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International Day of Human Fraternity 2024

EventsInternational Day of Human Fraternity 2024, UNAOC, 5 February 2024, 11 am – 12 pm EST.

On December 21, 2020, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/75/200, designating February 4 as the International Day of Human Fraternity, to be commemorated annually starting in 2021. The resolution encourages all Member States to actively promote a culture of peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding, and solidarity. Celebrating human fraternity and its underlying principles — including mutual respect, cultural and religious diversity, and the promotion of intercultural and interreligious dialogue — serves as a poignant reminder of the shared values that unite us as one humanity.

Struggles in the City Podcasts

Podcasts

Struggles in the City, the podcast to understand power relations in cities, created by Mélodine Sommier as part of Racial Landscapes.

“Struggles in the city” is a podcast to understand power relations in cities. The podcast is produced as part of the research project ‘Racial Landscapes’ conducted by Mélodine Sommier (Academy Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The podcast has a larger scope than the project and discusses different struggles that take place in urban environments. A wide range of topics are addressed by experts who join Mélodine on the podcast to talk in an accessible manner about issues such as urban tourism, linguistic diversity, soundscapes, queer spaces, (banal) nationalism, etc.

All episodes can be accessed via the project’s website as well as on Anchor, Spotify and other most popular streaming services.

 

CFP Culture, Education, and Future

“Publication

Call for articles or special issue proposals for the new journal Culture, Education, and Future. Deadline: ongoing.

Culture, Education, and Future (CEF) is an open-access and peer-reviewed international journal that publishes research aiming to improve education nature and knowledge production by focusing on how culture shapes education in light of current developments. As emphasized by Editor-in-Chief Russ Marion in the journal’s inaugural issue:

This journal, then, asks how cultural trends are influencing education and the future of education, for the good or the bad. We seek substantive, well-conceived and researched discussions of the nexuses between culture, education, and the future.

CEF welcomes research that uses any research method, including reviews, mixed methods studies, quantitative and qualitative research, and innovative research methods. The journal’s scope includes culture-centered educational studies that can directly or indirectly impact education stakeholders, decision-makers, and practitioners. At CEF, researchers from all types of educational institutions, including K–12 schools, colleges, and universities, adult education centers, non-governmental education groups, as well as those working on social, family, and community projects, are encouraged to submit their articles that address current and critical issues in the field. Studies in all fields of education and culture, including psychology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and communication, are the journal’s focus.

Anyone interested in discussion a special issue proposal should cntact Russ Marion (Editor-in-Chief in Culture, Education, and Future).

Digital Language Variation in Context Lecture Series (Germany but Online)

EventsDigital Language Variation in Context (DiLCo) Lecture Series 2024, University of Hamburg, Germany (online), January to July 2024.

DiLCo, the international research network on “Digital Language Variation in Context”, presents a last season of lectures from January to July 2024. The broad range of topics ranges from hate speech detection to multilingualism in Luxembourg. Lecture attendance remains free of charge. Registration is required. All lectures are delivered on Zoom.

A Different Vision of the World

“Intercultural Dialogue Quotes”

Ahlborn, Susan. (2023). Emily Wilson’s epic life. Omnia: All Things Penn Arts and Sciences (pp. 34-39).

Emily Wilson, Professor of Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, has received enormous attention for publishing new translations of Homer’s works, The Odyssey and also The Iliad. This description of her efforts and interview with her includes several wonderful quotes about translation.

It is a privilege to spend so much time confronting this kind of insoluble problem, exploring the crannies between two languages…

You get a different vision of the world if you can think in a different language.

U Pennsylvania: Integration Programs Manager, Penn Global (USA)

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Integration Programs Manager, Penn Global, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Hybrid eligible). Deadline: open until filled; posted 18 January 2024.

International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS), a vital component of Penn Global, is dedicated to advancing global engagement at Penn and its affiliated hospitals. The mission is centered around providing inclusive, innovative, and impactful immigration services and integration programs. They are committed to fostering a vibrant global community at Penn by supporting the University’s mission to educate, train, and hire the best and the brightest international students, scholars, staff, and faculty. At ISSS, we prioritize delivering expert immigration and intercultural expertise, and we initiate relevant and well-informed programming to create a campus environment that is both inclusive and welcoming.

The Integration Programs Manager plays a pivotal role in the integration team, overseen by the Associate Director of Integration and Community Engagement in ISSS. In this role, the Integration Programs Manager collaborates closely with the integration team members, assuming diverse administrative responsibilities to ensure the seamless execution and high-quality delivery of a wide array of integration events, programs, and initiatives throughout the year. Additionally, the position involves providing support for immigration-related and office events, coordinating effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and managing logistical arrangements with precision. Candidates for this role must possess exceptional organizational skills, demonstrate effective multitasking abilities, and exhibit excellent oral and written communication skills. Adaptability to ambiguity and uncertainty, coupled with the flexibility to embrace change, is crucial. Moreover, openness to diverse viewpoints is highly valued in this position. To meet the demands of this dynamic role, flexibility in working hours, including evenings, weekends, and occasional holidays, is essential. Additionally, international travel may be required for overseas programs, adding an exciting dimension to the position.

UK Council for International Student Affairs: Communications Manager (UK)

“JobCommunications Manager, UK Council for International Student Affairs, London, UK. Deadline: 5 February 2024.

The Communications Manager leads on the delivery of UKCISA’s communications to members, international students, and other stakeholders, across the UKCISA and #WeAreInternational brands. This role is responsible for delivering, shaping and evaluating a communications strategy for the organisation and increasing engagement with key audiences. Additionally, this role will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure consistent branding and communications across UKCISA’s outputs and services. Core responsibilities include: Digital and social media, Website content, Brand, and Marketing.

RMIT University: Deputy Dean, International (Australia)

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Deputy Dean, International, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Deadline: 4 February 2024.

As the Deputy Dean, International, you will be responsible for providing strategic and scholarly leadership for all international activities within the School, including both research, and learning and teaching. You will be responsible for strategic planning and the management of the School’s international operations in order to achieve School performance targets in student recruitment, as well as the delivery of high impact and influential research outcomes. You will work across the School and the College to promote collaboration across our international precincts.

A key goal is to expand our international research activities, including working with our staff across our international campuses to expand their research opportunities. The School will develop new innovation hubs across multiple international locations, and as the Deputy Dean, International, you will play a key role in driving this new activity.

The position will require the ability and willingness to travel across our international locations.

CFP World Anthropological Union (South Africa)

Conferences

Call for papers: World Anthropological Union, 11-15 November 2024, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (in person). Deadline: 31 January 2024.

Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Join others in Johannesburg, South Africa, from November 11th to 15th, 2024, for a transformative exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme: “Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power.” Organizers invite you to contribute your insights to this groundbreaking event organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg.

Key Themes for Panel Proposals:
– Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines
– Politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological, and paleo-anthropological knowledge
– Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge-making
– Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork
– Legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories
– Truth and/or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation
– Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning
– Tensions between local and academic knowledge production
– Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives
– Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative

CRASSH: Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2024-5 (UK)

FellowshipsVisiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South: Religious Boundaries, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline: 25 February 2024.

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting applications for funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South. The purpose of these Fellowships is to provide opportunities for scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the University of Cambridge and to draw benefit from access to the University’s collections and resources. It is hoped that these visits will lead on to future collaborations and exchanges.

For 2025, CRASSH will partner with the Faculty of Divinity and the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Applications are invited from scholars whose research is connected to the theme of inter-religious relations, with a particular focus on religious boundary-making. This invites projects that study how two or more religious groups form one another in their mutual encounter, when and how they demarcate difference, and how boundaries between them remain mutable through various activities of exchange such as dialogue or missionary endeavours. The call also welcomes projects that are interested in how religious boundary-constructions relate to other articulations of identity, such as ethnicity, class, politics, or gender.

They invite applications from any discipline, including anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, sociology and theology. Projects should aim to advance current understandings of interfaith conflict and dialogue through concrete case studies of religious boundary-making or ideas about them, situated in the Global South.

There are other visiting fellowships possible at CRASSH, but they must be self-funded.