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Conference Panel | Unsettling Settler Diplomacy: International Cultural Relations in a Decolonizing World

Event Details

Date

November 4, 2024

Time

5:00pm – 6:30pm CT

How does a decolonial approach allow us to better understand international cultural relations?

NACDI founders Sarah E.K. Smith and Lynda Jessup will chair a panel of contemporary artists and scholars troubling the current emphasis on Westphalian diplomacy. 

Featuring Alan Corbiere, Alan Michelson, Skawennati, and Jeff Thomas, the conversation will focus on how wampum are being mobilized to access histories of indigenous diplomatic action, opening up to view the larger field of diplomatic activity currently occluded by settler diplomacy. 

Ultimately, this panel provides a platform for cultural producers to talk about how their work advances Indigenous place-based internationalism.

This panel is part of the 2024/2025 International Cultural Relations Research Alliance (ICRRA) conference Decolonial Practices in International Cultural Relations: Building Trust.

Lynda Jessup
Author

Lynda Jessup (she/her)

Director of NACDI, Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen's University

Lynda Jessup is Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University and Director and co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI).

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Author

Sarah E.K. Smith (she/her)

Co-founder and Team member of NACDI; Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations; Associate Professor, Western University,

Co-founder and active NACDI team member, Sarah E.K. Smith is the Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations at Western University.

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