Month: August 2025

Xiaofan Chen Profile

Profiles

Xiaofan Chen graduated from New York University with an M. A. in Teaching Chinese at the college level.

Xianfan Chen

She has also earned an M. Ed. in Bilingual/ ESL/ Multicultural from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Xiaofan is a Chinese language educator with over a decade of teaching experience in the Greater New York City Area. Currently serving as a high school Chinese teacher at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School since 2019, Xiaofan has also started to design and deliver AP Chinese courses in 2025. Previously, Xiaofan taught at Avenues: The World School, where she developed comprehensive Mandarin programs for 7th and 8th graders, and at Martin Luther School in Maspeth, Queens, where she led courses in ESL, Mandarin (Levels 1–3), and computer applications. Throughout her career, Xiaofan has focused on curriculum design and student-centered learning.

Work for CID:

Xiaofan Chen was recently interviewed by Casey Man Kong Lum, Associate Director of the Center; the result was Perspectives on World Language Education as Intercultural Learning.

Irish Network Against Racism: Network and Communications Officer (Ireland)

“JobNetwork and Communications Officer, Irish Network Against Racism, Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

INAR is a national network organisation of over 200 civil society organisations working together to combat racism at a local, national and European level. INAR is recruiting a Network and Communications Officer to support the development of its network, and to communicate its anti racism message to INAR members and to wider society.

The Network and Communications Officer will be responsible for the continuous development of INAR’s communications strategy, and to provide logistical support for the needs of Network members, including the coordination of network meetings.

International House: Assistant Director of Resident Engagement (USA)

“JobAssistant Director of Resident Engagement, International House, Berkeley, CA, USA. Deadline: open until filled.

You will be part of a team that is integral to the overall Resident Experience and that directly supports International House in achieving its mission. The Resident Life and Intercultural Development Office (RIO) team plans and executes a 12-month residential program that aims at increasing cultural intelligence (CQ), and intercultural leadership skills within the resident and I-House communities.

The Assistant Director of Resident Engagement leads the development and execution of resident programs to foster an inclusive and engaged I-House community. This role uses data-driven approaches to measure impact, track engagement, and continuously enhance resident experiences. This position supervises professional staff and student leaders, provides training and guidance, and plays a strategic role in shaping the residents’ experience. Evening and weekend hours are required as part of event and program support.

U York: Lecturers in Psychology (UK)

“JobLecturers in Psychology, University of York, York, England, UK. Deadline: 5 September 2025.

The University of York wishes to appoint two Lecturers (on “Academic, Research and Teaching” contracts). They are looking for outstanding candidates who will conduct cutting edge psychological research that complements and extends key strategic growth areas within the Department. These areas include cognitive, affective and social neuroscience, social psychology and intergroup relations, cross-cultural psychology, and media psychology. They are also keen to hear from individuals whose research has clear potential for (or has already demonstrated) societal impact. The candidate must also be able to contribute to teaching in their BPS-accredited BSc and MSci Psychology programmes and/or MSc programmes, including project supervision in popular areas such as social psychology, mental health and cognitive neuroscience.

NY Public Library Fellowships: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies 2026 (USA)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowships 2026, New York Public Library, NY, USA. Deadline: 25 August 2025.

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on The New York Public Library’s holdings of materials from the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States. Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with projects that would significantly benefit from research drawing on collections accessible at The New York Public Library. Projects requiring access to original materials including manuscripts, archives, books, photographs, prints, maps, newspapers, and journals will be given preference, but all worthy projects will be considered. Applicants studying the humanities as well as those working in the visual, auditory/performing, and literary arts are welcome to apply.

Established with the generous support of Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, the Fellowship Program will support one fellow annually for three months with a stipend of $25,000. Each fellow will have full access to the Library’s collections and staff, as well as a dedicated place to work in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities.

The annual fellow will be selected following a review of applications by NYPL staff and an external committee of scholars, librarians, curators, and creatives. The Library will also explore how to support international scholars with visa requirements. The Library will continue offering this annual fellowship through 2029. Application information will be made available on this website each year.

Other fellowship opportunities at the New York Public Library may be of interest, if other topics in their collection are of interest.

UNESCO Chair Conference: Exploring Intercultural Competences in an African Context (Morocco)

EventsExploring Intercultural Competences in an African Context. UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competences, Rabat, Morocco, 29 Sept-2 Oct 2025. Deadline: 1 Sept 2025.

The UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competences hosted by Stellenbosch University has organized a second international conference, with contributions from academics and researchers, professionals, practitioners, educators, innovators, leaders and organisations with an interest in the theme. ​

The specific sub themes are:

  • How do aspects of Intercultural Competence intersect, interact and influence climate action, gender equality, or peacebuilding?
  • The existence and use of intercultural practices in pre-colonial times.
  • Intercultural tools available to the practitioner (for example; Cultural diversity and ethics; Ethical encounters and interactions; Culturally responsive teaching; Collaborative Online International (intercultural) Learning (COIL); tools for understanding values across multi-cultural and multi-religious societies)​
  • African Youth Perspectives on Intercultural Competence​

Responding to the theme and sub-themes above, organizers look forward to the sharing of research, reflections, lived experiences and examples from practice in the form of Workshops, Parallel sessions, and Poster Presentations.

U Copenhagen: Postdoctoral Researcher in International Migration Studies (Denmark)

Postdocs
Postdoctoral researcher in International Migration Studies, Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Deadline: 7 September 2025.

The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invite applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026. The position is a fixed-term position for 24 months.

The postdoc will be based on the Institute’s innterdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS). They seek a strong candidate with a dynamic profile in the broad, international field of migration studies, who can document an impressive track record of humanities and/or social science research on matters relating to the topics in the REGENERATION research project below.

The postdoctoral position is part of the research project REGENERATION, financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, studying the changes in gender norms and practices women Ukrainian without male fen in Denmark after the Russian among 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Investigating the growing phenomenon of “feminized displacement” to the EU, this project focuses on gender by following women’s re-settlement in Denmark, studying how they re-established everyday structures, create, and elseient toward the future through relations with kin (family and acquaintances) and through encountering Danish institutions’ locally and Ukrainian institutions transnationally. The project aims to develop a novel analytical framework to understand processes of “re-degeneration,” concepts on the re-making of life after war, relatedness with kin, institutions and the state, and intersectionality.

The postdoc project focus on women with children and qualitative applies, visual and ethnographic methods in studying their everyday life, local and transnational relations and encounters with the Danish welfare state (Work-package 2).

In two other sub-studies of the larger research project, the focus is on gender norms and practices Ukrainian women without conferred children and welfare state actors, working with women Ukrainian.

Middlebury Language Schools: Fellows for Peace 2026 (USA)

Fellowships

Fellows for Peace, Middlebury Language Schools, Middlebury College, VT, USA, summer 2026. Deadline: 15 December 2025.

The Fellows for Peace fellowships are awarded to 12 languages and cover tuition, housing, and food for one summer at any level of study. The Fellows for Peace fellowship is a highly competitive, merit-based full tuition, on-campus housing and food award.

Successful fellowship applications typically have a strong background in peace work or conflict resolution, broadly construed. They have represented a wide range of professions, from NGO work to government service, journalism to law, medicine to the arts, and so on. Applications should have a plan for future peace work and knowledge of the region and relevant issues. The fellowship committee gives more weight to accomplishments and related future projects than it does to academic qualifications alone.

Robyn Penman: What If…? New Ideas for Better Social Worlds

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What if…? new ideas for better social worlds by Robyn Penman, on Substack.

Robyn Penman, longtime contributor to the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, has just started publishing a series of essays on Substack. Her focus will be on how to improve our social world.

Offering new ways for making sense of and acting into our social world so that we can collectively make a more just and more democratic society—one that we actually want to live in.

Her focus is not intercultural dialogue explicitly, but her discussion has implications for it. For example: “Our storehouse of stories is our storehouse for meaning-making. This cultural and personal storehouse of meaning provides the rationale for how we act across the economic, political, legal, and personal spheres of our social world.”

Read, and enjoy.

UCL: Digital Intercultural Communication (UK)

“JobLecturer in Digital Intercultural Communication, University College London, England, UK. Deadline: 21 August 2025.

The post-holder will contribute to Masters, PhD and other programmes and research, knowledge exchange and consultancy activities in the International Centre for Intercultural Studies and in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at University College London. Alongside the demonstration of a broad theoretical and practical understanding of intercultural communication, the post-holder will have knowledge and expertise in Digital Intercultural Communication. We are seeking a candidate who not only engages critically with issues of culture and communication in digital contexts but also demonstrates a robust understanding of digital technologies, including current and emerging tools, platforms and digital environments. The candidate will take a lead in developing this aspect of the MA Intercultural Communication. They will also play a significant role in the planning and development of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies. This post is available from 1st September 2025.

With a completed PhD in Language and Intercultural Communication, or closely relevant subject areas, you will also have a track-record of relevant and high-quality research publications for inclusion in Research Excellence Framework assessments.