[Commlist] CfP for the Panel: Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western Europe

Call for Papers for the Panel:
Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and 
Western Europe


As part of the 7th Euroacademia International Conference
‘Re-Inventing Eastern Europe: 30 Years from the Revolutions in CEE’
School of International Relations and Diplomacy
Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic

13th - 14th of December 2019
Deadline: 1st of November 2019


Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and 
Western Europe
Panel Proposed by: Cassandra Sciortino, University of California,  Santa 
Barbara

Panel Description

The panel “Art as cultural diplomacy” seeks papers that explore the 
function of art (in its broadest definition) as an instrument of 
cultural diplomacy by the state and, especially, by nongovernmental 
actors. The main theme of the session is the question of art and 
diplomacy in Europe before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Papers 
are welcome which explore issues related to the role of art, diplomacy 
and the politicization of the European Union and its candidate 
countries, as are those which consider how the arts have pursued or 
resisted East-West dichotomies and other narratives of alterity in 
Europe and worldwide.  The panel seeks to combine a wide range of 
interdisciplinary perspectives to explore how art--its  various 
practices, history, and theory--are an important area of  inquiry in the 
expanding field of cultural diplomacy.

Some examples of topics include:

•	How can art serve as a neutral platform for exchange to promote 
dialogue and understanding between foreign states?
•	How can art, including organized festivals (i.e. film, art, music.), 
cultivate transnational identities that undermine dichotomies of East 
and West, and other narratives of alterity in Europe and beyond it?
•	The implications for art as an instrument of diplomacy in a postmodern 
age where geopolitics and power are increasingly mobilized by image 
based structures of persuasion
•	How has/can art facilitate cohesion between European Union member 
states and candidate states that effectively responds to the EU’s 
efforts to create “unity in diversity.”
•	The politics of mapping Europe: mental and cartographic
•	Community based art as a social practice to engage issues of  European 
identity
•	The difference between art as cultural diplomacy and propaganda
•	The digital revolution and the emergence of social media as  platforms 
for art to communicate across social, cultural, and national  boundaries?
•	Diplomacy in the history of art in Europe and Eastern Europe
•	Artists as diplomats
•	Art history as diplomacy--exhibitions, post-colonial criticism, global 
art history, and other revisions to the conventional boundaries of 
Europe and its history of art
•	The international activity of cultural institutes

Please use the from to apply on-line on the conference website or submit 
abstracts of less than 300 words together with the details of 
affiliation until 1st of November 2019 to (application /at/ euroacademia.org)

For full details of the conference, please see before applying the 
conference website:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/7th-reinventing-eastern-europe/


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