Toronto Metropolitan U: Postdocs for Black Scholars (Canada)

PostdocsUp to four postdoctoral fellowships for Black scholars, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline: 1 April 2023.

Black scholars are among the most underrepresented in postdoctoral positions, tenured faculty positions, and in University leadership. Building on the recommendations of the Anti-Black Racism Campus Climate Review and reinforced by the PDF fileStanding Strong committee recommendations, and as part of a wider commitment to equity, in recognition of the barriers to equal opportunities for education and employment, TMU is implementing this program with the goals of building a more diverse and inclusive academe, and supporting the flourishing of Black scholarship. In particular, this program seeks to expand and advance Black scholarship and intellectual traditions, and support the academic endeavours of the Black community.

Funding will be available to provide $70,000 per year to support up to two years of postdoctoral salary for four (4) Black scholars. Eligibility:

  • Scholars who self-identify as Black (of African descent; for example, Africans and African heritage people from the Caribbean, Americas, Europe).
  • Completion of a PhD or PhD-equivalent within the last three years prior to the application deadline, or PhD expected by the planned start date of the fellowship.
  • Can hold the fellowship by September 5, 2023 for two years.
  • Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Canada by the start of the Postdoctoral position. International applicants may apply; however, successful international applicants will require a work permit and Canadian Social Insurance Number in order to take up the postdoctoral position. Exceptional start dates may be negotiated in relation to the permit and visa process timelines.
  • Be associated with a current or proposed supervisor who holds a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at TMU, and include a letter of support from the proposed supervisor.

CFP AEJMC 2023 (USA)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication [see p. 13], 7-10 August, 2023, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 April 2023.

The programming groups within the Council of Divisions of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invite submission of original, non­published, research papers to be considered for presentation at the AEJMC Conference, August 7 to 10, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Specific requirements for each competition — including limits on paper length — are spelled out in the listing of groups and research chairs that appear below. Submissions are to be in English only. All research submissions must be uploaded through an online server to the group appropriate to the submission’s topic via this link.

KC107 Interculturality Translated into French

Key Concepts in ICD

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC107: Interculturality, originally written by Mélodine Sommier & Malgorzata Lahti for publication in 2023, and now translated by Mélodine Sommier into French.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept in English, 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.

KC107 Interculturality_French

Sommier, M., & Lahti, M. (2023). Interculturallity [French]. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 107. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/kc107-interculturality_french.pdf

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email to the series editor, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept.

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Georgetown U: GIWPS Conflict Tracker (USA)

“JobResearch Fellow: Conflict Tracker, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 26 March 2023.

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Research Fellow to develop and oversee our Conflict Tracker Project. Reporting to the Director of Research, the Research Fellow will work closely with teams across the Institute to monitor and analyze current conflicts and crises in a select group of countries. The Research Fellow will apply an intersectional gender analysis to these contexts to develop and update country profiles and to produce timely policy analysis. In collaboration with the Policy and Programs Team, the Research Fellow will help to identify and inform key opportunities for policy advocacy and work to develop evidence-based policy recommendations. The Research Fellow will also provide regular briefings to key staff on conflict developments and represent the Institute at external stakeholder engagements.

U Leeds: Race & Media (UK)

“JobLecturer and/or Associate Professor in Race and Media, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Deadline: 15 March 2023.

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds has recently appointed a Professor of Race and Media and, to support continuing growth of the area, is now looking to make two further appointments in race and media at Lecturer and/or Associate Professor level. Applications are welcome from candidates whose research explores race and media in any setting (Global North or Global South, including in relation to caste, class, disability, gender, and sexuality and other forms of inequality); any form of media or communication; and with relevance to any of the existing research strengths in media industries and cultural production, journalism, political communication, global communication, visual media and communication, digital cultures, and gender and media. They are open to a range of methodological approaches, particularly quantitative/big data methods.

UCL: Film & Media (UK)

“JobAssociate Lecturer in Film and Media, University College London, UK. Deadline: 13 March 2023.

The post-holder will be required to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in film and/or media studies, as well as intercultural, interdisciplinary and language-focused modules open to students of all the School of European Languages, Culture and Society – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (SELCS-CMII) programmes. The post-holder will teach a full-time load in accordance with departmental and institutional policy. Depending on other responsibilities, this is likely to entail 250-300 contact hours per academic year, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, to be determined in consultation with the Director of Film Studies and the Head of Department.

The post-holder may specialise in any aspect of film and/or media, but they would particularly welcome applications from candidates able to teach one or more of the following topics: global media industries; feminist or queer cinema; film/media theory and research methods. They would also particularly welcome applications from film/media scholars who could also contribute to teaching undergraduate modules in the language and culture of one of the following: French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish.

CFP UKFIET 2023: Education for Social & Environmental Justice: Diversity, Sustainability, Responsibility

ConferencesCall for Papers: UKFIET 2023: Education for Social and Environmental Justice: Diversity,
Sustainability, Responsibility, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 12-14 September 2023. Deadline: 17 March 2023.

Crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, the unfolding climate emergency and ongoing and resurgent violent conflict have shown that progress towards a sustainable planet is fragile and reversible. Ensuing and ever-increasing inequality and injustice threaten progress towards the goal of equitable quality education and lifelong learning (including social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative aspects) for all by 2030 (SDG4) and require urgent remediation and mitigation. Education and learning among marginalised groups in particular must be prioritised as a shared global responsibility if the tide of widening inequalities and injustices is to be stemmed and in furtherance of global human rights. Moreover, equitable and sustainable progress require much more than ’business as usual’, calling not only for innovation but for transformation. Re-thinking conceptualisations of education and learning and spaces where they take place (diverse learning spaces such as home, community, religious spaces, among many others) is critical. Re-imagining relations between global North and South in education and learning is fundamental to addressing marginalisation and its root causes, including by ‘reversing the gaze’ to critically examine the role played by the North in education, learning, and development from the perspectives of the global majority.

This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of international education, training, and lifelong learning at this crucial half-way point on the timeline set for the SDGs in 2015, offering opportunity for diverse and critical dialogue and debate on ways forward in this crucial field of research and practice.

Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2023

AwardsThe Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, awarded annually, aims to recognise people, groups of people and/or organisations from all over the world whose contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change stand out for its novelty, innovation and impact. Award: 1 million euros. Deadline: 17 March 2023.

The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity underscores the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s commitment to urgent climate action, to investment in solutions which benefit people and the planet, and to showing there is still hope if we act now. In the run-up to COP28 in 2023, the Prize will be a flagship initiative recognising people or organisations who are making outstanding contributions in combating the climate crisis; contributions which can mitigate the negative effects of climate change on people, the environment and the economy, and promote a society that is more resilient and better prepared for future global change, while protecting the most vulnerable.

CFP Peacebuilding

“Publication
Call for Submissions: Peacebuilding journal. Deadline: Rolling.

 

Peacebuilding is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research.

Peacebuilding accepts the following types of article: Original articles, Review Articles, and submissions under the “Beyond the Metropole” section. The goal of this section is to promote voices who speak from positions of marginalisation, including (but not limited to) perspectives emanating from the global south, engaging with decoloniality, or affected by censorship and other forms of silencing and underrepresentation. Contributors are not limited to academics, rather the journal actively encourages activists, practitioners and community representatives (such as elders, curators, innovators) to contribute to “Beyond the Metropole.”

Conceptual innovation and ideas that lead us to challenge our ideas of peace, power and justice are particularly encouraged. Acknowledging the discipline’s tendency to focus on accessible global spaces (“metropoles”), the section features innovative, unorthodox and marginalised ideas that are often overlooked in the discipline. Providing an opportunity to take account of the weaknesses of Peace and Conflict Studies, which has sometimes aligned with power, spoken primarily from European and North American perspectives, or “normalised” its core ideas, this section provides a series of encounters with a different set of ideas about peace in the broadest sense. It is particularly interested in insights about the workings of power in relation to peace, or the various challenges and expressions of resistance against it, from positions where such power is most acutely felt.

CFP Diasporic Heritage & Identity (Netherlands)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Memory Studies Association’s Annual Conference on Diasporic Heritage and Identity,  22-23 June 2023, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 31 March 2023.

In the interdisciplinary vocabulary of heritage and memory studies, the concept of diaspora continues to hold a pivotal role. This conference sets out to explore (self)representations of diasporic heritages and identities: how diasporic subjectivities and communities forge means of belonging and connection to nations, (im)material objects or space. Conceptualisations of diasporic heritage and identity can be expressed through a variety of narrative, mediatic, artistic and memorial strategies. This conference aims to provoke discussion and improve understanding of how these diasporic identities come into being, evolve and are performed through different heritage domains.

Rather than seeing diasporic heritages and identities as those with a nostalgic, romantic longing for the past, the conference seeks to stratify the range of positive or negative emotions and memory narratives that can emerge in diasporic communities. What narrative choices do diasporic individuals and communities adopt to define and challenge essentialised conceptions of heritage, identity, homeland, home and home-making? What counts as heritage, and how do diverse diasporas respond to, represent and perform their identity through the ever-changing cultural and global contexts?

This conference also aims to explore discourses of diasporic heritage, which correspond to the plethora of media, museological, political, historical and journalistic narratives and literary texts that structure a public and common understanding of identity. How does this discourse interact with (post/de) colonial narratives, xenophobic and right-wing movements, migration, displacement, conflict and transnationalism? How might repressive and authoritarian regimes impact diasporic identity expression?

Organizers encourage contributions from diverse historical and geographical contexts and invite proposals for special events such as panels, screenings, performances, exhibitions, etc.