Center for Intercultural Dialogue

American Academy in Berlin: Berlin Prize Competition 2027-8 (Germany)

Berlin Prize fellowships, American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 25 September 2026.

The American Academy in Berlin is an independent, nonprofit institute for advanced study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and public policy. Its primary mission is to strengthen the cultural and intellectual ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, following a rigorous selection process, the Academy awards roughly two dozen semester-long fellowships to individuals who demonstrate excellence in their respective fields.

The Academy welcomes applications from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and various areas of public policy. They also generally encourage projects that address pressing issues of the day, such as democracy, security, technology and society (especially AI), energy (including climate), and global order. Dedicated fellowships are also available to support projects in Jewish studies, German studies, and public health and biotechnology. While project proposals need not focus on topics related to Germany, candidates should explain how a residency in Berlin would enhance their work.

Malmö U: PHD Studentship: International Migration & Ethnic Relations (Sweden)

Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM), Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden. Deadline: 31 August 2026.

The Department of Global Political Studies is looking for a doctoral student as part of the research programme “Migration Society 2.0”. The programme is funded by Malmö University within the framework of the research centre MIM and involves collaboration with other MIM researchers and the centre director on the project.

The research programme is about the phenomenon of superdiversity and aims to increase the understanding of the new society that is emerging, Migration Society 2.0. Superdiversity is partly about quantity, that is, the growing proportion of the population that is immigrants or children of immigrants, and partly about complexity, that is, the variation and mix of ethnicities, national origins, migration channels, transnational anchor points, legal status, gender and age distribution, social class, etc. This development places new demands on how we think about and handle integration issues and inclusion and exclusion processes. However, there is not yet a comprehensive knowledge base for how this diversity has developed and is experienced in Sweden. MIM will therefore conduct a series of large-scale surveys on diversity and inclusion that will be repeated every two years. These surveys will generate a growing database that helps us understand and explain the patterns of migration, diversity, inclusion and exclusion that characterize Sweden and other comparable countries.

The survey will map diversity based on self-identified information about, for example, ethnicity, gender, religion, language, sexuality and social status, as well as perceived belonging, views on other groups and perceptions of social institutions.

The doctoral student is expected to formulate and carry out an independent individual research project using the Diversity and Inclusion Survey. In the application, the applicant must therefore attach a research plan with a preliminary idea of how diversity and inclusion can be investigated through survey studies. Applicants with an original and solid research plan characterized by theoretical and methodological maturity will be prioritized.

CID Poster 6: Dialogue Defined Translated into German

This poster was designed by Linda J. de Wit, and published previously; it now has been 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.

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

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2026). Dialog definiert [D. Busch, trans.]. CID Posters, 6. 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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Royal Holloway, U London: Lecturer in International Relations (UK)

Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK. Deadline: 20 August 2026.

The Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Lecturer in International Relations (Teaching and Research focus). The successful applicant would be expected to start in January 2027. This is a permanent position. The Department provides a full range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes to a diverse student body, and carries research across different sub-disciplines, including but not limited to the Global Politics and Development Centre, Centre for International Security, Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies, Democracy and Elections Centre, New Political Communication Unit and the Gender Institute.

The successful candidate will convene and deliver modules in the International Relations curriculum. Applicants should be able to broaden the range of subfields researched in the department. Areas that the department has identified as underserved include Russia, China, Race/Ethnicity, and Environment/Climate Change, but this list is non-exhaustive, and candidates should feel free to make the case for their subfield.

U Amsterdam: Professor of Europe in a Global Context (Netherlands)

Professor of Europe in a Global Context, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 12 August 2026.

The Department of History, European Studies, Religious Studies, and CEDLA-Latin American Studies of the University of Amsterdam is looking to appoint a full Professor of Europe in a Global Context. This professorship in European Studies focuses on Europe and its relations in a global context. This chair will strengthen the interdisciplinary profile of European Studies in the Faculty of Humanities by focusing on Europe’s connections, interdependence and post-colonial legacies with other world regions. In doing so, it will also study the long-term changes in global dynamics and their political, cultural and social consequences for Europe’s position in the global world. Possible research themes could be (though are not limited to): security; environmental issues; transnational mobility (such as migration or transatlantic trade); EU foreign policy; European institutions and legacies of imperial structures; Europe as a global actor in the field of cultural developments and social movements. Expertise in the impact and interactions between the European continent and other continents is an explicit requirement of this professorship. Teaching and research of this professorship involve both European and non-European perspectives on the possible themes listed above, critically (re)assessing and contributing to an understanding of Europe’s interests, interdependencies and conflicts with other world regions. The candidate is expected to take a leading, proactive role within their interdisciplinary chair group, the department and the research school, and in research priority areas of the Faculty.

UNESCO Futures of Education Ideas LAB – First Publications (2026)

UNESCO’s Futures of Education Ideas LAB called for short think pieces in fall 2025, and began publishing some ideas in spring 2026.

Under the title “The future of international cooperation in education,” some of the essays published include:

Linguistic justice and multilateral cooperation in education
Higher education and the gift of the liminal moment
International cooperation on education in times of global inequality
Rethinking incentives, metrics and funding in global higher education
‘What if?’: A different grammar of global education cooperation
From fragility to plurality: South-South cooperation in basic education

They are still accepting proposals for future issues, for anyone interested.

NOTE: The Center for Intercultural Dialogue held focus groups as part of the information gathering stage of the Futures of Education project, preparing what we learned as a report for UNESCO, in 2021.

U Oslo: PHD Research Fellowship in Political Science (Norway)

Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Political Science, 3-4 years, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The Department of Political Science is offering one PhD position with specialisation in either comparative politics, or political data science. The successful applicant will be part of the research project “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow), which is funded by the European Research Council. The PhD fellowship period is three years and devoted to carrying out research and pursuing a PhD in the context of the AutoKnow project. The position may also include other career-enhancing activities: depending on the candidate’s competence and the teaching needs of the department, the fellowship period can be extended up to four years for qualification work consisting of e.g. teaching duties.

The primary aims of AutoKnow are to investigate how the production of scientific knowledge is affected by authoritarian regimes and politics. The project will look at how authoritarian rule affects the contents and research trajectories of scientific fields, and which fields are targeted for repression and co-optation by authoritarian rulers and movements. It will use computational text analysis to measure content-dimensions of published science and collect different data on attacks on academic freedom. It will study how authoritarian rule affects scientific progress, topic choice, political bias, idea novelty and other dimensions.

CFP: Possibilities (Book Series with Peter Lang)

Call for Submissions: for book series Possibilities, published by Peter Lang. Deadline: Open.

Series editors: Bernadette Marie Calafell (University of Oregon) and Shane T. Moreman (California State University, Fresno)

Possibilities brings Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies together with Communication and Media Studies, centering how cultural communities use, resist, and remake the forms that represent them. The series takes up the activist impulse that sparked the founding of Ethnic Studies through the labor of Indigenous, Black, Latina/o/x/e, and Asian American communities, and carries that charge into Communication and Media Studies, energizing the series to be critical, reflexive, and dynamic.

Foregrounding U.S. racial and ethnic formations and performances in relation to imperialism, settler colonialism, and the enduring and recurring traumas of genocide, slavery, anti-Blackness, and internment, Possibilities also follows diasporic, transnational, and border-crossing realities manifested through texts, institutions, and lived experiences. Editors invite work that takes empirical risks while remaining humble about what it can claim, and that engages communities in imagining what comes next.

Possibilities deepens long-standing questions of race and ethnicity across sex, gender, ability, class, nationality, locality, and the like, all with the desire for intellectual growth. They encourage scholars to cultivate new methods and representational forms, and to let transdisciplinary questions motivate that work rather than merely frame it. Possibilities takes its name from its advocacy: a tending toward resourceful visioning, sustainable offerings, and critical hope.

Editors welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections, and encourage informal conversations with anyone thinking through a project at any stage.

(The series was previously published under the name Critical Intercultural Communication Studies through volume 33.)

Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, & Dialogue Education Fellowships 2027 (USA)

Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, & Dialogue Education (doctoral) Fellowships, Cambridge, MA. Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The Education Fellows Program was established by the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in 2007. The program honors the educational legacy of global peace builder and Center founder, Daisaku Ikeda, and aims to advance research and scholarship on the internationally growing field of Ikeda/Soka studies in education.

The Ikeda Center Education Fellows Program supports doctoral dissertations in the field of Ikeda/Soka studies in education, including its relation to the philosophy and practice of education more generally. Up to three Ikeda Center Education Fellows will be selected by an Advisory Council of leading education scholars each application period. Fellows will be eligible for two years of funding at $10,000 per year, with the second year contingent on proof of progress.

CID Poster 11: Language and Intercultural Communication Translated into Catalan

Several years ago, Brandon Peña created CID Poster 11: Language and Intercultural Communication, illustrating a quote related to KC78: Language and Intercultural Communication by Jane Jackson.

Here we present the Catalan translation, CID Poster 11: Llenguatge I Comunicació Intercultural. This new version of the poster exists thanks to the translation by Neus Crous-Costa, and additional graphic design work by Yan Qiu.

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

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2026). CID Poster 11: Llenguatge I Comunicació Intercultural [N. Crous-Costa, trans.]. CID Posters, 11. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cid-poster-11-language-intercultural-communcation-catalan.png

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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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