authors such as Saskia Sassen and Michele Acuto, has made an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of how cities project themselves as national and international diplomatic actors, the field of Diplomatic Studies has yet to systematically focus on the relationship between the work of local urban diplomatic actors and those charged with diplomatically representing cities to the wider world. This conference aims to examine this relationship, via a set of keynote talks and roundtables from several cities around the world. . .
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Event Details: dehub.depaul.edu/rsvp?id=381421