This report puts culture back into cultural diplomacy.

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Summarizing the lively conversations and debates during our first virtual summit, Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice: Virtual Summit , it marks the first of three research events taking place across North America that form the larger project, The Cultural Relations Approach to Diplomacy: Practice, Players, Policy. Bringing together academics and practitioners from both sides of the culture/diplomacy divide to consider the potential of a Cultural Relations approach to diplomatic activity broadly understood, the project aims to reframe current discussion around the relationship of “the cultural” to diplomacy in the study and practice of global relations.

This research summit in part took place on the lands known collectively as Turtle Island and was hosted by Queen’s University and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in partnership with the University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD), the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) in Los Angeles, California, and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. It is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada.

View the launch of the report in Spanish and English below.

To celebrate the launch of the Summit Report, this launch presentation, which premiered on June 7, 2021, is comprised of an engaging panel discussion with Dr. Lynda Jessup (Queen’s University), Dr. Nick Cull (University of Southern California), and Dr. Jolene Rickard (Cornell University), focusing on the recommendations and findings of the research summit, Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice. The discussion is moderated by Dr. César Villanueva (Universidad Iberoamericana) and is followed by a short Q&A. This event was hosted by Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), with support from Queen’s University, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD), the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) in Los Angeles, California, and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. It is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. It is presented in both Spanish and English.