The University of Virginia Department of Media Studies and East Asia Center will be hosting a colloquium with Paulo Menechelli, a Brazilian Ph.D. Candidate and MSc. in International and Compared Politics from the Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia. He previously worked as the Foreign Affairs adviser of the Department of Culture of the São Paulo City Hall, and as a Consultant for the Ministry of Culture of Brazil on a project on the internationalization of Brazilian culture. His research focuses on China's Cultural Diplomacy, especially the use of films as tools of Chinese cultural soft power. He is secretary-general of the University of Brasilia Center for Global Studies, researcher of the Media Studies and International Relations Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, editor of the Mundorama Magazine, and co-founder and fellow of the think tank Observa China 观中国. He was a visiting scholar at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Menechelli will be discussing "China and the Cinema: Soft Power, Creative Industries and Relations with the United States" on Wednesday, February 22, from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. in the Hotel A conference room.

You can also join the event remotely via Zoom here.

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