Advancing Cultural Diplomacy Through the Arts
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY THROUGH THE ARTS
The Canales Project harnesses the power of culture to strengthen communities, foster dialogue, and build understanding across borders.
Culture in the Age of AI: Identity, Ownership & Human Creativity
As AI systems increasingly learn from and create with the world’s cultural heritage, we’ll ask what that means for authorship, ownership, cultural identity, and human creativity itself. We’ll also take up a larger cultural diplomacy question: how can these technologies expand cultural access and exchange while protecting the diversity of human creativity and cultural memory, rather than flattening it?
In conversation with interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist Margaret Murphy.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, 4:30 - 6:00 PM ET
CURRENT WORK
A Few Things We Are Convening Now
A standing convening at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on soft power and cultural strategy, in conversation with leaders in diplomacy and the arts.
The Zhi Yin Dialogue convenes cultural leaders from China and the United States, beginning with its first meeting in Shanghai, to advance mutual understanding, artistic collaboration, and cultural exchange.
OUR PURPOSE