This event will take place virtually at 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET.
Urban diplomacy responds to citizen demand for a global approach to local problems, a sort of extension of citizenship beyond the nation state. The identity, the gender perspective, the climate change, as well as migration policies, mobility or the management of digital transformation have visible consequences in urban territories. New citizenship rights, new demands, new habits, new agendas emerge. Urban diplomacy impacts on the ordinary life of international relations.
Speakers:
Elena De Nictolis is Post-doctoral researcher at Georgetown University (EJP) since September 2021. Her primary research interests are in urban public policies and law; cities and the quality of democracy; how cities are facing global challenges - with an emphasis on social, tech, climate justice - and the role of cities' transnational cooperation. Her work focuses also on collective action in cities and urban commons that she investigates at Luiss University, Department of Political Science and Law (LabGov.city).
José María Herranz de la Casa. PhD in Journalism. Currently he is dean and associate professor at the School of Communication in the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca Campus), His research interests are in the areas of communication and transparency in social organizations and NGOs, business and organizational communication, social responsibility, sustainable development goals, Agenda 2030 and environmental ournalism.
Olga Kolotouchkina holds a PhD in Communication. She is an Associate Professor of Communication and Branding at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her research interests include place branding, visibility of disability, citizen engagement and public diplomacy. She has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Culture, Communication, and Information Technologies of University of Toronto and at Waseda University of Tokyo.
Pablo Gómez Iniesta is predoctoral researcher and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Communication, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), where he is also a teaching assistant of International and Political Communication. He holds a B.Ain Journalism at the University of Castilla La Mancha (2015) and MA in Political Science at Autonomous University of Barcelona (2016). His research interests are in the areas of political communication, cities, and public diplomacy.
Concluding Remarks by Uwe Brandes, Faculty Director, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative
