“Decentering the Nature-Culture Divide in Diplomacy”: our summit conversation continues
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 2 pm ET/1 pm CT/11 am PT on Zoom This is an English language event. This event carries forward the issues and debates that foregrounded our 2021 summit, Players: We Are All Practitioners. Building on the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative’s work to address the question of culture’s role in diplomacy, […]
NACDI’s Sascha Priewe named Chair of IMID International Advisory Council
We are thrilled that Dr. Sascha Priewe has been named Chair of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora (IMID)‘s newly formed International Advisory Council. IMID adopts an innovative multipurpose approach to a traditional museum model that will highlight the lives of diaspora groups from within Idaho and around the world through art, food, culture, music, […]
Read our NEW report on Toronto’s Bloor St. Culture Corridor and cultural diplomacy
Locally Vibrant/Globally Engaged By highlighting the role of culture and cultural districts, this report foregrounds a cultural economy framework that offers an alternative to the often economically reductive creative economy narratives. Cultural districts, such as the Bloor St. Culture Corridor (BCC), have the potential to be effective diplomatic actors as they are principally concerned with […]
Participant biographies: “Always Already Players: Considering the Cultural Diplomacy of Artists”
Panelists Lori Blondeau, Assistant Professor at the School of Art, University of Manitoba Lori Blondeau is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan, Canada. Since the 1990s, Blondeau’s artistic practice in the fields of performance, photography and installation, along with her curatorial work and activities as co-founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous art collective TRIBE, has proved decisive […]
Plenary Listener Biographies
Plenary Listeners Rosalba Icaza Garza, Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Session 1) Rosalba Icaza is a decolonial feminist/scholar and survivor. She is an Associate Professor in Global Politics, Gender and Diversity at the Institute for Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been involved in collaborative research initiatives dealing […]
Participant biographies: “Performing Connections: Musical Performance and Cultural Relations”
Panellists Astrid Hadad, (she/her) Artist, musician, and performer Astrid Hadad, born in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, is a graduate of the Centro Universitario de Teatro. She is a fugitive from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Mexico. Hadad uses cabaret and performance to represent the social, cultural and political crisis in […]
Participant biographies: “Minding the Gaps: Connecting Diversity, Diasporas, and Skate Diplomacy”
Keynote Neftalie Williams (he/him) Provost’s Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Visiting Fellow in Race, Culture & Community, Yale Schwarzman Center Dr. Neftalie Williams is a sociologist who investigates global issues of race, diversity, identity, and youth empowerment, using the lens of action sports culture. Williams holds […]
Participant biographies: “The Scholar as Diplomat: Diaspora Intellectuals and (Cross) Community Representation”
Panelists John Bieter, (he/him) Professor, History Department, Boise State University John Bieter is a co-founder of the Basque Global Collaborative as well as a professor in the History Department at Boise State University. He received a B.A. in Economics/Social Science from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, his M.A. in History from […]
Participant biographies: “Flipping the Script: Bottom-Up Methods for Diaspora Diplomacy Studies”
Panelists Vanessa Bravo, Associate Professor of Strategic Communications and Chair of the Department of Strategic Communications, Elon University B.A., Universidad de Costa Rica; M.A., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of Florida. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florida in 2001-2003. Fourteen years as a journalist and editor at newspaper La Nacion (Grupo Nacion) in Costa […]
Participant biographies: “Remembering and Engaging: Diaspora Museums as Cultural Diplomacy”
Update: This is a past event. Click here to read a blog post about the discussion. Panelists Adán B.F. García, (he/him) Academic Chair, Memory and Tolerance Museum, Mexico City Internationalist, with a Bachelor degree in Foreign Affairs from the Iberoamerican University, Mexico City campus (UIA). He holds a Master of Science degree in Sociology with honors. […]