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AIAS-AUFF Fellowships (Denmark)

FellowshipsAIAS-AUFF Fellowships, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 5 November 2024.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) is pleased to announce up to 10 AIAS-AUFF Fellowships. The AIAS-AUFF Junior and Senior Fellowships are available for curiosity-driven, talented researchers from all over the world and within all research disciplines. Junior fellowships last for 23 months, senior fellowships for 11 month, commencing on 1 September 2025.

The call is open to curiosity-driven researchers and welcomes applications from researchers:

  • From all research disciplines of any nationality
  • Who comply with a mobility demand as applicants must not have resided or carried out their main work activity in Denmark for more than 12 months in the two years immediately prior to the deadline of the call.
  • With a career experience of 2-10 years after completion of their PhD (23 months junior fellowships)
  • With a career experience of 11+ years after completion of their PhD (11 months senior fellowships)

CFP ECA: Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions (USA)

ConferencesCall for Papers and Panels: Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, March 26-30, 2025, Buffalo, NY, USA. Deadline: 16 October 2024.

The Intercultural Communication Interest Group is requesting paper and panel submissions for the 116th Annual ECA Convention. The 2025 convention theme is Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions, encouraging “submissions that interrogate the following:

  • How can Communication Studies scholarship, teaching, and practice provide creative solutions to contemporary societal, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic problems?
  • How can we best prepare undergraduate and graduate students to address these contemporary problems with creative solutions?
  • How can we extend Communication Studies scholarship, teaching, and practice to settings and situations outside our traditional contexts?

The Intercultural Communication Interest Group is devoted to the study and practice of representing, performing, and negotiating cultural identities in face-to-face interaction and mediated communication in cross-cultural and international contexts. The interest group welcomes submissions from scholars at all stages in their academic careers, especially those interested in integrating theory and practice in intercultural communication research.

As much of our work intersects with diverse voices and methodologies, organizers especially encourage proposals that can be co-sponsored by our colleagues in Voices of Diversity and Interpretation & Performance Studies. Some ideas for consideration include critical/cultural considerations, autoethnographic engagement, narrative methodological work, and performance pieces.

KC 38 Boundary Objects Translated into Simplified Chinese

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#38: Boundary Objects, which I wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Mingshi Cui has now translated into Simplified Chinese.

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.

Key Concept 38 Boundary Objects translated into Simplified ChineseLeeds-Hurwitz, W. (2024). Boundary objects [Simplified Chinese]. (M. Cui, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 38. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/kc38-boundary-object_sim-chinese.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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Boston College: Global Culture & Communication (USA)

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Assistant Professor of Global Culture and Communication, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. Deadline: 15 October 2024.

The Department of Communication at Boston College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in global culture and communication. The successful candidate should demonstrate teaching and research experience in communication and/or media studies and be prepared to teach courses including Globalization and the Media and Communication Research Methods. Applicants able to teach both critical-cultural and social science methods are particularly encouraged to apply. The capacity to incorporate a newly developed digital media creation lab into teaching and research is welcomed.

Universität für Weiterbildung Krems: 3 Positions in Migration/Globalization (Germany)

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Multiple positions related to migration and globalisation, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Germany. Deadline: varies by position. 

Senior Scientist (postdoc), Department of Migration and Globalisation. Deadline 30 September 2024.

This search is for a Post-Doctoral Researcher interested in conducting independent research on ethical issues related to migration policy making. The topic should fit broadly within the thematic scope of the project The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas. Candidates should submit a brief outline in their application defining the topic they want to research about and explaining in which way their topic relates to the aims of the Dilemmas project. In particular, they welcome applications by researchers that have recently finished their PhD and who want to use the time to publish one or two articles out of (or as a follow-up to) their dissertation work, as well as to prepare a new research proposal for external funding (for example by the Austrian Science Fund’s ESPRIT program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ APART program, or the European Union’s Marie Curie program).

Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student), Department of Migration and Globalisation. Deadline: 25 September 2024.

This position begins with a two-month Visiting Research Fellowship dedicated for drafting a PhD Proposal. Upon successful evaluation, it transitions into a three-year fixed position within the ERC Starting Grant project “MixedRivals”, funded by the EU. The PhD candidate will play a pivotal role in the MixedRivals project, primarily focusing on the data collection related to de facto (forced) migration policies, supporting qualitative interviews, and assisting with survey design and analysis. This position offers a unique opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research at the intersection of (forced) migration and conflict studies.

Project Research Associate, Research Lab Sustainable Cultural Heritage. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

The research associate will have the following tasks: to conduct research in the field of historical textiles and bookbinding techniques, focusing on conservation methods; develop and refine research charters, transitioning these into an electronic format; manage and safeguard research data, contributing directly to ongoing conservation projects; writing scientific texts and presenting the results; gain specialized expertise through research work, which will significantly enhance future career prospects; and participate in project coordination and management tasks as required.

Victoria U: International Relations (New Zealand)

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Lecturer in International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting a Pūkenga – Lecturer in International Relations join the Political Science & International Relations programme on a permanent, full-time basis. The starting date is 24 February 2025.

Key responsibilities:

  • Contribute to teaching courses at all levels in International Relations, as appropriate and agreed to with the Tumuaki – Head of School
  • Advance a sustained and disciplinary-relevant research programme
  • Successfully supervise post-graduate students to completion
  • Contribute to Hautūtanga/leadership, administrative roles, and outreach to the wider community
  • Prepare and deliver graduate and undergraduate courses in International Relations
  • Commence other teaching or administrative duties

Vancouver Dialogues (Canada)

Applied ICDVancouver Dialogues: First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

“Stories build community and create understanding. They are the memories and oral histories of peoples who have taken different journeys to create a home in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver Dialogues Project aimed to create cohesive communities by exploring the stories of Vancouver’s First Nations, urban Aboriginal and immigrant communities.”

The book resulting from the 2010-11 project (available online, for free) can serve as a model to other communities for how to get people from different cultural backgrounds talking to one another. At the end of the project, “Overwhelmingly, those who have been involved with the Project have asked for a continued dialogue about the issues which have been raised,” which can only be understood as a marker of success.

U Southern Denmark: PHD Scholarships in Political Science (Denmark)

“Studentships“3-4 Ph.D. Scholarhips in Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Deadline: 15 October 2024.

The Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for 3 to 4 PhD scholarships within the research areas political science, public administration, international and regional politics, welfare studies or journalism studies as of January 1, 2025, or as agreed.

As a PhD student, you will be affiliated with one of the department’s three research sections: Public Administration, Welfare and Politics (PAWP), International and Regional Politics (IRP), or Journalism (JOUR). For more information about the department organization, strategy, research, and teaching, please visit the website.

The Public Administration, Welfare and Politics research section is comprised of the two research fields public administration and welfare studies. The scholars focus on various research areas within public management and administration, comparative welfare studies and social policy as well as comparative politics and political economy. The section also provides high-quality, research-based teaching and supervision in the political science study program and the two professional master study programs in public management, and they disseminate research-based knowledge to key stakeholders.

The International and Regional Politics research section consists of the Center for War Studies, the Centre for Border Region Studies, and the Danish Centre for Rural Research. They conduct research on different areas such as contemporary security issues, the changing characteristics of war and the relationship between war and peace; European border regions in the past and present; as well as understanding and improving life in rural areas.

The Journalism research section, consisting of the Centre for Journalism, is centered around two joined research networks; one is focused on rhetoric and journalistic usage of language, the other on social, societal, and political aspects of journalism. The Centre for Journalism offers both bachelor and graduate degrees in journalism, short-term, mid-career courses for journalists, and trains doctoral students.

Feeding the Civic Imagination

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Feeding the Civic Imagination, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 13(1), 2024.

Special Issue editors: Do Own (Donna) Kim (University of Illinois Chicago), Sangita Shresthova (University of Southern California) and Paulina Lanz (University of Southern California).

Food is a powerful entry point into the civic imagination…

Food is a powerful entry point into the civic imagination—i.e., the capacity to imagine alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions, the social process of which fosters a shared vision for collective action. As an essential material component of human life, food exists as an extremely mundane and dynamic aspect of our everyday personal and social experiences; our relationship with food is intertwined with issues of privilege, access, representation, language, ethnicity, and the materiality of culture. This forum explores diverse intersections between food and civic imagination, with topics ranging from shared memories, local (re-)imaginations, history and civic action, and private-public translations. The forum discusses how food sustains, nourishes, and connects individuals and their communities by delving into both their presence—e.g., acquiring and preparing ingredients, cooking meals, sharing or selling foods—and absence—e.g., hunger and human waste in food ecology. Articles in this collection demonstrate that the civic imagination is not only fed in dining rooms and kitchens but also in less conventionally thought-of contexts, such as digital spaces, toilets, and forums such as ours. They urge us to engage with food in new imaginative ways, fostering and bridging conversations: one cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like, and one must explore together to navigate and actualize the imaginative possibilities.

Articles in the special issue:

CFP The Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue in a World of Political Populisms

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Call for submissions to a special issue of Journal of Dialogue Studies on The Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue in a World of Political Populisms. Deadline: 7 October 2024.

The new issue of the Journal of Dialogue Studies on ‘The Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue in a World of Political Populisms’ seeks to bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from various disciplines to explore and critically examine the dynamics of such political populisms and their impact on dialogue and communication within and between nations. They invite contributions that address (but are not limited to) the following themes:

  • Populisms: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
  • Populisms and international relations
  • Comparative Politics of Populisms
  • Digital Dialogues and Populisms
  • Religion and Populisms
  • Media, Communication, and Populisms
  • Populisms and Truth
  • International order, Institutions and Populisms