Call for Nominations: Communication & Race Editor

Professional Opportunities

Call for Nominations/ Applications: Communication and Race, Editor-elect. Deadline: January 31, 2022.

 

The journal Communication and Race is a new peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. The journal publishes original scholarship on the centrality of race, racism, and colonialism to the praxis of communication. The journal contributes in distinct ways to the Communication discipline by building on the theories and epistemologies of Black, Ethnic, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian studies scholars.

During 2022, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors- Elect) for the new journal. The appointed Editor, who will serve as the journal’s founding Editor, will begin processing manuscripts early in 2023, and will oversee the volumes for 2024-2026. The journal is to be published four times each year.

KC16 Migration Translated into Turkish

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#16: Migration, which Saskia Witteborn wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Candost Aydın has now translated into Turkish.

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

KC16 Migration_Turkish

Witteborn, S. (2021). Migration [Turkish]. (C. Aydın, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 16. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/kc16-migration_turkish.pdf

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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Everyday Peace Indicators: Project Coordinator (Sri Lanka)

“Job

Project Coordinator,
Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI), Sri Lanka. Deadline: 20 December 2021.

Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI) is engaged in a long-term research project in Sri Lanka that aims to build knowledge about local understandings and dynamics of reconciliation. Specifically, we are working with the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) to gather data about perceptions of peace and reconciliation in 30 communities throughout Sri Lanka to inform the Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Activity funded by USAID. As outlined on our website, EPI uses a unique, participatory approach called Everyday Peace Indicators.

After a significant pause due to COVID-19, EPI will reinitiate its on-the-ground activities in Sri Lanka in early 2022. As such, EPI requires a project coordinator to manage local activities, assist with qualitative and quantitative research, and liaise with partner organizations and EPI staff in the USA. The EPI coordinator will be hired on a one-year fulltime contract with the possibility of extension, pending satisfactory performance. Project guidance will be provided by Professor Pamina Firchow from Brandeis University and Dr. Leslie MacColman from the Ohio State University.

Kings College: Leadership, Peace & Development Education (UK)

“Job

Lecturer in Leadership, Peace & Development Education, Kings College London, U.K. Deadline: 4 January 2022.

The African Leadership Centre (ALC), King’s College London, seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Leadership, Development, Peace and Security. The applicant will be an outstanding early career scholar with interdisciplinary expertise on the noted themes with empirical reflection on global South contexts. The post holder will contribute to research-led teaching, use of innovative approaches to enhance teaching, learning and student experience, supervision and marking to online and in-person student cohorts. The post holder will provide academic and pastoral support to postgraduate students at the ALC. The post holder will have opportunities to develop high-quality education-focused research. The Lecturer will themselves receive mentoring and support to further develop their skills and experience in education, academic administration and scholarship. The African Leadership Centre is a dynamic Unit based within the King’s School of Global affairs that delivers postgraduate teaching, doctoral training and  academic as well as policy-oriented research. The ALC focuses on the intellectual study of leadership within the fields of development, peacebuilding and security with attention to global South contexts..

12′ Refugee Puppet Sparks ICD

Applied ICDAlex Marshall, Carlotta Gall and Elisabetta Povoledo. (2021, November 10). Four months, 5,000 miles: A refugee puppet looks for home. New York Times.

Throughout the trek, the 12-foot-tall puppet — which required up to four people to control — would make over 140 stops in eight countries, at venues ranging from refugee camps to the Royal Opera House in London. Those would include theatrical spectacles, including a final event in Manchester, England, as well as spontaneous encounters, with Amal (whose name means hope in Arabic) simply walking through a city or village and seeing what happens.

Little Amal represents a 9-year-old Syrian girl separated from her family, searching for her mother from Turkey to England. The goal is for her plight, representing that of refugee children more generally, to spark conversations. The map of her walk, and further information about the project’s goals and outcomes, is available here. A TED talk by the artistic director, Amir Nizar Zuabi, is available here.

CFP The Rhetoric of Otherness (Reminder)

“PublicationCall for Papers: The Rhetoric of Otherness, Special Issue in Rhetoric and Communications journal. Editors: Paola Giorgis, Ivanka Mavrodieva, & Andrea Valente. Deadline: December 15, 2021.

This is a gentle reminder of the CFP on The Rhetoric of Otherness for the journal Rhetoric & Communications. This special issue invites authors to explore old and new forms of Otherness and Othering in various texts such as literary, journalistic, political speeches, new media, social media, visual texts, and films, by focusing on the role of linguistic, rhetoric, and discourse strategies (e.g. argumentation, figure of speech, discourse elements, visual composition, etc.) in the representation, construction or deconstruction of us/them, sameness/difference in order to disclose, denounce, criticise, or unpack emotions, thoughts, behaviours that lead to discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, stigma, and exclusion among others. We welcome contributions that are either original research (qualitative/quantitative methods), systematic review, or theoretical articles.

The deadline has been extended to Dec. 31st., 2021.

Intercultural Innovation Award Finalists 2021

Awards2021 winners of the Intercultural Innovation Award, a program developed by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and BMW Group, have now been announced.

Ten global grassroots initiatives have been named finalists of the prestigious Intercultural Innovation Award during an Awards Ceremony held in Dubai on November 19, 2021. This year, the selection process was highly competitive, with over 1,100 applications received from 120 countries. The winners are:

  • International Trustbuilding – Initiatives of Change International (Switzerland)
  • Knitting a Better Future – La Cana, Productos con Causa (Mexico)
  • Dialogue on the Human Fraternity Document – Mediterranean Youth Foundation (Egypt)
  • MITTI Café, Inclusion with Every Meal – MITTI Social Initiative Foundation (India)
  • Arrival Advisor – PeaceGeeks Society (Canada)
  • Emerging Leaders – PLACE Network (France)
  • Politize! Ambassadors Program: Promoting Civic Empowerment for All – Politize! Civic Education Institute (Brazil)
  • Always Remember, Never Forget – Spielen in der Stadt (Germany)
  • Creative Youth Boot Camp: Art for Social Transformation – Street Project Foundation (Nigeria)
  • SMART Advocates: For Effective Dialogue to Address the Grassroots Conflicts – Strengthening Youth Leadership Collective (Sri Lanka)

Besides the financial support of 200,000 USD (to be divided equally across the 10 selected projects), award winners will benefit from professional project guidance from the BMW Group, UNAOC, and the business consulting firm Accenture. Recipients will also receive managerial and strategic project support and become part of the “Intercultural Leaders” network, which connects professionals and managers across the globe.

Videos describing each of the projects and organizations available here.

CFP Freedom of Expression: Communication, Identity and Culture (USA)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Across Borders IX: Freedom of Expression: Communication, Identity and Culture, May 16-29, 2022, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA. Deadline: 15 January 2022.

The organizers of the conference wish to invite scholars in humanities, social sciences, and fine and performing arts, including communication, literature, linguistics, translation and interpretation, media, journalism, cultural studies, theatre, dance, graphic design, art, music and others to a discussion on the broad topic of Freedom of Expression: Communication, Identity and Culture. Potential submissions can include traditional paper abstracts, videos of performances, photographs, images of art, etc. Contributions will be paneled for discussions related to the conference theme.

Potential topics most likely of interest to CID followers include: Minority culture, the Other and identity; Globalization and freedom of expression; Language, translation and their impacts on expression; Translation and interpreting as multifaceted intercultural mediation.

Candost Aydın Profile

ProfilesCandost Aydın is a senior advisor with an academic background in Economics, Law and Political Science, and Asian Studies. Currently, he coordinates technical assistance programmes. His research interests are economic policies, geopolitics, urban policies, and environment in the context of and beyond area studies.

Candost Aydin

He has contributed to the following publications: Place-based and Transnational Strategies for Advancing Rights (Universität Duisburg-Essen, RC02 International Political Economy of Labour Migration Conference, Jul 18, 2024), Principles and Dynamics of Steering and Coordination in Recovery and Reconstruction in Adıyaman and Hatay Cases (Middle East Technical University, Disaster Management Conference, Feb 26, 2024), Women as Change Agents in Post-conflict Reconciliation and Reconstruction (Universität Hamburg, International Migration Conference, Aug 24, 2023), Navigating through Conflict and Fragility (GIZ, NICD International Cooperation in Conflicts and Disasters, Berlin, Oct 20, 2022), Engaging and Involving Displaced Persons and Host Communities in Project Implementation (GIZ, Sept 19, 2022), Promotion of Digital and Green Transformation for Employment Prospects (25th International Metropolis Conference in Berlin · Sep 19, 2022), Cooperatives as Agencies to Provide Livelihoods for the Refugees in Istanbul During the Covid-19 Pandemic (RC21 – Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development Conference, Athens · Aug 25, 2022), Strengthening the Resilience and Preparedness for Labour Market Disruptions in the Context of Forced Displacement (GIZ, Dec 17, 2020), Business Sector Involvement in TVET in the MENA Region (GIZ, Dec 10, 2020), From Subsidised Employment to the ‘Primary’ Labour Market: A Strategy for Bad Economic Times and for the ‘Hard-to-employ’? (GIZ, Dec 19, 2019).

He can be contacted via candost.aydin AT alumni.metu.edu.tr

Work for CID:

Candost Aydın translated KC2: Cosmopolitanism, KC11: Intercultural Discourse and Communication, KC16: Migration, KC18: Intractable Conflict, KC24: Asiacentricity, KC26: Global-Local Dialectic, KC27: Globalization, KC49: Intersectionality, KC52:Harmony, KC53: Conflict Management, KC54: Critical Moments, KC64: Peacebuilding, KC68: Social Justice, KC71: Safe Space, KC77: Negotiation, KC79: Social Cohesion, KC89: Xenophobia, KC93: Transnationalism, KC95: Transnational Media, KC100: Transcultural Communication, and KC103: Geoculture into Turkish.

Macquarie U: Linguistics (Australia)

“JobLecturer or Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Deadline: 19 December 2021.

Seeking a teaching and research academic to join the leading Department of Linguistics in NSW at Macquarie University. A unique opportunity for a professionally qualified academic with expertise in Sociolinguistics/Applied Linguistics to take up a position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. Requires demonstrated expertise in sociolinguistics with a focus on at least two of the following areas: multilingualism, second language learning, TESOL. The successful candidate will be expected to actively engage in a research program, contribute to the teaching of linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervise research students from Masters to higher degree, and contribute to the administration of the Department and Faculty.