Center for Intercultural Dialogue

U Penn: Global Programs Manager (USA)

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Global Programs Manager, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 17 July 2023).

Reporting to the Associate Director, the Global Programs Manager (GPM) is responsible for the coordination and administration of Penn Abroad’s outbound programming and advising on a portfolio of semester abroad programs. In close collaboration with on-campus academic partners and overseas partners, the GPM administers the student application, selection, and admissions related to the semester abroad portfolio. The GPM coordinates and delivers student advising, outreach, and info sessions for semester abroad, leads student pre-departure programming, and manages student communications and support at all phases of their experience, from pre-departure through their return to campus. With oversight from the Associate Director, this position manages partner engagement and relationships within their assigned portfolio. The GPM is also a member of the faculty-led programming team and manages a small portfolio of Penn Global Seminar programs including support and coordination of travel itineraries, logistics, student advising, admissions, pre-departure orientations, and group health consultation, and other related duties. Under guidance from the Associate Director, the GPM will work alongside faculty to develop robust courses and respond to crises during travel periods.

NTU: Linguistics & Multilingual Studies (Singapore)

Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Deadline: 17 September 2023.

The School of Humanities invites outstanding academics to apply for two tenure-track positions in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor. Successful candidates must have PhD at the time of appointment. The Linguistics and Multilingual Studies programme strongly encourages and supports interdisciplinary research and welcomes applicants who pursue research in an empirical theoretical framework. Successful applicants can look forward to a research-stimulating environment. The teaching load is typically 2/2. This appointment is expected to begin in July 2024.

The suitable applicants should have PhDs in Linguistics or related fields and be able to contribute to the Linguistics programme by teaching core courses. The appointees will also be expected to offer electives in one or more areas of specialization. They seek applicants with one or more of the following specializations:
1. Language documentation
2. Pragmatics
3. Cognitive linguistics
4. Intercultural communication
5. Applied linguistics
6. Computational or digital linguistics

Seeking Support for New Sub-Saharan African Caucus (USA)

Seeking Support for New Sub-Saharan African Caucus, National Communication Association, USA. Deadline: 31 July 2023.

Communication scholars representing and studying the Sub-Saharan African region are organizing an effort to create a Sub-Saharan African Caucus at the National Communication Association (NCA, based in the US). This caucus will serve as a dedicated space to share and promote the Sub-Saharan African scholarship covering a range of communication subfields. This will be the first Sub-Saharan African Caucus at a major communication association.

Following the procedures laid out by NCA to consider caucus proposals, the organizing committee is seeking support from the NCA membership. If you are an NCA member and are willing, please indicate your support at the link below. We also ask to please distribute the link and its purpose widely.

Thank you for your consideration and support!

Prisca S. Ngondo, Texas State University
Anna Klyueva, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Dane Kiambi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Indiana U: Postdoc in Race & Ethnicity in Society (US)

Two Postdoctoral Fellowships, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Deadline: 5 October 2023.

The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for up to two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships provide support to scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of fields in the social sciences and humanities, including education, criminal justice, environmental studies, international studies (e.g., climate, human rights, and development), gender/sexualities, public health, and media (e.g., consumer culture, game design, film, social media activism, and sports media). They are particularly interested in candidates whose research intersects with African American and African Diaspora Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, African Studies, Latin American Studies, and/or Global Indigenous Studies. Fellows will be placed in one of IU’s sixteen degree granting schools, and are expected to pursue research activities associated with their primary area of work, as demonstrated by conference presentations and published works. CRRES fellowships are designed to advance the careers of new scholars by providing opportunities to research, teach, and connect with mentors and with faculty in host departments. Strong applicants will demonstrate evidence of scholarly potential that will make them competitive for tenure-track appointments at Indiana University and other research universities.

Fulbright/IMéRA Fellowship in Migration Studies 2024-5 (France)

Call for applications: Fulbright/IMéRA Fellowship in Migration Studies 2024-5, IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille University, France. Deadline: 15 September 2023.

Conduct research in any discipline relating to migration studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille Université in Marseille, and participate in one or two day-long seminars on campus on the theme of the research project. Iméra is the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University, the largest Francophone university in the world. Iméra welcomes scholars from around the world who are engaged in cross-disciplinary research projects for short-term stays. They expect applicants to solicit an invitation from an appropriate contact at Aix-Marseille University. Research activities must begin in September 2024 or February 2025.

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking III

Third Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking: Africa, UNESCO, 27 July 2023, 15:00 to 17:00 GMT+2, (Paris, France, but online).

UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector has launched the UNESCO Series of Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacebuilding. Through these consultations, UNESCO aims to explore the potential of the development of intercultural and socio-emotional skills to serve as an enabler for peace in fragile, conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts.

The third edition will bring together experts and practitioners to discuss the main challenges to intercultural understanding in Africa, the role of intercultural skills in building trust among different parties, and ways of improving intercultural competence to better promote peacebuilding efforts, paying particular attention to the role of women and youth. The consultations are open to the public. Simultaneous interpretation in English and French will be provided for the third edition.

To register for the online event on 27 July, please click here.

U Cambridge: Global History Programme Coordinator (UK)

Programme Coordinator, Global History Lab, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline: 30 July 2023.

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) invites applications for a Programme Coordinator to support a new Global History Lab (GHL) at the University of Cambridge. GHL is a platform for learning, skill development and collaboration in the creation of new narratives across global divides. Using cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogical practices and training in oral history methods, the GHL educates students about the history of globalisation and prepares them to become knowledge producers for a wider world. The program enlists universities and NGOs to engage in a new model of global education through peer-to-peer exchanges. It pushes the study and application of history into new humanitarian frontiers by integrating displaced peoples and refugees into its network. It promotes human capabilities of understanding by developing narrative voices and listening skills between strangers. The GHL is committed to the pursuit of the production of knowledge about the global past globally – in a way that is innovative, economical and reaches across the world’s fractures.

The Programme Coordinator role is central to the activities within GHL by managing all the parts of the activities in collaboration with the course administrator in Cambridge Online Education, and will be part of a friendly and supportive team of administrators based in CRASSH.

Trinity College Dublin: Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations (Ireland)

Associate Professor in Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 5 August 2023.

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (SLLCS) welcomes applications from candidates with demonstrated excellence in research, teaching and service for the position of Associate Professor in Islamic and Middle Eastern Civilisations. Field of specialization is open but should not duplicate existing expertise within the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. They particularly welcome applicants whose research is focused on the nineteenth century.

SLLCS is one of the largest of the twelve Schools in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and has some 140 staff in all, including full time academics, language assistants and lectors, part-time teachers, and professional staff. The School is made up of the Disciplines of French, Germanic Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Irish, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian and Slavonic Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, the Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications and the Centre for Forced Migration. The School enjoys a very high international reputation in its teaching and research and attracts highly qualified and motivated students from Ireland and internationally.

Cultural Heritage Dialogue Survey Participation Request (New Zealand)

Cultural Heritage Dialogue Survey Participation Request, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Deadline: 31 August 2023.

[CID has been asked to share the following request – please participate if you are active in the cultural heritage sector!]

Tēnā koutou katoa/ Greetings,

We invite you to participate in an online survey as part of our research project to investigate Dialogue in the Cultural Heritage sector. The objectives of our survey are to discover:

· if and how dialogue is defined and used by cultural heritage institutions/organisations in their engagement with external parties and stakeholders,

· the approaches taken up for dialogue-based activities,

· the directions for dialogue work in the future.

Your responses will help us map out how dialogue activities are envisioned, created, delivered and embedded (or not) in cultural heritage institutions/organisations. Overall, the survey findings will contribute knowledge and understanding of dialogue within the cultural heritage sector and provide practice insights.

Each response will be anonymised and your personal identity will not be known to the researchers. If you choose to share your email address this will be deleted 6 months after the survey closes on 31 August 2023.

Thank you for taking the time to read this information and for your interest. We hope you will participate in our survey as we would value and appreciate your involvement. If you choose to participate, please access the link.

Ngā mihi nui/ Kind regards,

· Chern Li Liew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
· Areti Galani, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
· Alison Day, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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