Month: September 2023

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool U: Global Citizenship Education (China)

“JobFaculty position in Global Citizenship Education (all ranks), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. Deadline: 28 February 2024.

In 2006 Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) was created by the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong University – a top ten university in China. Offering a unique international education experience, XJTLU brings together excellent research practice and expertise from both institutions and gives students the skills and knowledge they need to secure careers in a global marketplace. With a focus on innovative learning and teaching, and research, XJTLU draws on the strengths of its parent universities, and plays a pivotal role in facilitating access to China for UK and other institutional partners. At same time, XJTLU is exploring future education by blending the educational theory, best practice and culture from west and east.

The Academy of Future Education of XJTLU is an educational innovation ecosystem that focuses on research, exploration, support, and dissemination of philosophy and best practices for future education. The core mission of the Academy is to impact education innovation and reform in China and beyond through a variety of projects and programmes, based on fundamental approaches in educational innovation and systemic development designed to contribute to the future of education. The Academy supports individuals and institutions at all levels, including all the K-15 schools as well as vocational education and higher education institutions. Learning Institute for Future Excellence, as a university-level learning platform in the Academy of Future Education, is dedicated to the promotion and development of lifelong learning at XJTLU and in the wider community, as a response to opportunities and challenges of the future world.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design/deliver Year 1 project-based module of the Global Citizenship and Research-led learning;
  • Design/deliver modules/activities of sustainable development education/entrepreneurship education/digital literacy education/social responsibility education/intercultural competence education;
  • Promote the innovative practices of learning and teaching via technologies such as AI, big data, etc.;
  • Conduct professional practices that contribute to students’ transition, transformation, and transferring of learning mode and skills;
  • Participate in the design and deliver of projects and activities of LIFE, including credit and non-credit modules, workshops, and seminars at both UG and PG levels;
  • Support projects and activities of LIFE according to the planning of the department and work with other team members actively and professionally;
  • Work closely with students to explore innovative practices for learning and teaching;
  • Supervise Master’s students for their thesis writing;
  • Provide academic advising to students.

Mojuba! Dance Collective & ICD (USA)

Applied ICD

McKeown, Nora. (14 August 2023). Mojuba! Dance Collective creates space for dancing and healing. Spectrum News.

This is not just something for me or for us, or the people who are in the company, but this can really be a move of the community to help us to have that intercultural dialogue, to help us to find ways to tell our own stories.

-Errin Weaver

“In 2019, Errin Weaver started Mojuba! Dance Collective for choreographers in Cleveland to explore the African Diaspora through movement and healing . . . The collective has been well-received by the community, prompting intercultural conversations. It also provides a space for Black choreographers to feel validated in their experiences and heal through dance.”

Film Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Intercultural Pedagogy

Glotov, S. (2023). Film literacy and intercultural dialogue: Focus on cultural representation. (Doctoral dissertation, Tampere University, Finland).

In his dissertation, Sergei Glotov links “film literacy with intercultural education that can support open and respectful intercultural dialogue between people of different cultural backgrounds…intercultural film literacy education is introduced as the link between film literacy and intercultural education…Overall, the research advocates for looking closely at the messages of cultural representation we receive from audio-visual media and being critical and reflective about them, by studying how these messages are created and broadcasted, as well as challenging them through intercultural dialogue and the actual experiences of other people.” It seems likely this would be useful to those teaching about intercultural dialogue, especially those who use films in the classroom.

CFP Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis (2023)

“Publication

Call for Papers for the 11th issue of Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis. Deadline: 30 September 2023 for abstract; 15 December 2023 for full paper. 

The Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis is now accepting submissions for the Eleventh Issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) and welcomes R&R content, book reviews, and articles related to peace and human flourishing. Articles and reflective pieces that clearly embrace transdisciplinary methodology and embrace under-addressed concepts and neglected world regions will be privileged by the editorial team.

IMéRA Fellowships 2024-5 (France)

Fellowships

Call for applications: IMéRA Core Fellowships 2024-5, IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille University, France. Deadline: 16 October 2023.

For the year 2024-25, Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University, is opening 14 resident fellowships ranging between 5 and 10 months, targeting academics and/or artists. The fellowships are distributed over four programs (Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge; Interdisciplinary Explorations; Mediterranean; Necessary Utopias).

Prerequisites common to all available fellowships and that must be taken into account before the eligibility criteria specific to each fellowship include:

  • An active knowledge of French and/or English (written and spoken) is essential.

  • Candidates commit to participate in the activities planned with the other fellows and the scientific team of Iméra.

Eric de Rosny and the Necessary Tradition-Modernity Dialogue in Africa

“Book Notes

Perret-Clermont, A. N., Morerod, J. D., & Blanc, J. (2022). Cultures et guérisons: Éric de Rosny–L’intégrale [Cultures and healings: The complete Éric de Rosny]. Livreo-Alphil. (boxed set in 3 volumes)

Eric de Rosny was a French anthropologist and Jesuit who started as a teacher and then devoted his life to further intercultural understanding between Africa (and in particular Cameroon) and the French speaking “West” (in particular France). He published several books (Healers in the Night, the most famous, has been translated into English and several other languages). He paid careful attention to local traditions, in particular to traditional healing practices and their embeddedness in local worldviews, knowledge and creeds (including witchcraft). He invested a lot of energy to protect traditional healers. But he was also concerned to further the understanding of present day rapid transformations of all kinds (for example: growing cities, the desire of young people to migrate, development of new churches). His papers were dispersed across many (often small) journals. Now that his papers have been collected and sorted by chronological date, they offer the opportunity to follow him step by step, documenting and sharing his experience, as he tries to enter this world in Douala, and then sees himself adopted by the local community and integrated as one of the “wise men” (beyum ba bato).

Arizona State U: Intercultural Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Deadline: 22 October 2023 or until filled.

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor who will be required to teach in-person on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of August 2024. Applicants who are or will be at the Assistant Professor level in August, 2024 are encouraged to apply.

Applicants’ scholarship and teaching should focus on intercultural communication. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications. We encourage applications from scholars who work at the intersection of intercultural communication and Indigenous/ Black/ Disability/ Latinx/ Queer studies, and/or are invested in one or more of the following: transnational, international/global, interracial, interethnic, and/or intergroup communication.

Utah Tech U: Intercultural Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Utah Tech University, St. George, UT. Deadline: open until filled; posted 9/13/23.

The Communication Department at Utah Tech University is seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified individual for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Communication, with an emphasis on intercultural communication, to begin Fall 2024 semester. Successful candidates will be comfortable teaching intercultural communication courses, along with various other intersections of identity-based communication (e.g., gender, globalization, and criticism). Special consideration will be paid to those who specialize in rhetorical/critical methods. The successful candidate also will coordinate the curriculum for the department’s foundational courses in the intercultural communication area. Tenure track faculty at UT teach a 4/4 teaching load. While the primary considerations for tenure at UT are currently teaching and service, having an active research trajectory with publications and/or conference presentations is a component of tenure and promotion.

U Cologne: Ethnomusicology (Germany)

“JobProfessorship in Ethnomusicology, Institute of Musicology, University of Cologne, Germany. Deadline: 8 October 2023.

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its internationally outstanding research profile areas, it enjoys an excellent reputation for its academic achievements and high standards of undergraduate and graduate education. The Institutes of Art History, Musicology, Media Culture and Theatre, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities – Fächergruppe 1 – join efforts to promote the Faculty’s digitization process.

The successful candidate will be expected to represent the full scope of the interdisciplinary and internationally oriented field of Ethnomusicology in research and teaching. The tasks of the professorship include the training of students and doctoral candidates in the field of musicology as well as the contribution to the academic administration of the Institute of Musicology and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Participation in joint research activities of the University, the Faculty or the Fächergruppe will be expected as well as the successful acquisition and implementation of third-party-funded projects. You should be prepared to contribute to the Institute’s goal of broadening research perspectives, furthering digitization of research and teaching, and extending international collaboration.

Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom (Online)

EventsTHE CIVICS Innovation Hub and NECE campus: Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom . Speaker: Maja Nenadovic, online, 26 September 2023 from 5:00 am to 6:30 am ADT.

During this workshop, the Educators’ Guide to Depolarisation will be presented, as well as navigating through some of its exercises, designed to encourage and equip teachers with methods for facilitating difficult conversations on controversial or polarising topics with their students. In addition, educational materials from the project Depolarisation Activism for Resilient Europe (DARE) will also be presented.

Maja Nenadovic is a practitioner and educator with 20 years of experience of working in the civic education, critical pedagogy, human rights education, Holocaust education and youth civic engagement fields. Next to designing original civic education and human rights education materials, she coordinated and facilitated several long-term civic education projects in the region of Western Balkans.

The NECE (Networking European Civic Education) Campus is an all-year-round online event series that provides a platform for educators, policymakers, civil society actors, and experts in citizenship education to learn, and exchange practices, research, tools, and methods related to democratic engagement and civic education. The series includes a diverse set of presentations, workshops, and capacity-building activities. It’s organised into functional and thematic tracks to cater to the needs of civic educators, covering a broad range of topics.

THE CIVICS is a a pan-European NGO with hubs in Bonn, Sofia and Zagreb with the goal of strengthening the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.