The Cultural Relations Approach to Diplomacy: Policies as Discourse
Policies as Discourses is the last in a series of three research summits organized by the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative as part of the SSHRC-funded research project The Cultural Relations Approach to Diplomacy: Practice, Players, Policy. Convening May 25-27, 2022 Language(s): English (main), Spanish and Mixtec Policies as Discourses proposes a way of ordering […]
Remembering and Engaging: Diaspora Museums as Cultural Diplomats
The second research summit of the SSHRC-supported research project “The Cultural Relations Approach to Diplomacy: Practice, Policy and Players,” held in fall 2021, addressed how the landscape of actors or players involved in cultural diplomacy has changed. It explored the premise that nation-states are no longer the only key players in cultural, or any other […]
Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature, Linda Etchart’s new book
Dr. Linda Etchart will speak about her new book, Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature: Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) as part of a broader NACDI-hosted panel discussion “Decentering the Nature – Culture Divide in Diplomacy.” This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental […]
“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 […]
Watch the conversation: Cultural Diplomacy in Your Neighborhood
Cultural Diplomacy in Your Neighborhood took place December 9, 2021, during the final session of a four-day research summit, Players: We are all Practitioners. This conversation was organized jointly by the University of Southern California (USC) Centre on Public Diplomacy (CPD) and NACDI and hosted virtually by the USC. Read more below Cultural Diplomacy in […]
(Re)Constructing Identity: Diaspora Diplomacy
November 19, 2021 (Re)Constructing Identity: Diaspora Diplomacy is the second day of a four-day research summit, Players: We are all Practitioners, organized by NACDI and hosted virtually by the University of Southern California. Keynote- “Mexican Diasporas in the United States: Tools for Engagement that Center Community Knowledges and Experiences“9:00 am – 10:15 (PT)/11:00 – 12:15 […]
Decolonizing Diplomacy
November 17, 2021 Decolonizing Diplomacy is the first day of a four-day research summit, Players: We are all Practitioners, organized by NACDI and hosted virtually by the University of Southern California. Panel 1: “Call and Response: Resistance and Refusal as Diplomacy“9:00 am (PT)/11:00 am (CT)/12:00 NOON (ET) Moderators: Ryan Rice (Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawake), Associate Dean, […]
Dr. Lynda Jessup responds to Walter Mignolo at 2021 ICRRA conference
On October 13, 2021 Director and founding member of NACDI Dr. Lynda Jessup participated in the opening keynote of ICRRA’s (International Cultural Relations Research Alliance) annual conference by introducing and responding to Dr. Walter Mignolo’s keynote presentation. NACDI is a member of ICCRA, an initiative of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and close partner to the […]