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Indiana U: Postdoc in Race & Ethnicity in Society (US)

Postdocs
Two Postdoctoral Fellowships, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Deadline: 5 October 2023.

The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for up to two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships provide support to scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of fields in the social sciences and humanities, including education, criminal justice, environmental studies, international studies (e.g., climate, human rights, and development), gender/sexualities, public health, and media (e.g., consumer culture, game design, film, social media activism, and sports media). They are particularly interested in candidates whose research intersects with African American and African Diaspora Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, African Studies, Latin American Studies, and/or Global Indigenous Studies. Fellows will be placed in one of IU’s sixteen degree granting schools, and are expected to pursue research activities associated with their primary area of work, as demonstrated by conference presentations and published works. CRRES fellowships are designed to advance the careers of new scholars by providing opportunities to research, teach, and connect with mentors and with faculty in host departments. Strong applicants will demonstrate evidence of scholarly potential that will make them competitive for tenure-track appointments at Indiana University and other research universities.

Fulbright/IMéRA Fellowship in Migration Studies 2024-5 (France)

Fellowships

Call for applications: Fulbright/IMéRA Fellowship in Migration Studies 2024-5, IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille University, France. Deadline: 15 September 2023.

Conduct research in any discipline relating to migration studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille Université in Marseille, and participate in one or two day-long seminars on campus on the theme of the research project. Iméra is the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University, the largest Francophone university in the world. Iméra welcomes scholars from around the world who are engaged in cross-disciplinary research projects for short-term stays. They expect applicants to solicit an invitation from an appropriate contact at Aix-Marseille University. Research activities must begin in September 2024 or February 2025.

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking III

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Third Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking: Africa, UNESCO, 27 July 2023, 15:00 to 17:00 GMT+2, (Paris, France, but online).

UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector has launched the UNESCO Series of Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacebuilding. Through these consultations, UNESCO aims to explore the potential of the development of intercultural and socio-emotional skills to serve as an enabler for peace in fragile, conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts.

The third edition will bring together experts and practitioners to discuss the main challenges to intercultural understanding in Africa, the role of intercultural skills in building trust among different parties, and ways of improving intercultural competence to better promote peacebuilding efforts, paying particular attention to the role of women and youth. The consultations are open to the public. Simultaneous interpretation in English and French will be provided for the third edition.

To register for the online event on 27 July, please click here.

CID Leaving Twitter

About CIDIf you follow the Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Twitter, please read! We are leaving the platform, so you should follow us elsewhere.

Several weeks ago we sent out a request for emails if anyone would be inconvenienced by CID leaving Twitter. In response, we only received two emails, both in favor of the move. While the ads on the site disappeared for a day, they are now back in significant numbers, 99% of them ads of no interest to us. Therefore, as of  this Friday, 28 July, we will stop posting to or following others on Twitter.

If you are one of the 753 people or organizations currently following us on Twitter, please switch to another platform and follow us there. We have a Facebook group, a LinkedIn group, and a YouTube channel (though obviously only videos appear there, not all daily posts). In addition, a popular choice is to follow us directly on the website, by providing your email (in the box on the right side of the page if you view the website on a computer; use the triple bar (≡) at top left if you view it on a phone). That gets you an email daily or weekly, your choice.

Hoping to see you on other platforms. (None of the other options currently available, such as Mastadon or Threads, seem appropriate, but if you have strong feelings about where this community should be located, do send an email about that.)

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

U Cambridge: Global History Programme Coordinator (UK)

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Programme Coordinator, Global History Lab, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline: 30 July 2023.

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) invites applications for a Programme Coordinator to support a new Global History Lab (GHL) at the University of Cambridge. GHL is a platform for learning, skill development and collaboration in the creation of new narratives across global divides. Using cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogical practices and training in oral history methods, the GHL educates students about the history of globalisation and prepares them to become knowledge producers for a wider world. The program enlists universities and NGOs to engage in a new model of global education through peer-to-peer exchanges. It pushes the study and application of history into new humanitarian frontiers by integrating displaced peoples and refugees into its network. It promotes human capabilities of understanding by developing narrative voices and listening skills between strangers. The GHL is committed to the pursuit of the production of knowledge about the global past globally – in a way that is innovative, economical and reaches across the world’s fractures.

The Programme Coordinator role is central to the activities within GHL by managing all the parts of the activities in collaboration with the course administrator in Cambridge Online Education, and will be part of a friendly and supportive team of administrators based in CRASSH.

Trinity College Dublin: Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations (Ireland)

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Associate Professor in Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 5 August 2023.

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (SLLCS) welcomes applications from candidates with demonstrated excellence in research, teaching and service for the position of Associate Professor in Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations. Field of specialization is open but should not duplicate existing expertise within the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. They particularly welcome applicants whose research is focused on the nineteenth century.

SLLCS is one of the largest of the twelve Schools in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and has some 140 staff in all, including full time academics, language assistants and lectors, part-time teachers, and professional staff. The School is made up of the Disciplines of French, Germanic Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Irish, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian and Slavonic Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, the Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications and the Centre for Forced Migration. The School enjoys a very high international reputation in its teaching and research and attracts highly qualified and motivated students from Ireland and internationally.

Cultural Heritage Dialogue Survey Participation Request (New Zealand)

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Cultural Heritage Dialogue Survey Participation Request, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Deadline: 31 August 2023.

[CID has been asked to share the following request – please participate if you are active in the cultural heritage sector!]

Tēnā koutou katoa/ Greetings,

We invite you to participate in an online survey as part of our research project to investigate Dialogue in the Cultural Heritage sector. The objectives of our survey are to discover:

· if and how dialogue is defined and used by cultural heritage institutions/organisations in their engagement with external parties and stakeholders,

· the approaches taken up for dialogue-based activities,

· the directions for dialogue work in the future.

Your responses will help us map out how dialogue activities are envisioned, created, delivered and embedded (or not) in cultural heritage institutions/organisations. Overall, the survey findings will contribute knowledge and understanding of dialogue within the cultural heritage sector and provide practice insights.

Each response will be anonymised and your personal identity will not be known to the researchers. If you choose to share your email address this will be deleted 6 months after the survey closes on 31 August 2023.

Thank you for taking the time to read this information and for your interest. We hope you will participate in our survey as we would value and appreciate your involvement. If you choose to participate, please access the link.

Ngā mihi nui/ Kind regards,

· Chern Li Liew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
· Areti Galani, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
· Alison Day, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

CFP Journal of Communication Special Issues

“PublicationCall for proposals for special issues of the Journal of Communication. Deadline: 15 September 2023.

The new editors-in chief of the Journal of Communication (David R. Ewoldsen, Michigan State University; Natascha Just, University of Zurich; Chul-joo “CJ” Lee, Seoul National University; and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) are inviting proposals for special issues that are in line with the editorial vision of attracting and showcasing the best cutting-edge research of our discipline regardless of theoretical or methodological approach.

This call seeks proposals for special issues that can appeal to readers across many subfields of communication and are likely to attract submissions from a variety of authors from around the world. The JoC is particularly interested in proposals for special issues that will stimulate a cross-subfield dialogue on newly emerging and pressing topics in communication research, and that will theoretically advance the areas of research in question.

As special-issue editors, you will oversee the entire selection and review process in strict accordance with the JoC’s review and publishing practices and in cooperation with its editors-in-chief. Special-issue editors will also be responsible for the editorial that highlights the importance and contributions of the special issue.

U Warwick: British Academy Postdoc (UK)

Postdocs
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered through the Faculty of Arts, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Deadline: 28 August 2023.

The British Academy is inviting proposals from early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project, towards the completion of a significant piece of publishable research. The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to Fellowships hosted at Warwick starting in the 2023/24 academic year. The Faculty is one of the world’s top 50 Arts and Humanities faculties and is home to a thriving research culture spread across six Departments and Schools. These are Classics and Ancient History; English and Comparative Literary Studies: History; Modern Languages and Cultures; Cross-Faculty Studies; and the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, which includes Film and Television Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, History of Art, the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, and the Warwick Writing Programme. The Faculty also hosts a number of outstanding research centres, including the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Prospective applicants are required to identify an academic mentor at the University of Warwick. Candidates should approach their mentor to discuss the project at the earliest opportunity.

CRASSH: Events & Initiatives Funding 2023/24

GrantsEvents and initiatives funding for 2023/24, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline: 15 October 2023.

Are you looking to hold an event or run an initiative between April and September 2024? CRASSH would like to invite you to apply for support and be part of their rich and diverse events and initiatives programme. CRASSH offers support to postgraduate students, postdocs, and academic staff employed by the University of Cambridge or one of its Colleges to run a wide range of events, workshops, and creative initiatives. They invite applications for funding and logistical support for any activity that will foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures, forge new collaborations between researchers and other participants, bring academic research to wider publics, or explore the connections between research and artistic practice.

Creative initiatives should be connected in some way to Cambridge (the city or the University) or to produce material that can be hosted on CRASSH’s website for public viewing or interaction. You may apply for support to create a film, an exhibition, a performance, a guided walk, activities that make use of the University’s collections, a hands-on workshop, or anything else that you think will fulfill the objectives above.

Funding of up to £1000 is available for one-day events, £2000 for two-day events, and £1000 for other kinds of initiative. In-kind logistical support will be provided in the form of assistance with the planning and running of events, administration, and publicity. Events and initiatives will be selected for support by a cross-School panel. Successful proposals will form part of CRASSH’s rich and diverse programme for 2023-2024.