Month: June 2018

U Glasgow Job Ad: Media, Journalism & Communications (UK)

Job adsLecturer in Media, Journalism and Communications, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Deadline: 9 July 2018.

Job Purpose: To contribute to and build on the existing success of the MSc in Media, Communications and International Journalism, and to support future growth within that programme. To contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in the School of Social & Political Sciences. This will include delivering, organising and reviewing these processes in line with School strategic objectives.

CFP Media Literacy Research & Applications Across Disciplines

Publication OpportunitiesCall for Chapters: Media Literacy Research and Applications Across Disciplines. Editors: Melda N. Yildiz, Minaz Fazal, Meesuk Ahn, Robert Feirsen, and Sebnem Ozdemir. Publisher: IGI Global. Deadline: July 15, 2018.

This edited book seeks to collaborate with scholars around the world to provide the national and international perspectives on Media Literacy Education. Our goal is to present current trends in research and application in the field of media literacy across disciplines, investigate challenges and solutions, and document its implications for P20 education. The target audience for this text includes: media educators, activists, librarians, educational leaders, educational researchers, parents, teachers, teacher educators.

CFP De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Global South

Publication OpportunitiesCall for submissions: De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Perspectives from the Global South. Deadline: July 31, 2018.

This edited volume of the renowned NOMOS publishing house (book series “intercultural and transcultural communication”) invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Perspectives from the Global South”.

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Dollar Street: Learn About the World Without Leaving Home

Applied ICDDollar Street is “where country stereotypes fall apart.” 264 homes in 50 countries have been documented with 30,000+ photos, in order to show the reality of people’s lives, leaving assumptions behind. Sounds like a good way to start intercultural dialogues, no?

As explained on their site: “Dollar Street was invented by Anna Rosling Rönnlund at Gapminder. For 15 years she spent her workdays making global public data easier to understand and use. Over time her frustration grew: carefully selecting data to present it in colorful and moving charts made overall global trends and patterns easier to understand. But it did not make everyday life on different income levels understandable. Especially not in places far from home. “People in other cultures are often portrayed as scary or exotic.” Anna explains: “This has to change. We want to show how people really live. It seemed natural to use photos as data so people can see for themselves what life looks like on different income levels. Dollar Street lets you visit many, many homes all over the world. Without travelling.”

Dollar Street is  designed to let everyone see “what life really looks like behind the income statistics” by “using photos as data.” There’s a TED Talk about it, if you want to learn more.

CFP AIMAC (Italy)

ConferencesAIMAC – International Association of Arts and Cultural Management, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy, June 23-26, 2019. Deadline: October 31, 2018.

Proposals from any relevant discipline will be considered, provided they make an original academic contribution to the study of cultural management. This scientific conference will address various sectors of the arts and cultural industries (performing arts and festivals, heritage, museums and visual arts, film production and distribution, book publishing, recording, broadcasting, audio-visual media and multimedia, design, etc.). We welcome all kinds of papers that connect academic researches with broader practical and industrial context in this field.

KC85 Diglossia Translated into Greek

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#85: Diglossia, which Marianna Kyriakou  wrote for publication in English in 2017, and which she has now translated into Greek. [NOTE: this concept was updated in 2020, and the original 2018 version replaced.]

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

KC85 Diglossia_GreekKyriakou, M. (2020). Diglossia [Greek]. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 85. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/kc85-diglossia_greek_v2.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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Sunway U Job Ad: Communication & Media (Malaysia)

Job adsProfessor of Communication and Media Studies, Department of Communication and Liberal Arts, Sunway University, Malaysia. Deadline: 21 July 2018.

The Sunway University Department of Communication and Liberal Arts invites outstanding applicants for the position of Professor in the discipline of Communication and Media Studies (Advertising, Public Relations, or Corporate Communication).

We welcome dynamic, self-driven candidates who will contribute to the advancement of our tradition of excellence. Successful candidates will hold a PhD in the field of Communication, with ideally five years of university experience. Candidates should have a sound record of research with a clear research strategy, demonstrating the potential to develop research leadership in any one of the above areas of expertise. Applicants must have the ability to teach and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Edinburgh Napier U Job Ads: Intercultural Business Communication (UK)

Job adsEdinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) is advertising two positions in intercultural business communication, both with a deadline of 4 July 2018:

Associate Professor in Intercultural Business Communication.

The Tourism and Languages Subject Group, within the Business School, are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor in Intercultural Business Communication (on research pathway). The successful candidate will join the highly successful Intercultural Business Communication and Languages programmes at the Business School, which are currently the largest in Scotland and in the Top 10 in the UK (The Guardian, 2017).

As an Associate Professor, you will make a balanced contribution to teaching and learning, research and demonstrate academic leadership. You will further develop and lead a range of academic programmes in the Intercultural Business Communication and Languages area. You will also have expertise in, and be able to lead and develop language provision of, either Spanish or French within the subject area.

Lecturer in Intercultural Business Communication.

Your main responsibility will be to teach on undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Intercultural Business Communication and Languages. You will be responsible for leading modules and teaching in one of the following languages; Mandarin, Spanish or French.

CFP Ethnic & Religious Conflict Resolution & Peacebuilding (USA)

ConferencesInternational Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2018, New York City. Deadline: June 29, 2018.

Sponsored by  Center for Ethnic, Racial & Religious Understanding (CERRU) at Queens College, City University of New York. The theme will be Traditional Systems of Conflict Resolution. By organizing and hosting an international conference on the traditional systems of conflict resolution, we hope to not only begin a pluri-disciplinary, policy, and legal discussion on the traditional systems of conflict resolution, but most importantly, this international conference will serve as an international forum where researchers, scholars, policy makers and practitioners will have an opportunity to exchange ideas and learn from the traditional rulers from various countries around the world. In turn, the traditional rulers will discover emerging research and best practices presented by scholars and practitioners at the conference. The outcome of the exchange, inquiry and discussion will inform the international community on the roles and importance of the traditional systems of conflict resolution in our contemporary world.

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