Month: February 2025

CFP 8th International Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Conference (Hong Kong)

Conferences

Call for papers: 8th International Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Conference , 11-13 December 2025,  City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

The conference theme, “Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact: Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds,” reflects the growing complexity in the social context of Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Practices. Developments in technology, including the recent rise of generative artificial intelligence and more long-standing ubiquity of social media communications, continue to have a profound effect on the communicative practices of academics and professionals alike. At the same time, society is increasingly face with a range of “wicked problems” that demand collaborative and innovative responses from stakeholders in the academy, the professions, and in industry. Issues of communication frequently play an important role in determining whether effective solutions can be found, and, to engage with these issues, collaboration and innovation is essential. Against this backdrop, this conference aims to provide a platform for academies, students, industry partners, and institutions to discuss changing professional communication practices, identify synergies, and facilitate the collaboration and innovation needed to generate impact.

CFP Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices: Multilingualism & Intercultural Dialogues

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Multilingualism and Intercultural Dialogues: Creative and Reflexive Approaches to Identity and Belonging in Migration and Digital Spaces, Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices. Deadline for abstract: 30 April 2025; deadline for article: 15 October 2025.

Co-editors: Margaret M. Mullan (East Stroudsburg University) and Jenna M. Lo Castro (Point Park University).

This special issue will focus on multilingualism as a critical dimension of migration experiences, digital transnationalism, and intercultural communication. It will draw from themes presented at the conference ‘Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue’, addressing how multilingual practices shape and are shaped by the intersections of migration, media, and intercultural dialogue. This special issue will aim to explore innovative and reflexive methodologies, along with empirical studies that highlight the role of multilingualism in fostering (or hindering) social cohesion, identity formation, and ethical engagement in global migration contexts. This special issue will contribute to understanding multilingualism not merely as a linguistic phenomenon but as a socio-political and cultural practice deeply intertwined with migration and media. It aligns with the journal’s mission to showcase rigorous, theory-driven, and methodologically diverse research that resonates globally.

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia: Multiple Fellowships 2025-26 (Bulgaria)

FellowshipsMultiple fellowships, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

Under the Advanced Academia Platform CAS Sofia offers a number of different fellowship schemes for postdoctoral researchers from the social sciences and the humanities for the 2025/2026 academic year. Among the offerings are the following:

  • GERDA HENKEL Fellowship for fundamental historical research in the field of social sciences and humanities. The five-month in-residence fellowships are granted under the framework of the CAS Advanced Academia programme and supports PhD holders from the following countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China (only Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

  • Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship provides both in-residence and remote fellowships to postdoctoral Ukrainian scholars for five to ten months.

  • Social Relevance of the Humanities: Up to ten months in-residence research fellowship for international scholars – senior and junior.

Boston College: Postdoc/Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice & the Common Good (USA)

Postdocs

Postdoc / Core Fellow / Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice and the Common Good, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: 10 March 2025.

The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College invites applications for the position of Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice and the Common Good with a focus on Migration, Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies, Peace and Justice, and/or Digital Humanities. The appointment for this one-year postdoctoral visiting assistant professorship will be for the 2025-2026 academic year. Salary is competitive, and the position is renewable upon favorable review for up to three years.

Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education. Boston College requires all students to complete a liberal arts University Core Curriculum with 15 requirements as the foundation of their undergraduate education. Core Fellows teach signature courses in the Core including interdisciplinary Complex Problem and Enduring Question courses developed for first-year students which are part of an ongoing renewal of the University Core Curriculum. Core Fellows participate in the Core Fellows Program, which is designed to help newly-minted Ph.D. holders in their scholarly pursuits as well as in becoming outstanding instructors through pedagogical training focused on the education of the whole person.

During one semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, the Core Fellow will join a teaching team for a course with lecture, lab, and reflection session components. The Core Fellow will be primarily responsible for hands-on, project-based lab sections associated with the Complex Problem course, “Moving Matters: Migration and Transformation Across the Americas,” co-taught by faculty from the School of Social Work and the History Department. In the other semester, the Core Fellow will teach an Enduring Question course paired with a course designed by another scholar in the liberal arts. There may also be opportunities to teach electives in their field.

ICD Exercise #6: Exploring Cultural Symbols in Intercultural Dialogue

ICD ExercisesThe next ICD Exercise is now available. Stellina Ogedengbe, Ifeoma Onyebuchi, and Favour Ilolo have written about exploring cultural symbols in intercultural dialogue.

The objective of this exercise is to help participants share a meaningful cultural artifact or symbol and discuss its significance. The activity involves practice interpreting the meanings of artifacts, reflecting on their meanings, and learning about other cultures to develop intercultural understanding. Most importantly, they will come to realize that the meanings of objects and symbols vary significantly across cultures. 

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

ICD Ex 6 Ogendengbe

Ogedengbe, S., Onyebuchi, I., & Ilolo, F. (2025). Exploring cultural symbols in intercultural dialogue. Intercultural Dialogue Exercises, 6. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/icd-ex-6-ogedengbe.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.

NHH: Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication (Norway)

“JobAssociate Professor of Intercultural Communication, NHH: Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway. Deadline: 20 March 2025.

NHH in Bergen, Norway, invites applicants for a position as Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication. The position requires a PhD in intercultural communication, business communication or linguistics with a track record of research within communication in the workplace.

The department’s research and education profiles reflect NHH’s objectives and are focused on modern professional communication in a broad sense within NHH’s subject areas. The department has an active research environment in professional and intercultural communication, and its research profile encompasses terminology, corpora and language resources, specialised translation, intercultural communication and discourse analysis. For further information about the department, please visit our website.

 

Fulbright Commission: Executive Director for Czech Republic

“JobExecutive Director for the Czec h Republic, Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange, Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline: 1 April 2025.

The J. W. Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange in the Czech Republic is a binational organization whose mission is to promote mutual understanding by fostering educational and research collaboration between the Czech Republic and the United States. The Commission is a contributory organization of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, and administers the Fulbright Program on behalf of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State, facilitating academic and cultural exchange between the two nations. To sustain and advance the success of the Fulbright Program in the Czech Republic, the Commission invites applications for the position of Executive Director.

 

Tampere IAS: Senior & Postdoctoral Fellowships (Finland)

FellowshipsSenior fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships, Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tampere, Finland. Deadline: 3 March 2025.

The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is a university-level research community offering the most competitive researchers the opportunity to focus on their own research and career advancement and to broaden their research horizon. The Institute grants fixed-term Research Fellowships to researchers in all scientific fields represented at Tampere University. The Institute also invites leading international researchers for short visits, collaborates with similar institutes, and organizes scientific events.

The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study now calls for applications for nine (9) two-year, fixed-term and full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowships starting on 1 September 2025 and ending on 31 August 2027. They are also calling for applications for three-year Senior Research Fellowships in separate job postings. There are altogether six job postings – one Postdoctoral Fellow and one Senior Fellow posting for each of the three focus areas (technology, health or society) separately. Please note that you are allowed to submit only one (1) application either for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or the Senior Research Fellowship after choosing the one that best fits your current academic career stage, and in one (1) focus area (technology, health or society) only.

U Bologna: Mediating Italy in Global Culture 2025 (Italy)


Study AbroadMediating Italy in Global Culture, University of Bologna, Lecce, Apulia, Italy, 8-11 June 2025. Application deadline: 21 March 2025.

The Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, in collaboration with Brown University, Dickinson College, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and Wesleyan University, invites applications for the 2025 edition of the “Mediating Italy in Global Culture” Summer School. This intensive program will be held in Lecce, Apulia, from Sunday, June 8th, to Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, and is specifically tailored for graduate and post-graduate students seeking an enriching academic experience.

The summer school is designed to enhance participants’ theoretical and methodological skills while facilitating dynamic discussions on the creation, dissemination, and reception of Italian cultural and media products. These discussions will be contextualized within various global frameworks, including but not limited to the United States, the UK, the European Union, the Mediterranean, and the Global South, with a focus on how these regions influence and shape global perceptions of Italy.

Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and roundtable discussions centered on specific topics and case studies, the program offers a platform for students to engage actively by presenting and discussing their research with our esteemed international faculty. Dedicated Q&A sessions, alongside individual and group activities, further foster interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement throughout the course.

CFP NCA Peace & Conflict Division High Density Panel 2025

Conferences

Call for submissions: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

In 2024, the Peace and Conflict Communication Division came together and explored how to find a balance between self-regard and greater regard in conflict. They welcomed nearly 20 scholars and many more audience participants to engage in this discussion as part of our 12th annual high-density panel. Last year’s theme encouraged us to examine the balance between empathy and compromise for others (greater regard) and maintaining self-regard, fostering meaningful dialogue and reconciliation through an awareness of individual, social, and cultural positionalities. By addressing these complexities, they highlighted pathways for navigating conflicts with both authenticity and mutual respect.

Building upon our conversations last year, they are excited to introduce the 13th annual high-density panel theme for the 2025 National Communication Association annual Conference: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding. Conflict presents a significant challenge to the stability of interpersonal, intergroup, and international relationships. A central concern lies in understanding how individuals and groups can navigate the often difficult, sensitive, and inherently unpleasant dynamics of conflict while preserving their shared connections. This inquiry calls for a reimagining of conflict, not merely as a problem-solving process aimed at achieving mutual agreement but as an opportunity to restore and heal relationships. Furthermore, this perspective emphasizes the potential for conflict to serve as a transformative process, fostering the elevation and deepening of shared connections across interpersonal, organizational, and international contexts.

Aligned with this year’s thematic focus—Communication to Elevate—this exploration seeks to illuminate the role of communication in healing and strengthening relational bonds during the conflict process. Specifically, we aim to examine how conflict and communication can transcend its traditional functions and become a vehicle for fostering relational resilience, growth, and elevated connection.

Several overarching questions emerge from this endeavor, cutting across diverse conflict scenarios: How can communication serve to elevate and deepen shared connections during moments of conflict? What communicative patterns and strategies threaten the stability and integrity of these connections? Lastly, how can stakeholders across various domains be encouraged to reconceptualize conflict in ways that prioritize and value the preservation and enrichment of shared relational bonds? By addressing these critical questions, we aim to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between communication and conflict, highlighting pathways for relational healing, elevation, and transformation.

NOTE: There is also a call for general submissions to this division; these often explore topics in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and bullying. Peace and Conflict Communication scholars study processes and effects of communication using a variety of research methods, concepts, and pedagogical or andragogical approaches to understand and promote peace in personal, organizational, local community, national, and global contexts. They ask that submissions to the PCCD closely align with the overarching conference theme. The deadline for general submissions is 31 March 2025.