AFS: YES Abroad Specialist (USA)

“JobYES Specialist, AFS-USA, New York, NY, USA, hybrid position. Deadline: posted 11 August 2023, open until filled.

AFS-USA is part of a worldwide network of AFS partner organizations that work together to advance global education and foster meaningful connections across cultures. As the network’s largest partner, AFS-USA works to increase the global competency of U.S. citizens by providing a variety of international and intercultural learning experiences to individuals, families, schools, and communities.

This position is within the Sponsored Programs Department at AFS-USA, which manages several programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, providing scholarships for adolescents to participate in international exchange. Specialists focus on a specific portfolio of grant-funded program(s), which, depending on the size and scope of programs, may encompass more than one program or may mean working in tandem with other staff on some part of a larger program or project. The YES Abroad Specialist will work most closely with the Manager of Outbound Sponsored Programs, as well as other department and division staff.

This position will focus on sending American participants on the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program, known as YES Abroad, including designing and implementing programmatic components. Core responsibilities of the role include carrying out program requirements, such as conducting orientations, managing projects, communicating with participants and domestic and international partners, communicating with volunteers, working on participant orientations and travel/logistics, carrying out program-focused projects, and reporting to the sponsor.

Edinburgh Napier U: Intercultural Business Communication (UK)

“JobLecturer in Intercultural Business Communication, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK. Deadline: 24 September 2023.

Edinburgh Napier University is recruiting a part-time Lecturer in Intercultural Business Communication on the Learning and Teaching/Research/Enterprise or Professional pathways, to support and develop the delivery of this subject area within the Tourism and Languages Subject Group. This is a part-time but permanent position. This post will allow you to contribute to the design and delivery of Intercultural Business Communication modules at a particularly exciting time in the development of our portfolio / curriculum, as the department will soon introduce two new undergraduate programmes in Intercultural Business Communication and Marketing, and Intercultural Business Communication and Tourism, designed to enhance students’ understanding of culture and its significance in our communications and interactions with others. The university is also continuing to grow and develop a successful MSc in Intercultural Business Communication.

 

WorldChicago: Executive Director (USA)

“JobExecutive Director, WorldChicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Deadline: Open until filled; posted 14 August 2023.

As Chicago’s official host for U.S. government-sponsored international visitors, WorldChicago has served over 70,000 guests from 190 countries since 1952. By connecting Chicagoans with international peers, WorldChicago promotes mutual understanding and fosters global dialogue and innovation. Citizen diplomats shape global relations one handshake at a time.

WorldChicago is dedicated to promoting citizen diplomacy through programs that connect the Chicago community with the world. Citizen Diplomacy is the idea that individuals have the right and responsibility to help shape U.S. foreign relations through person-to-person interactions with citizens of other countries.

As our world becomes more globally connected and new opportunities and challenges arise, the role of citizen diplomacy and WorldChicago has never been more important. The next Executive Director will have the opportunity to work with a motivated and professional Board of Directors and hardworking, dedicated staff to elevate the profile of WorldChicago, increase its role in promoting citizen diplomacy in the Chicago region, and develop the next generation of citizen diplomats.

The next Executive Director of WorldChicago is a dynamic leader with a deep-seated commitment to citizen diplomacy and with experience in driving growth and impact within the organization and across the country. Candidates for the position must bring a sense of creativity, innovation and a sense of collaboration with local and national partners and governments (national and foreign) to the role.

While leading this effort, the next leader must also be a steward who builds upon WorldChicago’s success while growing and evolving for the future. The ideal candidate is a proven leader who understands the power of collaboration and has extensive experience and success leading high performing teams that foster a culture of excellence, from programming to the Fellowship and exchange experience.

UNESCO Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking IV

“UNESCO”

Fourth Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacemaking: Latin America and the Caribbean, UNESCO, 14 September 2023, 17:00 to 19:00 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 fourth of the six regional editions of online expert consultations will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean and will be held on Thursday 14 September 2023, from 17:00 to 19:00 GMT+2 (via Zoom). The fourth edition will bring together experts and practitioners to discuss the main challenges to intercultural understanding in the region, 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.

To register for the online event, please click here.

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

Wege Prize 2024

AwardsWege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work. Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while learning—and helping to show the world—what the future of problem solving looks like. Deadline: 8 October 2023.

College/university students from around the world apply as transdisciplinary teams of five, representing different academic disciplines, institutions, and degree levels. Teams advance through up to four distinct phases, receiving feedback from experts and professionals in related fields along the way. Each team must leverage its transdisciplinary makeup to collaboratively design and propose a product, service, business model, or other solution to a wicked problem of their choosing that can help us transition from a linear economic model to a circular economic model.

Read the description of past winners here.

Wege Prize is organized by Kendall College of Art and Design’s Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation, both based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Wilson Center Fellowships 2024-5 (USA)

Fellowships

Wilson Center Fellowships for 2024-5, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. Deadline: 1 October 2023.

Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.

Jessica Hughes Profile

Profiles

Dr. Jessica M. F. Hughes is an associate professor of digital communication and cultural studies at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Jessica HughesJess researches at the intersection of critical discourse and disability studies. Her scholarship focuses on discourse around disability, neurodiversity, & social justice. Her most recent work analyzes digital activism in disability rights and justice movements. She is also working on open educational resources on inclusive pedagogy and communication studies. She has recently co-edited the anthology Disability in Dialogue for John Benjamins’ Dialogue Series (with Mariaelena Bartesaghi).

Jess was born in Florida, grew up outside Pittsburgh, and studied at the University of Colorado Boulder; Lancaster University; Boston University; and the Technische Universitaet Dresden.

Selected publications:

Hughes, J. M. F. (2023). Death and traumatic affect on Twitter. In J. M. F. Hughes & M. Bartesaghi (Eds.), Disability in dialogue. John Benjamins.

Pfannenstiel, A. N., Baldys, E., Hughes, J. M. F., Licata, A. M., & Rice, K. (Eds). (2023). Inclusive teaching practices. OER Commons.

Hughes, J. M. F. (2022). Anti-racism [lesson module]. OER Commons.

Hughes, J. M. F. (2018). Progressing positive discourse analysis and/in critical discourse studies: Reconstructing resistance through progressive discourse analysis. Review of Communication, 18(3), 193-211. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2018.1479880

Hughes, J. M. F. & Tracy, K. (2015). Indexicality. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandel (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and social interaction. Boston: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118611463/wbielsi078

Work for CID:

Jessica Hughesis the co-author of a guest post on Disability as Intercultural Dialogue.

U East Anglia: Communication Studies (UK)

“JobLecturer in Communication Studies, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Deadline: 18 September 2023.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lecturer to join the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies to deliver lectures and seminars and carry out teaching-related duties. The Department of Language and Communication Studies submits to Area Studies for the REF, were top 5 in the unit of assessment in REF 2021 and have achieved strong NSS scores.

Teaching is a key part of this role and as such you will be expected to plan, teach and assess undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, taking responsibility for the delivery and assessment of specific modules. This will include organising modules and developing teaching and learning materials. You will also take responsibility for some of the degree programmes within the school, regularly interview prospective students and promote enterprise and engagement at UEA.

They are looking for a scholar with a PhD (or equivalent) in area connected with communication studies and/or linguistics, relevant teaching experience, and a passion for student experience. They are particularly looking for specialism(s) in Intercultural Communication and Linguistics (specifically pragmatics).

This full-time post is available on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. The post is available from 2 January 2024 until 31 July 2024.

NTU: Inquiry & Communication in an Interdisciplinary World (Singapore)

“Job
Lecturer for “Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World”, Language and Communication Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Deadline: 16 September 2023.

The School of Humanities seeks to fill 1 Lecturer position in the Language and Communication Centre. Instructors are sought for a course titled “Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World,” one of the core courses in its new Interdisciplinary Collaborative Curriculum (ICC) for all NTU undergraduates. This foundational course will develop students’ written and oral communication skills, as well as their ability to read and analyse texts.
Successful candidates will be expected to teach academic writing and communication skills, and to conduct research.

Candidates with the following qualifications are encouraged to apply:

  • PhD in Applied Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Linguistics, Literature, or Rhetoric and Composition
  • Experience in teaching academic and/or discipline-specific writing
  • Interest in new media and digital literacy
  • An active research agenda