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 these activities and orientations to examine what they reveal about the ability of Canadian institutions to bridge cultural difference and foster intercultural understanding. This study leads to an assessment of the prominence of Canadian institutions in broader cultural ecosystems. Seeking to understand how museums bring together communities and support cultural engagement, it contends with how individual cultural workers understand and conceptualizes these activities.
With an introduction by Drs. Sarah E.K. Smith and Jeffrey Brison and chapters by Ben Schnitzer, Bronwyn Jaques, Katie-Marie McNeill, Simge Erdogan-O’Connor, Christina Fabiani, Sebastian De Line, Kyle Hammer, Tyler Russell, Vanessa Runions, Elyse Bell, and Antoine Devroede
Author
Sarah E.K. Smith (she/her)
Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations; Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University; NACDI Team Member, Western University
Sarah E.K. Smith is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations.
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Canada
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Jeffrey Brison (he/him)
Co-founder of NACDI, Director of Cultural Studies and Professor of History, Queen's University, NACDI
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).
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Canada
Author
Ben Schnitzer (he/him)
PhD candidate, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University; Manager of Policy and Research, 2SLGBTQI+ Secretariat, Queen’s University
Ben Schnitzer is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University and was awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support his research on Canadian cultural diplomacy and cultural policy.
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