This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module, to be taught at the Paris School of Arts and Culture, looks at Paris as a centre for modern cultural diplomacy. The module will be taught primarily through a series of case studies, each of which is intended to offer the opportunity to view the enormous diversity of international activities that constitute cultural diplomacy. Where possible, examples that place Paris at the centre of the discourse will be chosen, although it is hoped that students will come to see modern cultural diplomacy as a global phenomenon. The range of case studies are deliberately wide so as to reflect the broad academic base of the students and their interests. Examples of case studies include: Human rights; sexuality and gender; cinema and the media; the UN, NATO and NGOs; cultural attaches; state visits; education and cultural exchanges and advertising as cultural diplomacy.
Total contact hours: 22
Total private study hours: 278
Total module study hours: 300
All Paris-based Masters programmes
100% Coursework -
Essay 4000 words (67%)
Critical Analysis 2000 words (33%)
Chuing Prudence Chou, Cultural and Educational Exchanges between Rival Societies: Cooperation and Competition in an Interdependent World (Springer, 2018).
Nicholas Cull, Public Diplomacy, Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Mark C. Donfried (eds), Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy (Berghahn Books, 2013).
Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith (eds), Entangled East and West: Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction During the Cold War (Walter de Gruyter, 2018)
Markus Mösslang, Torsten Riotte (eds), The Diplomats' World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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