The UCL IA US Foreign Policy and National Security Seminar series is a new series that will be running throughout the year at the UCL Institute of the Americas. Series convenors: Francesca Akhtar and Alin Barbantan, both UCL Americas PhD students. This session's panellists are Dr Alex Ferguson (University of Southampton) on “Press Management and U.S. Support for France in Indochina, 1950-54” and Dr Darius Wainwright, Guest Teacher (London School of Economics) on "From Culture to Sport and Back Again: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Iran, 1953-1958."