Author: Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, the Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, manages this website.

Toronto Metropolitan U: 2 Research Fellowships (Canada)

“JobCERC in Migration and Integration has 2 different fellowship positions available, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for both: 31 January 2023.

  1. Senior Research Associate: Narratives on Migration

    The Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University invites applications of interest from early and mid-career researchers who work in the broader field of narratives on migration and integration in Canada and in comparative perspective with a special emphasis on the role of social media in shaping those narratives. The relevant candidate should have related expertise in the field of populism and nativism, public attitudes on migration, and with a focus on how these are being shaped in the current context where communication is dominated by the social media. Candidates with expertise in statistical analysis of public attitudes as well as with expertise specifically on the analysis of social media and related specialized software are particularly encouraged to apply. An applicant must hold a PhD in the social sciences, with a strong publication and research track record on migration. The candidate must demonstrate comparative perspectives as well as analytical thinking beyond case studies. Fluency in English is required; French knowledge and international experience are assets. Previous experience in research fund raising is also an asset.

  2. Research Fellow: Migration, Mobility and the Future of Work

    In addition, they invite applications of interest for a Research Fellow in the broader field of Migration, Mobility and the Future of Work with a special focus on what has been termed ‘digital nomads’. The relevant candidate will have expertise on the issue of ‘placeless work’, remote work, engagement into digital platforms, with a focus on those people who tend to live in one place but work in another. Expertise on Canada is of interest but applications from people working in other countries or also other world regions are strongly encouraged. An applicant must hold a PhD in the social sciences, with a strong publication and research track record in migration. The candidate must demonstrate comparative perspectives as well as analytical thinking beyond case studies. Fluency in English is required; French knowledge and international experience are assets. Previous experience in research fund raising is also an asset.

CFP CARGC: Global Media Studies 2023 (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections, CARGC symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 22 – 23, 2023, Hybrid. Deadline: 15 December 2022.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, the 2023 biannual fellows’ symposium will reflect on evolving concepts and methodologies in the field of global communication and media studies. We are witnessing ongoing global crises, from widespread displacements and climate disasters to pandemics and the rising threat of fascism. In light of these circumstances, organizers invite emerging scholars, artists, and activists to explore what a global approach to media and communication can do today. What is at stake in studying global communication and media at this historical moment?

U Oxford PHD Studentship: Migration Studies (UK)

“Studentships“ESRC Migration Studies Studentship, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK. Deadline: 20 January 2023.

Are you interested in studying for a doctorate (DPhil) in a migration-related subject? Do you have a good first degree in a relevant social science subject? If so, have you considered applying for an ESRC Migration Studies pathway competition Studentship, available through the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)?Applications are invited for entry in October 2023. You must apply for the studentship at the same time as you apply for your degree.

There are two routes you can take:

*The Migration Studies Studentships are not intended for taught master’s degrees on their own. To apply you must be planning to undertake a doctorate. Please also note that successful admission to the doctoral programme is subject to approval by the relevant department’s DPhil Admissions Committee.

The studentships cover stipend and fees for the length of your award; full details can be found on the Grand Union DTP website.

The ESRC awarded the DTP Migration Studies Studentships in recognition of research strength in interdisciplinary migration studies, and the two taught masters are offered by Anthropology and International Development (the MSc in Migration Studies) and International Development (the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) respectively. Students on the 1+3 pathway may progress from one of these masters to doctorates in Migration Studies, International Development, Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Geography, Law, Sociology, Economics or another appropriate department.

NOTE: ESRC = Economic and Social Research Council, the UK’s largest funder of economic, social, behavioral and human data science.

Language, Race, & Islamophobia Podcast

Podcasts

Khan, Kamran. (14 November 2022). Language, Race, & Islamophobia, Surviving Society, S1/E3. [Available on both Spotify and Apple podcasts.]

In this episode Kamran provides an analysis of the connections between the racialisation of language, securitisation and islamophobia for Muslims. Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. These episodes tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities in over the past 21 years. Dr. Kamran Khan is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow  in the Department of Sociology at Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen).

This podcast would make a good classroom resource for teaching about stereotypes generally, or Islamophobia specifically. See also KC55: Stereotypes, and KC90: Islamophobia, as well as other Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue produced by this Center.

Grant Foundation: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality 2023

Grants

Research grants on reducing inequality, William T. Grant Foundation, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: 11 January 2023.

The William T. Grant Foundation has issued a call for proposals for 2023, including research grants on reducing inequality. This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. They prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. They welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, we welcome studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers. They invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education.

KC 100: Transcultural Communication Translated into Turkish

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#100: Transcultural Communication, originally written by Mohammed Guamguami for publication in 2021, and now translated by Candost Aydın into Turkish.

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.

KC100 Transcultural Communication_TurkishGuamguami, M. (2022). Transcultural communication [Turkish]. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 100. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/kc100-transcultural-communication_turkish.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. 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

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Save

Morehouse College: Black Geographies (USA)

“JobAvalon Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, USA. Deadline: 30 December 2022.

The Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media & Arts at Morehouse College invites applications and nominations for an experienced teacher-scholar in the interdisciplinary area of Black Geographies. Applicants must demonstrate evidence of (or the potential for) excellence in research, teaching, and student mentoring. The Avalon Professor in the Humanities & Social Sciences will be expected to maintain an active research program with the potential for external funding, teach engaging undergraduate courses, and to develop programming in their areas of expertise. The position is open to all ranks with an anticipated start date of August 2023.
Areas of specialization might include, for example, racial justice movements in the African diaspora, carceral and abolition geographies, environmental racism, Black autonomous spaces, diaspora studies, the Global South, or digital geographies. Scholarship that demonstrates an interest in innovative pedagogies, civic engagement and activism, or new geographical research methods would be an added benefit. Area of geographic focus is open.

Otaru U: English Applied Linguistics (Japan)

“JobAssociate Professor or Lecturer of English Applied Linguistics, Center for Language Studies, Otaru Univeristy of Commerce, Hokkaido, Japan. Deadline: 10 January 2023.

Announcement of a full-time tenured faculty position in English Applied Linguistics (esp. Sociolinguistics or Pragmatics). Applicants are invited for the post of Associate Professor or Lecturer available from April 1 or September 1, 2023 at the Center for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce, in Japan. The Center has a long history of being one of Hokkaido’s top academic research organizations and language educational institutions. They are seeking an exceptional academic who can support their ambitions to enhance their teaching and research reputation. Candidates should possess a doctorate in Applied Linguistics, specializing in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, or closely related area. Expertise in the teaching of English to Japanese university students is desirable.

SS Great Britain: Global Histories Ambassador/Research Fellow (UK)

“JobGlobal Histories Ambassador and Research Fellow, SS Great Britain, Brunel Institute, Brunel, UK. Deadline: 19 December 2022.

The Global Histories Ambassador and Research Fellow will become part of the Brunel Institute team of innovative experts, each of whom holds particular skillset that crosses the boundaries of the normal museum, academic and heritage roles, and will actively collaborate to engage with people locally, regionally and internationally.

The postholder will play a key role in the development of the Trust by researching and making relevant for modern audiences the global histories and interconnections pioneered in particular by the revolutionary ships Great Western and Great Britain. The candidate will enjoy researching with historical materials and have the ability to link people and stories together, while working to unlock the barriers that diverse audiences can face when visiting and engaging with heritage sites. The most tangible outcome of this work will be the ‘Global Messdeck’ a multi-use story space and flexible gallery situated in the proposed new Albion dockyard site, and through which the Trust will engage visitors from all backgrounds and places to welcome, introduce, explore, publish and curate stories and histories of mobility, communication and globalization as they relate to Brunel’s historic vessels and to all our lives and communities today.

Inspired by and supporting the development of the Trust’s Albion Dock and Brunel Country project the postholder will play a key role in supporting primary research, interpretation, and education work, and in sharing learning across the sector. The expanded Brunel Institute team will be part of the programme to increase access to, and understanding of, the SS Great Britain, PS Great Western, science, engineering and conservation, maritime migration and the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s life and work.

ACTFL: Language Testers for 107 languages (Online)

“JobThe American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is seeking experts in various languages to join their Tester training to become an ILR OPI tester (Interagency Language Roundtable’s Oral Proficiency Interview). Deadline: ongoing.

ACTFL is seeking language professionals to serve as freelance language testers. If you speak one of the below languages, have an interest in language assessments, and have a few hours of telephone availability during weekdays, you are invited to apply. ACTFL trains and certifies language testers for over 107 languages.

They are currently accepting applications for the following languages: Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic-Algerian, Arabic-Egyptian, Arabic-Gulf (Iraqi), Arabic-Levantine, Arabic-Libyan, Arabic-Moroccan, Arabic-Saudi, Arabic-Sudanese, Arabic-Tunisian, Arabic-Yemeni, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Chechen, Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, French, Fula/Peul, Ga, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hiligaynon/Ilonggo, Hungarian, Igbo (Igno), Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Krio, Kurdish-Kurmanji, Kurdish-Sorani, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Hmong (Miao-Yao), Mongolian, Norwegian, Pashto-Afghan, Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Portuguese-European, Romanian, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, and Zulu.

If you do not speak one of these languages, you may still submit an application to be contacted in case a need for your language arises in the future.

NOTES: You must be authorized to work in the United States, complete their training, and make a 2 year commitment for part-time availability.