Emergencies, Emergences, Engagement: Cultural Relations and Climate Action

Carla Figueira and Aimee Fullman argue for the need to avoid distant, apocalyptic visions of climate change. Instead, they suggest telling ‘better stories’ about where we want to go and the sort of world we want to live in. They argue that cultural relations, and cultural relations organisations, can play a key role in shaping this new framing of climate change. Cultural relations is an underutilised resource in addressing the climate emergency, and cultural relations organisations have an important part to play. This essay is part of the British Council’s Climate Connection

Duplication and divergence: an investigation of international arts and cultural-related management, policy and diplomacy MA programs

The field of arts administration in the United States is now well over 30 years old and educators are being asked to adapt and evolve their programs. Through analysis of program descriptions, goals, and theory versus practice-based course offerings, this investigation will use the niche arena comprised of international arts management, cultural diplomacy and cultural relations as a starting basis to determine areas of duplication and divergence between interdisciplinary arts and cultural masters programs with an international emphasi