Month: December 2023

NAFSA: Senior Director, People & Culture (USA)

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Senior Director, People and Culture, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 17 December 2023).

The Senior Director, People and Culture, will develop and execute NAFSA’s people and culture strategy, contributing to the development and achievement of medium- and long-term strategy, ensuring effective inclusion of key people and culture considerations. To ensure the association is fully leveraging its human talent and fostering an environment that promotes employees’ growth and development, this position works closely with NAFSA’s senior executives, who comprise the Management Team. The position plays a critical role in managing the employee lifecycle, developing organizational culture, and managing change.

The Senior Director is responsible for workforce development, management, and overall strategy for human resources, as well as leading the Office Administration function. Primary areas of responsibility include organizational culture, recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, compliance, employee relations, health and safety, change management, HRIS/HCM, and facilities management.

As an ex-officio member of the Management Team, the Senior Director works closely with the CFO and Deputy Executive Directors to ensure the human resources and financial health of the association. The position contributes to the vision and strategic direction of the organization. This position is responsible for providing day-to-day oversight of human resources functions and supports the CEO with strategic initiatives to advance the organizational culture, health, and operations of the association.

Anna Lindh Foundation: Forum Coordinator (Egypt)

“JobForum Coordinator, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation, Alexandria, Egypt. Deadline: 15 January 2024.

The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) is seeking a highly motivated individual with distinctive organisational skills to join the ALF Secretariat as the role of the ALForum Coordinator. The ALForum Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating all communications, and organising schedules and activities related to the ALForum, a signature and unique tradition of the Anna Lindh Foundation. The ALForum Coordinator will also participate in securing partnerships for the Forum to enhance its visibility, the funds available and optimize its reach and impact following the indications of the Executive Director.

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.

Translation and ICD: Words Without Borders

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Ito, R. (2 November 2023). Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close.’ New York Times.

Given how often the Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes translations, it seems particularly appropriate to point out this article.

Words Without Borders, one of the few magazines in the world dedicated to literature in translation, is turning 20 at a fraught time: Around the world, wars are raging. Writers are being jailed, dissident voices silenced and books banned.

As the magazine’s staff considered its anniversary celebrations — a virtual gala on Nov. 2, following a live one on Oct. 25 — one question was pressing: How do you find words, let alone celebrate them, when bombs are dropping?

The answer, said Karen M. Phillips, the magazine’s executive editor and publisher, was right there, baked into their mission — to gather and celebrate international literature, and in doing so, strengthen the connection between readers and writers around the world. Given the current political climate, the need for such conversations has never been more vital.

“Words Without Borders does this heroic job of bringing the world close to us,” said Courtney Hodell, the director of literary programs at the Whiting Foundation, which presented one of their inaugural Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes to the magazine in 2018. “At times like this, that feels like an essential and fundamental human act.”

CFP Journal of Communication: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements

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Call for submissions: Journal of Communication Special issue: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements. Deadline: 15 July 2024.

Guest Editors: Kristina M. Scharp (Rutgers University, USA), Elizabeth A. Hintz (University of Connecticut, USA), and Sandra Vera Zambrano (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico).

This special issue of the Journal of Communication aims to highlight the qualitative communication research that provides important insights into what communicating is like, how it happens, and the institutional and ideological forces enabling and constraining what is possible. Qualitative scholarship is an integral part of communication research as it provides the nuance to discern what results actually mean, the situated understanding to account for the complexities inherent in communication, and the context to inspire hypothesis testing. Despite its promise, qualitative communication research has also long been criticized for being “too descriptive” or for its inability to generate theoretical frameworks and heuristics meaningful beyond a single case or isolated social context. Yet, this misnomer, which emphasizes generalizability at the expense of nuance and context, ironically contributes to the homogeneity of communication research (see #CommunicationSoWhite; Chakravartty et al., 2018) and leads to stagnation. To develop as a discipline, we must be more inclusive of different ways of knowing that allow researchers to ask new questions and address different goals.

U Hull: Studentship in Great Flood Stories and What They Teach Us: Applying Lessons from Cross-Cultural Diluvial Traditions (UK)

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PHD Studentship: Great Flood Stories and What They Teach Us: Applying Lessons from Cross-Cultural Diluvial Traditions, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, UK. Deadline: 24 January 2024.

Despite being one of the world’s oldest narratives, stories about Great Floods have yet to receive sustained critical attention. No synthesis has brought together the increasingly precious adaptation and mitigation lessons held within the anthropological, literary and historical intercultural responses to past floods. This PhD sets out to mine their potential lessons for the present. It will set out applied historical lessons of global value resulting from analysis of the Great Flood stories that span the ages through Indigenous South and North America, the Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and Mesoamerica.

This exciting PhD project will address this environmental history research gap via detailed examination centred upon the context-specific elements from flood stories that made the flood mitigation/adaptation options successful (or not) within sources such as the “earth-diver’ motif in the Northeastern United States, the Maya Deluge Myth and the Four Flood Myth Traditions of Classical China.

The student will analyse international historical, ethnographic, and paleoclimatology sources, oral history collections and academic literature on Great Flood stories and conduct semi-structured interviews/policy document analysis on present-day flood resilience in a specific flood-prone region.

They will be encouraged to produce a policy report, article and a short book publication such as a Cambridge Element (a book series within Treatied Spaces Research Group). The aim of each output will be to connect historical knowledge to present-day practice.

This is a funded 4-year PhD studentship to start in September 2024. An exciting opportunity for an ambitious, talented and enthusiastic researcher to conduct interdisciplinary research in order to advance thinking within the area of blue-green humanities. Because this project is international in design, it would benefit significantly from being carried out by a candidate with capabilities in multiple languages and cultural registers.

CFP South Asia Communication Association at ICA: Communication & Global Human Rights 2024 (Australia)

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Call for Papers: South Asia Communication Association: Communication and Global Human Rights: Media Research on South Asia & Its Diaspora Worldwide, research session at International Communication Association, Goldcoast, Australia, 19-24 June 2024. Deadline: 20 January 2024.

Organizers invite you to present your research at the 2024 South Asia Communication Association (SACA)’s refereed-research session at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA),  in Gold Coast, Australia, Jun. 19-24, 2024. SACA will host an interactive research session, and the ICA 2024 conference program will feature the SACA session. The ICA 2024 conference promises to be an
innovative, interactive and engaging event.

You are invited to submit your research on media and communication
in South Asia or its diaspora worldwide. Organizers welcome a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Please feel free to email Dr. Jatin Srivastava if you have any questions about your research relating to the scope of the SACA research session.

UNESCO e-Platform on ICD

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UNESCO created an e-platform for intercultural dialogue in 2018, which recent followers may not have noticed. It is designed to be “a global collaborative hub” intended “to promote good practices  from all over the world, that enable to build bridges between people from diverse backgrounds in order to create more inclusive societies through mutual understanding and respect for diversity.”

One section presents a concepts glossary, explaining terms from intercultural dialogue to cultural identity to intercultural citizenship. These will be particularly familiar to all those who have previously read Intercultural Competences: A conceptual and operational framework from 2013, which I drafted for UNESCO (with many contributions by others named in the notes), as they all come directly from that publication.

Another section provides good practices for a wide range of topics, intended to serve as models. CID Posters and several publications (Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue and Constructing Intercultural Dialogues) have been accepted for inclusion.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Chinese American Museum: Program Associate/Manager (USA)

“JobProgram Associate/Manager, Chinese American Museum, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 7 December 2023).

The museum is seeking a personable, detail-oriented, and technology savvy individual to serve as Program Associate/Manager, undertaking responsibilities that focus on the coordination, logistics, and content-building for programs and initiatives. Programs may consist of both live and online events and content including webinars, live and recorded interviews, collaborative meetings and presentations, and educational lectures and conferences. Additionally, this position will support communication, marketing, and development projects as needed.

The Program Associate/Manager reports to the Executive Vice President and works closely with the Board of Directors, staff, and Advisory Boards. This is a full-time position with a unique opportunity to play a creative, visible and significant role in the continuing development of the museum and programs.

Yale-China: Health Programs Officer (USA)

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Health Programs Officer, Yale-China Association, New Haven, CT, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 16 December 2023).

The Yale‐China Association seeks to hire a Health Programs Officer based at its headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. Reporting to the Director of Health Programs, the Health Programs Officer works to support and implement current and new health programs in China and in New Haven.

Responsibilities

  • Manage aspects of the health programs, including supporting and implementing current and new programs in the health portfolio, and tracking program progress

  • Coordinate development and management of work plans for on-going health projects

  • Support recruitment and selection of health fellows and scholarship recipients, orientation and training, and program execution

  • Write and prepare program reports, briefs, presentations, and papers, including English to Chinese and Chinese to English translation and interpretation

  • Prepare financial materials and documentation for budgets, grants and reports, and submit payment vouchers for disbursement

  • Maintain and update content on the Yale-China Health Programs website, including writing up summaries of events, and paying attention to visual presentation

  • Plan meetings and other events with Yale-China partners in the US and in China, and make travel plans and logistical arrangements related to such events

  • Review Chinese health services and policy related to the health missions of the Association

  • Travel to China 2-4 times a year to meet with partners and implement programs

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of work experience in a health-related field; a combination of education and experience may be considered
  • US permanent work authorization required (citizen or Green Card holder)
  • Chinese language skills, both oral and written and used in a professional setting, required

U Illinois Chicago: Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate: AI & Minority Representation (USA)

“JobBridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate: AI and Minority Representation, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA. Deadline: 12 January 2024.

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for a Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate specializing in AI and Minority representation. The position focuses on the ways artificial intelligence engages in and impacts minority representation, conceived broadly. Areas of interest include algorithmic bias and oppression; AI and data justice; black box design; minority histories and cultures of computing, and other counters to deficit approaches; generative AI and bias; platform design; Virtual, Augmented and Extended reality interfaces; robotics, wearable technologies and interfaces of the future; and DEI practices.

The candidate will have earned a doctorate in Communication or a related field, will demonstrate strong promise of scholarly achievement and teaching success, show good prospects for external research funding, and will demonstrate commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship.

The Bridge to Faculty Scholars program seeks to advance diversity on the permanent faculty level by encouraging the recruitment, retention, and promotion of outstanding scholars from different backgrounds, with an emphasis on attracting individuals from groups who have been historically underrepresented in our discipline. Bridge to Faculty is designed to recruit scholars with the goal of transitioning them to faculty members after two years. After the first year, and subject to satisfactory performance and University approval, this position may be re-appointed for a second year. Successful postdoctoral associates may have the opportunity to transition to tenure-track faculty starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. Scholars will participate in a mentoring experience within the department, with the opportunity to meet other Scholars through cohort-based events and workshops organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Engagement. The Bridge to the Faculty Scholars Program is funded by the Chancellor’s Office and administered through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Engagement.