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CFP War & Peace as liberal arts

CONVERSATION:  WAR & PEACE AS LIBERAL ARTS – CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOV 30 2012
Call for Papers or Proposals:  War and Peace as Liberal Arts

Twelfth Annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts
February 21 – 23, 2013
The Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts
Westmont College
Santa Barbara, California

Featured Speaker: Michael Walzer
Additional Speakers: Jean Bethke-Elshtain, Sherman Jackson, Duncan Morrow,
Chris Eberle, Helen Frowe, Eric Patterson, Gerald Mast

The Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont College invites proposals for papers on the theme of War and Peace as Liberal Arts. We seek submissions from scholars across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences addressing issues in their field related to war and peace. We also seek submissions from practitioners of peacemaking and conflict resolution. Finally, we seek submissions on the teaching of war and peace, and on curricular and programmatic initiatives dedicated to studying war and peace. We hope that all submissions might connect to the question. How can a liberal arts education equip students to engage justly and effectively in issues of war and peace? Some concurrent sessions will be dedicated to outstanding student work. Please encourage your students to submit a proposal.

One of the highlights of the Conversation on the Liberal Arts, as the name suggests, is the rich discussion it provokes. We hope for an extended conversation among all participants on issues around war and peace and the liberal arts. We anticipate that all participants will take part in the entire conference, and to be active participants in the extensive discussion times in plenary sessions. Papers accepted for concurrent sessions will be distributed in advance, and these sessions will be dedicated primarily to discussion of the paper after a brief introduction by the author and a brief response.

Please submit either a completed paper (maximum 25 pages in English) or a 350-word abstract electronically to libarts@westmont.edu. Complete papers are preferred. (All standard academic citation and formatting styles will be accepted, but we prefer Chicago Manual of Style). Be sure to include: 1) First author’s full name, academic rank or job title, name of institution or organization, and contact information, mail, phone, and email; 2) Full names, ranks or titles, and institutions/organizations of all co-authors; 3) Title of abstract or paper. All student work should be clearly labeled as student work.

Proposals must be received by November 30, 2012. Those submitting will be contacted early December with a decision on the acceptance of their proposal or paper. If an abstract/proposal is accepted, the full paper should be submitted by January 15, 2013. If you do not receive confirmation of your submission within a couple of days, please re-send.

Selected papers may be developed for publication following the conference. Proceedings from previous Conversations on the Liberal Arts are available from the Gaede Institute.

U Leeds doctoral scholarships

There are 2 types of doctoral scholarships available at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, for studies starting 2013-2014.

ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre Studentship

The University of Leeds has been allocated a number of studentships as part of the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre, a major collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. One of these awards is for study at the Institute of Communications Studies and is available on either a 1+3 or +3 basis.

The awards are for study commencing 1 October 2013, and cover full fees and maintenance. Closing date for applications: 1 February 2013.

ICS Full Scholarships

The Institute of Communications Studies is offering a number of PhD Scholarships for study commencing in September/October 2013. The scholarships cover full maintenance and fees equivalent to the Home/EU rate, for a period of three years. They are intended to support full-time study leading to a PhD in any area of the Institute’s research activities, and are open to both home/EU and international applicants. Closing date for applications is 1 May 2013.

Further details for both can be found at http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/pg/phd/

CSU Monterey Bay job ad

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMMUNICATION AND TRANSFORMATIVE CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CSU Monterey Bay

The Division of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) at CSUMB seeks an Assistant Professor in Communication and Transformative Conflict Resolution to begin Fall 2013.  The successful candidate will be prepared to facilitate student abilities to integrate applied philosophy and communication studies in the pursuit of a meaningful and successful life; to develop skills associated with non-violent conflict resolution and community building; and to engage in ethical and effective argumentation, reasoning,  and decision making. Students earn a degree in Human Communication, framed within an interdisciplinary HCOM curriculum of multicultural literature; ethnic studies; history; race, class and gender studies; relational ethics; oral history and new media studies and cross-cultural communication. For more information regarding the Division of Humanities and Communication and the HCOM Major, please visit our website.

Duties will include the following responsibilities:
*  Teach and be prepared to develop innovative lower and upper division courses in communication ethics, dialogue and deliberation, conflict resolution and transformation, democratic participation and related coursework at the upper and lower divisions
*  Teach and be prepared to develop courses in oral and written communication to serve the University’s General Education curriculum
*  Teach Major Proseminar and Senior Capstone
*  Sustain innovative scholarly research, publication and professional services
*  Apply new scholarship and pedagogies to teaching
*  Participate in the shared governance of the Division, College and University
*  Serve on Division, College and University-wide committees
*  Provide support for one or more departmental programs and contribute to reciprocal community partnerships

Minimum Qualifications:  Earned doctorate in Communication Studies, Religious or Spirituality Studies, or allied discipline.  Ability to teach courses in conflict resolution, communication ethics, dialogue and deliberation, and oral and written communication. Ability to teach and mentor students from nontraditional, working class, and diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.

Desired Qualifications:  Ability to apply new media technologies in teaching; Preparation for interdisciplinary teaching in Peace Studies, Gender Studies and Pre-Law; Knowledge of second language and experience in bilingual/bicultural, multilingual-multicultural contexts; Ability to teach and coordinate Service Learning (SL) Courses;  Skill in cross-cultural, experiential and assets-based pedagogy and teaching; Ability to team-teach and develop cross-disciplinary conversations; Knowledge of outcomes-based or other innovative assessment models; Collaborative curricular decision making and advising of students.

To apply, go to this site. Open until filled. Application Screening Begins: 11/16/2012

Baruch College job ad

Position Announcement: Two Assistant Professors, Department of Communication Studies
Baruch College, City University of New York

The Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College is seeking applicants for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Communication Studies to begin Fall 2013. The successful candidates must have a Ph.D. in communication or a related field, and a demonstrated commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and college service. Candidates should be equipped to teach and advise in existing undergraduate and graduate programs in the department, and have expertise in one or more of the following areas: organizational communication, social media, global or international communication, public relations, or critical/ cultural media studies. Candidates may have expertise in social scientific, critical or rhetorical approaches. Successful candidates also should be equipped to collaborate in the development of a planned new communication studies major.

Baruch College, located in midtown Manhattan, is a senior college of the City University of New York and is recognized as among the most diverse colleges in the nation. The Department of Communication Studies offers a B.A. degree in Business Communication, an M.A. in Corporate Communication, and a minor in Communication Studies; a B.A. in Communication Studies is planned. The Department serves several hundred undergraduate majors and minors, 70 graduate students, and 2000 undergraduate students in the basic course. Subfields represented include argumentation, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, media studies, organizational communication, and public relations. For more information, please see http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/communication/index.htm

Applicants should send a CV, three letters of reference, evidence of teaching excellence, and representative publications:
Professor Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni
Chair, Department of Communication Studies
Baruch College
Box B 8-240
1 Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2012 and continue until the position is filled.

Baruch College is an AA/EO/IRCA/ADA employer.

CFP Kome

KOME, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is calling for submissions for its forthcoming issue. The journal aims to create a platform for an innovative interdisciplinary discourse in the field of communication and media studies, with a focal point on basic researches.

Since its formation, there has been a wide debate on the (in)famous first axiom of pragmatics which states that ‘one cannot not communicate’. Questions of whether the subsuming of any and all kind of information processing in a category called ‘communication’ results in a viable approach towards actions performed by various entities, or simply suits in the flow of the inflation of concepts so precious concerning human existence and co-existences are rarely answered, if even posed in the field of communication and media studies. Nowadays, applied communication researches seems not to care much about the fact that no researches on communication and media can be carried out without having preconceptions about the nature of the phenomenon constituting its object. Which, considering their disciplinary boundaries, would be perfectly acceptable if not only a marginal fraction of theories, serving as the basis for those researches had linked their assertions on communication to the preconceived notions that determine the demarcation of the domain of communication and media studies through the selection and organization of different perceptions in a given intellectual framework. The unidentified nature of such preconceptions is relevant not exclusively in metatheories but it may also make the adequacy of a given theory questionable in additional researches, which results in a situation where these theories can not provide a general answer to a couple of the most basic questions, namely, ‘what is communication’ ‘what is media’ ‘who is able to communicate’ etc. Therefore KOME welcomes researches and discussions with an eye toward defining and theorizing communication and the media, and invite authors to submit manuscripts exploring basic questions of the field with plausible reasoning, but regardless of the theoretical framework or the chosen methodology.

For submission please send your paper to the Editorial Office:
kome AT komjournal.com

Please visit our website and view the current issue.

DEADLINE: Februry 25, 2013

Marton Demeter & Janos Toth, editors

Who needs Intercultural Dialogues?

On October 27, 2012, I gave a talk entitled “Who needs intercultural dialogues?” as part of the Conferência Ouvindo o Outro: sobre o diálogo entre culturas [Conference on Listening to the Other: About Dialogue between Cultures], held prior to the avant premiere of the play Sots l’Ombra d’un Bell Arbre [Under the Shadow of a Leafy Tree]: The future is unwritten at the Centro Cultural Carregal do Sal, Portugal. This is a reinterpretation of Ramón Llull‘s play from the 13th century, The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men staged by Project Llull.

Project Llull poster

This was a co-production of Teatro de Cerca (Barcelona), Propositário Azul (Lisbon), Companhia Voadora (Santiago de Compostela), and Nicho Associação Cultural (Viseu, Portugal). Helena Tornero is the Spanish playwright who wrote the theatrical adaptation, Graeme Pulleyn is the British director, and Cristóvão Cunha is the Portuguese executive producer and international coordinator who invited me to participate in this wonderful collaboration.

Project Llull conference

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CFP IJIR

Seeking Submissions to International Journal of Intercultural Relations

The International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of theory, research and practice in the field of intercultural relations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: intergroup perceptions, contact, and interactions; multiculturalism; acculturation; intercultural communication; intercultural training; and cultural diversity in education, organizations and society. The journal is indexed multiple data bases, including SSCI, PsycINFO, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Research Alert ASSIA, and SCOPUS.

After 35 years under the direction of the founding editor, Dan Landis, the journal’s editorship passed to Colleen Ward earlier this year. IJIR now has two Associate Editors: Hee Sun Park and Gabriel Horenczyk and a number of new additions to the editorial board.

We are currently seeking new, innovative, high quality manuscripts- both empirical and review articles- for submission. The current publication lag is short, and we invite contributions that will sustain and enhance the journal’s profile.

Best Practices in Higher Education

On October 25, 2012, I presented a talk entitled “Best practices: How the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning solves the problems offered by today’s students” as part of Colloque “Le métier d’enseignant aujourd’hui et demain” [Colloquium on the Teaching Profession Today and Tomorrow]. The Colloquium was organized by the Institut Français de l’Éducation, part of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, in collaboration with CDIUFM.

This was a summary of some of the content in my book that had been published a few days before, Learning Matters: The Transformation of US Higher Education, co-authored with Peter Hoff. The goal was to present information about what the US does so that French teachers might consider doing some of the same things with their own students.

My thanks to Luc Trouche, Sophie Fermigier, and Anne-Claire Husser, for inviting me to to participate in the colloquium for facilitating my talk. This was my third and last talk in France while in residence at the ENS de Lyon this fall. My other activities are summarized here.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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UNorth Carolina post doc

Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity
UNC-Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity is pleased to announce the availability of 2013 postdoctoral trainee appointments for a period of two years, starting July 1, 2013. The application process is expected to open on November 15, 2012.

Eligibility:
Applicants who will have completed their doctoral degree no later than July 1, 2013 and no earlier than July 1, 2009 are eligible to apply.
The primary criterion for selection is evidence of scholarship potentially competitive for tenure track appointments at the University of North Carolina and other research universities. AN IMPORTANT SECONDARY CRITERION IS THE SUPPORT OF PROSPECTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill strongly encourages applications from African American, Native American and Hispanic scholars.
Interested applicants should apply online.
Directions for the electronic submission are provided at the website. Any questions may be directed to the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, opa AT unc.edu. The application deadline is Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 11:59 EST.

Arizona State U job ad

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University, invites applications for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication to begin in August 2013.

Required Qualifications:
1)  PhD (or foreign educational equivalent) in Communication or related field.  Must have PhD in hand by August 1, 2013.
2)  Record of research in intercultural/international communication as demonstrated by publications or works in progress, with a continuing program of scholarly activity publishable in established international refereed journals.

Desired Qualifications:
1)  Demonstrated excellence in scholarship confronting significant global and domestic issues in the ways culture plays a role in relationships between individuals, groups, and societies, scholarship that explicitly contributes to Hugh Downs School of Human Communication Strategic Initiatives (Conflict Transformation Project, Innovative Inquiry, Project for Wellness and Work-Life (see details ) and scholarship that is supportive of ASU’s campus-wide research initiatives: (1) Building strong, vibrant communities, (2) Defending and extending human rights, (3) Understanding the past and present for the sake of our future, and (4) Creating a sustainable way of life) (see details).
2)  Demonstrated potential for obtaining external funding for research projects.
3)  Demonstrated teaching effectiveness, demonstrated ability to teach courses in the existing undergraduate and graduate curriculum of the HDSHC, with potential to develop new courses in relevant areas of scholarship.
4)  Demonstrated ability to engage in service to the university, academic profession, and public/community that supports ethical/professional behavior as defined in Board of Regents, university, or academic unit policy.

The application deadline is Monday, November 26, 2012; if the position is not filled, then applications will be accepted every subsequent Monday until the search is closed.

Applicants must submit a cover letter specifying interest in the position and how their qualifications match the required and desired qualifications, curriculum vitae, evidence of effectiveness in teaching (e.g., syllabi, teaching evaluations), evidence of excellence in scholarship (e.g. reprints of published articles), and three letters of references.  Letters of reference must be emailed directly by referees to HDSHCrecruitment AT asu.edu, with the job order #10246 written in the SUBJECT area of the email.

Application materials should be submitted as a single PDF document via email only to HDSHCrecruitment AT asu.edu. Please write the job order #10246 in the SUBJECT area of the email.
Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. See ASU’s complete non-discrimination statement. In line with the Arizona Board of Regents’ policy, a background check is required for employment.