Month: October 2025

CFP Navigating Afro Knowledges: Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies (Germany)

ConferencesCall for papers: Navigating Afro Knowledges: Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies, University of Bremen, Germany, 17-19 June 2026. Deadline: 31 October 2025.

In recent years, Digital Diaspora Studies have emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary field at the crossroads of media studies, migration studies, and postcolonial studies, exploring the complex interplay between technology, communication, arts, culture, and identity within diasporic communities. As diasporic individuals and communities navigate the digital landscape, they engage in practices that not only reshape their identities and the dynamics of belonging1, but also contribute to the circulation of knowledges that have been ignored in mainstream spaces due to systems of domination and hegemonic power relations. However, the internet is also a space shaped by ‘race’ and racialization.

This conference invites participants to explore, challenge and reframe the theoretical and methodological tools currently used in the study of digital diasporas. It foregrounds the lived practices, creative expressions, and activist interventions that emerge from Afrodiasporic cyberspaces, positioning them not at the margins, but at the centre of digital cultural production and critique, with particular focus on Romance-speaking countries.

1000 Words for Belonging: A Podcast about Languages and Belonging in the Classroom (UK)

Podcasts1000 Words for Belonging: A Podcast about Languages and Belonging in the Classroom, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, UK.

1000 Words for Belonging PodcastsHow can we acknowledge the multiple languages and dialects that are present in young people’s lives? And what happens if we don’t? Following 6 years of creative collaboration between Neela Doležalová, an East London primary school and the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this new podcast series shares insights and questions from the multilingual classroom.

What does it mean to belong? Are there different types of belonging? What is the difference between belonging and ‘fitting in’? What role does language play in a sense of belonging? Inspired by the 1000 WORDS FOR WEATHER project, Neela went back to Gearies Primary School to work on a multilingual arts project entitled 1000 WORDS FOR BELONGING. Over one year, all of the students in Year 6 explored the concept of ‘belonging’ through playwrighting, poetry and visual art. The project has been documented on instagram and through the creation of a new podcast. The project was part of a collaboration between the School of Advanced Studies, educators and local artists.

NYU: Visiting Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies: Arts and Cultures (USA)

“JobVisiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultures, Liberal Studies, New York University, NY, USA. Deadline: 15 November 2025.

Liberal Studies at New York University invites applications for a one year Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor position to begin September 1, 2026, pending administrative and budgetary approval. The Liberal Studies Core is a dynamic liberal arts curriculum that provides a global and interdisciplinary foundation for nearly 100 NYU majors. The Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts is an innovative global studies major grounded in the spatial, conceptual, and temporal understandings of a highly interconnected world, with a program of study that is distinguished by experiential learning, study away, and independent research focused in an interdisciplinary concentration. In both the LS Core and the GLS major, small, seminar-style classes and close faculty-student interaction provide students with the benefits of a liberal arts college within a large urban research university. We are especially interested in hiring qualified candidates who can contribute their research, teaching and service to the intellectual diversity and excellence of Liberal Studies and NYU.

ARTS & CULTURES
PhD in the humanities, broadly conceived (Classics, English, Comparative Literature, Global Literature, Art History (including Museum Studies), Anthropology with a Humanistic Focus, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies, Music or related fields). They seek candidates with a specialization in the Ancient World or the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance, and with a preferred focus on premodern digital humanities, archival practices, or the arts of Asia. Candidates must be able to teach with a global, interdisciplinary, and intersectional focus in the Arts and Cultures sequence of the Core Curriculum. This sequence requires exposure, training, and methodological background to teach undergraduate students about literature, as well as visual, sonic, and/or performance arts produced around the world, including in traditionally underrepresented areas from antiquity to early modern times.

NMSU: Assistant Professor of Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Communication, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Deadline: 15 November, 2025.

The Department of Communication Studies at New Mexico State University invites applicants for a full-time 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor in Communication Studies with a research interest in Communication Science/Global Communication. Specific areas of scholarship include artificial intelligence, augmented or virtual realities, and/or international communication. Research methods that utilize quantitative, qualitative, or computational approaches are highly encouraged. Other desired areas of scholarship and intellectual interest include political communication, environmental communication, conflict management, risk communication, nonprofit communication, and/or community engagement. Candidates will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in theory and methods, as well as have the opportunity to develop courses in their area of scholarship and teaching interests.

NYU: Postdocs in Liberal Studies: Global Works and Society (USA)

Postdocs
Postdoctoral faculty fellows: Global Works and Society, Liberal Studies, New York University, NY, USA.  Deadline: 15 November 2025.

Liberal Studies at New York University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow positions to begin September 1, 2026, pending administrative and budgetary approval. The Liberal Studies Core is a dynamic liberal arts curriculum that provides a global and interdisciplinary foundation for nearly 100 NYU majors. The curriculum emphasizes conceptual and spatial frameworks to trace the movement of ideas and the interconnectivity of material culture, through the study of different texts, histories, exchanges, structures and systems, languages, arts, and writing from early antiquity through contemporary times. Small seminar-style classes and close faculty-student interaction ensure the benefits of a liberal arts college within a large urban research university. They are especially interested in hiring qualified candidates who can contribute through their research, teaching and service to the intellectual diversity and excellence of the Liberal Studies community.

Liberal Studies Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows teach two courses each semester in the Core Curriculum. Fellows work closely with an assigned Faculty Mentor, they attend pedagogy workshops that explore innovative approaches to interdisciplinary global teaching, and they have the opportunity to lead faculty development workshops or host program wide events in their area of scholarly, creative, or pedagogical expertise.The initial appointment is for one (1) year, and it may be renewed for two additional years, based upon satisfactory performance reviews and mutual agreement. Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows are limited to a maximum of three (3) years in rank; they are non-tenure track.

GLOBAL WORKS AND SOCIETY

PhD in Political Theory, Philosophy, History, or related fields in the social sciences. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to draw on ancient and early modern sources in their teaching with a global emphasis in the Global Works and Society sequence of the Core Curriculum. Candidates must embrace interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches from a variety of global perspectives and must have the ability to examine relationships of power and to interrogate the historical roots of current challenges.

Taos Institute: Strategies for Opening Master Conflict Narratives (Webinar)

EventsStrategies for Opening Master Conflict Narratives, Pulsating Practices: Constructionism in Action, Taos Institute (Webinar), 5 November 2025, 1-2:30 EST.

With Sara Cobb (Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA)

Persistent conflicts, such as wars, the rise of fascism, political and social conflicts over colonialism, marginalization, climate change, race, etc., depend on “master narratives” that keep the parties prisoner to their own logics, their descriptions of histories, and their vision of possible futures. We see master narratives at work, constructing the world, from the local to the global level, in personal conflicts where families fracture over their ideological differences, in communities divided by race, in professional settings where “merit” seems to challenge “diversity” and vice versa, in political settings where “science” is in opposition to “belief,” and of course, in violent conflicts. Indeed, the more persistent the conflict, the more power master narratives have, to maintain the conflict by sealing themselves off from re-interpretation or evolution. From this perspective, conflict transformation or even conflict evolution depends on opening master narratives to new logics/descriptions.

This webinar offers a strategy for evolving master narratives via the development of “proximate narratives.” Drawing on case examples, we will define ”proximate narratives” and explore how they can function to open new pathways for conflict transformation. Finally, we will practice the development of proximate narratives in our own master narratives and explore our experience of this process, sharing insights, for our collective learning.

DEA Program Fellowships 2026 (France)

FellowshipsCall for applications, Associate Director of Studies (DEA) Program, for 2026, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France. Deadline: 28 November 2025.

The DEA Program offers university professors from around the world the opportunity to carry out research in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) in France during stays of four to six weeks. Each year, the programme supports up to 30 projects, with a selection rate of approximately 30%.

Particular consideration is given to applications from countries where funding opportunities for the humanities and social sciences are limited, as well as to scholars for whom a stay in France would provide a significant opportunity to foster scientific collaboration.

Established in 1975 at the initiative of Fernand Braudel, the “Directeurs d’Études Associés” (DEA) Programme is the oldest international mobility scheme of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

CFP UNESCO Futures of Education Ideas LAB

“UNESCO”
Call for short think pieces on What will shape the future of international cooperation for education? for the Futures of Education Ideas LAB, UNESCO. Deadline: 10 November 2025.

UNESCO’s Futures of Education IdeasLAB invites short think pieces (1500 words maximum) that reimagine, interrogate and analyze recent changes in global governance, multilateralism and international cooperation in education. They welcome contributions from all who engage with governance or education – including researchers, policy-makers, futures thinkers, public servants, private sector actors, educators, youth and civil society.

Multilateralism is in a moment of deep transition. The international system that optimistically pledged its commitments to ‘Education for All’ in 1990 appears less recognizable today. The frameworks and shared vision that once provided firm foundations for international cooperation in education have frayed, and in mid-2025 they appear more fragile than in past decades. At the same time, new imaginaries and solidarities offer opportunities to reimagine multilateralism, international cooperation and governance at all levels. How can we think about this present moment? What has changed, and what trajectories – both promising and perilous – appear ahead?

NOTE: The Center for Intercultural Dialogue held focus groups as part of the information gathering stage of the Futures of Education project, preparing what we learned as a report for UNESCO, in 2021.

Final Warning: CID LinkedIn Group being Discontinued in 2 Days!

About CID

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue’s LinkedIn group will be discontinued October 15. Daily posts will appear instead on the Center’s LinkedIn page. Please follow that instead.

This summer CID was swamped by nearly 800 requests to join our LinkedIn group, most identified as based in Ethiopia, and most obviously fake accounts. In addition to the sorting process being terribly time-consuming, I’ve been advised that this is probably some sort of scam, likely an attempt to gain access to legitimate members, by pretending to shared interests. In fact, I’ve now been subject to those myself – I was just asked to apply for a job that had nothing in common with any of my areas of expertise. After discussion with several other organizations, it seems the best road forward is to simply post to the Center’s organizational page on LI, which is here, and encourage current and future group members to follow that page. That way you can still see all the posts on the LI platform, if you prefer that to subscribing directly to the website.

If instead you prefer to now switch to the website, just enter your email in the box at the top right of any page if you view the site on a laptop, or just below the current posts if you visit using a phone. You get to choose whether you receive posts daily or weekly. Despite the common misunderstanding that we send out a newsletter, we do not; rather, followers receive regular notices directly from the website.

In order to give everyone time to move from the LI group to the LI page, as previously announced, the group is not being deleted until October 15. But no new members are being admitted between the first announcement in September and then, even the few legitimate ones.

My apologies for the inconvenience of changing how you follow the Center. However, beyond the few minutes spent changing from the group to the page, or to another platform, given that nearly all followers just read the posts and do not offer their own contributions, it seems unlikely to be a huge problem for very many. And the protection from potential spam attacks seems worth the inconvenience.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

U Louvain: Lecturer or Professor of Discourse and Language Practices in Italian (Belgium)

“JobLecturer or Professor of Discourse and Language Practices in Italian, University of Louvain, Belgium. Deadline: 12 November 2025.

Within the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters and the Institute for Language and Communication, Social Sciences and Humanities Sector, this position will include the following teaching, research and community service duties:

Teaching
You will teach courses in Italian language and linguistics (taught in Italian) for students of modern languages and literature, and courses in linguistics in your field of specialization for a wider audience (language and literature programs, communication programs, etc.), taught in French or English.  Your expertise will enable you to build up an attractive range of courses, likely to reinforce existing programs at UCLouvain and/or contribute to the introduction of new and original programs responding to the interests and concerns of future students.

Research
You will develop your research activities, including the development of research projects, in a field of linguistics and communication studies, preferably around one of the following issues:
– Intercultural pragmatics and communication
– Language interactions in professional contexts
– Multimodal discourse analysis
– Digital communication

Your scientific expertise should complement and reinforce the major lines of research developed within the UCLouvain Language & Communication Institute.

You will be responsible for the supervision of PhD theses.