The Great Game and the Theater of War: Afghanistan Past, Present, and Future

Monday, February 14, 2011
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
Location: Mortara Center Building Map

Moderated by Cynthia Schneider, this event featured a panel discussion with Nicholas Kent, director of Tricycle Theatre and The Great Game; Sharon Memis, director of the British Council in the United States; Paula Newberg of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; and Colonel Walter Piatt of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

This event was sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; Mortara Center for International Studies; Theater and Performance Studies Program; and the World Faiths Development Dialogue.

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About Cynthia Schneider

Cynthia P. Schneider is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service and with Derek Goldman is co-founding director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown. She previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Schneider is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of MOST Resource. Her work focuses on cultural diplomacy, particularly in relations with the Muslim world. She previously was a member of Georgetown's art history faculty from 1984 to 2005 and organized exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. From 1998 to 2001, Schneider served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Schneider received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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