La Montaña: Film Screening and Q&A with director Diego Enrique Osorno
Tuesday February 27, 20242:30 PM ETGordon Vogt Film Screening Room (222) , Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts The North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI), the Cultural Studies Program and the Film and Media Department at Queen’s University, and the Practitioner Media Lab at Western University, have partnered to present La Montaña as an examination of […]
Diplomatically Speaking: NACDI Presents at ISA 2023 in Montreal
Cultural analysis and criticism help us theorize how to resist oppression and productively relate across differences. This March, NACDI fellows and founders shared their research on this subject at the 2023 International Studies Association Annual Convention in Montreal. As a panelist for “Critical Cultural Diplomacy: Ways of Constructing the Field I,” I participated in a […]
Local or Global? The Future of Diaspora and Immigration Museums
Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 pm at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Join us for the next installment of Global Conversations — a series of hybrid panel discussions with arts and culture leaders from around the world addressing the big questions and challenging global issues of the day. Diaspora communities speak to belonging across multiple generations and […]
GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS: MUSEUM DIPLOMACY IN CHANGING TIMES
When: March 8, 2023, 6:30 pmWhere: Hosted in-person by the Aga Khan Museum77 Wynford Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M3C 1K1Price: $10 Regular, $9 Friends, $7.50 Students and Seniors This International Women’s Day, join Dr. Sarah Smith, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations and Dr. Sascha Priewe, Director of Collections and Public Programs of the […]
Book Launch for Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy by Dr. Eric Fillion
NACDI collaborator Eric Fillion is celebrating the launch of his new book Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). The event will take place Thursday, February 9 at 5:30 pm at the Broom Factory in Kingston (305 Rideau Street). Eric will give a 40-minute presentation on the book, to be […]
NEW PUBLICATION: “Terre Sauvage: Globalizing Landscapes and the Group of Seven” by Jeffrey Brison and Lynda Jessup
This article is published in the November 2022 issue of Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol 56, no. 3). Click here to read the article. This essay argues that Canada’s nationalist art narrative is a cultural resource in the present, subject to shifts in emphasis and inflection and to revision, and that its mobilization in international […]
Revisioning Culture for Cultural Policy III: “Whose agenda is it anyway?”
With Kelly Langgard, moderated by Ben Schnitzer8 September, 7:00 PM (EST), Zoom A discussion of policy entrepreneurship and global challenges Kelly Langgard, Director of Granting, Ontario Arts Council Kelly has more than 20 years of experience in cultural policy and diplomacy, international exchange, partner and stakeholder engagement and event management. Her career has mostly focused […]
Revisioning Culture for Cultural Policy II: “What’s your problem?”
With Justin O’Connor, moderated by Sarah E.K. Smith. 7 September, 7:00 pM (EST), Zoom Justin O’Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia and Visiting Professor, School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University. Between 2012-18 Justin was a member of the UNESCO ‘Expert Facility’, supporting the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity. Previously […]
Revisioning Culture for Cultural Policy I: “Why not culture?”
with Azeezah Kanji, Moderated by Sascha Priewe6 September, 7:00 p.m. (EST), Zoom A discussion of epistemological issues with culture and decolonizing Azeezah Kanji, Muslim Canadian settler; legal academic and journalist; Director of Programming, Noor Cultural Centre Azeezah Kanji is a legal academic and writer. She received her Juris Doctor from University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, […]
La Perspectiva de las Relaciones Culturales en la Diplomacia, Cumbre III: Las Políticas como Discursos
Las Políticas como discursos es la última de una serie de tres cumbres de investigación organizadas por la Iniciativa de Diplomacia Cultural de América del Norte como parte del proyecto de investigación financiado por SSHRC El enfoque de las relaciones culturales para la diplomacia: práctica, actores, política. 25,26 y 27 de Mayo, 2022 Idiomas: Inglés […]