Critical issues in Canadian Cultural Policy (I) Presenters: Jonathan Paquette, Devin Beauregard, Robin Nelson, Taeyoung Kim This panel brings contributions to a number of critical issues in Canadian Cultural Policy, including diversity, social classes, critical heritage, indigenous issues.
The overall frame of the panel seeks to understand how historical narratives and the political and cultural landscape of countries define or shape the discourses, tools, and practices of cultural diplomacy. Focusing on different nation-states, Russia, Greece, and Germany, presentations provide new insights into the field of cultural diplomacy as well as cultural policy.
Zulal Fazlioglu Akin will chair and reflect conceptually on how the content, form, and practices of cultural diplomacy tools are inextricably interwoven with the cultural and political landscape of nation-states.
Expanding the history of political and cultural development, Shay Meredith focuses on the development and effectiveness of Russian’s sharp power, especially after 1999. While her paper explores the issue of election interference by Russia in the U.S. and Western Europe, she delves into a conceptual analysis on the implications of sharp power, a relatively new concept in the field of cultural diplomacy.
Eliana Chiovetta focuses on how cultural institutions, Bauhaus Movement and Goethe Institution, have affected Germany's cultural policy, international relations and national image abroad during the Weimar Republic, Nazi regime and the current Democratic government.
Tools of Cultural Soft Power: Cross-National Cases of Policy Design Presenters: Margaret Jane Wyszomirski, Christina Kiel, Biyun Zhu, Zulal Fazlioglu Akin Presentations explore how the cultural diplomacy strategies illustrate the impact of policy design to build and exercise soft power through cultural diplomacy practices of fine countries, namely Israel, Turkey, the US, the UK, and China.
Featured papers include:
Designing Cultural Diplomacy Programs by Margaret Wyszomirski;
Commonalities and Differences in the Policy Design of Flagship Cultural Diplomacy Program: A Comparison of US, UK, and China by Biyun Zhu;
Mapping Cultural Diplomacy Instruments in Contemporary Turkey by Zulal Fazlioglu Akin; and
Israel's Cultural Diplomacy: The Eurovision Song Contest as Battleground by Christina Kiel.
Dr. Margaret Wyszomirski is a professor emeritus faculty member of both the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy and the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. She has served as staff director for the bipartisan Independent Commission on the National Endowment for... Read More →
Critical Issues in Canadian Cultural Policy (II) Presenters: Aurélie Lacassagne, Christopher Gunter, Jonathan Paquette This panel will discuss contemporary challenges in Canadian cultural policy.
Activism Through Community Curators: The Case of l’Écomusée du fier monde Presenter: Christopher Gunter The l’Écomusée du fier monde case illustrates how a ecomuseums could act as an intermediary actor in policymaking.
Creative Industries and Instrumentation in Canada Presenter: Taeyoung Kim
Exploring Cross-gender Performances of Sarah Bernhardt and Ida Rubinstein Presenters: Anna Mecugni, Kalo Gow, Juliana Starr, Adrianne Trogden This panel is dedicated to the performance of gender - binary norms and stereotypes versus boundary crossing and broad spectrum in relation to expression, representation, reception - and historical case studies featuring Sarah Bernhardt and Ida Rubinstein.
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of New Orleans
Anna Mecugni is an art historian and curator who trained at the University of Bologna in Italy and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she earned a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art. Her work has focused on the trans-medial genre of the tableau vivant... Read More →
Enriching the Museum Experience: Value-Seeking Visitors, Venue, and the Journey to Self Presenters: WoongJo Chang, Jeong-min Ko, Seungwan Ryu, Minha Lee. The papers in this session explore visitor experience of the narratives of value and identity in the built environment of urban arts and culture facilities.