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A harlequin's dress : reflections on Europe's public discourse / Anthony Molho -- Rethinking the history of Europe : old and new approaches / Diogo Ramada Curto -- Crypto-identities : disguised Turks, Christians and Jews / Giovanni Ricci -- Segregation, migration and recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the first modernity : the case of Semitic Spain / André Stoll -- Gender and the body / Giulia Calvi -- Magic and witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- A republic of merchants? / Francesca Trivellato -- A European community of scholars : exchange and friendship among early modern natural historians / Florike Egmond -- The court galaxy / Rita Costa Gomes -- Rites of passage and the Grand Tour : discovering, imagining and inventing European civilization in the age of enlightenment / Robert Wokler -- Citizenship and the language of statecraft / Janet Coleman -- Images of law in Europe : in search of shared traditions / Pietro Costa -- Resisting public violence : actions, law, and emotions / Angela De Benedictis -- The tree / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- From the Renaissance to the Englightenment [sic] ... through antiquity : the beginnings of the European network of museums / Edouard Pommier -- Sainthood and heroism : images and imagery in sixteenth-century Europe / Denis Crouzet -- Latin / Françoise Waquet

Abstract Over the last two decades, we have seen a worldwide expansion of the concept and practice of cultural diplomacy, along with the emergence of a multipolar world. This raises the question of the way in which the notion is mobilized and understood beyond Europe and North America. This paper is based on comparative research carried out in Qatar and Singapore. Both countries have developed ambitious cultural diplomacy strategies, based on the establishment of world-class cultural and educational institutions, and on their integration into regional and global cultural networks. But many have highlighted contradictions between these ambitious strategies and the restrictions and pressures that both countries place on their civil societies. This paper discusses how curators, who have become key global gatekeepers, negotiate their role in their country's global cultural strategy and position themselves with regard to the official national narrative. With their multiple belonging, they shape narratives that make regional and local scenes and can put cities on the world art map. This symbolic power puts them in a strategic position to shape the nation-branding discourse.

AbstractOver the last two decades, we have seen a worldwide expansion of the concept and practice of cultural diplomacy, along with the emergence of a multipolar world. This raises the question of the way in which the notion is mobilized and understood beyond Europe and North America. This paper is based on comparative research carried out in Qatar and Singapore. Both countries have developed ambitious cultural diplomacy strategies, based on the establishment of world-class cultural and educational institutions, and on their integration into regional and global cultural networks. But many have highlighted contradictions between these ambitious strategies and the restrictions and pressures that both countries place on their civil societies. This paper discusses how curators, who have become key global gatekeepers, negotiate their role in their country's global cultural strategy and position themselves with regard to the official national narrative. With their multiple belonging, they shape narratives that make regional and local scenes and can put cities on the world art map. This symbolic power puts them in a strategic position to shape the nation-branding discourse.