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Job ad-Gonzaga University

Gonzaga University’s MA program in Communication and Leadership Studies seeks a tenure-track assistant professor to begin Fall of 2011. We seek candidates interested in communication theory and praxis with excellent teaching skills. In its sixth year, the Program has attracted more than 500 students who take courses either on campus or on-line. The program has a strong interest in global and ethical aspects of communication.

We seek candidates who have research interests and teaching ability in the area of community, communication, and social change. This area includes non-profits, collaborative decision-making, global and local movements, and multi-platform media in the service of community. The person will also teach the Theorizing Communication course, and the Communication Thesis or Project course. We seek a dynamic individual who can both understand the balance of the curriculum and help to guide its growth and quality. Responsibilities include teaching campus based and online MA classes in the Department, advising campus and online students, serving on Department and School committees as needed, and an active research agenda in the areas of the position. Open Date: Review of applications begins March 25th and is open until filled.

To apply or view the full position description, please visit our website at www.gonzaga.edu/employment .  Application review begins March 25, 2011. The required application materials include, a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae (CV), a statement of teaching philosophy, and three recommendation letters. References should email their letters of recommendation to cockerham@gonzaga.edu whereupon letters will be uploaded to your online
application. For online application assistance, call 509-313-5996. For questions regarding the position, contact Kathy Gustafson, Program Assistant, at gustafson@gonzaga.edu <gustafson@gonzaga.edu> .

Gonzaga University is a Jesuit, Catholic, humanistic institution and is therefore interested in candidates who will contribute to its distinctive mission. Gonzaga University is an AA/EEO employer committed to diversity. An offer of employment will be contingent on background verification of an earned doctorate in communication or a closely related discipline.

(Post-)Conflict Cinema CECC conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

(Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions
IV International CECC Conference on Culture and Conflict
December 5-6, 2011
School of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline for submissions: July 30, 2011

The history of the 20th and 21st centuries merges with the history of cinema and its latest developments. On the one hand, the emergence of cinema is associated with the idea of a democratic art form. Never before had an artistic manifestation reached and affected so many people at the same time. On the other hand, besides constituting one of the privileged cultural products through which past and current conflicts are represented and thoroughly examined, cinema is a medial construction that serves as a ‘stage’ that interrogates the very act of representation, since it also reflects the problems and conflicts experienced in the context of filmic production. Cinema and conflict went hand in hand from the very beginning. Soon after the appearance of the cinematograph, a short film on the war in Cuba, a war that would lead to the island’s independence, was shown to the public in 1898. In 1915 Griffith famously portrayed a war-torn American society during the Civil War in Birth of a Nation, and raised a huge controversy on the issue of racism.

Keeping in mind the revolutionary aesthetic developments and the consolidation of cinema as a multidimensional art form in the 20th century and at the beginning of the new millennium, it is important to discuss how and to what extent new cinematographies inspired by the examination of issues of memory and oblivion experienced in the last century respond to the challenges imposed by 21st-century conflicts (terrorism, economic and social crises, Islamophobia, various forms of racism, civil wars, exploitation of natural resources, among others).

With a view to discussing the dynamic process of conflict and post-conflict situations, this international conference seeks to analyze how 20th and 21st-century (post-)conflict cinema addresses and (re)mediates the following issues:

     

  • Post-memory, Post-Conflict and New Cinema
  • Preserving/Rebuilding cultural heritage
  • Reimagining the landscape of the self after conflicts
  • Gender and reconstruction in post-conflict societies
  • Cultural identities in post-conflict contexts
  • Conciliation, punishment and the challenge of democracy
  • Human rights in war-torn societies
  • Ethics and discourses of legitimation in post-conflict situations
  • Film and the Pain of others
  • Globalization and post-conflict societies
  • Translating the other and the self in times of conflict
  • Post-Conflict Cinema in Post-Colonial Contexts

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The Conference’s working languages are Portuguese and English.

Please send the Organizing Committee 300-words abstracts for 20-minute papers, as well as a brief biographical note (circa 100 words), to postconflictcinema@gmail.com by July 30, 2011. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. Notification of acceptance will be given by September 15, 2011.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Samuel Maoz (director of Lebanon)
João Canijo (director of Fantasia Lusitana)
Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam)
Isabel Capeloa Gil (Catholic University of Portugal)

Scientific Committee:
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Adriana Martins
Carlos Capucho
Alexandra Lopes

Organizing Committee:
Adriana Martins
Carlos Capucho
Alexandra Lopes
Mónica Dias
Fabíola Maurício
Daniela Agostinho

For more information please visit our website or contact us at postconflictcinema@gmail.com

Venice Academy of Human Rights

Venice Academy of Human Rights
11-16 July, 2011

The Academy in 2011 is dedicated to the topic “Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea(L)”. The Academy offers interdisciplinary (Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Religious Studies) thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners and Ph.D./J.S.D. students from all over the world. It will include lectures by, inter alia, Professors Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, David Held, Yasuaki Onuma, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mary Robinson (Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). Last year the Academy was honored by the key lecture of the Nobel Prize Laureate Amartya Sen.

The website supplies information on accommodation and other logistics.

Int’l Assoc for Dialogue Analysis

The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA)’s 13th conference, Dialogue and Representation, will take place at the Université de Montréal (Quebec, Canada) from April 26 to April 30, 2011. With more than 100 presenters from about 30 countries, coming from a variety of disciplines such as literature, communication, philosophy, cinema, education, linguistics, or psychology, it will be an opportunity to address in various ways the link between the ideas of representation and of dialogue.

The conference will also feature keynote addresses from Éric Grillo (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3), Cornelia Ilie (Malmö University), Alain Létourneau (Université de Sherbrooke), Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham), Karen Tracy (University of Colorado at Boulder) et Edda Weigand (University of Münster).

The full list of presenters and the complete program can be downloaded on the conference website.

It is now possible to register simply by visiting our website. The early bird discount ends on March 15!

The organizers,
François Cooren & Alain Létourneau
Email: dialogue2011@com.umontreal.ca

Steering Committee
Mark Aakhus, Rutgers U., United States
Lawrence N. Berlin, Northeastern Illinois U., United States
Kenneth Cissna, U. of South Florida, United States
Robert T. Craig, U. of Colorado at Boulder, United States
Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv U., Israel
Anita Fetzer, U. of Würzburg, Germany
Luisa Granato, National U. of La Plata, Argentina
Cornelia Ilie, Malmö U., Sweden
Liliana Ruxãndoiu, U. of Bucharest, Romania
Robert E. Sanders, U. at Albany – SUNY, United States
Clara Ubaldina Lorda Mur, Pompeu Fabra U., Spain
Edda Weigand, U. of Münster, Germany
Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan U., Israel

Scientific Committee
Chantal Benoit-Barné, U. de Montréal
François Cooren, U. de Montréal
Boris H. J. M. Brummans, U. de Montréal
Sylvie Grosjean, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Marty Laforest, U. du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Alain Létourneau, U. de Sherbrooke
Daniel Robichaud, U. de Montréal
Consuelo Vasquez, U. du Québec à Montréal

Organizers
François Cooren, U. de Montréal, Canada
Alain Létourneau, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada

Organizing Committee
Nicolas Bencherki, U. de Montréal, Canada
Émilie Pelletier, U. de Montréal, Canada

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Le 13e colloque de l’International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA), intitulé Dialogue & représentation, aura lieu du 26 au 30 avril prochain à l’Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada). Réunissant plus de 100 présentateurs d’une trentaine de pays, provenant de disciplines aussi variées que la littérature, la communication, la philosophie, le cinéma, l’éducation, la linguistique ou la psychologie, il sera l’occasion d’aborder d’une foule de manières le lien entre les notions de représentation et de dialogue.

Le colloque sera également l’occasion d’assister aux conférences plénières d’Éric Grillo (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3), Cornelia Ilie (Université de Malmö), Alain Létourneau (Université de Sherbrooke), Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham), Karen Tracy (University of Colorado at Boulder) et Edda Weigand (Université de Münster).

La liste des présentateurs et le programme complet se trouvent sur le site du colloque.

Il est maintenant possible de s’y inscrire en se rendant simplement sur notre site web. Le rabais pour inscriptions rapides prend fin le 15 mars 2011!

Les organisateurs,
François Cooren & Alain Létourneau
Courriel : dialogue2011@com.umontreal.ca

Comité de direction
Mark Aakhus, Rutgers U., États-Unis
Lawrence N. Berlin, Northeastern Illinois U., États-Unis
Kenneth Cissna, U. of South Florida, États-Unis
Robert T. Craig, U. of Colorado at Boulder, États-Unis
Marcelo Dascal, U. de Tel Aviv, Israël
Anita Fetzer, U. de Würzburg, Allemagne
Luisa Granato, U. nationale de La Plata, Argentine
Cornelia Ilie, U. de Malmö, Suède
Liliana Ruxãndoiu, U. de Bucharest, Roumanie
Robert E. Sanders, U. at Albany – SUNY, États-Unis
Clara Ubaldina Lorda Mur, U. Pompeu Fabra, Espagne
Edda Weigand, U. de Münster, Allemagne
Elda Weizman, U. Bar-Ilan, Israël

Comité scientifique
Chantal Benoit-Barné, U. de Montréal
François Cooren, U. de Montréal
Boris H. J. M. Brummans, U. de Montréal
Sylvie Grosjean, U. d’Ottawa, Canada
Marty Laforest, U. du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Alain Létourneau, U. de Sherbrooke
Daniel Robichaud, U. de Montréal
Consuelo Vasquez, U. du Québec à Montréal

Organisateurs
François Cooren, U. de Montréal, Canada
Alain Létourneau, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada

Comité organisateur
Nicolas Bencherki, U. de Montréal, Canada
Émilie Pelletier, U. de Montréal, Canada

Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

2011 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRANSATLANTIC FELLOWS (BFTF) SUMMER INSTITUTE
July 2-July 29, 2011 – Ages 16-18
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC

Do you know a teenager (16-18) who is interested in meeting young people from Europe, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia? Do they have an interest in learning more about transatlantic relationships, democracy and civic engagement?

The Department of Communication at Wake Forest University is offering 10 Scholarships for American students to attend the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) Summer Institute. These Scholarships include the following:

• $2,500 scholarship; Designation as Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellow (covers tuition, activities, meals and lodging in WFU dorm, and partial travel funds to and from WFU)
• Participation in all Institute events, including classes on: Citizenship, Comparative Constitutionalism, Documentary Production and Theory, New Media, Public Advocacy, taught by Wake Forest and visiting faculty.
• Seven day educational trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, PA, including a visit to the State Department, The Washington Center and several sites including the Newseum in DC; Constitution Center in Philadelphia, etc.
• Civic engagement activities, local community service projects and workshops on public advocacy.
• Cultural activities including an International Dinner, visits to places of worship and other local sites.

The U.S. Fellows would join about 50 Fellows on the Wake Forest campus for a month-long Institute. The international Fellows are from over 30 countries ranging from Armenia to Iceland, Denmark to Kosovo, Malta to Lithuania. Participants will arrive at WFU on July 2 and depart on July 29, 2011.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens and 16-18 years old. For more information and the application form, visit the website.

International adoption


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Topic: A Round Table Discussion Proposal– Communication Studies on International Adoption: Voices, Issues, and Impact
National Communication Association convention
November 17-20, 2011, New Orleans

Contact information: Joyce Chen, University of Northern Iowa, chen@uni.edu; Changfu Chang, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, changfu.chang@millersville.edu

International and interracial adoptions have been part of American family life since the 1980s. The adjustment of adopted children and their adoptive families became an important issue studied by academia, especially in the fields of clinical psychology and social work. The research topics range from the identity formation of adopted children, the search for, and reunion with, birth parents of adult adoptees, adoption parenting, to birth mother adjustments. These studies seem to focus on “the vulnerabilities and deficiencies of adoptees” (Zamostny, O‟Brien, Baden, & Wiley, 2003, p.667). As a matter of fact, the identity formation of adopted children and the adjustments of adoptive families reside in the process of cross-cultural and intercultural communication. However, there was very few communication study found on the international/interracial adoption. This proposal aims to let those voices be heard, to initiate the discussions on important issues, and to exchange research agenda. We have a series of documentary DVDs that would provide basic information for the discussion.

If you are interested in this proposal and are willing to participate in the round table discussion, please send us your topic and contact information. The topic is open to any international adoption experiences, opinions/perspectives, or research intention. Contact information:

Joyce Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
University of Northern Iowa
chen@uni.edu

Changfu Chang, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Communication and Theatre
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Millersville, PA 17551
changfu.chang@millersville.edu

Intercultural Cities


Intercultural cities: governance and policies for diverse communities

Joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission

Intercultural Cities

The Intercultural cities programme emerged from the Council of Europe’s significant experience of projects that focus on issues concerned with the management of diversity. Considerable reflection has been undertaken in relation to the principles and practices of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.

Intercultural cities is a capacity-building and policy development field programme which has been implemented by the Council of Europe in partnership with the European Commission. It runs complementary to many other current projects and events (conferences, research, exchanges, and campaigns).  The programme’s long-term, comprehensive approach will contribute to the sustainability of the political impetus of one of the Council of Europe’s declared priorities concerning the practice of diversity in today’s world.

     

  • An intercultural city has people with different nationality, origin, language or religion / beliefs. Political leaders and most citizens regard diversity positively, as a resource.
  • The city actively combats discrimination and adapts its governance, institutions and services to the needs of a diverse population.
  • The city has a strategy and tools to deal with diversity and cultural conflict. It encourages greater mixing and interaction between diverse groups in the public spaces.

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For further information, including comparison of different cities, see the original post.

Arizona Conflict Summit

You are invited to attend the 2011 Arizona Conflict Summit on April 8, 2011, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

This summit will bring together practitioners and academics to discuss contemporary approaches to conflict management in Civil Dialogue, Civil Discourse, Collaborative Divorce, Cyberbullying, Facilitation, Intercultural Conflict, Intimate Partner Violence, Mediation, Organizational Bullying, Strategic Communication, & Work-Life Conflict

The summit includes a keynote address from Steve Dinkin, Director of the National Conflict Resolution Center

FOR MORE INFORMATION and to REGISTER:
http://humancommunication.clas.asu.edu/AZConflictSummit

Questions about the Summit? Contact Jess Alberts at Jess.Alberts@asu.edu or Kendra Knight at Kendra.Knight@asu.edu

Doctoral fellowship – Sweden

Visiting doctoral fellowships

The Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden, is offering visiting doctoral fellowships in the field of media business and media economics for advanced doctoral students at other universities. Applications are invited from students to spend up to three months at the MMTC to work on their dissertations, exchange ideas and knowledge, and use the resources of the centre.

Applicants must be pursuing doctoral work in economics, management, accounting/finance, law or communications related to media economics, media management, or economic policy issues of media. Visiting doctoral fellows receive a housing and subsistence stipends and round trip travel to and from their home institutions.

The Media Management and Transformation Centre is Europe’s premier centre on media business studies and offers doctoral studies and research fellowships, provides research stipends to scholars studying relevant issues, and hosts conferences and workshops for researchers that are designed to improve knowledge and understanding of media business issues. Its mission is to develop knowledge about issues raised by the large-scale transformation of the media industries created by globalisation, consolidation and the creation of dominant firms, the proliferation of contemporary information and communication technologies, cross-media activities, fragmenting audiences, and changing revenue patterns. The centre is directed by Prof. Robert G. Picard and leading scholars worldwide on mass media economy.

Applicants should send:
A letter of intent explaining why you want to apply, what you expect to gain from the fellowship, and a one paragraph description of the research you will undertake.
A copy of your dissertation proposal
A letter of recommendation from your doctoral supervisor, which should include an indication of the relevance
of MMTC interests to your dissertation research
A curriculum vita and copies of attested documents (transcript,
diploma)
A copy of your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis
A personal description of yourself

Deadlines:
Autumn semester 2011 – by March 31, 2011

Send your application to:
Dr. Patrik Wikström, Research Manager
Media Management and Transformation Centre
Jönköping International Business School
P.O. Box 1026
SE-551 11 Jönköping
SWEDEN

For more information: patrik.wikstrom@ihh.hj.se

Anne Kankaanranta Profile

ProfilesAnne Kankaanranta is Senior University Lecturer of Organizational Communication at the Department of Management Studies of Aalto University School of Business (Aalto BIZ) in Helsinki, Finland.

Her PhD is in Applied Linguistics (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). In addition, she has an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Vaasa School of Economics and an Executive MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics (since 1 Jan 2011 Aalto BIZ). Kankaanranta’s main research interests focus on the concept of ‘corporate language’, identity and multilingualism in the global workplace. In particular, her long-time interest has been the use of English as shared language in business (English as Business Lingua Franca, BELF) Her research has been published in, e.g., Journal of Management Studies, Multilingua, Corporate Communications, International Journal of Business Communication, Public Relations Review, and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

She has worked as a researcher in projects funded by the Academy of Finland examining communication and language use in newly merged Finnish-Swedish companies and communication as business know-how of internationally operating companies. Currently Kankaanranta is involved in investigating Englishization of global knowledge work and the use of English as an academic lingua franca in a Russian business school.

She has worked as a visiting researcher/lecturer  at the University of Michigan, USA; Southampton, UK; and Aarhus, Denmark; with shorter scholarly visits to, e.g., WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Takachiho University, Japan; NHH Norwegian School of Economics; and Ural State University of Economics, Russia.

Kankaanranta has been a member of the Association for Business Communication since 1996 and serves the organization on the Editorial Boards of both the International Journal of Business Communication and Business and Professional Communication Quarterly.

Work for CID:

Ann Kankaanranta co-authored KC58: English as Business Lingua Franca (BELF), and co-translated it into Finnish. She also served on the CID Advisory Board 2017-20.

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