Category: Events

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.

 

Media Literacy Week 2023

EventsMedia Literacy Week,  Sponsored by the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) , 23-27 October 2023.

US Media Literacy Week Logo

U.S. Media Literacy Week is the celebration of Media Literacy across the United States, held in conjunction with UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week. The mission is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country. U.S. Media Literacy Week calls attention to media literacy education by bringing together hundreds of partners for events and activities around the country.

NAMLE defines media literacy as, “the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication.” So each day will focus on one of those words and we encourage participants to organize events, teach a lesson, or create media related to the day’s theme. Learn more about this year’s theme here. each day: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act.

What does media literacy have to do with intercultural dialogue?

…media literacy deals with the study of cultures and looks at the problems relating to hybridization, interconnection and cross-cultural issues between societies and peoples. In other words, media literacy is all about intercultural dialogue.

Source: Tornero, J. M. P. (2014). Media literacy: The cultural heritage of our time. In J. M. P. Tornero (Ed.), Media literacy and intercultural dialogue: Strategies, debates and good practices (p. 5). Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Sehen.

The long list of activities includes the 3rd Annual Media Literacy Week Film Festival and Productive Conversations without Confrontation.

 

A Linguistic Landscapes Approach to Learning Environments (Finland & Online)

EventsA linguistic landscapes approach to learning environments,  Speaker: Tamás Péter Szabó , University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki, B 349 Suvanto and Zoom, 7 November 2023 14:15–15:45 EET.

Welcome to think about the origins and use of the concepts linguistic landscape and schoolscape that help us understand discourses, policies and educational practices in public spaces. The workshop is part of the ongoing FORTHEM Campus period hosted by the University of Jyväskylä. Open to students, researchers, teachers and anyone interested, this workshop demonstrates the concepts of linguistic landscapes and schoolscapes through some main conceptualizations of language and language learning in educational contexts. Examples from ethnographic research invite participants to reflect on their own lived experiences and (envisioned) pedagogical practices.

The term linguistic landscape originates in Geography research that first focused on the presence of various languages in commercial signs in the 1970s. Expanding an early focus on written signs in public spaces, current definitions take a multimodal and multisensory approach. The concept of schoolscape in turn encompasses physical, institutional, societal, and virtual spaces of education. Schoolscape studies look beyond policy and language practices and frame language and educational practices as spatialized and embodied.

Tamás Péter Szabó (PhD) is Senior Lecturer of multilingualism and the internationalisation of teacher education in the Department of Teacher Education as well as Adjunct Professor of Linguistic Landscape studies in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä. In his schoolscape studies, he focuses on multilingual pedagogies and methodological innovations. Further, he develops pre- and in-service teacher education courses for the creative renewal of learning environments. In the FORTHEM Alliance, Tamás is Alliance level coordinator of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab and co-chair of the Labs and Co-creation Mission Board.

This workshop is a joint session of the FORTHEM Campus course Approaches to Multilingualism and the FORTHEM Digital Academy course Multilingual Learning Environments, both developed by contributors of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab.

FORTHEM Alliance aims to transform and shape the future of the European higher education and research area. The nine universities have therefore established an education, research, innovation and transfer connecting, student-centred and inclusive European University with a strong regional anchoring. FORTHEM is an alliance of nine public universities with a well-balanced geographical distribution in Europe. 

Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom (Online)

EventsTHE CIVICS Innovation Hub and NECE campus: Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom . Speaker: Maja Nenadovic, online, 26 September 2023 from 5:00 am to 6:30 am ADT.

During this workshop, the Educators’ Guide to Depolarisation will be presented, as well as navigating through some of its exercises, designed to encourage and equip teachers with methods for facilitating difficult conversations on controversial or polarising topics with their students. In addition, educational materials from the project Depolarisation Activism for Resilient Europe (DARE) will also be presented.

Maja Nenadovic is a practitioner and educator with 20 years of experience of working in the civic education, critical pedagogy, human rights education, Holocaust education and youth civic engagement fields. Next to designing original civic education and human rights education materials, she coordinated and facilitated several long-term civic education projects in the region of Western Balkans.

The NECE (Networking European Civic Education) Campus is an all-year-round online event series that provides a platform for educators, policymakers, civil society actors, and experts in citizenship education to learn, and exchange practices, research, tools, and methods related to democratic engagement and civic education. The series includes a diverse set of presentations, workshops, and capacity-building activities. It’s organised into functional and thematic tracks to cater to the needs of civic educators, covering a broad range of topics.

THE CIVICS is a a pan-European NGO with hubs in Bonn, Sofia and Zagreb with the goal of strengthening the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

International Translation Day 2023

EventsInternational Translation Day, established by the United Nations in 2017, occurs on 30 September every year. English PEN is holding an event this year to celebrate.

Join English PEN in London or online from anywhere in the world, 12–7pm BST on Friday 29 September 2023 for a day of workshops, talks and networking opportunities, culminating in a “2023 State of the Translation Nation” plenary discussion. Featuring 30 leading translators, writers, publishers, agents, booksellers and language experts, this year’s sessions include an “ask me anything” with five UK publishers, workshops on negotiating contracts and translating sensitive work, and talks on rights, events and reviews.

International Translation Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development, and strengthening world peace and security. This is an appropriate occasion on which to thank all of the translators who have taken time from other responsibilities to help CID prepare translations of our publications into a remarkable 32 different languages. We could not do this without you! 

NOTE: If you want to translate one of the publications into a language in which you are fluent, please contact us before you start, to learn whether anyone else is already working on that publication in that language.

 

ECCAR: Local Actions Against Anti-Muslim Racism (Germany)

EventsEuropean Coalition of Cities against Racism: Launch of the ECCAR Guidebook on Local Actions against Anti-Muslim Racism. Policy Recommendations for City Administrations and Their Partners, Heidelberg, Germany, but online, 14 September 2023 from 14:00-17:00 CEST. Deadline to participate: 13 September 2023.

CID has been asked to share the following announcement:

In 2020, ECCAR established a Working Group on Anti-Muslim Racism. For the past two and a half years, the working group has focused on producing a comprehensive Guidebook for local authorities working closely with several contributors, including ECCAR member cities, researchers, activists, and NGO representatives. The result is a high-quality policy text that local decision-makers, journalists, researchers and activists can benefit from. With its diverse range of good practice examples produced by 17 European ECCAR member cities from nine countries, policy recommendations, and “lessons learnt,” the Guidebook is a significant and first-of-its-kind publication for local European policies against anti-Muslim racism. We are particularly pleased to announce that the Guidebook has been translated into French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. All PDF versions of the Guidebook will be released on the day of the launch.

You can download the preliminary programme of the high-level launch event that will be opened by Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, followed by thematic panels with researchers, representatives from ECCAR cities and activists.

Registrations are open until 13 September. To ensure a smooth registration process, please pre-register for the event. The event will be held in English spoken language. If you need interpretation services in German, French or Spanish, please register in advance.

You are welcome to share the registration link with your colleagues, partners, and people who would benefit from this programme. Please note that we kindly ask all participants to register via the link provided above. After you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom access data for the meeting.

If you have any questions, please email Dr Linda Hyökki.

We hope to see you for the event on 14 September to launch this important milestone in the field of anti-Muslim racism together with you.

Best regards,

Danijel Cubelic
ECCAR Vice President

Dr Linda Hyökki
Coordinator Working Group Anti-Muslim Racism

European Policy Dialogue Forum 2023 (Netherlands)

EventsCall for young people to apply for the 5th European Policy Dialogue Forum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 13-15 November, 2023. Deadline: 31 August 2023.

The theme for the 5th European Policy Dialogue Forum will be “Young People and Social Inclusion in European Cities.” If you are between 18 and 30 years of age, are actively engaged in your community, passionate about social inclusion and willing to bring your contribution and energy, the organizers encourage you to apply to this call. They are selecting up to 30 young people who are residents from one of the 46 European countries to participate to their signature event – the European Policy Forum Dialogue (EPDF) – in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 13-15 November 2023.

They encourage young migrants and refugees to apply to the call, as other young people from underrepresented groups, including young women. They believe in the transformative power of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, as a tool to make communities more inclusive and resilient. Together with policymakers, religious leaders and actors, civil society organizations and youth representatives, they will explore unexpected partnerships and collaborations to make cities places where everyone feels belonging.

What is the European Policy Dialogue Forum about?

Some 120 policymakers, religious actors, youth representatives, civil society leaders and experts will come together in Rotterdam for the 5th EPDF to discuss the role of young people in social inclusion in European urban spaces, with a focus on the following themes:

o Bridging divisions in European cities – addressing young people’s concerns and joining efforts towards enhanced opportunities for current and future generations.

o Empowerment and participation of young people – enhancing the creation of inclusive spaces and fostering an environment for mutual understanding, recognition and respect.

o Creating spaces for intergenerational dialogue and foster collaborative action between young people, religious actors and policy makers to make diversity and inclusion meaningful in urban areas.

The European Policy Dialogue Forum in Rotterdam will be organized by the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) in partnership with the European Council of Religious Leaders / Religions for Peace Europe (ECRL/RfP), the Network for Dialogue and with support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Exploring Ethics in the Field (Webinar)

EventsExploring ethics in the field: the importance of context and culture, Open University (online), 27 June 2023, 8-9 EDT.

In this discursive session, Tom Power and Professor Jacqueline Stevenson will explore some of the practical realities of undertaking research in the field, highlighting the tensions between ‘procedural ethics’ (Guillemin and Gillam, 2004) and practical ethics. In doing so, they will draw on our research in Bangladesh exploring educational outcomes in rural and remote communities, their previous research with forced migrants, including asylum seekers and refugees, and research in prisons exploring in particular issues around informed consent. They will highlight some of the decisions they have had to make when seeking to be culturally responsive and adaptive to context.

Admission is free. If you sign up, the online the meeting link will be sent to you 2 hours prior to the event.

Inclusive Public Space (Webinar)

EventsInclusive public space: is placemaking the solution?, Council of Europe Intercultural Cities Webinar, 7 July 2023, 11am-12:30pm CEST.

Marta Popiolek and Ramon Marrades from Placemaking Europe will discuss “placemaking”, an approach to urban planning and public space design that places social innovation, the commons, and local communities at the heart of a co-creative process to shape healthier, more resilient, and more equitable public spaces lasting for the future. They will also tell us more about the pilot project “Cities in Placemaking”, aimed at developing a roadmap to a more holistic and sustainable approach to urban development that harnesses placemaking as a city-wide strategy. Six intercultural cities are participating in the pilot and will be happy to share their experience with you/ Get ready to ask questions and be inspired!

You are welcome to register here and forward the link to your colleagues. The webinar is open to everyone!

Please note that this webinar will only be available in English.