Taos Institute: Contributions of Social Constructionism: Relational-Dialogical Perspectives from Latin America (Webinar)

EventsDialogue with the Author: Contributions of Social Constructionism: Relational-Dialogical Perspectives from Latin America, Taos Institute (Webinar), 14 October 2026, 1-2:30 EDT.

With Diego Tapia Figueroa and Roberto Ricardi Costard (Editors), joined by several contributing authors.

(In English with simultaneous translation in Spanish and Portuguese)

This work is a polyphonic and interdisciplinary collection that brings together authors from diverse Latin American and Ibero-American contexts to explore contemporary relational, collaborative-dialogical, narrative, and generative practices grounded in social constructionism. The book offers situated reflections on care, dialogue, mental health, education, justice, community work, and social transformation, emphasizing relational ethics, plurality, and the co-construction of meaningful and socially responsive practices.

CIEE Scholarships & Grants for Study Abroad for Spring 2027

Grants

Multiple Scholarships & Grants for Study Abroad in Spring 2026, Council on International Educational Exchange,  Portland, Maine, USA. Deadline: 15 October 2026.

The nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization CIEE has been bringing the world together, advancing peace by building bridges of mutual understanding between different people, different countries, and different cultures for 75 years. They offer a variety of scholarships and grants; some are based on need, others on academic achievement, and a few are intended for alumni of a prior CIEE program. They also offer a variety of global internships.

Wilson Center Research Fellowships 2027-8 (USA)

Fellowships

Wilson Center Research Fellowships for 2027-8, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. Deadline: 30 September 2026.

The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship Research Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and other fellows. The Center accepts policy-relevant, nonpartisan fellowship proposals that address key foreign policy challenges confronting the United States and the world.

CID Poster 6: Dialogue Defined Translated into German

CID PostersThis is another of the posters designed by Linda J. de Wit, and now translated into German. For this poster, you literally have to look from a different perspective to read the quote; the picture of birds on a wire also represents taking different perspectives. The source of the quote is:

Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2016). De la possession des compétences interculturelles au dialogue interculturel: Un cadre conceptuel [Moving from having intercultural competencies to constructing intercultural dialogues: A conceptual framework]. Les Politiques Sociales, 3/4, 7-22.

The German translation was provided by Dominic Busch, and the graphic design work necessary to revise was by Yan Qiu. Here then is CID Poster 6: Dialog definiert.

CID Poster 6: Dialogue defined translated into German

Just in case anyone wants to cite this poster, the following would be the recommended format:

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2026). CID Poster 6: Dialog definiert [D. Busch, trans.]. CID Posters. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cid-poster-6-dialogue-german.png

As with other series, CID Posters are available for free on the site; just click on the thumbnail to download a printable version. They may be downloaded, printed, and shared as is, without changes, without cost, so long as there is acknowledgment of the source.

As with other CID Publications, if you wish to prepare an original contribution, please send an email before starting any work to receive approval, to minimize inadvertent duplication, and to learn about technical requirements. As is the case any series, posters should be created initially in English. If you want to volunteer to translate a poster into a language in which you are fluent, send in a note before starting, to receive approval and to confirm no one else is working on the same one.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue
intercult.dialogue AT gmail.com

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U Albany: Executive Director for Strategic Partnerships with India (USA)

“JobExcecutive Director for Strategic Partnerships with India, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA. Deadline: 3 September 2026.

The University at Albany (UAlbany) is expanding its global reach, visibility, and impact in India, focusing on academic and research partnerships. Most recently, UAlbany signed several agreements with partner institutions, including Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences (RUAS) and Ramaiah Institute of Science and Management (RISM). This initiative is in line with the university’s strategic priority of Internationalization and its primary goal to educate engaged global citizens.

These agreements have already paved the way for UAlbany, RUAS, and RISM to collaborate on academic programs, research initiatives, workforce development efforts, and faculty and student exchange. Since these partnerships began in 2025, we have made significant progress, including our collaboration with RISM’s launch in India. Important milestones include:

The official launch of RISM in its temporary location in June 2026. A groundbreaking celebration for the new RISM campus in Bengaluru, which will also feature a high-level delegation from UAlbany in September 2026. Ongoing relationship-building with industry partners in India. Reporting directly to the Vice President for Research and Economic Development, the Executive Director for Strategic Partnerships with India will, in coordination and collaboration with the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, and senior administration at UAlbany and our partner institutions, focus on the development and implementation of strategic goals, projects, and initiatives related to academic and research partnerships, enrollment, and industry partnerships. The Executive Director will also work with UAlbany leadership to set the vision, goals, and strategic priorities to develop a robust, impactful, and sustainable model aimed at expanding and strengthening these partnerships.

The Executive Director will serve as the primary liaison and operational lead for UAlbany’s existing and future partnerships in India and other areas of the world as determined by the President and the UAlbany leadership team. They will coordinate closely with UAlbany’s leadership team, including the President, Provost, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Academic Deans, the President’s Chief of Staff and Liaison for International Relations, and others. Their leadership role will be instrumental to these partnerships.

In addition to executing the existing partnership agreements, the Executive Director should be proposing potential new areas for partnership with RUAS, RISM, and other institutions and industry leaders in India and other areas of the world.

IIE: Events Specialist, Fulbright (USA)

“JobEvents Specialist, Fulbright, Institute of International Education, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 9 September 2026.

This position will work with the Fulbright Events team to advance the mission of the Fulbright program by creating engagement and connections among Fulbright students, scholars, and professionals. Through our events, Fulbrighters from around the world connect with each other, engage with concepts and ideas, and further their professional development, academic success, and understanding of the United States and other countries.

This position is responsible for the design, conceptualization and implementation of Fulbright seminar and professional development activities, including but not limited to core in-person seminars and/or special thematic seminars. The Events specialist is the primary point of contact for unique programs in the Fulbright portfolio and Events Team portfolio including, but not limited to, high profile meetings, summits, and VIP gatherings. The specialist will have primary responsibility for content development, sponsor communication, subcontractor monitoring, and on-site implementation.

U Pennsylvania: Intercultural Dialogue and Perception (USA)

Applied ICDIntercultural Dialogue and Perception, course taught by Claudia Tordini, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

In VLST 2140: Intercultural Dialogue and Perception, an SNF Paideia designated course taught by Claudia Tordini at the University of Pennsylvania, students are asked to slow down, suspend immediate judgment, and step into something transformative: true dialogue mediated through visual art and experiential perception. This course is part of the SNF Paideia Program, integrating dialogue, community, intentionality, humility, and curiosity, and drawing from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and art theory. Tordini poses a fundamental question: “How can we engage across deep cultural, personal, and perceptive divides?”

CFP: Communicating Balkan Liminalities

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Call for book chapters: Communicating Balkan Liminalities: Theorizing Communication, Meanings, and Relations. Deadlines: Abstract: 1 September 2026; Chapter: 15 December 2026.

Book to be edited by:
Liliana Herakova (University of Maine), Jennifer A. Zenovich (California State University, East Bay), and Marta N. Lukacovic (Clemson University).

There is a growing recognition that to strengthen communication studies’ practical utility and contributions in the face of the poly-crises characterizing the present, we need varied metamodels and ways of knowing that are both of global relevance and grounded in locality. While critical efforts to de-westernize and diversify communication studies have gained momentum, the Balkans remain conceptually peripheral: sometimes analyzed and studied, but rarely valued as active, place-based knowledge producers within the field. Positioned between East and West, socialisms and capitalisms, empires and independence, the region is characterized by multilayered liminalities that resist straightforward inclusion in standard post-, decolonial, or western frameworks.

In this context, editors are inviting chapter proposals for an upcoming edited volume featuring both academic and creative works, provisionally titled Communicating Balkan Liminalities: Theorizing Communication, Meanings, and Relations to be published by Peter Lang. The book will be part of the Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series (recently renamed Possibilities), with series editors Bernadette Marie Calafell (University of Oregon) and Shane T. Moreman (California State University, Fresno). Proposed contributions to the book should align with a conceptualization of Balkan theorizing not as an exportable commodity or regional case study, but as an open, dialectic movement toward knowledge-making that reflects the following orienting commitments:

● Engaging history as integral to analysis: Treating history as polyvocal, messy, and co-temporal, troubling linear chronologies and western overvaluations of “novelty” in favor of deeply situated complexities.
● Performing generative in-betweenness: Sitting within the dialectic of being in Europe but not fully of Europe; reclaiming “balkanization” as a generative stance that disrupts western linearities, stage-based (pre-, post-) transitologies, and rigid categorical binaries.
● Listening to polyvocal storytelling and personal narratives: Centering lived experiences, folklore, and counter-narratives—in their discord and multiplicities—to resist both western universalizing tendencies and essentialist traps.

ICA Regional Chapters: Six Made Permanent, Two New Added

Professional Opportunities

Regional chapters update, International Communication Association.

ICA regional chaptersAt its 3 June, 2026 meeting in Cape Town, the ICA Board of Directors voted to make the ICA Regional Chapters program permanent, cementing the place of the six founding pilot Chapters (China, France, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria) as a lasting part of the ICA family. This milestone reflects three years of hard work by Chapter leaders and members who built local scholarly communities, mentored emerging researchers, and proved that meaningful engagement with ICA’s mission can thrive beyond the annual conference. Special thanks are due to the REACH Committee – and especially its immediate past chair, Noshir Contractor – for their tireless efforts in support of the ICA Chapters program.

The founding Chapters will now be joined by two new Regional Chapters whose proposals were selected by REACH: ICA Egypt and ICA Pakistan. Congratulations to all the Chapter Leaders, past and present, whose dedication made this achievement possible!

U Birmingham: Cadbury Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Studies (UK)

PostdocsCadbury Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Studies,  School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The School of History and Cultures seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in African History for an 18-month fellowship contributing to the University’s research environment and teaching provision. The Fellow will engage in a programme of research agreed with their mentor. They will also support the delivery of African Studies and History programmes in the School of History and Cultures. This post is funded by an endowment that enables members of staff at sub-Saharan African Universities to spend a period of time at the University of Birmingham. The post is therefore limited to applicants currently based on the African continent and affiliated with an African Higher Education Institution