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Fulbright Commission: Executive Director for Czech Republic

“JobExecutive Director for the Czec h Republic, Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange, Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline: 1 April 2025.

The J. W. Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange in the Czech Republic is a binational organization whose mission is to promote mutual understanding by fostering educational and research collaboration between the Czech Republic and the United States. The Commission is a contributory organization of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, and administers the Fulbright Program on behalf of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State, facilitating academic and cultural exchange between the two nations. To sustain and advance the success of the Fulbright Program in the Czech Republic, the Commission invites applications for the position of Executive Director.

 

Tampere IAS: Senior & Postdoctoral Fellowships (Finland)

FellowshipsSenior fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships, Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tampere, Finland. Deadline: 3 March 2025.

The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is a university-level research community offering the most competitive researchers the opportunity to focus on their own research and career advancement and to broaden their research horizon. The Institute grants fixed-term Research Fellowships to researchers in all scientific fields represented at Tampere University. The Institute also invites leading international researchers for short visits, collaborates with similar institutes, and organizes scientific events.

The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study now calls for applications for nine (9) two-year, fixed-term and full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowships starting on 1 September 2025 and ending on 31 August 2027. They are also calling for applications for three-year Senior Research Fellowships in separate job postings. There are altogether six job postings – one Postdoctoral Fellow and one Senior Fellow posting for each of the three focus areas (technology, health or society) separately. Please note that you are allowed to submit only one (1) application either for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or the Senior Research Fellowship after choosing the one that best fits your current academic career stage, and in one (1) focus area (technology, health or society) only.

U Bologna: Mediating Italy in Global Culture 2025 (Italy)


Study AbroadMediating Italy in Global Culture, University of Bologna, Lecce, Apulia, Italy, 8-11 June 2025. Application deadline: 21 March 2025.

The Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, in collaboration with Brown University, Dickinson College, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and Wesleyan University, invites applications for the 2025 edition of the “Mediating Italy in Global Culture” Summer School. This intensive program will be held in Lecce, Apulia, from Sunday, June 8th, to Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, and is specifically tailored for graduate and post-graduate students seeking an enriching academic experience.

The summer school is designed to enhance participants’ theoretical and methodological skills while facilitating dynamic discussions on the creation, dissemination, and reception of Italian cultural and media products. These discussions will be contextualized within various global frameworks, including but not limited to the United States, the UK, the European Union, the Mediterranean, and the Global South, with a focus on how these regions influence and shape global perceptions of Italy.

Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and roundtable discussions centered on specific topics and case studies, the program offers a platform for students to engage actively by presenting and discussing their research with our esteemed international faculty. Dedicated Q&A sessions, alongside individual and group activities, further foster interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement throughout the course.

CFP NCA Peace & Conflict Division High Density Panel 2025

Conferences

Call for submissions: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

In 2024, the Peace and Conflict Communication Division came together and explored how to find a balance between self-regard and greater regard in conflict. They welcomed nearly 20 scholars and many more audience participants to engage in this discussion as part of our 12th annual high-density panel. Last year’s theme encouraged us to examine the balance between empathy and compromise for others (greater regard) and maintaining self-regard, fostering meaningful dialogue and reconciliation through an awareness of individual, social, and cultural positionalities. By addressing these complexities, they highlighted pathways for navigating conflicts with both authenticity and mutual respect.

Building upon our conversations last year, they are excited to introduce the 13th annual high-density panel theme for the 2025 National Communication Association annual Conference: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding. Conflict presents a significant challenge to the stability of interpersonal, intergroup, and international relationships. A central concern lies in understanding how individuals and groups can navigate the often difficult, sensitive, and inherently unpleasant dynamics of conflict while preserving their shared connections. This inquiry calls for a reimagining of conflict, not merely as a problem-solving process aimed at achieving mutual agreement but as an opportunity to restore and heal relationships. Furthermore, this perspective emphasizes the potential for conflict to serve as a transformative process, fostering the elevation and deepening of shared connections across interpersonal, organizational, and international contexts.

Aligned with this year’s thematic focus—Communication to Elevate—this exploration seeks to illuminate the role of communication in healing and strengthening relational bonds during the conflict process. Specifically, we aim to examine how conflict and communication can transcend its traditional functions and become a vehicle for fostering relational resilience, growth, and elevated connection.

Several overarching questions emerge from this endeavor, cutting across diverse conflict scenarios: How can communication serve to elevate and deepen shared connections during moments of conflict? What communicative patterns and strategies threaten the stability and integrity of these connections? Lastly, how can stakeholders across various domains be encouraged to reconceptualize conflict in ways that prioritize and value the preservation and enrichment of shared relational bonds? By addressing these critical questions, we aim to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between communication and conflict, highlighting pathways for relational healing, elevation, and transformation.

NOTE: There is also a call for general submissions to this division; these often explore topics in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and bullying. Peace and Conflict Communication scholars study processes and effects of communication using a variety of research methods, concepts, and pedagogical or andragogical approaches to understand and promote peace in personal, organizational, local community, national, and global contexts. They ask that submissions to the PCCD closely align with the overarching conference theme. The deadline for general submissions is 31 March 2025.

FMSH: Franco Nordic Program Grants (France, Norway)

GrantsFranco Nordic Program grants, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 11 April 2025.

This program, led by the University Centre of Norway in Paris (CUNP) and the FMSH, aims to promote research collaboration in the field of human and social sciences and support the development of new scientific cooperation projects between French and Nordic researchers (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic). The call is open to researchers of all disciplines in the human and social sciences, starting at the doctoral level, for trilateral projects with a duration of 3 years (2026-28).

  • The project team must involve at least 3 researchers from 3 higher education institutions: 1 from Norway, who will be the project coordinator, 1 from France, and 1 from another Nordic country (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden).
  • Only the norwegian coordinator has to have a permanent position and be attached to one of the following universities which will host the project during its entire duration: University of Oslo (UiO), University of Bergen (UiB), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegian Arctic University (UiT).
  • The other members of the team can be PhD students, post-doctoral fellows or researchers, either statutory or associated with a higher education institution in France or in another Nordic country.
  • The activities presented must take place in the countries of the project teams.
  • If necessary, it is possible to integrate a 4th partner from outside the Nordic countries: in this case, the relevance of its participation must be detailed in the project and the latter must provide co-financing.

ICD Exercise #5: Challenging Cultural Stereotypes through Intercultural Dialogue

ICD ExercisesThe next ICD Exercise is now available. Favour Ilolo, Stellina Ogedengbe, and Ifeoma Onyebuchi have written about challenging cultural stereotypes through intercultural dialogue. In addition to written instructions, this exercise comes with an infographic as well.

The objective of this exercise is to equip participants with strategies for engaging in dialogue to challenge stereotypes. Using a detailed infographic as the instructional guide, participants will learn to initiate constructive conversations, incorporating personal storytelling, active listening, counter-stories, reflection on cultural identity, creating a safe space, and following up. This exercise empowers participants to foster inclusivity and mutual understanding.

As with prior publications, ICD Exercises are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download the infographic, and on the link in the citation to download the exercise itself.

Intercultural Dialogue Exercises #5 infographic

Ilolo, F., Onyebuchi, I., & Ogedengbe, S. (2025). Challenging cultural stereotypes through intercultural dialogue. Intercultural Dialogue Exercises, 5. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/icd-ex-5-ilolo.pdf

If you have an exercise you’ve used that works, and you would like to share it, please submit it. All authors will be asked to answer the same set of questions, and to make the exercises available for others to use, thus these are being published with a Creative Commons license (as is the case for all CID publications). 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

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

CUHK: Faculty Position, Institute for International Affairs (China)

“JobFaculty position (Senior Research Fellow/Research Fellow/Associate Research Fellow/Assistant Research Fellow/Postdoc/Visiting Scholar), Institute for International Affairs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. Deadline: 28 March 2025.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Paying close attention to the development of contemporary China and conduct in-depth academic and policy research on international relations, economics, politics, public policy, global affairs, global politics, economics or related issues;

  • Participating in the strategic consulting of think tanks, provide decision-making consulting services for government departments, and write government policy reports;

  • Independently undertaking key project work in relevant professional fields and writing relevant reports or papers;

  • Participating in or leading related activities of the Institute, including academic forums, round table discussions and public lectures;

  • Participating in the exchange and cooperation between the Institute and other research institutions around the world, and completing the special construction work of the Institute and other work related to the Institute.

Coastal Carolina U: Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication (USA)

“JobVisiting Assistant Professor in Communication, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 3 February 2025.

Coastal Carolina University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication, or related fields, to begin in August 2025 with the possibility of renewal for up to two years. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Communication, Journalism, Mass Communication, or a closely related discipline. ABD candidates with a clear plan for degree completion prior to May 31, 2026, may be considered. The teaching load is three courses per academic semester and may include face-to-face, hybrid, or distance learning deliveries. They are seeking excellent teacher-scholars who have the ability to teach the department’s foundation courses, including communication theory and communication research. Faculty will also teach courses in their area of expertise. Preference will be given to those whose area of expertise is in Film Studies, Film Production, Social Media, or Intercultural Communication. Faculty are expected to provide high-quality instruction, mentor students, and provide service to the Department, College, and University when appropriate. Visiting faculty are encouraged to maintain an active research agenda.

 

CFP The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

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Call for submissions to Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies for a special issue on The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

This special issue of LLIDS seeks to initiate a global dialogue on Social Justice (SJ). While considerations of economy undergird SJ theory, its discourse reaches beyond economics to address inequalities of access, privilege, and rights. As an academic discipline, SJ theory embraces a range of critical theories and methods: colonialist criticism, critical race theory, gender criticism, and queer theory among other methods fall under its purview. For SJ theory offers to critique the institutions—social, political, economic—that sustain inequalities of access, privilege, opportunity, and rights generally. As a social praxis, SJ theory aims to deinstitutionalize systematic inequality by means of progressive public policy. Indeed, treating equal access and opportunity as matters of social “justice” necessarily entails law and policy. SJ theory seeks to protect and expand rights of individuals and communities. In concert with posthumanism and ecocriticism, SJ theory extends this same protection to the planet and to our many “companion species” whose survival is threatened by climate change and environmental degradation.

Such is the starting point for a special issue on Social Justice, which invites submissions that reflect on, analyze, expand on, and complicate SJ theory and its implications. As an international interdisciplinary journal, LLIDS seeks to involve authors and audiences globally in exploring this timely issue. A series of questions and propositions follow apropos to this topic.

  • How does SJ theory understand itself as an ideology or ideological behavior?
  • How is SJ theory taught? What is its curriculum? What are its paths of resistance?
  • In the classroom, in scholarship, and in public/political discourse, what does SJ theory enable or make visible? What does it leave unseen or unspoken? What are its “blind spots”?
  • How can SJ theory address the political-economic crisis of the 1% against the 99%?
  • Can Social Justice have the same meaning and application/implication for all communities, charting both the Global North and the Global South?
  • As per the U.N. declaration, Social Justice seeks a “fair and compassionate distribution” of wealth. This remains a noble aim and aspiration. And given the deep entrenchment of global capitalism, is it viable?
  • How can SJ advocates claim to speak “on behalf” of a community unless/until its members have spoken and been heard? Is advocacy earned through listening? (Is SJ theory a mode of “listening rhetoric”? Can/should it become one?)
  • What can SJ advocates learn from the social methods of Engaged Theory, Grounded Theory, and the Bourdieusian Theory of Practice?

ACLS: Leading Edge Fellowships 2025-26 (USA)

FellowshipsLeading Edge Fellowships, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS is based in New York, but the fellowships are across the USA). Deadline: 12 March 2025.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the seventh competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, which demonstrates the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build organizational capacity, and advance justice and equity in society. Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving. This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.

The fellowships are designed to foster mutually beneficial partnerships between fellows and their hosting organizations. Each applicant may apply for up to two of the available Leading Edge Fellowship opportunities listed below. There is a separate selection process for each fellowship opportunity.