This newspaper article reacts to preparations for the European Union initiative in favour of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 by arguing for an open, inclusive approach to how we perceive cultural heritage in Europe. http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-08-29/newspaper-opinions/European-culture-in-2018-6736178377 Europeanculture2018_KX_170829
Diplomacy networks in culture
This brief piece provides a quick look back at efforts at cultural diplomacy at a European level in collaboration with the Diplomatic Cultures Research Network, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), the University of Cambridge, the University of the City of London (UCL) and the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organisation (UNPO). https://app.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131222/business-news/Valletta-2018-A-time-for-diplomacy.500092
Democracy and culture in the Mediterranean
This brief paper, addressing the twin challenges of democracy and culture in today’s Mediterranean, was presented at the 2016 annual international festival of art and youth in the north-eastern Tunisian city of Siliana organised by the Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Siliana in collaboration with the Institut Français. Tunisia_essay_160616
Promoting cultural diversity in the Mediterranean
The challenges in implementing the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) in the Mediterranean are discussed in my chapter in Cultural Diversity in International Law, edited by Dr Lilian Richieri Hanania for Routledge in 2014. https://books.google.com.mt/books/about/Cultural_Diversity_in_International_Law.html?id=_g5xAwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
People and their cultural places
This brief article looks at some important issues related to the way people inhabit and interact with spaces that are new, old or regenerated in the cultural context. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877916616300443
Building a nation brand through cultural diplomacy
This paper reflects on recent efforts at combining culture with nation branding with reference to the island state of Malta. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pb.2016.7
City-labs for culture
The discussion on how cities may act as living labs for culture is vibrant in exchanges between Asia and Europe. The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Public Forum on creative cities held in Gwangju, Korea, in 2015 and the accompanying publication that includes my contribution, provide engaging case studies through the exchange of critical best practice. http://culture360.asef.org/asef-news/asef-public-forum-i-cities-living-labs-for-culture/… Continue reading City-labs for culture
