Young Cultural Diplomacy Forum (YCDF) Bangkok 2025: Call for Applications

• Contribution to a Collaborative Global Community: Be empowered to drive optimistic change, promote respect, and improve cooperation amongst numerous cultures and communities.

• Enhanced Understanding of Cultural Diplomacy: Gain insights into evolving methods and nuances of cultural diplomacy, together with the roles of public diplomacy, indigenous cultures, inventive industries, and environmental artwork.

Modules

1. Siam’s Fantasy: Myth, Imagination, and Sovereignty
   Exploring how mythology, creative creativeness, and nationwide identification intertwined in Siam’s diplomatic technique. How can fantasy be reimagined at present as a transformative instrument for cultural
   diplomacy?
2. Public Diplomacy within the twenty first Century
   This high-level module is reserved for an esteemed ambassador or senior diplomat to have interaction contributors in a thought-provoking session on the evolving function of public diplomacy in at present’s interconnected world. The dialogue will give attention to ASEAN relations, the strategic function of youth in regional cooperation, and the shifting panorama of diplomatic engagement within the twenty first century.
3. Emotional Economy: The Role of Escapism within the Market Economy
   Analyzing how escapism—via temples, royal courts, and theatrical performances—formed
   emotional economies and operated as delicate devices of diplomacy. What can at present’s
   cultural establishments study from these practices?
4. The Diplomacy of Aesthetics: Craft, Costume, and Ceremony
   From intricate Thai silk weaving to royal barge processions, this module explores how materials tradition conveys messages of status, concord, resistance, and nationwide pleasure in worldwide
   relations.
5. Regionalism and Cultural Connectivity: International Treaties in South and Southeast Asia
   Tracing the journey from Southeast Asia’s conventional epics just like the Ramakien to up to date world cultural phenomena. How can Southeast Asia harness its storytelling traditions to spark
   the following cultural motion?
6. From the Ramakien to Ok-Pop: Storytelling and Cultural Influence
   Investigate the function of faith and interfaith dialogue as mechanisms for battle decision and fostering mutual understanding in a polarized world.
7. Zen and Strategy: Spiritual Wisdom in International Relations

Note: The participation charge is non-refundable, though contributors with self-funded alternatives could obtain particular cancellation phrases communicated individually. Applicants are inspired to evaluate phrases and situations previous to submission.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How To Apply

• View particulars here
• Register underneath one of the two classes
• Apply by 6 June 2025