Month: September 2023

International Translation Day 2023

EventsInternational Translation Day, established by the United Nations in 2017, occurs on 30 September every year. English PEN is holding an event this year to celebrate.

Join English PEN in London or online from anywhere in the world, 12–7pm BST on Friday 29 September 2023 for a day of workshops, talks and networking opportunities, culminating in a “2023 State of the Translation Nation” plenary discussion. Featuring 30 leading translators, writers, publishers, agents, booksellers and language experts, this year’s sessions include an “ask me anything” with five UK publishers, workshops on negotiating contracts and translating sensitive work, and talks on rights, events and reviews.

International Translation Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development, and strengthening world peace and security. This is an appropriate occasion on which to thank all of the translators who have taken time from other responsibilities to help CID prepare translations of our publications into a remarkable 32 different languages. We could not do this without you! 

NOTE: If you want to translate one of the publications into a language in which you are fluent, please contact us before you start, to learn whether anyone else is already working on that publication in that language.

 

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking VI

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Sixth Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking: North America, UNESCO, 29 September 2023, 15:00 to 17:00 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 sixth, and final, regional edition in a series of online expert consultations will focus on North America and will be held on Friday 29 September 2023, from 15:00 to 17:00 GMT+2 (via Zoom). The sixth edition will bring together experts and practitioners 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.

To register for the online event, please click here.

CFP ESTIDIA 2024: Exploring Real-life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogue (Lithuania)

ConferencesCall for proposals: 7th ESTIDIA Conference: Exploring Real-life, Fictional, and Virtual Dialogue , 12-14 June, 2024, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Deadline: for workshop proposals, 1 October 2023; for paper abstracts, 5 November 2023.

Like previous European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA) conferences, the 2024 event puts dialogue and dialogic forms of communication in the spotlight, as front and centre of all forms of human communication. This time the focus is on exploring real-life, fictional and virtual dialogues in terms of similarities and differences, overlaps and complementarities, constancy and change. To understand the context-driven, situation-based and culture-specific impact of dialogic communication patterns, it is essential to examine in situ instantiations of dialogue as social interaction practice, as jointly steered activity, as philosophical or scientific method of inquiry, as rhetorical process of co-reflection, as pedagogical approach, as problem-solving tool, as mechanism of ethical and political scrutiny (Ilie 2022). Theoretical and empirical studies have explored dialogues in various forms of verbal communication: oral and written, private and public, multi-level (between two or several interlocutors, with or without an overhearing audience), synchronous and asynchronous (e.g., face-to-face vs. computer-mediated).

Within the broad theme of the conference, participants are invited to explore a range of questions concerning dialogue genres, dialogue practices and/or dialogue strategies, in relation to roles and goals of dialogue participants, to convergent or divergent speech acts, to common ground and shared knowledge. 

Methodological Workshop:

Different approaches to dialogic research: analysing a multimodal and multicultural embodiment of joint action in real-life and “non-real-life” interactions. Convenor: assoc. prof. dr. Keiko Tsuchiya, Yokohama City University, Japan. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

Thematic Workshops:

  1. Would you laugh with us? Internet humour and mutual (dis)trust in the dialogue process (case of Ukraine in 2022-2023). Convenor: dr. Kateryna Yeremieieva, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Vigilance”, Germany. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

  2. Shifting Gears: a prolegomenon to teaching Twenty-First Century Skills. Convenors: dr. John McKeown (the Üsküdar American Academy, Istanbul, Turkey) and Maria Ramadori Volker. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

  3. Multi-foci analysis of real and fictional healthcare dialogue. Convenor: prof. Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu (University of Alicante). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

  4. Real-life dialogues between humans and machines: the interface between discourse research in linguistics and dialogue systems research in engineering. Convenor: prof. dr. Mayumi Usami (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan), prof. dr. Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nagoya University, Japan), and assoc. prof. dr. Hiroyuki Nishikawa (Meikai University, Japan). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

  5. InTranslation 2024. For information on previous InTranslation 2022 workshop, please see the In Translation | 2022 (mruni.eu). Convenors: assoc. prof. dr. Lora Tamošiūnienė (Institute of Humanities and head of King Seijong Institute, Mykolas Romeris University), assoc. prof. Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė (Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Romeris University), and assoc. prof. dr. Viktorija Mažeikienė (Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Romeris University). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

Student Voices #1: Rohak Jain

Student VoicesCID’s first Student Voices competition is over. As a reminder, students (at any level) were invited to describe their own experiences with and/or ideas about intercultural dialogue.

Rohak JainThe winner is Rohak Jain, a high school student at Interlake High School in Belleview, WA. You will want to read his essay, The Virtues of an Open Mind: Making Room for Flexibility in Intercultural Dialogue. In it, he describes a conversation held through Acquaint, a platform dedicated to fostering cross-cultural collaboration. He says:

Throughout this essay, I’ll unpack the many dimensions of intercultural dialogue, demonstrating that to resolve conflict through intercultural dialogue, it is important to listen, understand, and contribute. Maintaining constructive conversation is key.

My thanks to all the competitors who took the time to really think about intercultural dialogue, to their instructors who helped alert students to this competition, and to those who served as judges: Melita Garza, Summer Harlow, Nazan Haydari, Casey Lum, and Mary Schaffer. As a reminder, we are holding additional competitions for publications in this series across the rest of the academic year:

  • November 30, 2023
  • February 29, 2024
  • May 31, 2024

For further details about the competition, please see the first post describing it.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Inter-American Dialogue: Program Associate, Special Projects (USA and Hybrid)

“JobProgram Associate, Special Projects, Office of the President, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC (and hybrid). Deadline: Open until filled, posted 31 August 2023.

The Inter-American Dialogue is seeking a Program Associate to join the Office of the President team. The candidate will have initiative, excellent communication, organizational, and administrative skills, outstanding problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate effectively in both English and Spanish. Candidate must have the capacity to work concurrently and efficiently on multiple projects in a fast-paced office environment. Experience in event planning and gender programming is preferred. This position is based in Washington, DC, and is eligible for a hybrid work schedule.

Other opportunities at Inter-American Dialogue can be found here.

The Inter-American Dialogue’s work spans the US, Canada, and 35 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and examines the region’s expanding global influence.

Anna Lindh Foundation: Outreach Officer (Egypt)

“JobOutreach Officer, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation, Alexandria, Egypt. Deadline: 20 September 2023.

The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) is seeking a creative and highly motivated individual to join the communication team as the role of Outreach Officer. The Outreach Officer will play a vital role in expanding the reach and impact of the Anna Lindh Foundation’s programmes and initiatives in line with the ALF Multiannual Work Programme 2022-2025, following the indications of the Communication Manager.

The Outreach Officer is responsible to develop and execute innovative outreach strategies, engaging with diverse stakeholders across the Euro Mediterranean to ensure the effective dissemination of ALF’s capacity building programmes, workshops, events, and networking opportunities using creative and impactful means. Additionally, this role will be responsible for ensuring that calls and programmes are reached out the right target audience.

Applicants must be nationals of one of the 42 (UfM) countries: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, The Netherlands, Tunisia and Türkiye.

Colorado State U: Rhetoric and Race (USA)

“JobAssistant or Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Race, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Deadline: 24 September 2023.

The Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University seeks a tenure track assistant or associate professor who specializes in rhetoric and race in the United States. Successful candidates will study race through any of a number of rhetorical perspectives (theory, criticism, history, or any combination of these approaches) and will demonstrate race is a central and animating focus of their scholarship and teaching in their application. Possible areas of study include but are not limited to racial rhetorical criticism, antiracism rhetorics, postracism, race and space/place/borders, intersectionality, whiteness, decolonizing rhetorical scholarship, and Latina/o/x rhetorics, Asian/Pacific American rhetorics, Black and/or African American rhetorics, and Indigenous and/or Native rhetorics, among others. This faculty member will develop new coursework in rhetoric and race at the undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. levels and will rotate with other faculty members to teach the department’s existing courses in rhetoric. Candidates will employ humanistic and/or critical methods in their study of rhetoric and race.

U Luxembourg: Young International Academics Postdocs 2024-5

Postdocs
Young International Academics, Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Postdoctoral Programme, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Deadlines: 30 November 2023 (first call ) and 30 April 2024 (second call).

The Young International Academics (YIA) Postdoctoral Programme is a career development programme hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies Luxembourg (IAS) of the University of Luxembourg (UL) to nurture early-career postdoctoral researchers to gain momentum in interdisciplinary research. YIA candidates are international talents holding a recent doctoral degree and willing to propose and realise their own interdisciplinary research projects through a bottom-up approach. YIA will welcome 10 postdoctoral fellows with individual fellowships of 36 months each.

YIA is explicitly open to all disciplines and sectors, involving the entire university in the drive towards increased interdisciplinarity, which is considered strategic for UL, for the country and Europe. The University’s rationale is based on the consideration that the world’s challenges are so multifaceted and intricate that they can only be solved through interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches.

A unique aspect of YIA is its integration into UL’s Institute for Advanced Studies created in 2020 to promote interdisciplinarity and currently hosting 15 Audacity projects and 10 Young Academics PhD projects.

CFP Diversifying the Space of Podcasting

“PublicationCFP Diversifying the Space of Podcasting. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2023.

Book Editors: Tegan Bratcher and Alexis Romero Walker.

The editors invite submissions of abstracts for chapters to be included in an edited volume of Diversifying the Space of Podcasting. The book proposal, currently under review (with enthusiasm), is tentatively scheduled for a Fall 2024 publication.

Podcast studies is a growing field both within academia and in practice. As the media platform continues to gain momentum and popularity every year, scholars have been road mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. As research on the medium continues to be published, it is necessary to illuminate the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create.

A survey of the scholarly attention on podcasts nearly a decade ago exclaimed that the medium received little to no attention within media and communication studies (Bottomley, 2015); and while that has certainly changed in the last 8 years, the racial, cultural and identity-based perspectives from which we understand podcasts remain limited. Like many other concepts that tend to be studied, podcast studies have been entrenched in whiteness and heteronormativity utilizing case studies from mainstream media like The New York Times or NPR to express the significance of the space and estranging projects that center Blackness, queerness, feminist, LatinX and countless other identities to be considered subfields of the discipline.

The editors believe that a wide range of diverse voices is essential to amplify the diversity within podcasting, and it is essential to ensuring that many voices are being heard. Thus, they want to hear from people with a variety of backgrounds and interests: academics, researchers, activists, and/or creators. The goal is for the volume to be intersectional, and to discuss the ways in which podcasting has had an impact both on a variety of identities and within various fields. They are aiming for a total of 8-12 short chapters (5,000-8,000 words), each focusing on diverse topics within the field. This approach allows for a greater array of intersectional representation.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1st, 2023. Authors of selected chapters will be notified by November 1st, 2023. If selected, a complete 5,000 – 8,000 word draft of the chapter will be due April 1st, 2024.

Potential contributors are welcome to contact the editors for more information or questions at: Tegan Bratcher, or Alexis Romero Walker.

 

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking V

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Fifth Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking: Arab States, UNESCO, 21 September 2023, 15:00 to 17:00 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 fifth of the six regional editions of online expert consultations will focus on Arab States and will be held on Thursday 21 September 2023, from 15:00 to 17:00 GMT+2 (via Zoom). The fifth edition will bring together experts and practitioners 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.

To register for the online event, please click here.