Month: October 2024

Rice U: Assistant Director of Study Abroad (USA)

“JobAssistant Director of Study Abroad, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Deadline: 30 October 2024.

The mission of the Office of Study Abroad is to provide Rice undergraduates substantial, transformational experiences that complement their Rice curriculum through academically rigorous and culturally enriching long-term international opportunities. Under supervision of the director, the Assistant Director is responsible for providing guidance and continuous support to students on all aspects of study abroad, during the entire process spanning from choosing the right program to returning from overseas. This includes information sessions as well as one-on-one advising before and during the application process, pre-departure guidance, support while overseas, and re-entry guidance.

Abdeslam Badre Profile

Profiles

Abdeslam Badre is is a policy development expert, and associate professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Abdeslam Badre

His research seeks to analyze current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of migrants, women, and youth as social groups. He aims to generate evidence-based recommendations to inform national and regional policies, and provide comparable data across borders for key countries in MENA and Southern Mediterranean regions, while addressing the causes of entrenched marginalization and socio-economic transformation. Badre has worked with/for a number of international organizations (including Fulbright, EU-JRC, ERASMUS+, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), Konrad-Adenaeur Foundation (KAS), Global Young Academy (GYA), Next Einstein Forum (NEF), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD), ECSA Global, Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS), American Political Sciences Association (APSA), and EDU4U, among others, on various projects. He has also held visiting professor positions and research fellowships at Alfred University in New York, Monterey Institute for International Studies in California, University of North Carolina, all in the United States, as well as Aalborg University in Denmark, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Germany, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania. He is an Editor of the Social Science Section for Elsevier and the journal Scientific African.

Recent publications include North-South Economic Diplomacy: EU-Morocco Free Trade Negotiation (Germany, 2020); Enjeux Culturelles (Morocco, 2020); Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective (coauthored book, Germany, 2020). Currently, he is a coordinator of and author for the EuroMeSCo Joint Study Group 2021: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries Migration Cooperation with their West African Neighbours.

Work for CID:

Abdeslam Badre is part of an expert group organized by the Center.

Centers & Organizations Lists Updated

About CIDThe Center for Intercultural Dialogue maintains lists of other centers and organizations around the world having overlapping interests.

As we do every few years, we have just updated these lists, deleting links that no longer lead to functioning websites. As always, dozens of links showed up as broken, so those entries have been deleted. Where possible, we have replaced them with valid links, but in many cases, we did not find a current link that works.

If your center or organization used to be on our list, and no longer shows up, please email a current functioning link. Of course, if you have not been on our list previously but wish to be listed now, you are invited to send in a link as well.

BAEF: Fellowships for Graduate Study or Research (Belgium)

FellowshipsFellowships for graduate study or research in Belgium, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Belgium. Deadline: varies by program.

The Belgian American Educational Foundation offers fellowships for graduate study and for research for Americans who wish to do the work in Belgium, or Belgians who wish to do the work in the United States. The primary purpose of the BAEF is to instill in Belgium as well as in the United States a deep respect and appreciation for the other’s country and people. The Foundation has selected education to achieve this purpose, with a special emphasis on the younger generation. Education implies excellence in teaching, research, professional practice, management, as well as citizenship. BAEF fosters the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its fellowship program between the United States and Belgium.

Graduate study for Americans to go to Belgium – Deadline: 31 December 2024.

Research for Americans in Belgium – Deadline: 31 December 2024.

Graduate study for Belgians to go to the US – Deadline: 31 October 2024.

Research for Belgians in the US – Deadline: 31 October 2024.

 

CFP Spanish in Society (UK)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Spanish in Society, International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society, The University of Bristol, England, UK, 5-6 June 2025. Deadline: 30 November 2024 (extended: 13 December 2024).

The International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society aims to promote the study of Spanish and the languages with which it is in contact through a focus on the study of sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse analysis, pragmatics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis and anthropological linguistics. The eleventh conference will take place at the University of Bristol (UK) in June 2025, and will provide a moment for scholars in these areas to reflect on what issues face the study of Spanish (and related languages) in society. The event will bring various groups into dialogue, opening the floor to the innovative ways in which scholars can address contemporary research problems and questions and become actively involved in advancing the field of Hispanic sociolinguistics.

In addition to keynote presentations and thematic panels, the conference programme will include coffee breaks, extended lunch breaks, a closing reception and an evening meal (all of which are included in the registration fee) to allow for more informal networking opportunities for all atendees. Please note that we are planning to hold the conference in person, and there will be no hybrid alternatives offered.

Key Concept 111: Membership Categorization Analysis

Key Concepts in ICD

The next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC111: Membership Categorization Analysis by Trudy Milburn. As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept in English, 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.

Key Concept 111: Membership Categorization AnalysisMilburn, T. (2024). Membership Categorization Analysis. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 111. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/kc111-mca-1.pdf

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept.

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SOAS U of London: Politics / International Relations (UK)

“JobLecturer / Senior Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations, SOAS University of London, London, UK. Deadline: 30 November 2024.

SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) invites applications for two Lecturer / Senior (T&R) Lecturer positions in Politics and/or International Relations starting in the Autumn of 2025. The role holder will be expected to contribute to—and shape—the Department’s research profile as well as the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Apart from the publication of outstanding academic research, the role holder will convene and teach both general and specialist modules (individually and with others), advise both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, supervise PhD theses (pending completion of a probationary period), and provide pastoral care for students. The role holder will also be expected to work in a collegial and collaborative manner with both academic and non-academic staff across the Department and the School.

Within the discipline of Politics and International Relations, the search is open as to disciplinary subfield and research specialism. Regional expertise is valued, and some experience running both on-campus and online modules, including Executive Education modules, will be beneficial.

U Texas Austin: Intercultural Programs Coordinator (USA)

“JobSenior Intercultural Programs Coordinator, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. Deadline: 2 November 2024.

Reporting to the assistant director for intercultural programs and initiatives, the senior coordinator manages the International Student and Scholars Services (ISSS) activities that support and enrich the on-campus experiences for the international student and scholar community. Additionally, the senior program coordinator is responsible for monitoring the ISSS communication plan including emails, social media, and program marketing. Responsibilities include: orientation and intercultural programming; communication, campus outreach and collaboration; and support of ISSS and Texas Global functions.

DiLCo Video Reader: A YouTube-based Collection of Lectures on Digital Language & Communication Research

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DiLCo Video Reader: A YouTube-based Collection of Lectures on Digital Language and Communication Research, DiLCo Network (“Digital Language Variation in Context”, University of Hamburg), Germany.

The DiLCo Video Reader is a dedicated YouTube channel with 36 video-recorded presentations that were commissioned and produced by the DiLCo Network (“Digital Language Variation in Context”, University of Hamburg) from 2021-2024.

Authored and delivered by expert researchers from all over the world, these videos represent state of-the art scholarship covering qualitative (interactional, ethnographic), quantitative (variationist, computational), and mixed-methods approaches to digital language and communication research in linguistics.

The DiLCo Video Reader is arranged in 12 Playlists grouped by topic or methodology:

[01] Digital language variation and change
[02] Digitally mediated interaction
[03] Digital discourse and narrative
[04] Semiotic features and communicative practices
[05] Enregisterment on social media
[06] Perceptions and ideologies of digital language
[07] Researching TikTok
[08] Multilingual practices across methods
[09] Approaches to multimodal and transmodal analysis
[10] Digital methods: Research ethics
[11] Digital methods: Natural Language Processing
[12] Digital methods: Multi-sited fieldwork and on/offline nexus analysis

All video content is also available in a chronological listing. And full details are available in a citeable Information file (DOI: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14786). Organizers hope the DiLCo Video Reader will be useful to scholars worldwide as a resource for research and teaching. (If interested in further discussion, connect directly with the DiLCo Team at the University of Hamburg.)

Links:
YouTube channel
Information file
Network website

Update: UNESCO International Forum on the Futures of Education 2024 (Republic of Korea)

EventsUpdate: Renewing Education to Transform the Future: UNESCO International Forum on the Futures of Education, Suwon, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea, 2-4 December 2024.

In November 2021, the International Commission on the Futures of Education issued a report titled “Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education” following a two-year worldwide consultation and reflection facilitated by UNESCO.

CID Poster 14: 10 IdeasThis Center was one of the organizations consulted; see the report of our conclusions. Basically we argued for including intercultural dialogue as one of their goals. The final UNESCO report, Reimagining our Futures Together, is available as well by now.

The UNESCO International Forum on the Futures of Education 2024 provides an opportunity to continue framing, inspiring and reinvigorating global dynamics to remain publicly and politically active around the urgency to renew education to transform the future.

Objectives

  • To exchange and share contextualized experiences in innovative policy, practice and research to transform education in line with the recommendations of the 2021 report of the International Commission on the Futures of Education.
  • To provide a platform through which Member States and the global community can strengthen knowledge sharing, peer learning and cooperation in relation to the Futures of Education initiative.

Expected Outcomes

  • Forum Synthesis Report: The Forum Report will synthesize the main insights from the three-day event.
  • Thematic Futures of Education Briefs: The Forum Synthesis Report will be complemented by 10 thematic Futures of Education Briefs, each succinctly encapsulating a framing of the core themes serving as the focus of the parallel sessions. Insights gleaned from the contextualized experiences and dialogue at the parallel thematic sessions will be integrated into the Briefs, providing a holistic overview of the Forum’s deliberations. The thematic Futures of Education Briefs will serve as a knowledge-sharing resource to a wider range of education practitioners, researchers and policy makers beyond the participants of the Forum.