May 2018 – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CID Video Competition: Last Day to Submit!

The CID video competition is still open but only one day remains to the final deadline of May 31, 2018. Tell your friends, tell your students! To submit an entry, click here, but submit by May 31 midnight (US east coast time). WARNING: Please read the entry rules carefully! Several submissions have not met the requirements, and cannot be considered for a prize until they are revised. Make sure you submit a video file (not audio), that is between 30 seconds and 2 minutes (not 30 minutes!), with the last line “Intercultural dialogue looks like…” and upload it to the server provided (not to YouTube directly).

CID is running its first ever video competition, open to students enrolled in any college or university during the 2017-2018 academic year.

To enter, participants must submit a video no longer than 2 minutes that highlights the importance of intercultural dialogue, responding to the question: “What does intercultural dialogue look like?”

One winner will receive a $200 prize. The top entries will be posted to the CID YouTube channel, and be highlighted on the CID website, along with posts describing the creators and highlighting each of their videos, throughout the rest of 2018. Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, clarity, cultural message, effective use of technology, and overall impact. Feel free to work independently or in groups. Get creative, show off your skills and, most importantly, have fun!

Video Competition FAQ

Competition Rules

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Paper Airplanes: English Tutors Wanted (Summer/Fall 2018)

Paper Airplanes is looking for English tutors for summer and fall terms. Summer term will run from June 17-August 31, 2018. Fall term will run from September 9-December 16, 2018. The application is available here.

Paper Airplanes provides free, one-on-one virtual language and skills instruction to people affected by conflict. Our goal is to help our students learn critical languages and marketable skills for their pursuit of higher education and employment. No prior tutoring experience or Arabic language skills required, although both are appreciated. Please contact Paper Airplanes Director of Programming, Dr. Anna Farrell, with any questions.

Constructing ICD: #10 Let’s talk about feelings in the newcomer ESOL classroom!

The next issue of Constructing intercultural Dialogues is now available, “Let’s talk about feelings in the newcomer ESOL classroom!” by Luis Javier Pentón Herrera.

He’s done research on his own class of English for Students of Other Languages, and reports findings that should be helpful to anyone else teaching a similar course. As a reminder, the goal of this series is to provide concrete examples of how actual people have managed to organize and hold intercultural dialogues, so that others may be inspired to do the same. As with other CID series, these may be downloaded for free. Click on the thumbnail to download the PDF.

Pentón Herrera, L. J. (2018).Let’s talk about feelings in the newcomer ESOL classroom! Constructing Intercultural Dialogues, 10. Retrieved from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/constructing-icd10.pdf

If you have a case study you would like to share, send an email to the series editor, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.

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

Migration Policy Institute Job Ad: International Program (USA)

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of U.S. and international migration policies, seeks an exceptional Research Assistant to join its International Program in Washington, DC. Deadline: June 15, 2018.

MPI’s International Program conducts research and analysis on challenges facing local, national, and supranational governments, covering topics such as refugee protection and integration, skills and mobility, border management, social cohesion in an age of diversity, and the governance of migration. The research assistant’s primary responsibilities will be to assist with qualitative and quantitative research and provide programmatic support in several areas of MPI’s work. Salary and title will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

U Central Asia Job Ad: English for Academic Purposes (Kyrgystan)

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Faculty Member, (Tenured / Tenure Track), University of Central Asia (UCA) in Kyrgystan and/or Tajikistan. Deadline: June 15, 2018.

The School of Arts and Sciences is seeking an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Faculty Member to teach at the undergraduate campuses in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan and/or Khorog, Tajikistan. The faculty member should have an active involvement in the development, planning, preparation and undertaking of all academic upgrading initiatives related to EAP instruction. This individual is expected to teach small groups of students from Central Asia in a preparatory programme. The English curriculum of the Preparatory Programme and the teaching approach are based on integrated skills with the topics connected to core literacies and embedded in the Central Asian context as well as aligned with the Mathematics, Science and Liberal Arts curriculum. Consequently, the hope is for these students to become proficient in academic writing and research skills. In the liberal arts and pre-requisite years, the EAP faculty will be involved in supporting students during academic writing labs. The language of instruction for undergraduate studies is English.

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KANRAXËL: Film on Rural Multilingualism in Senegal

KANRAXËL: The Confluence of Agnack makes rural multilingualism visible by focusing on a city in Senegal where speaking 6 languages is not uncommon. Places like Agnack defy common conceptualisations of multilingualism, which tend to assume it is both modern and urban. Extensive discussion about the project and its implications has been made available, as are teaching materials both for secondary and university students.

In 2015, the film won the AHRC research in film award in the category “Best film produced by a researcher or research team in the last year.” The jury’s verdict states: this is “a beautifully filmed and scripted film… a highly sophisticated film, beautifully shot, cut, and recorded, which conveys the nature of multilingual life in the village very effectively indeed.”

CID Video Competition: Only 1 Week to Submit!

The CID video competition is still open but only one week remains to the final deadline of May 31, 2018. Tell your friends, tell your students! To submit an entry, click here. WARNING: Please read the entry rules carefully! Several submissions have not met the requirements, and cannot be considered for a prize until they are revised. Make sure you submit a video file (not audio), that is between 30 seconds and 2 minutes (not 30 minutes!), with the last line “Intercultural dialogue looks like…”, and upload it to the server provided, not to YouTube directly.

CID is running its first ever video competition, open to students enrolled in any college or university during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Video Competition FAQ

Competition Rules

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U Loughborough Fulbright Award

The 2019-20 Fulbright Loughborough Scholar Award is now open for applications with a deadline of 1st August, 2018.

Each year, one award is offered to a US citizen in support of research and/or teaching/lecturing in any subject, in any of (or a combination of) Loughborough research-active departments. The appointment will be for a period of 3-12 months – to be determined by the applicants and their host school. Candidates will be selected by the Fulbright Commission and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES).

NOTE: Many other Fulbright opportunities are available, whether in the UK, or in the rest of the world.

CMMI CosmoKidz Expansion to 8-15 Year Olds

The Coordinated Management of Meaning Institute (CMMI) is asking for help:

“We created CosmoKidz as one way to help young children develop relational awareness and skills. By now, we have more than four years’ worth of research to confirm what we thought: It works!

CosmoKidz only covers the age group from 4-7 year olds and now we want to go beyond. We imagine creating something for the 8-11 year olds—CosmoTweenz—and for the 12-15 year olds— CosmoTeenz. The social challenges for each of these age groups will most probably vary, and we need their own words, stories, experiences to describe what they are struggling with in their social world. This is where we need your help!

If you are close to children/young people in these age groups, either as a parent, friend, relative, or in a professional manner, and you’d like to offer ideas we’d love to hear from you. If you see this as an opportunity to work collaboratively with us we’d also love to hear from you. Our next steps offer some exciting research opportunities as well as significant opportunities for developing new teaching aids.

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