"France is back!": disruption et continuité de la diplomatie culturelle aux Etats-Unis en temps de pandémie

Please join us for a virtual roundtable with Gaëtan Bruel, Cultural Counselor, Embassy of France in the United States. Bruel took on his new role as Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States on September 3, 2019. He is a  graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with an academic background as a historian, throughout his career he has specialized in cultural issues, working at multiple French ministries, and overseeing two of France's most important national monuments. Since 2017, he has been an adviser to the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of the Americas and cultural diplomacy. In this position, he closely followed the political, military, economic, commercial, and cultural relationship between France and the United States, while working on French cultural diplomacy around the world. Previously, he worked at the French Ministry of Culture, as an administrator of the Arc de Triomphe and the Pantheon. Responsible for overseeing the restoration of these monuments and hosting nearly three million visitors to these sites each year. During this time, he helped renew the cultural and educational programming at these two icons of the French Republic. He has also worked at the French Ministry of Defense, as adviser to the Minister in charge of culture, helping to establish relationships with universities and think-tanks, and creating a "cinema" program to develop ties between producers, screenwriters and the French military.

In French and Moderated by Lionel Cuillé, Washington University in St. Louis 

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