Museum Diplomacy

Sarah E.K. Smith is assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations, based in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. Her writing and curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, cultural diplomacy, and creative labor. In 2015 she published the monograph General Idea: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute), which is available in English and French. She is a co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative and a member of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance. In 2015 she held the Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.Sascha Priewe is Director of Collections and Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Before joining the Aga Khan Museum, he was the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Curator: Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum. He is a co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative and author of Museum Diplomacy: Parsing the Global Engagement of Museums. He serves on the boards of ICOM Canada, the Ontario Museum Association, and is the inaugural chairperson of the Global Leadership Council of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Global Work of Museum DiplomacySarah E.K. Smith & Sascha PrieweChapter 1: Museums as Diplomatic SitesSascha PrieweChapter 2: Exhibitions and Loans as Cosmopolitan AmbassadorsLee Davidson & Leticia Pérez CastellanosChapter 3: Envoys: Object-Entities and Repatriation in Counter-Hegemonic Museum DiplomacyAnthony Alan SheltonChapter 4: Museum Diplomacy for Sustainable Development and Human Rights Henry McGhieChapter 5: Satellite MuseumsPatricia M. GoffChapter 6: Terracotta Diplomacy: Challenges and OpportunitiesDa KongChapter 7: Museums, Diaspora and Migration: Looking for New Paradigms in ‘Times of Crisis’Simona Bodo and Anna Chiara CimoliChapter 8: Inclusion and Refusal in Indigenous Museum Diplomacies: Three MomentsLinda GrussaniChapter 9: Cultural Production as a Diplomatic Process: The National Museum of QatarKaren ExellChapter 10: Between the US and Asia: Exhibitions and Summits as Cultural DiplomacyMelissa ChiuChapter 11: Smithsonian Global: Looking Beyond Our BordersLiz Tunick CedarChapter 12: Engaging the World Through Museum Collections and ResearchChen ShenChapter 13: Global Museum NetworksSascha PrieweChapter 14: Training & Exchange Programs: Why People MatterAnaïs AguerreChapter 15: Global Citizenship as an Instrument of Museum DiplomacySimge Erdogan-O’ConnorAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Cultural diplomacy is rapidly becoming a hot topic. As we read of its permutations in this valuable book of essays on the subject, it is a book that will surely influence, even redirect the course of museum practice.