Month: December 2023

Video Exhibition: Roma for Romania (Romania)

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Marica, Irina. (2 November 2023). Roma personalities in focus at Bucharest subway exhibition. Romania Insider.

The subway in Bucharest hosts this month a special video exhibition dedicated to outstanding personalities of the Roma culture. A total of 11 short videos about each personality are set to run on screens in subway stations until November 30.

The video exhibition aims to change mindsets, reduce stereotypes in Romanian society as a whole and contribute to the development of intercultural dialogue.

Some of the personalities included in the project are jazz singer Anca Parghel (1957-2008), violinist Ion Voicu (1923-1997), artist Anton Pann (1790-1854), footballer Bănel Nicoliță (born 1985), musician Barbu Lăutaru (1780-1858), singer Connect-R (born 1982), and actress Alina Șerban born 1987).

The exhibition is part of the “Roma for Romania” campaign, which the National Agency for Roma, the National Center for Roma Culture – Romano Kher and the “Pro-Europa” Roma Party Association have been running since April 2023.

Center for Khmer Studies: Junior Resident Fellowships (Cambodia)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Junior Resident Fellows Program, Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 1 July-9 August 2024. Deadline: 29 February 2024.

A six-week program in Cambodia for Cambodian, French, and US students to live and study alongside peers about contemporary Cambodian history and society. The Junior Resident Fellows Program provides students with a once-in-a-lifetime experience, allowing them to live and study alongside peers from different backgrounds and cultures while learning about contemporary Cambodian history and society.

Each summer, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) offers five U.S., five Cambodian, and five French undergraduate students and recent graduates the exciting opportunity to participate in a six-week Junior Resident Fellows Program in Cambodia. Fellows are based at the CKS campus in Siem Reap, situated on the historic grounds of Wat Damnak – one of the city’s major Buddhist pagodas – and mere minutes away from the world-renowned Angkor Wat temple complex. Fellows also spend time in Cambodia’s bustling capital city, Phnom Penh.

CFP Journal of Communication: Time in Communication Research and Theories

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Call for submissions: Journal of Communication Special issue: Time in Communication Research and Theories. Deadline: 15 March 2024.

Guest Editors: Tai-Quan “Winson” Peng (Michigan State University, USA) and Zheng Joyce Wang (Ohio State University, USA)

Communication research embraces a constant ebb and flow of emerging and changing technologies, phenomena, concepts, methods, and theories. Trends evolve, ideas emerge, and paradigms shift. Amidst this ever-changing landscape of research, one constant remains unwavering: time. Time shapes the way we conceptualize, examine, and understand the complexities of communication representations, structures, relations, changes, and processes.

This special issue aims to propel time into the forefront of communication research. The guest editors encourage scholars to transcend mere methodological considerations and to challenge prevailing conceptions of time in communication research, such as viewing time solely as a limited resource or a linear progression. They invite communication scholars to explicate, elaborate, or conceptualize this fundamental dimension of communication, to delve into its intricacies and complexities, to explore its multifaceted meanings, and to construct and advance communication theories. Submissions should place time at the core of their research, shifting it from a mere backdrop or a control variable to a primary focus in theorizing or modeling communication.

Civic Innovation Fund Grants 2024 (EU)

Grants

Civic Innovation Fund Grants, THE CIVICS Innovation Hub, EU. Deadline: 25 January 2024.

Do you have a project idea in the field of civic education that lacks funding? Are you a member of a young NGO in civic education and searching for financial support? Then apply for the call for projects of Civic Innovation Fund launched by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub and get a chance to make your project come true! Within this CIF call, each project receives 10,000 € for piloting, incubation and scaling up for the period of 12 months.

Eligibility criteria:

      • Projects should be startups in the sphere of civic education that focus on strengthening democratic competencies that promote participation, cohesion, and resilience. Project ideas can range from workshops, cultural interventions, eyewitness talks, exhibitions, scientific studies, scenario methods, to apps, or augmented reality storyboards.

      • Projects should relate to one of the NECE topics.

      • Projects should be caried out by at least 2 partners from different European countries in a transnational partnership. The partnership can be set up across sectors, but one of the partnering organisations should come from either the formal or non-formal/informal civic education sector.

      • Projects should incorporate the principles of diversity, interdisciplinarity, inclusivity, intersectionality, and intergenerationality.

  • The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund launched by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It aims to pioneer new ideas in civil society, enhance their visibility and integrate them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators. The fund supports start-up ideas in civic education that apply interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and inclusive approaches which lead to greater resilience, diversity, and collaboration in democracy.

    Each project receives between 10,000 € and 12,000 € for piloting, incubation and scaling up for the period of 12 months. The CIF aims at supporting primary young civic educators (under 35) and young NGOs (under 3 years of existence). The awarded startups also qualify as informal NECE Impact Spots, amplifying their ideas and promoting non-formal civic education in their countries. Additionally, chosen projects are involved in all NECE activities.

  • Countries eligible to apply: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Lichtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, the UK and Ukraine.

KC11 Intercultural Discourse and Communication Translated into German

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing with translations of the Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC11: Intercultural Discourse and Communication, which Leila Monaghan first published in English in 2014, and which Marlena Pompino has now translated into German.

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.

KC11 Intercultural Discourse and Communication translated into GermanMonaghan, L. (2023). Intercultural discourse and communication [German] (M. Pompino, Trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 11. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kc11-intercultural-discourse-communication_german.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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Conducive Space for Peace: Senior Programme Manager (Denmark but Home Based)

“JobSenior Programme Manager (Learning, Capacity Strengthening and Facilitation), Conducive Space for Peace, Home based with travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, and any other location as required by the tasks. Deadline: 7 January 2024.

Conducive Space for Peace (CSP) has revised its strategy for the period 2024-2026 and is looking to expand its team as part of implementing the new strategy. CSP is recruiting a new senior staff member to support our work in changing the international peacebuilding and development system to better enabling local leadership and equitable partnerships. Senior Programme Manager will play a key role in implementing CSP’s Learning framework, supporting the delivery of workshops, convenings and other learning events online and in-person with INGOs, private foundations, bilateral donors and local civil society actors.

The new staff member will refer to the Co-Director on Organisational Leadership and will work closely with the rest of the team. As CSP is a non-hierarchical organisation everyone collaborates with one another to deliver on the mandate of CSP and tasks with reference to competencies rather than position and title.

CSP is an INGO registered in Denmark specialising in facilitating transformation in the peacebuilding system to enable greater local leadership for more equitable, dignified, and sustainable peace. CSP works with an extensive global network of change agents and partners across the peacebuilding, development and humanitarian sectors, convening, accompanying, and developing analysis for systems change globally and in specific country contexts.

U Leeds: International Business (UK)

“JobLecturer in International Business, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Deadline: 7 January 2024.

Leeds University Business School seeks to appoint one Lecturer in the field of international business and management. They are particularly interested in candidates specialising in the areas of International Management, International Entrepreneurship, MNE Subsidiaries, Global Value Chains, Digital Globalisation, and Global Governance and Leadership, applied to global challenges such as migration, climate change and health and the UN sustainability goals. As a member of the IB department at Leeds, you will carry out research, teaching, and management within Leeds University Business School (LUBS) and contribute to academic leadership in the field of international business and management to help maintain and further this legacy.

The Department is home to the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL). Research development is divided into eight thematic areas: The Theory of the Multinational Enterprise; The Governance of Global Value Chains; Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises; International Business Policy, SDGs and Grand Challenges; International Business, Migration, and Society; Global Health and International Business; Cross-cultural Management, Diversity, and Inclusion: and Digitalization and International Business.

Lancaster U: Race, Religion & Society (UK)

“JobSenior Lecturer/Lecturer in Race, Religion & Society, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Deadline: 8 January 2024.

The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Race, Religion and Society. This is a full time, indefinite post, to start 1st June 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a dynamic, interdisciplinary department that is looking to build upon its substantial track record of high quality research, engagement and teaching.

They are looking for a new colleague who:

  • Will have an excellent profile in research and teaching appropriate to your career stage as well as expertise in Race, Religion and Society.

  • Can demonstrate interdisciplinary strengths between Religion, Politics and Philosophy.

  • Will have an exemplary level of research activity and research funding success for your career stage and a background in engagement and applied policy-oriented work.

  • Can contribute to teaching on the new UG programmes in Global Religions and the MSc Public Policy.

  • Can contribute to the new Ethics, Values and Policy Initiative.

UWE Bristol: Global Coordinator of Study Abroad (UK)

“JobGlobal Coordinator (Study Abroad), University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, Frenchay campus, Bristol, UK. Deadline: 14 January 2024.

Join the Global Team and help students to understand and articulate the value of international experience during their studies at UWE. Research shows that students who gain an international experience benefit significantly in terms of graduate employment. The Global Team supports UWE Colleges in facilitating a range of international mobility opportunities. You will support the team to deliver these exciting opportunities.

About you: To succeed in this role, you will need to have strong intercultural communication skills as you will be liaising with students and staff in different countries. You will need to be able to interpret complex information and explain it to a variety of audiences. You will need to be able to present information in a variety of formats, to students and staff. You will co-own a busy shared email inbox and work within a small team of X3 Global coordinators and Team Leader. You will be proactive and organised, with the ability to handle conflicting deadlines. UWE provides training on its student record system. There are many other training courses on offer to assist with developing broader work-related skills in IT, project work as well as those related to personal wellbeing. Your needs will be discussed and regularly reviewed, and a relevant training package agreed annually.

Brunel U: Studentships in Education (UK)

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ESRC Funded Studentships in Education at Brunel University London, via the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK. Deadline: 12 January 2024.

The ‘Grand Union’ is a Doctoral Training Partnership between Brunel University London, the Open University and the University of Oxford. This is one of 14 ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships across the UK, providing postgraduate students with high-quality social science research training. Brunel DTP students on the Education pathway will join the Department of Education. Education at Brunel is a leading department in the UK offering the full range of provision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In common with the university as a whole the department has a rich ethnic mix among its student population and attracts a significant proportion of students from outside the European Union.

The most obvious options for followers of CID are: