On the occasion of the first Salon Diplomatique at the beautiful Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, Diplomatic SOCIETY owner KR Prof. Mag. Gertrud Tauchhammer invited to the first Salon Diplomatique – following the tradition of the Vienna Congress Salon – at the beautiful Salon Schönborn-Batthyány with star guest Waris Dirie, famous activist, former UN Special Ambassador against FGM and founder of the Desert Flower Foundation. Following the tradition of the Vienna Congress Salon, the guests came together at the historic Palais to exchange ideas and views.
Salon
Salons are nothing new, humans have been gathering together to discuss and debate ideas, and to share and savor new literature and music for centuries. They fall in and out of trend depending on the era, but for a solid 400 years or so, from about 1500 – 1900, salons were popular across Europe.
The term salon suggests some modicum of regularity, and with that regularity came conversation, connection and community. Sometimes salons centered around a specific theme like poetry and at other times they were more general in scope. But the one central theme amongst them all was that the focus was on listening and speaking to each other, learning from those around you, your fellow guests at the salon.
from www.thesalonhost.com
