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 […]
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 […]
(Re) Construcción De Identidad: Diplomacia De La Diáspora
19 de Noviembre de 2021 (RE) CONSTRUCCIÓN DE IDENTIDAD: DIPLOMACIA DE LA DIÁSPORA ES EL SEGUNDO DÍA DE UNA CUMBRE DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE CUATRO DÍAS, ACTORES: TODOS SOMOS PRACTICANTES, ORGANIZADA DE MANERA VIRTUAL POR LA INICIATIVA PARA LA DIPLOMACIA CULTURAL EN AMÉRICA DEL NORTE (NACDI) TENIENDO COMO ANFITRIÓN A LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA. […]
Descolonización de la Diplomacia, 17 de Noviembre de 2021
Descolonización de la Diplomacia es el primer día de una cumbre de investigación de cuatro días, Actores: Todos somos Practicantes, organizada por la Iniciativa para la Diplomacia Cultural en América del Norte (nacdi) teniendo como anfitrión a la Universidad del sur de California. Panel 1: “Llamada y respuesta: resistencia y rechazo como diplomacia” 9:00 a.m. […]
Segunda cumbre: Actores Todos somos Practicantes
¡Únete a nosotros! Los eventos tendrán lugar el 17 y 19 de noviembre, el 1 y 9 de diciembre de 2021. ¡El registro de Eventbrite se abrirá pronto! Actores: Todos somos Practicantes se centra en las actividades de los practicantes diplomáticos concebidas de forma amplia. Organizada por la Universidad del Sur de California, la cumbre […]
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 […]