Video Launch: Can Artists Really Save the World?
July 18, 2018 The trend towards globalization brings peoples together at intersections of identities, be they religious, national, linguistic, or otherwise. What does this mean for the arts and culture sector? Artists and arts organizations are moving beyond the frame of the nation to travel and share their work in international, interregional, and global […]
nacdi Participation at the 24th Biennial ACSUS Conference
October 18-21, 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (nacdi) participation at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Celebrating Canada’s Sesquicentennial Journey. nacdi was prominent at the ACSUS 24th Biennial Conference in Las Vegas, October 2017. nacdi’s participation was focused around a two-session […]
Can Artists Really Save the World? Exhibitions, Exchanges and Other Moments in Trojan-horse Diplomacy
13 January 2018 Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen’s University Four leaders in Indigenous and Canadian art – Gerald McMaster, Nadia Myre, Kelly Langgard, and Richard Hill – came together at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC) (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) to discuss the question: can artists really save the world? The North American Cultural Diplomacy […]
Ontario Museums and Cultural Diplomacy
13 October 2017 Kingston, Ontario The Annual Conference of the Ontario Museum Association provided the venue for a session on Ontario museums and cultural diplomacy. The session, organized by Sascha Priewe (Royal Ontario Museum) and chaired by Lynda Jessup (Queen’s University), started from the premise that museums have developed into actors on the international […]
The Objects of Cultural Diplomacy: Negotiating Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Era
25 October 2017 Harvard University How can culture take shape in and contribute to public diplomacy? To answer this question, nacdi, along with the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University (specifically the Politics and Social Change Workshop and the Canada Program) co-sponsored a panel discussion on October 25th 2017 at Harvard entitled: […]