Month: March 2024

ICD Exercise #3: Mix, Mix, Remix: Drawing on Pop Culture Stories to Inspire Intercultural Dialogue

ICD Exercises

The next ICD Exercise is now available. Sangita Shresthova has written a new one, Mix, Mix, Remix: Drawing on Pop Culture Stories to Inspire Intercultural Dialogue.

The Mix, Mix, Remix workshop taps icons and narratives borrowed from popular culture to encourage intercultural dialogue and bridge divisions and differences. Participants begin by gathering and sharing stories that inspire them. Then, exploring each other’s stories, they start to mix and recombine elements between stories, seeing how the combinations of unexpected elements lead to entirely new creative narratives. As story remixing leads to real-life sharing, reflection, debate, and collaboration, as well as, most importantly, connection.

The use of narrative remix in this works promotes a mode of intercultural dialogue that can be easy to understand, accessible, and yet powerful. It encourages people to encounter each other through the act of building a remixed shared narrative, one that respects their individuality and yet allows them to connect through the weaving of stories that have been significant in their lives.

As with prior publications, ICD Exercises are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download.

Intercultural Dialogue Exercise #3 by Sangita Shresthova

Shresthova, S. (2024). Mix, mix, remix: Drawing on pop culture stories to inspire intercultural dialogue. Intercultural Dialogue Exercises, 3. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/icd-ex-3-shresthova-1.pdf

If you have an exercise you’ve used that works, and you would like to share it, please submit it. All authors will be asked to answer the same set of questions, and to make the exercises available for others to use, thus these are being published with a Creative Commons license (as is the case for all CID publications). 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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

U Southampton: Politics & International Relations (UK)

“JobMultiple positions in Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, Highfield campus, University of Southampton, UK. Deadline: 5 April 2024.

Applications are invited for multiple positions at the level of Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor in Politics and International Relations as part of a major expansion supported by the University during 2023/24 and 2024/25 that will further strengthen the thriving research, education and knowledge exchange culture of the Department of Politics and International Relations (PAIR) at the University of Southampton. The department has a world-leading reputation for its research in democratic governance and global political society, across areas such as political trust, democratic innovations, comparative politics, political psychology, environmental justice, global health, migration, and development. It has a strong reputation in the application of cutting-edge research methods, ranging from political ethnography to experimental social science.

Professor in Politics and International Relations

Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

U Leeds: Editorial Assistant for Conflict Management & Peace Science (UK)

“JobEditorial Assistant for the journal Conflict Management and Peace Science, University of Leeds, UK. Deadline: 13 March 2024.

Do you have excellent proof reading skills, attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate work under pressure? Do you have strong communication skills and enjoy working with a variety of people?

An Editorial Assistant is sought to work with the editorial team of the Conflict Management and Peace Science (CMPS), an international journal published by Sage on behalf of the Peace Science Society International. CMPS publishes empirical papers at the cutting-edge of peace and conflict research.

Based at the University of Leeds, you will work with the new and ambitious editorial team. This role will be based on the main campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. They are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

 

 

 

Endangered Language Fund: Language Legacies Grants 2024

Grants

Language Legacies Grants, Endangered Language Fund. Deadline: 15 March 2024.

The Language Legacies grant program supports documentation and revitalization efforts throughout the world. It is open to community members and researchers from any country (with the exception of those who are eligible for the Native Voices Endowment grants). An academic degree is not required, but the application must provide evidence that the applicant can achieve the stated goals. Grants are for one year and average around $2,000 (US).

The Endangered Language Fund is a 501(c)3 founded in 1996 with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Their main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums. ELF’s grants have promoted work in over 60 countries and have funded a wide range of projects, from the development indigenous radio programs in South Dakota, to recording of the last living oral historian of the Shor language of western Siberia, to the establishment of orthographies and literacy materials to be used by endangered language teaching programs all over the world.

The UN International Year of Indigenous Languages  was expanded to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) to draw global attention on the critical situation of many indigenous languages and to mobilize stakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion.