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CFP CMM Institute: 2024 Fellows

FellowshipsCall for proposals, 2024 Fellowship program, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) Institute, Oracle, AZ, USA. Deadline: 10 December 2023.

The CMM Institute invites scholar-practitioners who appreciate the central role of communication in making our social worlds to apply for a Fellowship in 2024. The Fellowship theme is open for 2024 and they encourage anyone with a special interest in exploring any of the many social, environmental, organisational or political challenges that we are currently facing in our social worlds. These Fellowships offer peer mentoring, support of a dedicated community of scholar-practitioners, opportunities to engage with other Fellows and a stipend to support the work of the Fellow.

7th LRI Workshop: Language & Belonging (Italy)

ConferencesCFP 7th Annual Language, Region, Identity Workshop for Early Career Researchers: Language & Belonging, Academy of German-Italian Studies, Villa San Marco, Merano, Italy, 6-7 June 2024. Application deadline: 15 January 2024.

Following the successful workshops in Merano/Meran (Italy) in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and in Innsbruck (Austria) in 2016, the 7th workshop for early-career researchers of the linguistic colloquium Language, Region, Identity (LRI) will be hosted again at the Villa San Marco, Merano/Meran (Italy). The workshop, jointly organised by a team from six universities and research centres in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, aims to foster scientific exchanges within the Alpine region and beyond by offering a forum for discussing current and recently concluded projects. The workshop will feature oral presentations of 20 minutes with a subsequent discussion time of 20 min.

Each Linguistic Colloquium workshop has a specific topic of interest. The 7th edition will address the topic of language and belonging. Despite often being equated with the notions of identity and citizenship, the notion of belonging can capture various different ways in which people may belong and form emotional attachments. For several decades now, different fields of linguistic research have tackled issues in relation to belonging with different theoretical and methodological orientations. From variationist sociolinguistics, which has attempted to work out how certain linguistic features pattern around people’s belonging to certain places, social classes or genders, research on language and belonging received important contributions from orientations such as Sociolinguistic Ethnography or Discourse Analysis that have conceived of belonging as a resource that people employ strategically to construct, claim or resist forms of social inclusion or exclusion.

Organizers welcome contributions that deal with language and belonging in relation to various intertwined social categories and groups (genders, social status, (sub)cultural groups, nationalities, professional groups, etc.) and investigate:

  • how belonging is expressed, perceived, negotiated, resisted and contested,
  • how categories and groups of belonging form, change and dissolve over time and in different spaces,
  • how belonging links to authority, ownership and power,
  • how the relation between language and belonging can be conceptualised and tackled methodologically.

The workshop languages are German, Italian and English.

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2024

AwardsThe Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is given to those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world. Each idea supports one noble cause: to inspire us all to work together for the common good. Award: $100,000. Deadline: 31 January 2024.

Submissions will be judged according to originality, feasibility and potential impact, not by the cumulative record of the nominee. They may address a wide range of global concerns including foreign policy and its formation; the conduct of international relations or world politics; global economic issues, such as world trade and investment; resolution of regional, ethnic or racial conflicts; the proliferation of destructive technologies; global cooperation on environmental protection or other important issues; international law and organization; any combination or particular aspects of these, or any other suitable idea which could at least incrementally lead to a more just and peaceful world order.

Eastern Illinois U: Interpersonal Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor in Communication Studies,  Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA. Deadline: 13 November 2023.

The School of Communication and Journalism at Eastern Illinois University seeks an individual to fill the role of tenure track assistant professor in the Division of Communication Studies. Candidates should have teaching and research expertise in the area of interpersonal communication, with secondary areas in gender, race, and/or intercultural communication. Primary duties include teaching courses in the division core and their area expertise. Opportunities for summer employment exist for candidates who have interest in teaching online. Academic advising, service assignments, research/creative, and professionally related projects are expected.

U North Dakota: Assistant Professor of Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA. Deadline: 15 November 2023.

The Department of Communication at the University of North Dakota invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor, contingent upon availability of funding. They seek applicants with expertise in the following areas, including, but not limited to: international/intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, sports communication, strategic communication, and communication and technology.

 

Bryant U: Intercultural / International Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Intercultural and International Communication,  Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, USA. Deadline: 10 November 2023.

The Department of Communication and Language Studies at Bryant University invites applications for a full time, tenure track Assistant Professor position in Intercultural/International Communication, to help in two B.S. degrees of Communication and Digital Communication and Bryant’s newly revised General Education coursework. They seek a scholar-teacher whose background prepares them to serve as program director of a multi- section intercultural communication course that is a part of the General Education curriculum, along with teaching courses in their area of specialty.

Principal responsibilities of this position include:

  • Teaching courses that examine intercultural and international communication, both in its theoretical concepts, and its real-world application such as: intercultural communication competency, transcultural communication, cultural identity or cultural adaptation, impact of communication on diverse populations, use of communication to address social, cultural, and economic disparities, community outreach, audience analysis, intercultural communication and health science and behavior, and addressing at-risk communities.

  • Revision or creation of higher level courses in intercultural/international communication, as well as other courses that align with the candidate’s specific expertise.

  • Work collaboratively on research and programming with diverse educational departments.

  • Evidence of multidisciplinary research, community outreach initiatives, educational training initiatives, or student programming creation is preferred.

World Council for Intercultural & Global Competence: Assessing Intercultural Competence (USA but Online)

EventsWorld Council for Intercultural & Global Competence: Assessing Intercultural Competence Across Disciplines, 30-31 October 2023,  online.

The 2023 Annual Global Symposium will be held virtually 30 October 2023 on the topic of Assessing Intercultural Competence. The theme will be “Assessing Intercultural Competence across Disciplines” Days and times: Monday, October 30, 16:00 – 19:00 EST / Tuesday, October 31st, 5:00 – 8:00 JST. This event is being organized by the ICC Assessment Working Group of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence.

Li & Lee: Transpositioning: Translanguaging and the Liquidity of Identity

Resources in ICD“ width=Li, W., & Lee, T. K. (2023). Transpositioning: Translanguaging and the liquidity of identity.
Applied Linguistics, 20, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad065

Transpositioning is an adaptation of the concept of positioning as used in social psychology, and is defined as “the process in which individuals articulate their personhood by taking up changeable identities in interaction” (p. 2). It should be relevant to those studying intercultural dialogue, though it has not yet been used in that context. See KC99: Translanguaging for a brief explanation of that concept.

“This essay seeks to address the seemingly random, ever-expanding, and shifting communicative demands of liquid modernity by focussing on two key issues: the need to reconceptualize language and communication as a consequence of the diversification of media and resources users draw upon to meet these demands; and the need for a new analytical framework to capture how people perform multiplex roles spontaneously and simultaneously through dynamic and adaptive communicative practices. We do the former with the concept of translanguaging and the latter with transpositioning.” (p. 1)

“Translanguaging facilitates transpositioning. The juxtaposition of the two terms underscores the simultaneous activation of multiple identities by way of mobilizing resources across the boundaries of named languages, new media, and entrenched ideologies. In this process, borders are renegotiated, circumvented, even outright rejected. What ensues are emergent and evolving semiotic spaces in which play—in the sense of a certain lightness of being, marked by a creative and critical ludicity—is a method of social engagement. One might thus say that communication in the liquid modern age comprises a non-committal play of identities where language users, in the manner of free-and-easy tourists creating itineraries on the whim, spontaneously (re)invent themselves by orchestrating all available and accessible resources in their semiotic repertoire in response to communicative stimuli from others.” (p. 14)

For a brief introduction to the topic, see KC99: Translanguaging.

Intersect Virtual Conference 2023 (Canada but Online)

EventsIntersect: 2nd Annual Graduate Students Virtual Conference, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, 26-27 October 2023.

INTERSECT is the annual virtual conference of the Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communication (MAIIC) program at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada. The conference brings together experts, researchers, and students from different parts of the world to explore and discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in intercultural and international communication. Join and register for free to be part of this exciting conference.

The keynote speakers are:
Dr. Rogério Miguel Puga (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal)
Dr. Merelda Fiddler-Potter (First Nations University of Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Dr. Brad Anderson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)
Ms. Delphine Schrank M.A. (Investigative Journalist and Author, Mexico City, Mexico)

DIVERSAS: Dialogue Between Portuguese and Chinese (Macau)

EventsDIVERSAS: Diversity in Portuguese and Chinese Translation, St. Joseph University, Macau, 27 September-20 October 2023.

The exhibition “DIVERSAS – Diversity in Portuguese-Chinese Translation,” organized by at the University of Saint Joseph, is a multifaceted display of intercultural and linguistic dialogue between Portuguese and Chinese. This exhibition showcases student projects prepared during the prior academic year. Each work reflects the diversity of these two very different languages, exploring the translation and interpretation of texts, covering various genres, themes, and fields of knowledge.  DIVERSAS invites visitors to explore and discover the plurality of meanings and perspectives that arise throughout the process of teaching and learning languages. Each piece in the exhibition is a testimony to the challenge of translating not only words but also contexts, ideas, and feelings between such rich cultures and traditions.

This event is an opportunity to see the work and creativity of the students, and to reflect on the importance of intercultural dialogue in building a more inclusive and harmonious world.

The exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the role of translation in bringing worlds closer together, in understanding other cultures, and in building bridges between people and nations. It would serve well as a model to other similar programs.