December 2021 – Page 2 – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CFP Taiwan Studies in Application (USA)

Call for proposals: NATSA: Taiwan Studies in Application, July 8-10, 2022, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 31 December 2021.

The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) invites proposals for their 27th annual conference, with the theme Taiwan Studies in Application. Both academics and practitioners are invited. They solicit submissions actively engaging with the following set of questions:

1. New directions in Taiwan studies
In what ways are Taiwan, science, practice, and politics connected in your profession(s)?
Anchored in Taiwan studies, what further work needs to be done to deepen meaningful connections between people and the planet?
How can your proposal contribute to future advancements or new perspectives in your profession(s)?
How will your research proposal facilitate productive dialogues or interactions between academics and practitioners in your profession(s)?

2. Marginalization in and of Taiwan studies
With the conference theme in mind, what topics are currently marginalized in Taiwan studies?
Why do researchers and practitioners need to pay attention to the topics you specify?
How can researchers and practitioners do more to address the marginalization of these topics?
How can Taiwan studies collaborate with other minorities across the globe?

3. Reflections on the binary between researchers and practitioners
How do researchers and practitioners interact with each other in your profession(s)?
How does the researcher-practitioner binary affect those works requiring both research skills and social activism in your profession(s)?
What are some structural factors that shape and reinforce the researcher-practitioner binary?
How do you make sense of your own positionality and identity amidst the dynamics mentioned above?
What does it mean to you to engage with Taiwan in your profession(s)?

KC77 Negotiation Translated into Arabic

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC77: Negotiation, which Beth Fisher-Yoshida wrote for publication in English in 2016, and which Atika Alkhallouf has now translated into Arabic.

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.Fisher-Yoshida, B. (2021). Negotiation [Arabic]. (A. Alkhallouf, Trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 77. Retrieved from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/kc77-negotiation_arabic.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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Gates Foundation: Global Policy & Advocacy (USA)

Senior Program Assistant, Global Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA. Position open until filled (posted 13 December 2021).

The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation’s work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation’s objectives nationally and globally. The division works in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, U.S. and Gender Equality programs and Foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives. The Program Advocacy and Communications (PAC) team works in partnership with program teams and other teams in Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) to achieve their policy and finance goals by developing and coordinating the execution of advocacy and communications strategies, leveraging leadership and foundation voice to implement advocacy strategies, etc.

Loughborough U: International Student Coordinator (UK)

International Student Coordinator, Student Services,
Loughborough University, England, UK. Deadline: 4 January 2022.

“This role will lead on the development and delivery of the Pre-sessional Orientation (supporting the Pre-sessional Programmes) including management of the Student Support team order to ensure the provision of appropriate pastoral support for all pre-sessional students. The role will also work proactively with relevant colleagues across the institution to enhance support for international student induction, transition, engagement and overall experience. In addition, the postholder will be required to develop and deliver some English language support.

The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills with a high level of intercultural awareness in order to support international students’ adaptation to a UK university and in collaboration with relevant colleagues. You should be a graduate with substantial experience of providing support for international students, preferably within an HE context as well as having significant experience of planning, coordinating and delivering events and/or projects. You will also hold an English language teaching qualification and have experience of teaching English to speakers of other languages. You must be fluent in English, both written and oral, and have excellent IT skills.”

CFP South Asian Media and Cultural Studies (USA)

Call for Papers: South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference: Imagining Futures, February 10-11, 2022, Virtual/Hybrid event, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Deadline: 3 January 2022.

The organizers of the conference invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters for the 8th South Asian Media and Cultural Studies conference to be held on the mornings of February 10-11, 2022. The annual conference will be a virtual/hybrid event (with some in-person events at FSU if possible). This year’s conference has an open theme of “Imagining Futures.” The open theme will allow creating linkages that cross disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. In considering the region’s collective future in the fields of media and cultural studies, scholars and practitioners must build strategies for action. The aim is not just to reflect upon some of the pivotal challenges in these fields, but to nurture a commitment to building a collective future. There is no registration cost to present and attend the virtual conference.

CID Poster #1: Intercultural Communication/Competence/Dialogue (reprise)

(We are reprising the series of posters, because it has been several years since they were originally created, and they are much too wonderful to let them not be noticed by newcomers to the site!)

This is the first of the posters designed by Linda J. de Wit, then in her role as CID intern. This one provides a quick and easy way to understand, and differentiate between, the concepts of “intercultural communication,” “intercultural competence,” and “intercultural dialogue,” using a rooster and a sheep to represent members of different cultures (and she notes that the animals are vector designs by vecteezy.com). The article where these explanations of these concepts (as well as lots of other concepts) were published 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.

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

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2017). Intercultural communication, intercultural competence, intercultural dialogue. CID Posters, 1. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2017/06/28/cid-poster-1/

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

This series is open to submissions. If you wish to contribute an original design, 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 with other CID Publications, posters should be created initially in English. Given that translations of the Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue have received so many views, where specific quotes are provided, anyone who wishes to translate their own poster into another language (or two) is invited to design that as well. If you want to volunteer to translate someone else’s 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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Freeman: Human Animal Earthling Identity

Freeman, Carrie P. (2020). The human animal earthling identity:
Shared values unifying human rights, animal rights, and environmental movements. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

“In an era of globalization, climate crisis, mass extinction, and widespread injustice, Freeman’s lofty goal is unifying social movements across causes to gain needed strength and influence in their work against common powerful forces that undermine or exploit living beings. To serve as everyday allies, social movements should foster universal altruism – encouraging each of us to widen our sphere of moral concern (not only to include all human groups but also all species), by considering other animals and nature as part of our ‘in-group.'”

Share our home planet. Support life. Take care. Play fair.

That’s the Human Animal Earthling’s slogan (p. 88) you can put on your bike.

“To formulate the basis for a needed identity shift toward seeing ourselves more inclusively as ‘human animal earthlings,’ Freeman shares insights from interviewing leading global activists and identifies overlapping values common in the campaigns of 16 international social movement organizations that work on human rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, PETA, WWF, and the Nature Conservancy. Freeman ultimately recommends a set of universal values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) around which all social movements’ campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between us “human animal earthlings,” other animals, and the natural world we share.”

The values highlighted are: empathize, respect, and co-exist. That sounds a lot like intercultural dialogue, so this book may well be of interest to followers of this site.

Named “Book Most Likely to Save the Planet” in the IPPY Awards 2020.

Call for Nominations: Communication & Race Editor

Call for Nominations/ Applications: Communication and Race, Editor-elect. Deadline: January 31, 2022.

The journal Communication and Race is a new peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. The journal publishes original scholarship on the centrality of race, racism, and colonialism to the praxis of communication. The journal contributes in distinct ways to the Communication discipline by building on the theories and epistemologies of Black, Ethnic, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian studies scholars.

During 2022, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors- Elect) for the new journal. The appointed Editor, who will serve as the journal’s founding Editor, will begin processing manuscripts early in 2023, and will oversee the volumes for 2024-2026. The journal is to be published four times each year.

KC16 Migration Translated into Turkish

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#16: Migration, which Saskia Witteborn wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Candost Aydın has now translated into Turkish.

Witteborn, S. (2021). Migration [Turkish]. (C. Aydın, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 16. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/kc16-migration_turkish.pdf

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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Everyday Peace Indicators: Project Coordinator (Sri Lanka)

Project Coordinator,
Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI), Sri Lanka. Deadline: 20 December 2021.

Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI) is engaged in a long-term research project in Sri Lanka that aims to build knowledge about local understandings and dynamics of reconciliation. Specifically, we are working with the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) to gather data about perceptions of peace and reconciliation in 30 communities throughout Sri Lanka to inform the Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Activity funded by USAID. As outlined on our website, EPI uses a unique, participatory approach called Everyday Peace Indicators.

After a significant pause due to COVID-19, EPI will reinitiate its on-the-ground activities in Sri Lanka in early 2022. As such, EPI requires a project coordinator to manage local activities, assist with qualitative and quantitative research, and liaise with partner organizations and EPI staff in the USA. The EPI coordinator will be hired on a one-year fulltime contract with the possibility of extension, pending satisfactory performance. Project guidance will be provided by Professor Pamina Firchow from Brandeis University and Dr. Leslie MacColman from the Ohio State University.

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