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CFP International Rhetoric Workshop: Borders & Crossroads 2024 (Croatia)

Conferences

Call for papers: International Rhetoric Workshop: Borders & Crossroads, 18-20 June 2024, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia (in person). Deadline: 18 February 2024.

The Planning Committee for the 4th Biennial IRW invites international PhD students and emerging, early-career scholars to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making. Senior and more established scholars are also welcome to apply. This year’s theme, Borders and Crossroads, prompts us to examine the notions of 1) physical, cultural, and conceptual borders that delineate territories and boundaries, marking spaces of distinction, separation, and connection; and 2) crossroads that represent intersecting paths, encounters, confluences, and opportunities to confront and transcend restrictive boundaries. Borders and Crossroads are encountered across inter/national, political, identity, and cultural contexts, all amid widespread refugee, migratory, wartime, economic, racial, and environmental crises. Guided by this theme, the workshop seeks to explore how rhetoric can contribute to shaping novel responses, articulate new socio-political narratives, and cultivate human hopes and imaginaries for resolution, world-making, justice, possibility, sustainability, and reconciliation.

Held over the course of three days, the IRW consists of an opening keynote address each day from internationally renowned scholars, workshop sessions in which participants review and discuss drafts of ongoing research with faculty mentors and each other, and faculty discussion panels engaging topics relevant to the conference theme. This year’s keynote speakers include Lisa A. Flores and Karma Chávez.

CFP Representing/Communicating the US in Local and Global Turmoil

“Publication

Call for chapters for Representing/Communicating the US in Local and Global Turmoil: From Wars to Contemporary Challenges. Deadline: 1 March 2024 (proposal only).

Editors: Mark Finney (Emory and Henry College) and Sudeshna Roy (Stephen F. Austin State University).

This book is among a slate of others being considered for adoption as a series by editors Victoria Ann Newsom (Olympic College) & Lara Lengel (Bowling Green State University) entitled Conflict, Culture, Communication from Lexington Books.

Premise

Views of the United States from a conflict standpoint can vary widely depending on the specific conflict, region, and the time period in question. Different countries and individuals may hold different perceptions of the US based on their own geopolitical interests, historical experiences, and cultural perspectives.

There are a wide range of communication subfields that interact with conflict and peace perceptions about the United States – intercultural communication, rhetoric, critical cultural communication, media studies, global communication and social change, philosophy, theory, and critique, etc. Similarly, scholars have identified different contexts within which the US conflict and peace perceptions unfold.

This book will be influenced by two important questions which have received less attention than they deserve: How do people, engaged in conflict with one another, come to understand their opponents and what roles do institutions, such as, media, international multilateral organizations, national ideological parties, etc., play in the formation and maintenance of beliefs about the others? This book takes the United States as its thematic center, and countries/communities with which the United States has conflict as the spokes. Each author in this volume will examine a contemporary or recent conflict involving the United States and, instead of centering representations in the United States, examine the representations of the United States – representations that cast the United States as the other. The editors believe that the scholarly questions and answers being developed in this book will make useful contributions to the development of knowledge about international conflict situations and conflict resolution, communications studies and international relations. Though designed for scholars, the chapters should be accessible by undergraduate and graduate level courses concerned with representation and conflict management.

(See attached PDF for the full description)

Key Concept 109: Border Crossing

Key Concepts in ICD

The next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC109: Border Crossing by Louise Townsin. As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept in English, 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 109: Border CrossingTownsin, L  (2024). Border crossing. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 109. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kc109-border-crossing.pdf

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept.

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University of Pennsylvania: Assistant Director, International Studies, Lauder Institute (USA)

“Job

Assistant Director of International Studies, Lauder Institute, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 11 January 2024.

The Assistant Director for International Studies manages all administrative aspects of Lauder international studies courses and policies related to the core curriculum, Global Program, and non-language Africa Program. A key component of this position is to provide administrative support related to the delivery of the summer term curriculum and the master’s thesis program, which involves project management, data management, support for faculty and students, as well as overseeing assessment of critical writing abilities. This position also supports course logistics for the Global Program, international studies core courses, workshops, and immersions, which include some off-campus programs in domestic and international locations. The incumbent additionally will work with stakeholders to generate and manage website content creation related to academic and programming activities.

U Sheffield: International Business (UK)

“Job

International Business / International Business Strategy, Management School, University of Sheffield, England. Deadline: 23 February 2023.

The Management School at the University of Sheffield has an opportunity for a Professor in International Business or International Business Strategy to deliver excellence in research and teaching. They welcome applications from researchers with expertise in International Business or International Business Strategy who can contribute to the School and the wider University in the areas of research, teaching, leadership and professional standing, and wider engagement. You will contribute to delivering International Business (IB) and/or Strategy teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and to developing programme offerings in the discipline of IB and/or Strategy.

The School has six Subject Groups and this opportunity is located in the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ESIB) Group which:
• produces excellence in research, supported by a vibrant and collegiate research environment, and is home to the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED);
• delivers postgraduate and undergraduate modules and programmes in international business and management, international business strategy & strategic management, entrepreneurship, enterprise, new venture creation, business economics, and on the Doctoral Programme.

Writing Practices in the Multilingual Workplace (Finland but Online)

EventsWriting practices in the multilingual workplace: A case study of language brokering, by Anna Solin, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (online), 12 February 2024, 12 EET.

On Monday 12 Feb at 12:00 East European Time, Anna Solin (University of Helsinki, Finland) will give a talk titled ‘Writing practices in the multilingual workplace: A case study of language brokering’. The event will be live-streamed online with interactive Q&A after the talk. All are welcome to attend. Read the abstract and register here. Once you’re registered, you’ll be emailed the live stream info soon before the seminar.

Abstract: “In the talk, I will present a study of workplace writing, which focuses on administrative work in multilingual universities. While there is a wealth of research into institutional multilingualism, most studies on higher education have looked at teaching and research, and relatively little is known about the often invisible work of administrators. The study explores the collaborative writing practices of eight administrators who work at a Finnish university, drawing on interviews, meeting recordings and text histories. The analysis tracks the production of a genre which is central to local decision-making: the meeting agenda. Data collection took place during a period when a decision had just been made to begin publishing agendas in two languages (Finnish and English), in order to support the inclusion of international staff. The shift from monolingual to multilingual texts resulted in negotiation over both language choice and what kind of English is “appropriate” or “good enough” in meeting agendas. I will describe this negotiation from the perspective of language brokering, and particularly how different participants intervened in the writing process and the drafts being produced. The analysis focuses on questions such as who/what takes on or is given the role of broker, what kind of language features become targets of negotiation and what normative orientations are displayed in the administrators’ talk.”

U Edinburgh: PHD Scholarship in Peace & Conflict Resolution 2024 (UK)

“Studentships“

Chrystal Macmillan PhD Scholarship, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Deadline: 1 February 2024.

Applications are invited for the Chrystal Macmillan PhD Scholarship, which is offered by the School of Social and Political Science to a new PhD student studying a field relevant to Chrystal Macmillan. This is open only to new PhD pursuing a PhD topic in one of the following fields:

  • social justice
  • gender and equality
  • human rights
  • peace and conflict resolution

Chrystal Macmillan was a pioneering campaigner for social justice. In 1896, she was the first woman to graduate from the University of Edinburgh in science, later converting to law, and becoming one of the first group of women to be called to the English bar in 1924. She was a leading suffragist, campaigning for votes for women and equality of opportunity in other spheres. She was a prominent figure in the international women’s movement, campaigning for peace and conflict resolution during the First World War, and was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Histories of the Internationalization of the Field of Communication Studies

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Lopes, M. I. V., & Fuentes-Navarro, R. (Eds.). (2023). Special issue: Histories of the internationalization of the field of communication studies. MATRIZes, 17(3).

The new issue of MATRIZes – Journal of the Graduate Program in Communication Sciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil – has just been published, and it is available free to download. Articles are in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The topic is telling the history of how the field of communication studies has been gradually moving toward internationalization, and that seems directly relevant to the interests of many of those affiliated with this Center.

In keeping with the theme of the special issue, the international edition, with articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese is available here.

The Portuguese edition is available here.

Stimson Center: Junior Fellows, South Asia Program 2024 (USA)

Fellowships

Junior Fellows, South Asia Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C., USA. Deadline: 9 February 2024.

The Henry L. Stimson Center’s South Asia Program welcomes applications from highly motivated graduating seniors or individuals who have completed their undergraduate or master’s degree in the past year for its 2024-2025 cohort of Junior Fellows. The one-year, full-time fellowship will provide individuals with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge of security issues in the subcontinent, engage with the South Asia policy community in Washington and the region, and experience working at a dynamic think tank that provides close interaction with senior staff and researchers.

Junior Fellows will support the Stimson South Asia Program’s efforts to research, analyze, and inform policymakers about the evolving dynamics of deterrence, conflict risks, military modernization, and great-power competition in Southern Asia. Fellows will support research, publications, and programmatic efforts (including South Asian Voices, Strategic Learning, and public events and workshops). They will receive professional development opportunities to engage with leading scholars and practitioners in the field; to represent Stimson at scholarly and policy convenings; to hone technical and analytical skills; and to conduct, present, and publish their own research.

The Stimson Center is rated as “Least Biased” based on mostly neutral reporting on security, and “High” for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record by Media Bias/Fact Check. Other positions currently available at the Stimson Center are listed here.

Louise Townsin Profile

Profiles

Dr. Louise Townsin leads the Research Management Services unit at Torrens University Australia.

Louise TownsinShe provides strategic support for research and research training activities and develops and implements systems and processes that promote high quality research management, monitoring and reporting for both internal development and external reporting purposes. Dr. Townsin also undertakes research in Education and Health, focusing on intercultural communication and cultural contexts of learning, teaching and health and wellbeing. Her current research includes teacher professional development, stigma of mental illness, access to health services by culturally and linguistically diverse consumers, and community engagement in research. She uses qualitative methods, including participatory action research, to explore educational interventions to encourage sustainable attitudinal and behavioural change.

Work for CID:
Louise Townsin wrote KC109: Border Crossing.