Center for Intercultural Dialogue

National U Singapore Job Ad: Communications & New Media

Professor and Head of Department at National University of Singapore

The Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in Social Sciences and stands among the top Communication and Media Studies departments both in Asia and globally. Its teaching and research strengths are in the areas of Art, Game, and Media Design; Human-Computer Interaction; Critical Cultural Communication Theories in/of Asia; Critical Communication Methodologies; New Media and Public Engagement; Health Communication; Communication Management; Communication and Social Change; Communication and Technology; and Media Effects. The Department comprises an international mix of 27 faculty members; in terms of students, the department has over 600 undergraduate majors and some 53 graduate students.

The Department is poised to continue its growth trajectory, building its global research profile in interactive media design, health communication, communication management, 21C artforms and critical network culture, and new media studies while maintaining its strong commitment to an undergraduate education embedded in theory-practice linkages. This appointment is for a tenured position; a competitive remuneration package, based on qualifications and experience, can be expected.

We seek candidates who meet the following criteria:

-an international research reputation based on an established track record in research and publication;
-a strong desire to develop and implement a vision for a dynamic Department of Communications and New Media;
-a strong understanding of the disciplinary trends in Communication Studies, New Media Studies, and Interaction Design;
-a deep interest in nurturing the potential of young faculty and attracting quality faculty members and graduate students to the department;
-a commitment to building a culture of grant getting and fund raising in research;
-excellent communication skills and dedication to academic excellence and collegiality; and
-proven administrative and management skills, with leadership qualities in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment (experience in departmental or university leadership positions and an understanding of different institutional contexts are preferred).

The Department Head is expected to provide visionary leadership, direct strategic planning, encourage strong scholarship, grow the department’s social impact, guide curricular revision, and promote excellent teaching. Administratively, the Head will oversee all personnel matters, manage the department budget and cultivate collaborative relationships with other departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University, and beyond. They will also be expected to teach a half-load of modules (as compared to other tenure track colleagues).

U Leeds job Ad: Media & Communication (UK)

Associate Professor in Media and Communication
University of Leeds – School of Media and Communication
Deadline: May 11, 2017

Are you an experienced and influential academic with the proven ability to carry out teaching and research in media and communication studies? Are you able to use your expertise to support or complement our existing strengths in cultural production and media policy, international communication, journalism studies, political communication, visual media, and digital cultures?

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds is a highly ranked department with a vibrant research culture and a commitment to excellence in teaching. The School seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in Media and Communication to join us from September 2017. You will have a PhD in media and communication studies and a strong record of research, with a clear indication of the ability to achieve internationally recognised standards of excellence. You will be a committed teacher and outstanding communicator able to contribute to teaching and administrative activities in media and communication, including programme leadership.

We especially welcome applications from candidates with research or teaching interests in race and media, promotional culture, or quantitative methods.

American U Job Ads: Intercultural Relations & International Communication

American University: School of International Service

Intercultural Relations and International Communication (Two Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions)

Location: Washington, D.C.

The School of International Service (SIS) at American University (AU) invites applications for a full-time, non tenure track faculty appointment for AY 17-18. Rank will be dependent on experience and stature in the field. This appointment is a 10-month term position and will commence August 31, 2017. Renewal for subsequent academic years will be based on budgetary authorization and satisfactory performance.

Applicants should hold a PhD or the highest equivalent degree in a relevant discipline. The position will require the incumbent to teach the equivalent of three undergraduate and/ or graduate courses per semester. All faculty are expected to hold office hours and participate in School and University activities and service. Applicants should share the School’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

We are especially interested in candidates who specialize in the following fields: Intercultural Relations and International Communication.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

CFP South Asia Initiative at AEJMC 2017

Call for proposals: South Asia Initiative events at the 100th AEJMC 2017 conference. August 9-12, 2017. Chicago, IL.

Research Microtalks on South Asia at AEJMC 2017
Deadline for extended abstracts: 11:59 p.m. ET, May 18, 2017. In our commitment to the 2017 AEJMC conference theme “Closing the Gap: Media, Research and the Profession,” we are hosting research microtalks (2 to 3 minutes) on South Asia or the South Asian diaspora. Research microtalks will be selected through a peer-reviewed competition.
See complete call.

You are also invited to attend South Asia Events at the 100th AEJMC 2017 Conference in Chicago
The South Asia Initiative will host two events at the 100th AEJMC 2017 conference in Chicago.
Click here for event details.

AEJMC’s South Asia Initiative:
With over one-fourth of the world’s population, South Asia has emerged as an important region for media and journalism, politics, international relations, health communication, culture, media and other areas that enrich the repertoire of our field. The South Asia Initiative brings together people with interest and expertise in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the South Asian diaspora worldwide. The AEJMC South Asia Initiative, which currently constitutes 520 members worldwide, was instituted at the AEJMC 2015 conference in San Francisco.

Do you wish to join the AEJMC South Asia Initiative? Are you interested in media and communication issues relating to South Asia or the South Asian diaspora? Email your ideas to Dr. Deb Aikat, School of Media and Journalism, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Mention “SAsia17” in the subject line of your email.

Key Concept #73: Argumentative Dialogue Translated into Russian

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC73: Argumentative Dialogue, which Sara Greco wrote in English for publication in 2015, and which Viktoryia Hramadka has now translated into Russian.

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.

Greco, S. (2017). Argumentative dialogue (Russian). (V. Hramadka, trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 73. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kc73_russian_rev.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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Amparo Huertas Bailén Profile

Amparo Huertas Bailén (Ph.D., UAB, Spain) is professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and director of the Institute of Communication at UAB (InCom-UAB).

Amparo Huertas

She is also a member of the Table for the Diversity in Broadcasting (Audiovisual Council in Catalonia-Spain). Her research is focused on the relationship between culture and communication from the perspective of social minorities. The objective of most of her projects is to understand the cultural consumption of migrant population and its influence on their adaptation process in a new country with gender perspective.

Selected publications:

Huertas, A. (2020). Interreligious dialogue in public service broadcasting. A case study in Catalonia (Spain). Religions, 11(9), 441.

Huertas, A., & Peres, L. (2020). Migrantes que se autoproclaman autoridades discursives: “¿Qué pasa con Venezuela?” Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, 124, 147-169.

Huertas, A. (2019). Migrantes en el entorno digital: Espacios y conexiones. In V. Rocco Lozano (Ed.), Éxodos y geopolíticas (pp. 119-137). Madrid, Spain: Editorial Dykinson.

Huertas Bailén, A. (2018). Islam and mass media consumption in post-migration contexts among women from northern Africa in Catalonia (Spain). Societies, 8, 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8030091

Huertas, A. (2016). Culturas que conviven, ¿pero se interrelacionan? In G. Lobillo, A. Castro-Higueras, A. Sedeño, & M. Aguilera (Eds.). Prácticas culturales y movimientos sociales en el Mediterráneo: ¿Un cambio de época? (pp. 13-22). Málaga, Spain: Universidad de Málaga.

Huertas, A., & Martínez, Y. (2016). La adaptación de la población migrante desde sus consumos culturales. In F. Gervasi (Ed.), Diversidades: Perspectivas multidisciplinarias para el estudio de la interculturalidad y el desarrollo social (pp. 185-210). Coahuila, México: Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila; Ediciones de Laurel.

Huertas, A., & Martínez, Y. (2013). La educación mediática como herramienta de integración social en contextos migratorios: estudio de casos a partir de mapeados de proyectos. In D. Aranda, F. Sánchez & S. Creus (Eds.), Educación, medios y cultura de la participación. (pp. 263-278). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial UOC .

Huertas, A., & Martínez, Y. (2013). Maghrebi women in Spain: Family roles and media consumption. Observatorio (OBS*), Special Issue , 111-127.

Cogo, D., Elhajji, M., & Huertas, A. (Eds.) (2012). Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales. Bellaterra, Spain: Institut de la Comunicació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

CFP China Media Research

Publication Opportunities Call for proposals
A special section of China Media Research invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Visual Online Communication in the BRICS Countries”. Visual Online Content here refers to imagery, GIFs, emoticons, pictures and other visual means that accompany text in an online environment, non inclusive of the audiovisual content and moving images. Despite the increasing prominence of visual online content on social media such as WeChat, Weibo, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as traditional mass media websites across the BRICS countries, comparative academic studies focused on visual content are scarce. Recent discussions focused on plurality of emoticons such as hijabs, or emoticons with different facial color. Despite discussions in the public sphere, there is a lack of cross-cultural studies looking at the differences in imagery. This call for submissions therefore hopes to fill this research desiderate. Arguably, a lack of visual communication research in the BRICS countries is attributed to the prevalent Western tradition in communication research. This special section serves to overcome the dominance of Western approaches in visual communications research.

Following these considerations, scholars are invited to submit their manuscripts that address the following topics, among others:
– Comparative studies of visual online content from the BRICS countries, including at least one BRICS country as comparative country;
– Content or discourse analysis of journalistic visual content, advertisements, PR and political communication visual content and social web visual content in the BRICS countries;
– Research on use of emoticons in the BRICS countries;
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches investigating visual online content in the BRICS’ countries are welcome. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by May 26, 2017. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by August 13, 2017. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision.

Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor Maria Faust.

Key Concept #81: Dialogue as a Space of Relationship Translated into Italian

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC81: Dialogue as a Space of Relationship, which Maria Flora Mangano wrote in English for publication earlier this year, and which she has now translated into Italian, with the help of Paola Giorgis.

Mangano, M. F. (2017). Dialogo come spazio di relazione (M. F. Mangano with P. Giorgis, trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 81. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/kc81_italian.pdf

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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

Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy

The Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy is a training initiative jointly organised by EIUC and CHRA. The 7-day intense programme is aimed at young professionals wishing to broaden their understanding on the connections between human rights, films, digital media and video advocacy. The School provides a unique occasion for participants to share ideas and foster critical thinking on urgent human rights issues, debate with experts and filmmakers in conjunction with the 74th Venice international Film Festival, and learn how to use visual media as a tool for social and cultural change. Participants will be given accreditation to the Film Festival providing access to a selection of festival screenings.

THE PROGRAMME: The Summer School offers an exciting combination of lectures, film screenings, discussions and working groups that combine human rights expertise, media studies and video advocacy strategies. The eight teaching sessions develop issues relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights illustrated in Films, a History of Human Rights Cinema, Freedom of Expression and Censorship, the Role of the Media in Advancing Human Rights Causes, the Use of Video in Human Rights Documentation and Advocacy, Production and Distribution of Human Rights Films and Social Documentaries and Documentary Film Project Development. Each module is illustrated by film or documentary screenings.

LECTURERS AND EXPERTS: The faculty is composed by internationally acclaimed experts in film, television, photography and human rights such as the photographer and filmmaker Nick Danziger, Professor of international law at Middlesex University in London Bill Schabas, Dartmouth Films Founder and Managing Director Christopher Hird, EIUC Secretary General Manfred Nowak, Chair of International Law – University of Antwerp Koen de Feyeter, Witness Programme Manager Kelly Matheson, and Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Birkbeck – University of London Emma Sandon.

Dates: 28 August – 3 September 2017
Early bird deadline: 15 May 2017 // Deadline for enrolment: 21 June 2017

Oxford Brookes U Job Ad: International Relations (UK)

Reader in International Relations
Oxford Brookes University – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Department of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University wishes to appoint a full-time Reader in International Relations. As part of an expansion of the International Relations and Politics programme, we are seeking applicants in any area of International Relations whose research and teaching interests complement existing strengths in the International Relations and Politics programme. The post holder will contribute to the leadership of research in International Relations, having published monographs and/or articles in leading peer-reviewed outlets and developed funding bids. The post holder will teach modules in their own area of specialism and contribute to other teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on modules available to International Relations and Politics students, and will take an active role in the enhancement of quality in teaching.

You will be responsible for:

Developing national and international recognition in the peer community through a sustained programme of research and/or knowledge exchange activity
Teaching and examining undergraduate and postgraduate students
Supervising and examining PhD students
Developing programme and course proposals, shaping and influencing curriculum development and innovations in teaching practice
Mentoring less experience staff, contributing to the development of teams and individuals and providing advice on career development

You should have:

A PhD in International Relations or closely related discipline
Experience of initiating, developing and delivering high quality research and publishing articles of international standing
Demonstrable ability to teach International Relations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
Research and teaching interests that complement existing strengths in the International Relations and Politics programme

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