Pardee School Hosts Diplomatic and Consular Corps of Boston
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University hosted a dinner and reception in honor of the diplomatic and consular corps of Boston on May 2, 2017 for a conversation on the current state of the practice of diplomacy aimed at building deeper ties and beginning a regular exchange of ideas and knowledge between scholars and practitioners.
Following dinner, a conversation on the “State of Diplomacy” was held in order to examine the challenges, opportunities, and changes that currently are taking place in the world of diplomacy. The dinner is the first in what will be established as an annual event at the Pardee School.
Representing the diplomatic and consular corps of Boston at the reception and dinner were Anne-Reet Annunziata, Honorary Consul of Estonia in Boston; Leonard Kopelman, Honorary Consul General of Finland in Boston; Felix Moesner, Consul and Director of the Consulate of Switzerland in Boston;Fionnuala Quinlan, Consul General of Ireland in Boston; Glivânia Maria de Oliveira, Consul General of Brazil in Boston; Song-jun Ohm, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Boston; José Rui Velez Caroço, Consul General of Portugal in Boston; Breno Hermann, Deputy Consul of the Consulate General of Brazil in Boston; Marek Leśniewski-Laas, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Boston; Peter Mužila, Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic in Boston and Emilio Rabasa, Consul General of Mexico in Boston.
Each Consul General offered their views of the current state of the practice of diplomacy. The faculty of the Pardee School includes several former diplomats who contributed to the conversation on the state of the practice including Amb. Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04, Amb. Robert Loftis, Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Ambassador to Lesotho from 2001-2004, Amb. Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations and former Ambassador of Montenegro to NATO and OSCE, and Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History and Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England.
After dinner, Pardee School students and faculty also had the opportunity for further intellectually compelling, frank, and collegial conversation on the emerging trends in the practice and study of diplomacy with the diplomatic and consular corps of Boston.