SS Great Britain: Global Histories Ambassador/Research Fellow (UK)

“JobGlobal Histories Ambassador and Research Fellow, SS Great Britain, Brunel Institute, Brunel, UK. Deadline: 19 December 2022.

The Global Histories Ambassador and Research Fellow will become part of the Brunel Institute team of innovative experts, each of whom holds particular skillset that crosses the boundaries of the normal museum, academic and heritage roles, and will actively collaborate to engage with people locally, regionally and internationally.

The postholder will play a key role in the development of the Trust by researching and making relevant for modern audiences the global histories and interconnections pioneered in particular by the revolutionary ships Great Western and Great Britain. The candidate will enjoy researching with historical materials and have the ability to link people and stories together, while working to unlock the barriers that diverse audiences can face when visiting and engaging with heritage sites. The most tangible outcome of this work will be the ‘Global Messdeck’ a multi-use story space and flexible gallery situated in the proposed new Albion dockyard site, and through which the Trust will engage visitors from all backgrounds and places to welcome, introduce, explore, publish and curate stories and histories of mobility, communication and globalization as they relate to Brunel’s historic vessels and to all our lives and communities today.

Inspired by and supporting the development of the Trust’s Albion Dock and Brunel Country project the postholder will play a key role in supporting primary research, interpretation, and education work, and in sharing learning across the sector. The expanded Brunel Institute team will be part of the programme to increase access to, and understanding of, the SS Great Britain, PS Great Western, science, engineering and conservation, maritime migration and the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s life and work.

ACTFL: Language Testers for 107 languages (Online)

“JobThe American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is seeking experts in various languages to join their Tester training to become an ILR OPI tester (Interagency Language Roundtable’s Oral Proficiency Interview). Deadline: ongoing.

ACTFL is seeking language professionals to serve as freelance language testers. If you speak one of the below languages, have an interest in language assessments, and have a few hours of telephone availability during weekdays, you are invited to apply. ACTFL trains and certifies language testers for over 107 languages.

They are currently accepting applications for the following languages: Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic-Algerian, Arabic-Egyptian, Arabic-Gulf (Iraqi), Arabic-Levantine, Arabic-Libyan, Arabic-Moroccan, Arabic-Saudi, Arabic-Sudanese, Arabic-Tunisian, Arabic-Yemeni, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Chechen, Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, French, Fula/Peul, Ga, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hiligaynon/Ilonggo, Hungarian, Igbo (Igno), Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Krio, Kurdish-Kurmanji, Kurdish-Sorani, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Hmong (Miao-Yao), Mongolian, Norwegian, Pashto-Afghan, Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Portuguese-European, Romanian, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, and Zulu.

If you do not speak one of these languages, you may still submit an application to be contacted in case a need for your language arises in the future.

NOTES: You must be authorized to work in the United States, complete their training, and make a 2 year commitment for part-time availability.

Opera Connect: Egypt (UK but Online)

Events

Opera Connect: Egypt is an online workshop sponsored by Opera North, Leeds, England, UK, with Camille Maalawy, 13 December 2022, Online. 

Are you curious about other musical traditions? Would you like to meet people from across the world in a friendly environment and discover new songs? Opera Connect online workshops look at different musical traditions. You will meet different artists who will share tunes and stories from their countries of origin.

Opera North is delighted to welcome mezzo soprano Camille Maalawy. Born to a Coptic Egyptian father and English mother, her repertoire incorporates western classical music, as well as classical Arabic music. She explored this dual heritage in a new song cycle developed during her Resonance residency at Opera North earlier this year, which she then performed at this summer’s Tête à Tête opera festival. Why not come and sing along from the comfort of your home? Workshops are open to singers of all abilities. No prior musical knowledge is required. There is a minimal fee for participation.

Opera North is England’s national opera company in the North and a leading European arts organisation.

IMISCOE PHD School: Migration, Racism, Discrimination (Belgium)

Study Abroad2023 IMISCOE PhD School: Critical Reflections on Migration Studies, Racism and Discrimination, 24-28 April 2023, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium (on-site). Deadline: 8 January 2023.

Migration studies has, for long, largely ignored the study of racism. Recent calls for the decolonization of the university and Black Lives Matter 2020 led to the gradual entry of the study of race, racism and colonialism into the migration studies field. Whilst developed apart in the past, mainstream migration studies and race critical studies (from postcolonial, to decolonial, to critical race studies, Black studies and more) are slowly starting to dialogue. This IMISCOE PhD school aims at bringing together PhD researchers with experienced scholars, activists, practitioners, and artists to explore how the more mainstream social sciences on migration, racism and discrimination and race critical studies can learn from each other and (im)possibly integrate, and how we can contribute to more racial justice.

Event organized by: Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM, Université de Liège), Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR, Ghent University), & The Network on Migration and Global Mobility (University of Antwerp).

Goethe U: East Asian Studies Postdoc (Germany)

Postdocs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Deadline: 11 December 2022.

The Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies at the Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts is seeking to fill the position of one Postdoctoral Researcher from 01.01.2023 for the duration of the project until 31.12.2025. You are expected to do your own research on migration decisions of Japanese migrants in Germany within the joint EU-funded project AspirE (Decision Making of Aspiring (Re)Migrants to/within the EU: The Case of Labour Market-Leading Migrations from Asia).

Your tasks include working on a qualitative research project in collaboration with the PI (and supported by a research assistant), including:

  • researching the socio-legal context of Japanese migration to Germany (policy analysis)
  • conducting and analyzing expert interviews, group discussions and semi-structured interviews
  • carrying out social network mapping using an open access platform
  • collecting video diaries among selected study participants
  • working with the project partners in the EU as well as
  • publishing the results

    Requirements are successfully completed university studies (master degree) and a successfully completed doctorate in social sciences or area studies. You also need to show a proven interest in the field of migration studies in the German and/or Japanese context (e.g. through publications) as well as interdisciplinary studies and excellent methodological skills in qualitative research. In addition, background knowledge on, experience or interest in the psychological, emotional or affective dimensions of migration are required. Japanese language skills required.

Brunel U London: PhD Studentship: Interculturality (UK)

“Studentships“

PHD Studentship: Interculturality-for-Diversity-and-Global-Learning, Brunel University, London, UK. Deadline: 13 January 2023.

Brunel University London is pleased to invite applications for studentships in Education, offered through the ESRC-funded Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (GUDTP). The GUDTP is an exciting collaboration between Brunel, the University of Oxford and the Open University, which offers its students access to innovative social science research training across all three institutions. Brunel DTP students in Education will be members of the GUDTP Education Pathway led by the University of Oxford and Brunel, and delivered collaboratively by the two universities. You can find further information about the GUDTP here.

Brunel DTP students on the Education pathway will join the Department of Education. In common with the university as a whole the department has a rich ethnic mix among its student population and attracts a significant proportion of students from outside the European Union. Students will benefit from Brunel’s diverse specialist expertise in the following four research groups:

  • Interculturality-for-Diversity-and-Global-Learning
  • Education, Identities and Society
  • Pedagogy and Professional Education
  • STEM Education

Key Concept 106: Intercultural Mediation

Key Concepts in ICDThe next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC106: Intercultural Mediation by Dominic Busch. 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.

KC106 Intercultural MediationBusch, D. (2022). Intercultural mediation. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 106. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/kc106-intercultural-mediation.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. 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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U Exeter: Intercultural Communication (UK)

“JobSenior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. Deadline: 7 December 2022.

The Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter are seeking to appoint a new Senior Lecturer with a particular interest in Intercultural Communication. This full time, permanent post is available from January 2023. They are looking to extend the research profile of Intercultural Communication and to offer leadership and specialist teaching on the new MA in this area. To complement existing strengths within the Faculty, you may have research and teaching interests in intercultural communication and the workplace/ health/ pragmatics/ the global south/ media or business communication. You will be a member of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, but expected to work and create connections across disciplines. You may also be required to teach on and convene modules at undergraduate level, as well as attracting and supervising postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate research students.

U Manchester: Lecturer in Global Development (UK)

“JobLecturer in Global Development (Teaching and Research), Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Deadline: 9 December 2022.

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Global Development (Teaching and Research) within the Global Development Institute (GDI). This post will enhance the GDI’s research and teaching capacity in global development, in particular on the theoretical and empirical analysis of labour, gender and/or environmental sustainability in global production. The GDI has made significant advances in research and policy on global value chains and production networks, in particular through the ‘Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains’ programme (2008-2014), the ‘Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures’ programme (2010-2017) and the ‘Shifting South: Decent Work and Regional Value Chains’ study (2019-21).

This new appointment is expected to contribute to and help lead the next iteration of policy focused research at GDI on these critical areas. The University welcomes applications from exceptional candidates who can make significant contributions to research and research-informed teaching that complements existing offerings in GDI. The post will be attached to the GDI’s Social Development (SD) teaching cluster and the Global Production Networks, Trade and Labour research group.

MPI: Communications Officer (USA)

“JobCommunications Officer, Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 5 December 2022.

MPI’s tight-knit, high-energy, collegial team is looking for a new member with excellent writing, editing, and social media skills, as well as full oral and written Spanish language fluency. As Communications Officer, you will immediately make an impact. You will contribute to the Migration Policy Institute’s work by crafting press releases and social media campaigns; engaging with news organizations in Latin America and beyond; helping shape communications strategies; playing a key role in redesign of MPI’s website; editing short-form work; and assisting in the promotion of MPI’s public and private events, conferences, and webinars. While assignments will vary day to day, the successful candidate must be a creative, detail-oriented, versatile professional who can prioritize between quick-turnaround projects and longer-term deliverables, working collaboratively with colleagues across the Institute yet also able to operate independently.