Month: March 2021

Dublin City U: Postdoc in Intercultural and Citizenship Education (Ireland)

PostdocsPost-doctoral Researcher in Intercultural and Citizenship Education, DCU Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 26 March 2021.

The Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education (CHRCE) champions educational policy and practice promoting human rights, children’s rights, inclusion, global justice and environmental sustainability. The post-doctoral researcher will work on a funded project, INOVATE, concerned with representing and incorporating authentic minority ethnic young people’s voices within teacher education programmes at both pre-service and in-service levels. The successful individual will report directly to the project’s Principal Investigator and the Centre for Human Rights & Citizenship Education executive committee. The individual will coordinate the work of the project under the support and direction of the Principal Investigator and play a key role in achieving the project objectives and goals.

The individual will support the INOVATE project in order to contribute to the equal representation of young migrants within the education sector and an authentic and respectful public portrayal of individuals’ personal stories. Moreover, this authentic representation of ethnic minority voices and integration into teacher education programmes will enhance young migrants’ democratic and meaningful participation within the education sector and within wider society. The project will be delivered face to face and online and includes partnership between DCU and civil society groups who will work collectively to deliver the programme.

As part of this role the Researcher will be required to participate in the DCU Research Career Framework. This framework is designed to provide significant professional development opportunities to Researchers and offer the best opportunities in terms of a wider career path.

Lingnan U: Media & Creative Industries (Hong Kong)

“Job

Associate Professor of Media and Creative Industries,
Lingnan University,
Hong Kong. Deadline: Open until filled.

Lingnan University is seeking to hire a full-time Associate Professor in the area of Media and Creative Industries. Candidates should have (1) a strong PhD in film or media studies; (2) good track record in designing and teaching courses in media policy, media theory, media convergence and production studies (both undergraduate and postgraduate levels); (3) good track record in publication and successful grant application in the relevant areas; and (4) knowledge of local and regional media and creative industries.

There is a second position for Assistant Professor, Arts Administration and Management, as well.

Defiant Discourse

“Book NotesKatriel, Tamar. (2021). Defiant discourse: Speech and action in grassroots activism. New York: Routledge.

Defiant Discourse cover

Katriel examines multiple context of “defiant discourse” which cross the line between words and actions. Through participant observation, she documents activism in Israel. She asks questions about when talk itself serves as activism, and when action is called for. She examines activism “as a discursive formulation in which speech and action are defining features of the political realm,” pointing out that both speech and action are “world-making activities.”

KC35 Media Ecology Translated into French

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#35: Media Ecology, which Casey Man Kong Lum wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Yves Winkin has now translated into French.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, 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.

KC35 Media Ecology-FrenchLum, C. M. K. (2020). L’écologie des médias. (Y. Winkin, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 35. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kc35-media-ecology-french_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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MOOC Intercultural Communication 2021 (China)

“MOOCs”Intercultural Communication MOOC, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), Shanghai, China. Opens March 15, 2021 with free access for 7 weeks from any start date between March-July 2021.

In a time when online learning helps those limited by COVID measures, the SISU-Future Learn “Intercultural Communication” course provides an important forum for cross-cultural exposure and interaction. To help connect people virtually world-wide again, a new run of the course opens March 15 until July 2021 and offers FREE access from the day of enrollment for 7 weeks of learning. Nearly 65,000 have enrolled in the SISU-FutureLearn “Intercultural Communication” MOOC course from nearly 200 global countries and regions since it was first launched in 2015.

The course invites participation on every “learning step”. Learners of all ages and backgrounds and our active team of Mentors comment on their questions, insights, “likes,” or responses to others. The “5 week” structure (which you can go through at your own pace) addresses topics like

  • Comprehending Intercultural Communication
  • Contextualizing Cultural Identities
  • Comparing Cultural Communication Styles
  • Clarifying and Contrasting Values
  • Cultivating Intercultural Adaptation
     
    to guide active participants toward greater awareness and practice of intercultural competence.

 

 

CFP Cyber Dystopia/Utopia? Digital Interculturality

“PublicationCall for Abstracts: Cyber Dystopia/Utopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, Special Issue of Interculture Journal. Deadline: 1 April 2021.

While the cyber utopian thinkers of the early 1990s predicted the coming of a networked society in which the old hierarchical structures of business and culture would disappear, and the early 2010s, with the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement and new ‘hacktivism’, appeared firstly as a progressive golden age of online political engagement, a more unpleasant type of Internet culture has gained traction within the past few years. As Angela Nagle has written: “The emergence of this new online right is the full coming to fruition of the transgressive anti-moral style, its final detachment from any egalitarian philosophy of the left or Christian morality of the right” (Kill All Normies, 2017, p. 39). Yet, the cyber utopian thinkers of the early 1990s were not wrong: The Internet does indeed have the potential to be a source of positive cosmopolitanism, whether understood in a philosophical- normative, descriptive or processual sense, and may facilitate both trans-local conversations on global matters and the decentring of discourse, allowing for the participation of a wider variety of agents and (sub)cultures in discussion.

For a special issue of the open-access Interculture Journal (spring, 2022), and within the framework of the research project “ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively,” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, editors would like to interrogate the topic of “Cyber Utopia/Dystopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism” from a variety of angles. Issue editors will be Dr. Luisa Conti and PD Dr. Fergal Lenehan.

Fatemeh Kamali-Chirani Interview

“Interviews”Dr. Fatemeh Hippler (birth name: Kamali-Chirani) was interviewed about international relations, intercultural dialogue, and refugee work on February 4, 2021, by Rehana Paul, CID intern.

Dr. Hippler answers the following questions:

  • What is the role of intercultural dialogue in International Relations?
  • How does refugee work require an understanding of dialogue between cultures?

For a comparison of international communication with intercultural, intracultural, and cross-cultural communication, see CID Posters, #4: Types of cultural communication.

U Macau: Assistant Prof in Communication (China)

“Job

Assistant Professor in Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China. Deadline: May 8, 2021.

The Department of Communication of the Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Communication. They are looking for applicants in journalism, specifically in English news writing, reporting, and editing. A track record of high quality research and publication through internationally respected outlets or demonstrated ability is a must. Qualifications and willingness to teach the following courses are expected: English News Writing; English News Editing; Advanced News Writing and Reporting in English; and Workshop: English Publication. Additional courses may be assigned to match the teaching needs of the department, faculty, and university.

Ryerson U: Canada Research Chair in Migration and Democracy (Canada)

“JobTier 2 Canada Research Chair in Migration and Democracy in a Settler-Colonial Context, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline: 31 March 2021.

Located in downtown Toronto, the largest and most culturally diverse city in Canada and on the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Peoples, the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Migration and Democracy in a Settler-Colonial Context. Upon successful nomination to the CRC program, the candidate will be appointed to a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2022, subject to final budgetary approval.

In collaboration with Ryerson University, the successful candidate will develop the CRC nomination for the October 19, 2021 deadline. The CRC appointment is tenable for five years and renewable once. All nominations are subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat. Further details on the CRC eligibility criteria can be found here.

UNESCO Futures of Education Weekly Polls

“UNESCO”Weekly poll, UNESCO Futures of Education Initiative, UNESCO, Paris, France.

UNESCO’s #FuturesOfEducation initiative is exploring how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. The question they have posed is: What do we want education to look like in 2050? Everyone is invited to participate in their weekly Education 2050 Poll and help design the #FuturesOfEducation. (It is unclear how long they will host these polls.)

Read basic information about the Futures of Education Initiative. Or read the CID Report for UNESCO Futures of Education, sharing the results of 3 focus groups we organized at their request.