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.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Global Work of Museum Diplomacy

Sarah E.K. Smith & Sascha Priewe

Chapter 1: Museums as Diplomatic Sites

Sascha Priewe

Chapter 2: Exhibitions and Loans as Cosmopolitan Ambassadors

Lee Davidson & Leticia Pérez Castellanos

Chapter 3: Envoys: Object-Entities and Repatriation in Counter-Hegemonic Museum Diplomacy

Anthony Alan Shelton

Chapter 4: Museum Diplomacy for Sustainable Development and Human Rights

Henry McGhie

Chapter 5: Satellite Museums

Patricia M. Goff

Chapter 6: Terracotta Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities

Da Kong

Chapter 7: Museums, Diaspora and Migration: Looking for New Paradigms in ‘Times of Crisis’

Simona Bodo and Anna Chiara Cimoli

Chapter 8: Inclusion and Refusal in Indigenous Museum Diplomacies: Three Moments

Linda Grussani

Chapter 9: Cultural Production as a Diplomatic Process: The National Museum of Qatar

Karen Exell

Chapter 10: Between the US and Asia: Exhibitions and Summits as Cultural Diplomacy

Melissa Chiu

Chapter 11: Smithsonian Global: Looking Beyond Our Borders

Liz Tunick Cedar

Chapter 12: Engaging the World Through Museum Collections and Research

Chen Shen

Chapter 13: Global Museum Networks

Sascha Priewe

Chapter 14: Training & Exchange Programs: Why People Matter

Anaïs Aguerre

Chapter 15: Global Citizenship as an Instrument of Museum Diplomacy

Simge Erdogan-O’Connor

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