July 2023 – Page 3 – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CFP CIES 2024: The Power of Protest (USA & Hybrid)

Call for Papers: CIES: The Power of Protest, online 6-7 March 2024; onsite 10-14 March 2024, Miami, Florida, USA. Deadline: 24 July 2023.

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2024 theme is “the power of protest.”

As a community of Comparative and International Education researchers, teachers, activists, programme developers or organisers, how might we engage with, and think generatively about, the histories, curriculum, theories and methodologies, and pedagogies that guide acts of protest?

The power of protest in education lies in the fact that it is, by definition, a public act. Protest allows people facing injustice to generate power through collective action. For many, this kind of protest carries the hope and promise that, to use the slogan of the World Social Forum in 2001, “another world is possible.” It is a declaration that all is not well in the world, and that the status quo must be challenged and changed. Struggles of this kind often situate education as a human right and endeavour to bring about more just and inclusive educational futures. Here too, the wider conditions for learning and working in schools and universities around the world have also been the subject of protests over the years.

York U: Postdoc in Education, Mobility & Social Capital (Canada)

Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline: open until filled (posted June 2023).

York University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of education, social mobility, and social capital amongst Black adult learners. The Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora is a university chair in the Faculty of Education at York University, which aims to advance access, equity and inclusivity to education through community engagement and collaborative action. First launched in 2008, the chair holder initiates, facilitates, directs and engages in research, educational programs, and community partnerships which are culturally responsive and relevant to the educational and social needs, interests and aspirations of Black and other racialized community members.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will engage in research that (1) advances knowledge about the lives of Black people in Canada with attention to the educational and community interventions that can support Black students as well as (2) establishes a comprehensive, nation-wide understanding of the pathways racialized individuals utilize towards realizing educational, social and economic mobility in Canada. It is expected that this Fellowship will offer emerging Black scholars and recent graduates new and/or additional opportunities, supports and education that will build on their graduate work; as well as opportunities to engage in research, writing, publishing and mentorship activities.

New CID Competition/Publication: Student Voices

This is a reminder the Center for Intercultural Dialogue has invited students to apply for the opportunity to be published in a new publication, to be titled Student Voices.

Students (at any level, high school to doctoral students) may submit entries at any time; they will be judged four times/year. All entries submitted will be reviewed, and the best ones prepared for publication. This is not a competition with just a few winners; all entries passing review will be published. The students whose work is accepted for publication will be given profiles on the website.

The goal is to invite a wide range of students to tell the story of their own experience with intercultural dialogue, or what they have learned about intercultural dialogue, or what they want to share with others. As made clear on our website, intercultural dialogue is jointly constructed by participants, requiring cooperation to engage in new and different ways of interacting. This series is designed to publicly amplify the voices of students who have engaged in intercultural dialogues. Those dialogues do not have to have been successful; we can learn as much from things that go wrong as when things go right.

There will be several deadlines per year, to accommodate different schedules. The first deadline is August 31, 2023. Details about Student Voices can be found by reading the original post.

Fresh Youth Initiatives: Executive Director (USA)

Executive Director, Fresh Youth Initiatives, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: posted 28 June 2023, open until filled.

Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI) is a dynamic community-based organization with a mission to empower children who have the fewest resources to reach their greatest potential. Founded in 1993, FYI operates programs at its headquarters and 4 school sites in Washington Heights/Inwood where 1,300 immigrant and first generation children participate in school day, afterschool, evening, weekend and summer camp programs. FYI supplies the tools, supports, and caring relationships that empower immigrant and first generation youth to flourish in school, navigate developmental, school, and cultural transitions, and prepare for college and career. As a result of FYI’s whole child approach: struggling readers achieve grade level or higher reading skills; youth and parents show increased capacity to manage emerging adolescent independence and self-identities; students are more likely to graduate from high school, and participants demonstrate improved social emotional learning, problem solving, sense of belonging, and ability to ask for help.

The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for driving the overall vision, leadership, and management of an organization with a current operating budget of $4m that will increase to $5.5/annum with the opening of its mental health clinic in late 2023. The ED is responsible for assuring that the organizational structure, technology, programs, human resources, fiscal operations, and fundraising activities are well managed.

Stimson Center: Deputy Director, South Asia Program (USA)

Deputy Director, South Asian Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 8 June 2023).

The Henry L. Stimson Center, a nonpartisan policy research center, seeks a dynamic individual to serve as a Deputy Director for its South Asia Program. The ideal candidate will have substantive expertise on South Asian regional dynamics and/or broader security issues as well as a demonstrated record of personnel and project management. They seek someone with outstanding analytical and writing abilities, strong communication and engagement skills, and an organized and detail-oriented approach.

The South Asia program produces research and analysis on strategic trends and geopolitical dynamics in Southern Asia in order to inform policy debates and scholarly work. The program also focuses its efforts on partnering with the next generation of South Asian analysts and policymakers to build better tools for regional stewardship and enduring relationships for deliberative engagement. They seek to foster space for respectful dialogue and debate for all those who seek it, be they rising scholars, contemporary experts, or government officials from New Delhi, Islamabad, Washington DC, and Beijing.

The selected candidate will be required to be based in the Washington, DC area. All applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents to be considered for this position. Salary is commensurate with experience and organization-wide compensation levels. Candidates selected for interviews will be required to complete one or more short assessment exercises. Applications will be reviewed as received on a rolling basis, and interested candidates are recommended to apply as soon as possible.

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking II

Second Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking, UNESCO, 11 July 2023, 10:00 to 12:00 GMT+2, (Paris, France, but online).

UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector has launched the UNESCO Series of Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacebuilding. Through these consultations, UNESCO aims to explore the potential of the development of intercultural and socio-emotional skills to serve as an enabler for peace in fragile, conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts.

The second out of six regional expert consultations will focus on Asia and the Pacific and will bring together experts to discuss the main challenges to intercultural understanding in the region, the role of intercultural skills in building trust among different parties and ways of improving intercultural competence to better promote peacebuilding efforts, paying particular attention to the role of women and youth. The consultations are open to the public. The discussion will be held in English.

To register for the online event on 11 July, please click here.

Erasmus U: Studentship in Cultural Heritage (the Netherlands)

PhD position in Cultural Heritage, School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Deadline: 30 July 2023.

The Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is pleased to announce a challenging PhD position that delves into community engagements with colonial heritage sites. Although tourism in relation to contested heritage and colonial heritage has been studied from a wide range of perspectives, less attention has been given to the engagement of indigenous communities to sites explicitly concerned with colonial histories. Additionally, the consequences of involuntary loss from these sites (e.g., due to colonial looting), and the influence of changing narratives surrounding these sites, are often omitted. Taking a multi-actor comparative approach, and by actively involving indigenous communities in the research process, this PhD position will produce novel theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of colonial heritage and tourism.

Candidates interested in this PhD position are to propose specific case-studies and/or regions relating to the research questions: How do indigenous communities negotiate, understand, and engage with colonial heritage sites? How have broader discussions of indigenous rights and representation in modern society been impacted by the preservation and interpretation of the material and immaterial properties of colonial sites? And how do colonial heritage sites shape the ongoing interactions between indigenous and non-indigenous communities?

CFP Media & Intercultural Communication

Call for papers: Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Deadline: rolling.

Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal aims to serve as a peer-reviewed, open-access platform for dissemination of latest research findings on various issues in media studies, intercultural communication, or the intersection of the two key areas in social sciences. As a multidisciplinary forum, the journal publishes empirical research articles, theoretical articles, book reviews, review articles, and case reports, and favors submissions with a technological, linguistic, sociological, or psychological dimension. The first issue has just been published; the second issue is currently open to non-thematic submissions. The journal does not charge any fees for review or publication of submissions.

Some of the central themes that are of special interest and priority include:
* Audiovisual translation and localization
* Media accessibility and inclusion
* Communication across cultures and social groups
* Reception of multimedia content and cultural services
* Agency and activism in social media
* Technology, history, and effects of various media
* Cross-cultural business management
* Minorities, languages of limited diffusion and glocalization
* Cross-cultural new media studies
* Data science and digital humanities in media and communication

To apply to guest edit a special issue, send your bio, proposal for the issue and a list of potential authors and contributors to editor-in-chief, Masood Khoshsaligheh.

MIASA: Interdisciplinary Fellows 2024-5 (Ghana)

Call for pre-proposals: MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups 2024-5, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Deadline: 14 August 2023.

The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Their main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental transformation. They are also interested in a wide range of intersectional sub-topics, such as landownership, migration and mobility, restitution of cultural objects, African cities, and human rights. MIASA is committed to reduce global asymmetries in knowledge production, to promote female scholarship and to bridge cultural divides.

The institute offers time and space for supporting innovative academic research of top international quality. All MIASA fellowships are residential and mainly focus on onsite reflection, discussion and writing. In addition, MIASA facilitates networking and collaboration amongst leading researchers from Germany, Ghana, other parts of Africa and Europe and elsewhere in the world. The present call is for pre-proposals for Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFGs) for the period from August 15 to December 15, 2024, and from February 1 to May 31, 2025. MIASA hosts two IFGs per year. They are MIASA’s central instrument for fostering original research on ‘Sustainable Governance’ and its connected thematic areas as mentioned above. An IFG brings together a group of four to six fellows, including two co-convenors. One of the two co-convenors is expected to be from the University of Ghana. IFGs are interdisciplinary and international.

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