Is COVID-19 changing the face of cultural diplomacy? Or is the current prohibition on face-to-face encounters in a don’t-touch-your-face environment simply making it apparent that the old-school exclusivity of traditional diplomatic practice is already in the rear view mirror, as much a victim of the now decades-old Global Era rise of information communication technologies as it is of changes in the post-Cold War international environment?
Organized by the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (Jeffrey Brison, Lynda Jessup, Sascha Priewe, Sarah E.K. Smith, and César Villanueva Rivas) this discussion will address non-state driven networked diplomacy and the power of cultural engagement in the covid moment.
Hosted by 2019-2020 Massey College, Senior Resident Professor Jeffrey Brison will moderate this conversation with Dr. César Villanueva Rivas, Senior Resident Dr. Lynda Jessup, and Senior Fellow Dr. Sascha Priewe.
The Massey Dialogues is an informal salon discussion series featuring experts and scholars from our wonderful community and beyond.
The Dialogues are open to the public – we invite everyone to join and take part in what will
be a very informative online discussion.
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Author
Jeffrey Brison (he/him)
Co-founder and team member of NACDI; Director of Cultural Studies and Professor of History, Queen's University,
Jeffrey Brison is Director of the Cultural Studies Program and Professor in History at Queen's University and a founding member of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI).
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).
Co-founder and Team member of NACDI; Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum; Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Cultural Studies, Queen’s University,
A Co-Founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, Sascha Priewe is the Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.
Professor of International Relations and Public/Cultural Diplomacy, Universidad Iberoamericana,
César Villanueva is Professor of International Relations and Public/Cultural Diplomacy at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Linnaeus University in Sweden, with a specialization in diplomatic studies (2007).
