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CFP IJIR Intercultural Comm Competence issue

The International Journal of Intercultural Relations is inviting abstracts for a special Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) issue, to be published in 2015. Research in ICC has developed significantly since the last special issue on this topic in IJIR, in 1989. The upcoming special issue will be a retrospective on 25 years of research in ICC as well as showcase of current research that will inform future directions. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to ICC are welcome. Topics may include (but not limited to) the following:

§  Theories/models of ICC, particularly those from cultural perspectives not well represented in the literature to date
§  Instruments and methodologies to measure ICC
§  Empirical studies of ICC in different contexts
§  Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to ICC
§  Research-based methodologies and practices on developing ICC
§  Intercultural issues as they relate to ICC development such as identity, adaptation, empathy, relationship-building, conflict resolution, perspective taking
§  Literature reviews or meta-analysis of ICC

The abstract (500 – 600 words) should include a clear description of the proposed paper, relevant background, and description of methodology if applicable. If an abstract is selected, an invitation will be issued to submit a full manuscript. The manuscripts will then undergo the process of peer-review before the final selection is made.

Timeline for special issue:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16th December 2013

Invitations for submission of full manuscript will be sent out by: 27th January 2014

Deadline for submission of full manuscript: 14th April 2014

Publication of special issue: 2015

Please send abstracts and/or queries to the guest Editors of the special issue:
Dr Lily A. Arasaratnam
Dr Darla K. Deardorff

CFP Media, War & Conflict Journal

The Media, War and Conflict Journal is hoping to mark the 100 years since the start of World War 1 by publishing a themed issue of the journal in 2014.

We are particularly interested in offering an international perspective on the centenary and welcome contributions from beyond the UK and US and articles that reflect diverse national perspectives and topics related to World War 1.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Mediations and re-mediations of World War 1
Remembering (and forgetting) World War 1 (including official and non-official commemoration, mnemonic outputs, mediated memory, visible and invisible war practices)
Historical and contemporary analysis of World War 1 (and relations to contemporary warfare) in, with and through media
World War 1 through contemporary security lenses (space-time connectivity, risk and resilience in the early Twentieth Century)
Political and military responses to World War 1 (then and now in, with and through media)
Representations and visualizations of World War 1 (verbal, visual, abstract knowledge, art, traditional media coverage, digital media, cultural artefacts)
Post war, reconciliation and community building related to World War 1
Ethical perspectives on representations and mediations of World War 1
Public responses to media representations of World War 1

Articles should be between 5,000 to 7,000 words. All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of 150 words and up to 6 keywords. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with the author’s name and date in the text, and a full reference list in alphabetical order at the end of the article. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

TO SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE: Please use our online submission system to submit your article online.

Deadline for submissions: March 2014.

Comm conf of the Americas 2013

PC12: IX Communication Conference of the Americas (FELAFACS-NCA)

Wed, 11/20/13: 9:00 AM  – 6:00 PM
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
Room: Jefferson – Mezzanine Level

In 2010, the National Communication Association (NCA) and la Federación Latinoamericana de Facultades de Comunicación (FELAFACS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a long-term partnership and promote connections among communication scholars throughout the Americas. These international connections enable NCA members to share perspectives on communication research, teaching, and practice, and encourages new avenues for collaboration throughout the continent.In order to maintain and further develop these connections, we are organizing the NCA preconference: IX Communication Conference of the Americas (FELAFACS-NCA) to be held in Washington, DC. The aim of this preconference is to cultivate the international connections across communication scholars from Latin America, the United States, and Canada. This preconference supports NCA’s vision to further international connections that enable members to share their projects, perspectives and experience in field of communication research, teaching, and practice.The goal of this preconference is to promote dialogue among communication scholars throughout the Americas, to share perspectives on communication research, teaching and practice, and to encourage new avenues for collaboration.  

Some of the topics we will be broadly discussing at the conference are: our role in the development of professional communicators in the Americas, and photographic journalism and mass media in social memory and politics.  We highly encourage you to join us afterwards for an informal dinner networking and discussion, even if you cannot attend the whole conference.

Chair
Federico Varona, San Jose State University

Respondent(s)
Agrivalca Canelón, Universidad Católica Andres Bello
Ricardo Carniel Bugs, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanesa Muriel Amezcua, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Luis Felipe Gómez, San Jose State University
Jessica Retis, California State University, Northridge

CMM/WFI/ISI Fellows program

APPLICATION DEADLINE UPCOMING: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013/2014 CMM/WFI/ISI FELLOWS PROGRAM. This unique fellowship program reflects a partnership among Villanova University’s Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication & Society, Fielding Graduate University, and the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution.

Description: Communication is a generative force in the construction of social worlds. In the 21st Century these social worlds are increasingly created within a mediated landscape. These new media include a variety of digital platforms, experienced via a range of devices that offer on-demand access to content, interactive user feedback, creative participation, mobile community formation around specific content issues, and the real-time generation of new unregulated content. The new media, in fact, appear to offer it all and substantial claims have been made about their capacity to contribute to and enhance our contemporary social life.

In this year’s call for Fellows, we seek proposals that take a communication perspective and use the lens of CMM to further our understanding of lives lived in new media and, in particular, address the issue of how new media impacts our capacity to make and engage in social worlds.

Proposals that focus on any of the various types of new media are welcome. These new media can include web-hosted social sites like Facebook, mobile supported technology applications like twitter, or the range of different media hosted sites for citizen engagement and democratic participation activities.

We particularly encourage proposals that can demonstrate the practical import of a communication perspective and that enrich our understanding of the value of using CMM to understand the new media context and the types of social worlds these new media are helping to make and foster.

Application Process: Applications can be downloaded using the “Letter of Intent” form from the CMM Institute. Applications are due by Friday, November 1, 2013. Applicants will be notified the week of January 5, 2014.The three institutions will conduct a blind review process and select 3 Fellows for 2014. Each Fellow will receive a cash award of $2500.00 and will have your travel expenses to the 2014 Learning Exchange paid for.

If you are invited to become a CMM Fellow for 2014, you will be asked to present your work and engage participants in your topic area at the 2014 CMM Learning Exchange in October, 2014 (specific dates and location to be determined). The three partnering institutions will also post your work on our respective websites.

For more information about the 2013/14 CMM/WFI/ISI Fellow Awards, contact Kim Pearce.

Languages of Peace (poem)

In response to the earlier poem posted by Gomes de Matos, Peter Praxmarer (at the University of Lugano, Switzerland) submitted one of his own.

Languages of Peace by Peter Praxmarer

     Friday, April 4, 2008

Experts say that they are
between three to six thousand
depending on how one counts
the languages of the world.

The languages of humans
to be more precise.

Plus words and gestures
poses and pauses
voice and noise
layers of meaning behind
underneath and above.

And many more dimensions
variables, categories and types
some hidden some salient
are said to make up culture:
values norms and beliefs
or simply how things are done
plus artifacts and action
tradition, time and space
and how they are perceived and lived
which all are relevant
when cultures or rather
humans interact
in word and deed.

But if one looks a bit more closer
one sees that there are two
two basic types of culture
one of peace and one of violence
one of conflict and one of understanding
one of love and one of hatred
not only as context, situation and moment
may warrant or demand
but in a basic, more elementary way.

And so the linguist steeped in
the social science tradition of our days
may well ask:
If there is a language of violence
what is the language of peace?
If there is a language of death
what is the language of life?
What are the words of a peace-life-language?
Is there just one or are there many?
Vocabulary, grammar, syntax, structure?
Signs and signals of that language, those languages?
In any language that we know?
Or in a language to create
ex novo, ab ovo, so to speak?

Who are the speakers of such a language?
Who her teachers, who her students?
Who her creators, who her developers,
And who those who cannot bear her prosody
nor listen to her words?

As elaboration on this poem, he offers this quote:

“Mit einer neuen Sprache wird der Wirklichkeit immer dort begegnet, wo ein moralischer, erkenntnishafter Ruck geschieht, und nicht, wo man versucht, die Sprache an sich neu zu machen, als könnte die Sprache selber die Erkenntnis eintreiben und die Erfahrung kundtun, die man nie gehabt hat. Wo nur mit ihr hantiert wird, damit sie sich neuartig anfühlt, rächt sie sich bald und entlarvt die Absicht. Eine neue Sprache muß eine neue Gangart haben, und diese Gangart hat sie nur, wenn ein neuer Geist sie bewohnt.”

(BACHMANN Ingeborg (1959) Frankfurter Poetik Vorlesung. 25. November, at: http://www.ingeborg-bachmann-forum.de/ibvorles.htm)

CFP Social Media in Asia

Call for Papers: Special issue on Social Media in Asia
International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies

The International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (IJICST) seeks scholarly contributions for a special issue on Social Media in Asia from researchers in the fields of social media and related areas.

The unprecedented growth of social media in the world, particularly in Asia, has become a phenomenon that requires in-depth analysis and evaluation. The purpose of this special issue is to publish state-of-the-field works in the scholarly investigation of the transformative impact of a variety of social media platforms and technologies on communications and cultures in Asia.

The special issue will be published in summer 2014, and the deadline of submission for consideration is January 20, 2014.

Guest Editors:
Zixue Tai, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, University of Kentucky
Deborah S. Chung, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, University of Kentucky
Yonghua Zhang, Department of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai University

IJICST is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal focused on a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to existing and emerging Internet-based social interaction technologies.

Please forward your questions and submissions to Zixue Tai.

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LinkedIn Group Started

About CIDThe Center for Intercultural Dialogue has just started a LinkedIn group to permit more discussion off the website. If you have a profile on LinkedIn, just use “Center for Intercultural Dialogue” as the search term, and you should get to the group.

CID on LInkedIn

Discussions will be open to any topic relevant to intercultural communication or dialogue generally, as well as intercultural dialogue specifically.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

American U of Armenia job ad

To meet its growing needs, the BA in English & Communications Program of the American University of Armenia (AUA) is seeking applicants for a full-time faculty position in English & Communications starting in August 2014.  Rank is open and compensation will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The BA in English & Communications is one of three Bachelor’s degree programs launched at AUA in fall 2013.

Qualifications: The successful candidate likely will hold a PhD in Communications, Journalism, or related field.  Teaching load may include such courses as Introduction to Communications, Introduction to Journalism, Expository & Persuasive Writing, Public Relations, Public Speaking, and Advertising Copywriting.

Documented excellence in teaching is required; preference will be given to candidates with experience in conducting academic duties in an international setting or teaching non-native English speakers.   MFA, ABD, or MA with significant teaching experience will be considered.

Compensation: AUA offers competitive compensation and benefit packages.

Send curriculum Vitae, letter of application and the names and contact information for three referees with “Full-time faculty – BA in English and Communications Program” in the subject line.

Applications must be received by November 30, 2013 to be considered.  Screening will begin December 15, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.

AUA is a privately endowed, independent American institution of higher education in the Republic of Armenia that is affiliated with the University of California. AUA is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 985 Atlantic Avenue, #100, Alameda, CA 94501. This institution chooses not to disclose its domestic partner benefits policy.

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U Macau job ad

Full / Associate Professor of Communication
University of Macau
Reference No.:FSS/DCOM/FAP/10/2014

The University of Macau is a leading higher educational institution in Macao and is making strides towards becoming internationally recognized for its excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. The University is growing rapidly with a number of new strategic initiatives including the relocation to a new campus and the establishment of the largest Residential College system in Asia. The new campus is 20 times larger than the present one with a projected fast growth of student intake and faculty size. English is the University’s working language.

The Department of Communication of the Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of Full / Associate Professor of Communication from candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas of communication studies: Advertising, Cinema Studies, Communication Theory, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Inter-cultural Communication, Inter-personal Communication, Journalism, Mass Communication, Media Production, Media Studies, New Media, Organizational Communication, Public Relations and Visual Culture The Department of Communication currently offers broad-based curricula leading to Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees embracing the full range of the field, including Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, Mass Communication, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies, Cinema, International and Intercultural Communication and Media Production. It also hosts a lively PhD programme. This new position is intended to complement and strengthen existing departmental emphases. For academic enquiries, please contact FSS.Comm@umac.mo. Qualifications Candidates must hold a PhD in a relevant field and should have a distinguished record of research and publication at an international level, as well as a demonstrable record of excellence in teaching, including post-graduate supervision. While candidates must be fluent in English, ability to speak Chinese may be considered an asset, though it is not a prerequisite for the appointment. Appointees with less academic achievement may be considered for Associate Professorship. The selected candidate is expected to assume duty in August 2014. Position and Remuneration Remuneration and appointment rank offered will be competitive and commensurate with the successful applicant’s academic qualification, current position and professional experience. The current local maximum income tax rate is 12% but is effectively around 5% – 7% after various discretionary exemptions.

Application Procedure Applicants should visit the full position description for more details, and apply ONLINE at Jobs@UM (Ref. No.: FSS/DCOM/FAP/10/2014). Review of applications will commence on 31 October 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants may consider their applications not successful if they were not invited for an interview within 3 months of application.

The effective position and salary index are subject to the Personnel Statute of the University of Macau in force. The University of Macau reserves the right not to appoint a candidate. Applicants with less qualification and experience can be offered lower positions under special circumstances.

***Personal data provided by applicants will be kept confidential and used for recruitment purpose only**

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