Author: Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, the Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, manages this website.

CFP South Asia Communication Association at ICA: Communication & Global Human Rights 2024 (Australia)

Conferences

Call for Papers: South Asia Communication Association: Communication and Global Human Rights: Media Research on South Asia & Its Diaspora Worldwide, research session at International Communication Association, Goldcoast, Australia, 19-24 June 2024. Deadline: 20 January 2024.

Organizers invite you to present your research at the 2024 South Asia Communication Association (SACA)’s refereed-research session at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA),  in Gold Coast, Australia, Jun. 19-24, 2024. SACA will host an interactive research session, and the ICA 2024 conference program will feature the SACA session. The ICA 2024 conference promises to be an
innovative, interactive and engaging event.

You are invited to submit your research on media and communication
in South Asia or its diaspora worldwide. Organizers welcome a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Please feel free to email Dr. Jatin Srivastava if you have any questions about your research relating to the scope of the SACA research session.

UNESCO e-Platform on ICD

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UNESCO created an e-platform for intercultural dialogue in 2018, which recent followers may not have noticed. It is designed to be “a global collaborative hub” intended “to promote good practices  from all over the world, that enable to build bridges between people from diverse backgrounds in order to create more inclusive societies through mutual understanding and respect for diversity.”

One section presents a concepts glossary, explaining terms from intercultural dialogue to cultural identity to intercultural citizenship. These will be particularly familiar to all those who have previously read Intercultural Competences: A conceptual and operational framework from 2013, which I drafted for UNESCO (with many contributions by others named in the notes), as they all come directly from that publication.

Another section provides good practices for a wide range of topics, intended to serve as models. CID Posters and several publications (Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue and Constructing Intercultural Dialogues) have been accepted for inclusion.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Chinese American Museum: Program Associate/Manager (USA)

“JobProgram Associate/Manager, Chinese American Museum, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 7 December 2023).

The museum is seeking a personable, detail-oriented, and technology savvy individual to serve as Program Associate/Manager, undertaking responsibilities that focus on the coordination, logistics, and content-building for programs and initiatives. Programs may consist of both live and online events and content including webinars, live and recorded interviews, collaborative meetings and presentations, and educational lectures and conferences. Additionally, this position will support communication, marketing, and development projects as needed.

The Program Associate/Manager reports to the Executive Vice President and works closely with the Board of Directors, staff, and Advisory Boards. This is a full-time position with a unique opportunity to play a creative, visible and significant role in the continuing development of the museum and programs.

Yale-China: Health Programs Officer (USA)

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Health Programs Officer, Yale-China Association, New Haven, CT, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 16 December 2023).

The Yale‐China Association seeks to hire a Health Programs Officer based at its headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. Reporting to the Director of Health Programs, the Health Programs Officer works to support and implement current and new health programs in China and in New Haven.

Responsibilities

  • Manage aspects of the health programs, including supporting and implementing current and new programs in the health portfolio, and tracking program progress

  • Coordinate development and management of work plans for on-going health projects

  • Support recruitment and selection of health fellows and scholarship recipients, orientation and training, and program execution

  • Write and prepare program reports, briefs, presentations, and papers, including English to Chinese and Chinese to English translation and interpretation

  • Prepare financial materials and documentation for budgets, grants and reports, and submit payment vouchers for disbursement

  • Maintain and update content on the Yale-China Health Programs website, including writing up summaries of events, and paying attention to visual presentation

  • Plan meetings and other events with Yale-China partners in the US and in China, and make travel plans and logistical arrangements related to such events

  • Review Chinese health services and policy related to the health missions of the Association

  • Travel to China 2-4 times a year to meet with partners and implement programs

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of work experience in a health-related field; a combination of education and experience may be considered
  • US permanent work authorization required (citizen or Green Card holder)
  • Chinese language skills, both oral and written and used in a professional setting, required

U Illinois Chicago: Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate: AI & Minority Representation (USA)

“JobBridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate: AI and Minority Representation, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA. Deadline: 12 January 2024.

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for a Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate specializing in AI and Minority representation. The position focuses on the ways artificial intelligence engages in and impacts minority representation, conceived broadly. Areas of interest include algorithmic bias and oppression; AI and data justice; black box design; minority histories and cultures of computing, and other counters to deficit approaches; generative AI and bias; platform design; Virtual, Augmented and Extended reality interfaces; robotics, wearable technologies and interfaces of the future; and DEI practices.

The candidate will have earned a doctorate in Communication or a related field, will demonstrate strong promise of scholarly achievement and teaching success, show good prospects for external research funding, and will demonstrate commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship.

The Bridge to Faculty Scholars program seeks to advance diversity on the permanent faculty level by encouraging the recruitment, retention, and promotion of outstanding scholars from different backgrounds, with an emphasis on attracting individuals from groups who have been historically underrepresented in our discipline. Bridge to Faculty is designed to recruit scholars with the goal of transitioning them to faculty members after two years. After the first year, and subject to satisfactory performance and University approval, this position may be re-appointed for a second year. Successful postdoctoral associates may have the opportunity to transition to tenure-track faculty starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. Scholars will participate in a mentoring experience within the department, with the opportunity to meet other Scholars through cohort-based events and workshops organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Engagement. The Bridge to the Faculty Scholars Program is funded by the Chancellor’s Office and administered through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Engagement.

Video Exhibition: Roma for Romania (Romania)

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Marica, Irina. (2 November 2023). Roma personalities in focus at Bucharest subway exhibition. Romania Insider.

The subway in Bucharest hosts this month a special video exhibition dedicated to outstanding personalities of the Roma culture. A total of 11 short videos about each personality are set to run on screens in subway stations until November 30.

The video exhibition aims to change mindsets, reduce stereotypes in Romanian society as a whole and contribute to the development of intercultural dialogue.

Some of the personalities included in the project are jazz singer Anca Parghel (1957-2008), violinist Ion Voicu (1923-1997), artist Anton Pann (1790-1854), footballer Bănel Nicoliță (born 1985), musician Barbu Lăutaru (1780-1858), singer Connect-R (born 1982), and actress Alina Șerban born 1987).

The exhibition is part of the “Roma for Romania” campaign, which the National Agency for Roma, the National Center for Roma Culture – Romano Kher and the “Pro-Europa” Roma Party Association have been running since April 2023.

Center for Khmer Studies: Junior Resident Fellowships (Cambodia)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Junior Resident Fellows Program, Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 1 July-9 August 2024. Deadline: 29 February 2024.

A six-week program in Cambodia for Cambodian, French, and US students to live and study alongside peers about contemporary Cambodian history and society. The Junior Resident Fellows Program provides students with a once-in-a-lifetime experience, allowing them to live and study alongside peers from different backgrounds and cultures while learning about contemporary Cambodian history and society.

Each summer, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) offers five U.S., five Cambodian, and five French undergraduate students and recent graduates the exciting opportunity to participate in a six-week Junior Resident Fellows Program in Cambodia. Fellows are based at the CKS campus in Siem Reap, situated on the historic grounds of Wat Damnak – one of the city’s major Buddhist pagodas – and mere minutes away from the world-renowned Angkor Wat temple complex. Fellows also spend time in Cambodia’s bustling capital city, Phnom Penh.

CFP Journal of Communication: Time in Communication Research and Theories

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Call for submissions: Journal of Communication Special issue: Time in Communication Research and Theories. Deadline: 15 March 2024.

Guest Editors: Tai-Quan “Winson” Peng (Michigan State University, USA) and Zheng Joyce Wang (Ohio State University, USA)

Communication research embraces a constant ebb and flow of emerging and changing technologies, phenomena, concepts, methods, and theories. Trends evolve, ideas emerge, and paradigms shift. Amidst this ever-changing landscape of research, one constant remains unwavering: time. Time shapes the way we conceptualize, examine, and understand the complexities of communication representations, structures, relations, changes, and processes.

This special issue aims to propel time into the forefront of communication research. The guest editors encourage scholars to transcend mere methodological considerations and to challenge prevailing conceptions of time in communication research, such as viewing time solely as a limited resource or a linear progression. They invite communication scholars to explicate, elaborate, or conceptualize this fundamental dimension of communication, to delve into its intricacies and complexities, to explore its multifaceted meanings, and to construct and advance communication theories. Submissions should place time at the core of their research, shifting it from a mere backdrop or a control variable to a primary focus in theorizing or modeling communication.

Civic Innovation Fund Grants 2024 (EU)

Grants

Civic Innovation Fund Grants, THE CIVICS Innovation Hub, EU. Deadline: 25 January 2024.

Do you have a project idea in the field of civic education that lacks funding? Are you a member of a young NGO in civic education and searching for financial support? Then apply for the call for projects of Civic Innovation Fund launched by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub and get a chance to make your project come true! Within this CIF call, each project receives 10,000 € for piloting, incubation and scaling up for the period of 12 months.

Eligibility criteria:

      • Projects should be startups in the sphere of civic education that focus on strengthening democratic competencies that promote participation, cohesion, and resilience. Project ideas can range from workshops, cultural interventions, eyewitness talks, exhibitions, scientific studies, scenario methods, to apps, or augmented reality storyboards.

      • Projects should relate to one of the NECE topics.

      • Projects should be caried out by at least 2 partners from different European countries in a transnational partnership. The partnership can be set up across sectors, but one of the partnering organisations should come from either the formal or non-formal/informal civic education sector.

      • Projects should incorporate the principles of diversity, interdisciplinarity, inclusivity, intersectionality, and intergenerationality.

  • The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund launched by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It aims to pioneer new ideas in civil society, enhance their visibility and integrate them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators. The fund supports start-up ideas in civic education that apply interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and inclusive approaches which lead to greater resilience, diversity, and collaboration in democracy.

    Each project receives between 10,000 € and 12,000 € for piloting, incubation and scaling up for the period of 12 months. The CIF aims at supporting primary young civic educators (under 35) and young NGOs (under 3 years of existence). The awarded startups also qualify as informal NECE Impact Spots, amplifying their ideas and promoting non-formal civic education in their countries. Additionally, chosen projects are involved in all NECE activities.

  • Countries eligible to apply: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Lichtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, the UK and Ukraine.

KC11 Intercultural Discourse and Communication Translated into German

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing with translations of the Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC11: Intercultural Discourse and Communication, which Leila Monaghan first published in English in 2014, and which Marlena Pompino has now translated into German.

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.

KC11 Intercultural Discourse and Communication translated into GermanMonaghan, L. (2023). Intercultural discourse and communication [German] (M. Pompino, Trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 11. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kc11-intercultural-discourse-communication_german.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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