Publications

Roig-Sanz, D., Campanella, L., & Carbó-Catalan, E. (2025). «Translation as a soft power resource: exploring the possibilities, scope, and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach», Perspectives, 33(1), 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2025.2447143 

Ørskov, F. F. (2025). «På (u)politisk ferie i mellemkrigstidens kulturdiplomati: Det tysk-nordiske¬ forfatterhus som eksempel», Arr. Idéhistorisk tidsskrift, 1: 39-49.

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2025). «"Mi trabajo es escribir sobre Chile". La escritora-cónsul Gabriela Mistral en la diplomacia pública chilena (1923-1957)», Historia Contemporánea 78: 569-601. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1387/hc.24082 

Murrieta Flores, D., Toledo García, I. (2025). «La escritura y la práctica de la diplomacia desde la crítica de las artes: Alfonso Reyes en París (1925-1927) [The Writing and Practice of Diplomacy from the Perspective of Arts Criticism: Alfonso Reyes in Paris (1925-1927)]», Universum. Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 40(1), 13-33. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0718-23762025000100013 

Calabretta, C. (2024). «Fra distanziamento e competizione: le politiche culturali della Rft e della Rdt in Italia durante la Guerra fredda (1947-1968)», Italia Contemporanea 306: 187-212. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3280/IC306-oa1 

Nygård, S., Ørskov, F. F. (2024). «National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy in Interwar Scandinavia. The German-Nordic Writers’ House in Popular Culture», National Identities, [online-ahead-of-print]: 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2024.2412150 

Simony, L. (2024). «Le British Council et le Programme Fulbright En Birmanie: Les Échanges Universitaires Au Cœur de la Diplomatie Culturelle des Pays Occidentaux Pendant la Guerre Froide», Relations internationales, 199(3), 17-33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/ri.199.0017 

Janué i Miret, M. (2024). «Cultural diplomacy as a nation-building tool for stateless nationalisms: the search for recognition of Catalonia in Germany, 1901–1939», National Identities, 26(4), 425–449. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2024.2364879 

Feather D. (2024). «‘A cultivated leader and sensible spokesman for black African views’: Britain’s Courting of KaNgwane Chief Minister Enos J. Mabuza», History  109: 521-550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13418 

Cuny, L. (2024), «The End of a Cultural Desert? The Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) and the Northern Irish Artistic Scene (1943-1963)», Études irlandaises, 49: 2, 125-143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/12nwv 

Simony, L. & Torrent, M. (2024) «British soft power in Asia: a (post-)imperial project?», Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXIX-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.11529 

Carbó-Catalan, E. (2024). «Translation, a measure of force of attraction? States, international organizations and the consecrating power of translation», Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 33(1), 24–41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2412917 

Martínez del Campo, L. G., & García Naharro, F. (2024). «Unidos por el idioma. El libro como instrumento de la diplomacia cultural española en América Latina, 1918-1939 [United  by  Language.  The  Book  as  Tool  of  Spanish  Cultural  Diplomacy  in  Latin America, 1918-1939]». Revista De Indias, 84(292), 1615. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2024.1615 

Calabretta, C. (2023), «Il Centro Thomas Mann e la politica culturale della RDT in Italia (1957-1973)» Passato e Presente 119: 90-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3280/PASS2023-119005 

Handberg, K. (2023), «Touring Feminist Realism in Actually Existing Socialism: The Exhibitions and Travels of Danish Artist Dea Trier Mørch across the Iron Curtain, 1962–1989», Ikonotheka 33(null): 185-211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31338/2657-6015ik.33.9 

Wainwright, D. (2023). «Commerce and Cultural Diplomacy: The British Council in Iran during the 1970s», The International History Review, 46(1), 41–54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2023.2250790 

Pérez de Arcos, M. (2023), «‘Like Father, Like Son’: Willy Brandt and Felipe González: Democracy, Social Democracy and Internationalism in Motion in the Late Cold War», Contemporary European History, 32(3): 416-440. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000795 

Byrne, A. (2023). «The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?» Contemporary British History, 37(4), 489–504. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2237309 

Torrent, M. (2023). «Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy», Contemporary British History, 37(4), 525–554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2237311 

Ørskov, F. F. (2023). «Three Settings for German-Nordic Cultural Diplomacy: Nordic Writers, the deutch-nordische Schriftstellerhaus, and National Socialist Internationalism», Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 5(2), 263-281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10107 

Simony, L. (2023). «Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)», Contemporary British History, 37(4), 505–524. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2237310 

Carbó-Catalan, E. (2023). «Literary Translation: Between Intellectual Cooperation and Cultural Diplomacy. The Ibero-American Collection (1930-1940)», Translation in Society 2(1), 15–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tris.22004.car 

Feather, D. J. (2022). «Keeping Britain ‘in the Fore’: The Establishment of the British Council in South Africa and Its Contribution to the 1960 Union Festival», The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 50(4), 757–788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2022.2057738 

Handberg, K. (2022), «Exhibiting Cobra across the Iron Curtain: Exhibition Diplomacy and Modernism as Ostpolitik across Borders in Northern Europe during the Cold War». Artl@s Bulletin 11 (2): Article 6: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol11/iss2/6/ 

Carbó-Catalan, E. (2022). «Foreign Action by Peripheries, or the Will to Be Seen: Catalan Cultural Diplomacy in the Interwar Period», Comparative Literature Studies 59(4), 836–854. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.4.0836 

Pérez de Arcos, M. (2021). «Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941. Part 1: Founding a School in Troubled Times», Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 98(4), 527–555. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.1896232 

Wainwright, D. (2021). «Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–1959», The International Journal of the History of Sport, 38(8), 811–828. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2021.1941898 

Pérez de Arcos, M. (2021). «Individual, Institution, and Impact: The Untold History of the de Osma Studentship in Spanish Studies at Oxford», Hispanic Research Journal, 21(3), 276–320. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2020.1874721 

Byrne, A. (2021). «A “Sound Investment”? British Cultural Diplomacy and Overseas Students: The British Council’s Students Committee, 1935–1939», Contemporary European History, 30(2), 265–283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000072 

Martínez del Campo. L.G. (2021). «Weak State, Powerful Culture: The Emergence of Spanish Cultural Diplomacy, 1914–1936», Contemporary European History, 30(2), 198-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777320000636 

Pérez de Arcos, M. (2021). «Finding Out Whereabouts of Missing Persons’: The European War Office, Transnational Humanitarianism and Spanish Royal Diplomacy in the First World War», The International History Review, 44(3), 497–523. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2021.1976809 

Koivunen, P. (2020). «The World Youth Festival as a Soviet Cultural Product during the Cold War». Quaestio Rossica, 8(5), 1612–1628. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2020.5.548 

Janué i Miret, M. (2020). «"Carácter nacional" español y diplomacia cultural nacionalsocialista» [Spanish ‘national character’ and National Socialist cultural diplomacy], Ayer. Revista De Historia Contemporánea, 118(2), 225–253. https://doi.org/10.55509/ayer/118-2020-09 

Byrne, A. (2020). «Propagande culturelle ou relations culturelles? La mission ambiguë du British Council, 1934-1954», Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. American Studies Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.13460 

Janué i Miret, M. (2020), «Els inicis de la diplomàcia cultural catalano-alemanya a la primera meitat del segle XX» [The beginnings of Catalan-German cultural diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century], RiMe Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, n. 7/I (Special Issue):  53-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7410/1429 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2019). «Verán ustedes las chozas más humildes: El discurso de pobreza en la diplomacia pública cardenista dirigida a Estados Unidos», Mexican Studies, 35 (2), 255-281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2019.35.2.255 

Bassoni, N. (2019). «Karl Haushofer as a ‘Pioneer’ of National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy in Fascist Italy», Central European History 52: 424-449. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008938919000773   

Toledo García, I. (2019). «Alfonso Reyes, Genaro Estrada y Jean Périer: el fortalecimiento de los lazos intelectuales entre México y Francia (1924-1928)», Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación, 3, 72-95

Ørskov, F. F. (2019). «From Nordic Romanticism to Nordic Modernity: Danish Tourist Brochures in Nazi Germany, 1929–39», Journal of Contemporary History 55 (1), 29–51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418815319 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2019), «¿De quién es la diplomacia pública? El rol del Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad (DAPP) en la propaganda exterior cardenista [Where does public diplomacy belongs? The role of the Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad (DAPP) on Mexico’s foreign propaganda during cardenismo]», Estudios de Historia Moderna Contemporánea de México, 55, 279-312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2018.55.63301 

Ørskov, F. F. (2018). «Screening The Social Face of Denmark to the Nazis: Social Policy as subdued Resistance during the German Occupation of Denmark», Scandinavian Journal of History 43 (2): 187-211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2018.1430551 

Wainwright, D. (2017). «Equal partners? The Information Research Department, SAVAK and the dissemination of anti-communist propaganda in Iran, 1956–68», British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46(3), 404–424. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2017.1409100 

Byrne, A. (2015). «Periodical journalism as an instrument of cultural diplomacy or informational diplomacy: the example of Britain To-day (1945-1954)», Caliban. French Journal of English Studies, 54, 253-272. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.3077 

Torrent, M. (2015). «A ‘New’ Commonwealth for Britain? Negotiating Ghana’s Pan-African and Asian Connections at the End of Empire (1951–8)». The International History Review, 38(3), 573–613. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2015.1076870 

Byrne, A. (2013). «The British Council and Cultural Propaganda in the USA, 1939-1945», Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 11 (3), 249-263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14794012.2013.814386 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2012). «Metáforas de un país frío. Chile en la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla en 1929», Artelogie [Online], 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/artelogie.6904 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2010). «Los desafíos de escenificar el “alma nacional”. Chile en la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla (1929)», Historia Crítica, 1(42), 84-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit42.2010.05 

Torrent, M. (2009). «Bilingualism and Double-Talk: Language and Diplomacy in the Cameroons (1959–1962)», Forum for Modern Language Studies, 45 (4), 361–377. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp107 

Janué i Miret, M. (2008). «Imperialismus durch auswärtige Kulturpolitik: die Deutsch-Spanische Gesellschaft als "zwischenstaatlicher Verband" unter dem Nationalsozialismus» [Imperialism through foreign cultural policy: the German-Spanish Society as an ‘intergovernmental association’ under National Socialism], German Studies Review, 31 (1): 109-132. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668452 

Byrne, A. (2006), «L’après-guerre du peuple ? La Grande-Bretagne sous les Travaillistes vue par Britain To-day (1945-1950)», Revue LISA/LISA e-journal, IV (3), 175-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lisa.2045 

Handberg, K. (2025), « The Threshold of the West? Danish Cobra Artists Exhibited at Westkunst and Behind the Iron Curtain, 1948–1988». In Arnoux, M. & Bremer, M. Westkunst, 1981, Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 140-157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/13rob 

Byrne, A. (2024). «British European University Interchange Policy (1945-1956): Constructing a European Identity?». In Matasci, D. and Ruppen Coutaz, R. (eds.) Educational Internationalisms in the Global Cold War, New York: Routledge, 21-38. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003247814-3 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2024). «Tensions between Soft Power and Domestic Propaganda: Public Diplomacy toward the Mexican Diaspora in the United States, 1934-1940». In Dummer, Faucher & Gatica (Eds.) Soft Power beyond the Nation, Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2024, 86-108.

Dümmer Scheel, S. et alt. (2024). «Rethinking Soft Power in History: Transnational Circulation, Collaboration, and Identities». In Dummer, Faucher & Gatica (Eds.) Soft Power beyond the Nation, Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2024, 1-22. 

Koivunen, P. (2024), «Supporting the Democratisation of Education and Anti-Colonialism in the Global South. The World Student News and Soviet Bloc Media Tactics in the 1970s». In Cronqvist, M; Norén, F. M; Stjernholm, E. (eds.), Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century, Routledge, 89-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032618326-8   

Chávez Díaz, L., Toledo García, I. (2024). «Una embajadora tras bambalinas: Rosario Castellanos en Israel (1971-1974)». In Herrera León, F; Toledo García, I.; Moreno Rodríguez, L. M. (Eds.) Mujeres y relaciones internacionales en el siglo XX: historia y presencia en un mundo en transición, México: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 109-133.

Calabretta, C. (2023), «Il Centro Thomas Mann: un’istituzione culturale della Guerra fredda (1957-1989)». In Calabretta. C. & Lucia Sergio,  M. (eds.), Italia – DDR. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, Roma: Studi Germanici, 89-111. 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2023). «México y Chile en las Exposiciones Universales de París (1937) y Nueva York (1939). Revolución, Frente Popular y modernidad». In Bruno, P.  & Schuster, S. (eds.), Mapamundis Culturales. América Latina y las Exposiciones Universales, 1867-1939, Rosario: Prohistoria Ediciones, 229-252. 

Simony, L. (2022). «The British Council and Its Rivals: Great Powers’ Cultural Competition in Post-Independence Burma, 1948–1955». In Farrell, B; Long, S. & Ulbrich, D. (eds.), From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 281-308. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718713-013 

Torrent, M. (2022). «‘Un succès remarquable’? L’escale d’Elizabeth II à Dakar (6 décembre 1961) dans la gestion diplomatique des relations (post-)coloniales». In Tachin, A. (ed), Le temps du voyage. Les déplacements des chefs d’État ou de gouvernement (XXe-XXIe siècle), Brussels: Peter Lang, 83-109.

Koivunen, P. (2021). «International Events in the Service of Cultural Statecraft: The Sochi Olympics and the World Festival of Youth and Students». In Forsberg, T., & Mäkinen, S. (eds.). Russia’s Cultural Statecraft, Routledge, 184-205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003141785-9 

Janué i Miret, M. (2020), «22. A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany». In: Brenneis, S. J., Herrmann, G. (ed.), Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 403-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-026 

Byrne, A. (2019), «Britain To-day, Bulletins from Britain and Britain: some semi-official British periodicals in the USA during World War Two». In Eliot, S; Wiggam, M. (ed.), Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War. National and Transnational Networks, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 

Byrne, A. (2018). «The Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme: Promoting Exchanges in a Changing World (1948-1960)». In Tournès, L; Scott-Smith, G. Global Exchanges. Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World, New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 65-78.

Torrent, M. (2016) «‘But always as friends’: British cultural diplomacy, decolonisation and the Cold War in West Africa (1957-1964)». In Dornel L; Parsons, M. (ed), Fins d’empire, Pau: Presses de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, 93-118.

Byrne, A. (2016). «The British Council in India, 1945-1955: ‘Preserving old relationships under new forms». In Dornel, L; Parsons, M. (ed.), Fins d’empires / Ends of Empires, Pau: Presses de l’université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, 119-136.

Janué i Miret, M. (2016). «The Role of Culture in German-Spanish Relations during National Socialism». In: Clara, F., Ninhos, C. (eds) Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933–45. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 84-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137551528_6 

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2015). «Metáforas de un país frío. Chile en la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla en 1929». En Peliowski, A. & Valdés, C. Una geografía imaginada: diez ensayos sobre arte y naturaleza, Santiago: Ediciones Metales Pesados y Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 169-188.

Dümmer Scheel, S. (2014). «La serena simplicidad de nuestro espíritu. Imagen de progreso e identidad nacional a partir de la participación de Chile en la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla de 1929». En Schuster, S. (ed.), La Nación expuesta. Cultura visual y procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina, Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 69-81.

Byrne, A. (2013), «‘Britain at home to the world.’ Propagande et relations culturelles au Festival of Britain, 1951». In Fléchet, A. et al. Une histoire des festivals XXe-XXIe siècle, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 233-250.

Torrent, M. (2012). «Making sense of the Commonwealth connection: British perspectives on Canada’s growing presence in Africa (1959-1973)». In Sanderson, C; Torrent, M. (ed), La puissance britannique en question au 20e siècle/Challenges to British Power Status in the 20th Century, Brussels: Peter Lang, 139-163.

Byrne, A. (2010), «From the People’s War to the Cold War: British Culture as Portrayed by Britain To-day». In Cottenet, C; Murat, J.C. & Vanfasse, N. Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 100-115.