US Assistant Secretary of State for Academic and Cultural Affairs Lee Satterfield (proper) receiving a department from an olive tree (the sacred tree of the goddess Athena, based on mythology) from Greek Tradition Minister Lina Mendoni, following a go to to the Acropolis. Photograph supply: @ECA_AS
Fostering the cultural ties between the USA and Greece was on the agenda of US Assistant Secretary of State for Academic and Cultural Affairs Lee Satterfield throughout her latest journey to Athens.
Whereas within the Greek capital the Assistant Secretary met with Greek Tradition Minister Lina Mendoni and mentioned additional implementing the bilateral agreements made between the 2 nations.
Amongst a wide range of points, Mendoni and Satterfield mentioned the end result of the “Cultural Heritage Faculty” workshop that had taken place in Athens in September, and centered on methods the motion may increase sooner or later with the participation of different nations and organizations.
U.S. Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis with Lina Mendoni and Lee Satterfield on the Greek Tradition Ministry. Photograph supply: Tradition Ministry
Co–organized by the Greek Tradition Ministry, the U.S. Embassy in Greece and the Greek department of the Worldwide Council of Museums (ICOM), the workshop centered on problems with defending cultural heritage from local weather change and illicit trafficking, an space the place each nations have agreed to carefully cooperate.
Satterfield and Mendoni additionally mentioned particulars in regards to the tradition exhibitions which can be to happen concurrently in each Greece and the US in 2023.
The motion will see a Greek antiquities exhibition titled “Democracy” tour US cities, whereas the Acropolis Museum will host works of up to date US artists within the context of the “Artwork in Embassies” program. One other exhibition about Byzantine tradition can be deliberate by the Tradition Ministry.
The bilateral agreements on tradition between the US and Greece additionally consists of American cinema professionals providing their technical experience and help to strengthen Greece’s technical capabilities within the discipline.
Satterfield talking on the Pharos Summit 2022. Photograph supply: @ECA_AS.
Satterfield’s assembly with Mendoni was a part of her three-day journey to Athens (November 5-8) the place she additionally participated within the Pharos Summit 2022 “Greek-U.S. Collaboration in Greater Schooling”.
An occasion by the Greek authorities, the summit introduced collectively 30 U.S. faculties and universities, rectors from all 24 Greek public universities, and different key stakeholders to advertise higher cooperation and collaboration in worldwide instructional exchanges.
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