Cultural Practice and Transnational Outreach: The Practitioner in Sport, Art, and Music
December 1, 2021 Cultural Practice and Transnational Outreach is the third 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: Minding the Gaps: Connecting Diversity, Diasporas, and Skate Diplomacy9:00 AM (PT) / 10:00 AM (CT) / 12:00 NOON (ET) Speaker: […]
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, […]
Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice: the launch of the Spanish-language report
Summarized by Francisco Zepeda Trujillo September 20th, 2021 César Villanueva Rivas (Universidad Iberoamericana) and Lynda Jessup (Queen’s University) welcomed participants emphasizing that diplomacy (official or not) is always related to culture; indeed, culture always goes ahead of any diplomatic practice. Eduardo Tadeo (Universidad Iberoamericana) mentioned that this report results from a North American and transnational […]
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 […]
Download the Report: Global Engagement of Museums in Canada
This report surveys Canadian institutions as they engage in what Director General for Culture and Communication in Germany’s Foreign Office Andreas Görgen called a “new diplomacy” (2016). Drawing from the Mitacs research project Global Engagement of Museums in Canada, it explores the types of activities that exist and proliferate in this sphere. It also analyzes […]
Players: We Are All Practitioners – the second virtual summit
Join us! Events take place 17 & 19 November, 1 & 9 December 2021 Players: We Are All Practitioners focusses on the activities of diplomatic practitioners broadly conceived. Hosted by the University of Southern California, the summit brings together academics and practitioners from both sides of the culture/diplomacy divide to consider the role of practitioners […]
Simge Erdogan-O’Connor to present at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual International Conference
Erdogan-O’Connor’s presentation, “Local-Global Engagements of Museums: The Case of the Royal Ontario Museum,” discusses the potentials and challenges of contemporary museum practice in fostering local-global connections. It draws on the findings of her 2019 Mitacs-funded research, which surveyed the global activities of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Making use of archival and interview findings, this case […]
BOOK RELEASE: Parsing the Global Engagement of Museums
Click here to read NACDI Co-Founder Dr. Sascha Priewe’s issue in CPD Perspectives on Public Diplomacy, titled Museum Diplomacy: Parsing the Global Engagement of Museums Museums are increasingly recognized as significant actors in public and cultural diplomacy. They have become one of myriad actors in the “network” of diplomatic players that complicate and intervene with […]
Jeff Brison and Sarah E.K. Smith present at Meridian’s symposium
Watch their presentation, The Global Engagement of Museums in Canada, below. Whether through exhibitions, programming, research, or fieldwork, museums are embedded within global webs of relations. As intrinsic actors in the civil society networks of culture and diplomacy, we must also grapple with the long history of museums as colonial institutions (Clifford 1997, Phillips 2011, […]
Toronto’s global partnerships for art and culture
Read the entire essay here. NACDI Collaborator Katriina Campitelli presents her essay “Insights on Cultural Diplomacy: Toronto’s Global Partnerships for Arts and Culture.” This essay, which was prepared for her Master in Cultural Diplomacy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, analyzes the current state of Toronto’s International Alliance Program and explores opportunities for improving the […]