The text below allowed me to provide a brief reflection on Prof Carmel Cassar’s latest publication: Malta and Holy War: Religion, Society and the Spanish-Ottoman Conflict for the Mediterranean, published by Kite Group (2025). 22nd January 2026, Notarial Archives, Valletta I’d like to start at the beginning – as sung by Sister Maria in The… Continue reading A reflection on Prof Carmel Cassar’s Malta and Holy War: Religion, Society and the Spanish-Ottoman Conflict for the Mediterranean
Tag: cultural diplomacy
Global cultural policy & heritage podcasts
Below is a full list of recent podcasts produced for the University of Malta radio station addressing global cultural policy & heritage matters Photo: Refugee Week Malta 2023
International cultural cooperation
This presentation served as a provocation at the public consultation on cultural policy in Malta 2020-2025 addressing international cultural cooperation in May 2018. International Cultural Cooperation_180530
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
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
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
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