Philip Crowther, reporter from Luxembourg, files his reports for The Associated Press in no fewer than six languages.
As a result of his multilingualism, he’s getting a lot of newspaper coverage for his skill: in the Huffington Post, Independent, Daily Mail, Metro, and The Wrap, among others.
Presumably, if more people were so functionally multilingual, intercultural dialogues would be made easier.
Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC18: Intractable Conflict, which Andrew R. Smith wrote for publication in English in 2015, and which Candost Aydın has now translated into Turkish.
As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept, 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.
Smith, A. R. (2022). Intractable conflict [Turkish]. (C. Aydın, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 18. Retrieved from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kc18-intractable-conflict_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
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Sabrina Sharma is an author in Australia, with a background in Christian Human Rights Law and Community engagement.
She was admitted to The Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia) in 2007 and later on to The High Court of Fiji in 2017. She founded The Fiji Rural Women Empowerment Network to assist disadvantaged women from rural areas across Fiji to access educational platforms and empowerment workshops. As International Ambassador to Almanah Hope Centre in Teidamu, Fiji she has worked with the Centre’s founders to empower widows and survivors of domestic violence across Fiji. Having worked extensively in Fiji across a cross-section of fields (Ministry, Domestic Violence awareness, poverty alleviation and more), she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Fiji in 2020 by Fiji’s former President and retired Major-General Konrote. She was further given the “2021 Champion for Change” Award by UK’s Lead5050 Organization in recognition for her community efforts and engagement.
Sabrina has returned to Australia where she continues to serve a multicultural and diverse community through positive engagement, dialogue and writing her books. One of her published works, Dialogue in Action, speaks of the importance of dialogue with others to deepen our appreciation and understanding of other cultures.
Sabrina’s contributions to community life and the legal sector can be found below:
Work for CID:
Sabrina Sharma wrote a guest post on dialogue as reflected thought.
12th Annual International Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution: Peace-building and Dispute Resolution – A Bridge to the Future, California State University Domingo Hills, Online, 6 April 2022.
You are invited to the 12th Annual International Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution, Wed. April 6 @ Noon – 2:30 pm (US Pacific Coast Time). Feel free to invite your friends, colleagues, and community members to participate in this international event. Professors are encouraged to invite their students. Organizers also welcome practitioners and practitioner organizations.
Each year, the Cyber-conference has promoted a global town-hall style dialogue between practitioners, students, professors, mediators, arbitrators, Indigenous Peacemakers, scholars, lawyers, judges, law-makers, teachers, community leaders, and restorative practitioners working in both the public and private sector. The conference supports the work of those building safer and healthier communities.
For further information or if you have questions please contact Brian Jarrett at bjarrett AT csudh.edu.
Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#23: Afrocentricity, which Molefi Kete Asante wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Maryam Ahmadi has now translated into Persian.
As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists of Key Concepts organized alphabetically by concept, chronologically by publication date and number, 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.
Asante, M. K. (2022). Afrocentricity [Persian]. (M. Ahmadi, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 23. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kc23-afrocentricity_persian.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
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University Lecturer in Interculturality, Centre for the Arts in Society, University of Leiden, Netherlands. Deadline: 31 March 2022.
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is seeking to hire a University Lecturer (UD) with an expertise in intercultural and postcolonial studies, transnationalism, migration and globalization studies, and critical race theory in relation to arts, culture and society in Europe; as well as familiarity with film, literature or media studies, with an emphasis on new digital technologies.
The successful applicant will conduct research and teach courses at BA and MA levels. These include the BA Film and Literary Studies, BA International Studies (track Europe), the MA programmes Literary Studies (track Literature in Society) and Media Studies (track Cultural Analysis), and BA courses at Leiden University College (The Hague).
LUCAS is an international academic community that is firmly committed to developing critical and inclusive approaches to culture, art and society, and to increasing its own diversity and inclusiveness. While the focus of this position is on interculturality within and in relation to Europe, we therefore particularly welcome candidates who are well acquainted with, for example, African, Caribbean, Asian, Pacific, Latin American, Romani and/or indigenous cultures and arts, and/or the cultures and arts of migrant communities.
Director of Education, OpenMind Platform, New York, NY. Deadline: Open until filled (posted Mar 7, 2022).
OpenMind is looking for their first Director of Education — an educational expert with particular expertise in conflict resolution and/or teaching controversial topics. In this role, you will play a critical role in the creation of their educational tools and advancing their thought leadership agenda.
As the leading in-house subject matter expert, you will play a leading role in creating the content for educational tools. You will also be expected to contribute to their thought leadership strategy by writing op-eds, blog posts, and white papers, serving as an expert for media interviews, and developing educational content for large-scale marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate will have experience with faciliation, and from time to time will lead workshops and webinars for educators and other stakeholders.
Over time, you will be responsible for hiring and leading the curriculum team. You will be expected to serve as a player-coach who contributes to and manages the team’s projects and priorities. As a small team, Directors should expect to roll up their sleeves and have a direct hand in executing their team’s projects.
About OpenMind: “In recent years, our society has become increasingly divided. Rather than appreciating our differences, all too often, people view the world through an “us versus them” lens. OpenMind is a non-profit organization that works to address these issues by translating the latest behavioral science research into educational tools that are practical, scalable, and evidence-based in order to equip people with the mindset and skillset to bridge divides. Our educational tools are built primarily for use in higher education and high schools, but they are also used in workplaces and community organizations.”
There are several other positions available as of this writing.
Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#55: Stereotypes, which Anastacia Kurylo wrote in 2014, and which Atika Alkhallouf has now translated into Arabic.
As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download the PDF. 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.
Kurylo, A. (2022). Stereotypes [Arabic]. (A. Alkhallouf, Trans.) Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 55. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kc55-stereotypes_arabic.pdf
The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email to the series editor, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept.
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PhD Studentships 2022-23 in Languages and Intercultural Studies, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Deadline: 10 September 2020.
Heriot-Watt University’s School of Social Sciences is offering a number of full-time PhD studentships to start in September 2022. Studentships include a tuition fee waiver and an annual stipend currently set at £15,609. The duration of the studentships is three years. The School of Social Sciences also offers a research support allowance. In addition, full-time scholarship holders are normally offered an opportunity to undertake a modest amount of paid teaching support each academic year.
Projects in areas related to language and intercultural studies include Multilingual intergenerational child language brokering across modalities. See detailed information on all potential projects.
Call for papers: Two overlapping conferences, Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), 2022, Greece but online. Deadline for both has been revised: 1 August 2022.
The 7th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management: Communicate to Innovate and Innovate to Communicate (ICCM2022) will be held 26-29 September 2022.
The 3rd International Conference on Education: Communicating in Education and Educating in Communication (EDU2022) will be held 26-29 September 2022.
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