Event Details
Date
May 27, 2025
Time
9:00am CT
Are you interested in transforming the world through culture?
Would you like to address global challenges from a cultural perspective, with a focus on community participation? Do you see today’s world as a closed system, with no clear options for transformation?
We invite you to imagine alternative futures at the first Summer School on Cultural and Public Diplomacy in Mexico.
May 27-30, 2025, Mexico City
In-person and virtual participation.
NACDI Summer School Academy 2025 is a unique and intensive training experience in critical cultural diplomacy. Its aim is to question how, why, and with what effects culture is used to foster international relations, while also seeking to understand and challenge the power structures involved in that process—drawing as well on public diplomacy and its communication tools. The program focuses on building bridges between communities through art, cultural management, communication, and international cooperation. We aim to train leaders with critical thinking and social commitment, capable of generating real and sustainable change in their communities and beyond.
Over the course of four days, we will explore:
- Public and citizen diplomacy
- Vulnerable groups and local agency
- Soft power and international relations
- Creative industries
- Country image and cultural narratives
- International cooperation from the Global South
- Cultural promotion and management
For the full speaker line up, agenda, and pricing options, please visit the NACDI Summer School Academy 2025 website.
Author
Nicholas J. Cull (he/him)
Professor of Public Diplomacy and founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California (USC),
Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy and is the founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program at USC.
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United States
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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Canada
Author
Guadalupe Moreno Toscano (she/her)
NACDI Research Associate, Academic and Research Secretariat, School of Fine Arts, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. PhD in Communications, UIA,
Guadalupe has twenty years of experience as a cultural manager and in the design of public policies, both in the public and private spheres in Spain and Mexico, with short stays in Denmark and the United Kingdom.
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Author
Sascha Priewe (he/him)
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.
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Canada
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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Canada
Author
Amanda Rodríguez Espínola (she/her)
NACDI Research Fellow and independent researcher,
Amanda is originally from Mexico City and has a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
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Author
Eduardo Luciano Tadeo Hernández (he/him)
Profesor de Cátedra, Departamento de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad Iberoamericana
Eduardo is an Associate Professor of the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, in Mexico City and a Profesor de Cátedra in the International Studies Department at Universidad Iberoamericana.
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Author
César Villanueva Rivas (he/him)
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).
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Mexico
Author
R.S. Zaharna ()
Professor at the School of Communication, American University, and 2018 Distinguished Scholar in International Communication,
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