Circular & Intercultural Cities

Applied ICDIntercultural Cities. (2021). Policy brief: Circular and Intercultural Cities: Including Migrants and Diversity in Circular, Green and Inclusive Economic Models. Strasbourg, France: Council of Europe.

Diversity is a reality which we should celebrate and benefit from. (p. 5)

“The Intercultural Cities (ICC) programme of the Council of Europe has commissioned Nordic Sustainability to develop this policy brief. The aim is that it can be used as a resource for cities on how best to integrate the agendas of interculturalism and green development through the lens of the circular economy concept…Taking the core principles of the intercultural approach into account, green sustainable development policies and actions should also ensure equal rights and opportunities for all.” (p. 3)

This brief explains “how the intercultural and the circular economy development agendas are interrelated” and shares examples of best practice for moving forward with both agendas simultaneously, while pursuing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (p. 3).

CFP: Building Structures for Intercultural Integration (Cyprus)

Professional Opportunities

Call for proposals: Building structures for intercultural integration in Cyprus. Deadline: November 21, 2021.

 

The Council of Europe is looking for consultants to undertake the development of a prototype methodology to monitor social cohesion at the local level in Cyprus in the framework of the project “Building structures for intercultural integration in Cyprus”. This project aims to support the Republic of Cyprus in implementing its National Action Plan on the Integration of Third-Country Nationals 2020-2022, by empowering local authorities, NGOs, and migrant organisations to be part of the integration process.

The project will use the COE’S Intercultural Cities tools to address the challenges of migrant integration, in particular related to building trust, fostering community cohesion and managing diversity as a resource…A Provider is to be selected to develop a methodology and test it via a prototype tool to monitor social cohesion at the local level in Cyprus. The goal of this methodology is to enable the project stakeholders to measure the impact of integration actions.

U Victoria Centre for Global Studies Fellowships 2022-23 (Canada)

Fellowships

Multiple research fellowships, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Deadline: November 15, 2021.

The Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria offers multiple fellowships. Most are for their own students and faculty, but there are several sorts available to international graduate students and faculty. Specifically:

Visiting Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Researcher: These fellowships support students in the research stages of their program. The CFGS promotes critical citizenship in a complex and rapidly changing global environment including the advancement and understanding of major global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions. Students are invited to apply who are engaged in similar topics of a global dimension. These topics may include, but are not limited to: global governance, international environmental challenges, social and ecological justice issues, and culture and identity. Applications from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome.

Visiting Researcher Fellowship: The purpose of the fellowship is to provide research space and an environment conducive to writing and reflection to scholars working on research projects in the area of global studies. The fellowships are open to Canadian and international scholars; emeritus scholars; new scholars; scholars on sabbatical leave from their regular academic appointments. Consideration will also be given to professionals in NGOs and other related fields.

CFP Communication, Conflict & Peace (UK but Online)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Communication, Conflict and Peace, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, June 27, 2022, Online. Deadline: April 1, 2022.

Global transformations fostered by the decentralization of communications from mainstream media and governance institutions to a plural range of socioeconomic actors and stakeholders have shaken the foundations of social consensus, truth and objectivity in the construction of public spheres. Such transformation has posed unprecedented challenges to conflict management and peacebuilding, multiplying risks of instability and war, but also the spaces for the construction of collective meanings and the voices shaping them.

As the international community struggles to find consensus and challenges to peace and security risks multiply, the aim of this event is to explore the relationship between communication broadly conceived, and the challenges and possibilities for peace. Organizers will receive papers from scholars, practitioners and activists on all the dimensions of communication and conflict. Registration will be free of charge.

Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen: A Video Game for Fostering Positive Intercultural Relationships

Guest PostsA video game for fostering positive intercultural relationships. Guest post by Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen.

On an overall level, playing the game resulted in significant attitude change towards outgroup members.

In a culturally and racially diverse world, it is important for people to be able to live together harmoniously. Being respectful of cultural differences and fostering a genuine curiosity to better understand how and why other people are different from ourselves is one way to bridge the gap between self and others. This was the underlying motivation to create the prosocial game, Icebreaker. Icebreaker is a short role-playing game where players take on the role of the protagonist, an ice gatekeeper whose family has been tasked with protecting the village from an annual disaster known as ‘The Freezing.’ The goal of the game is for players to discover the true cause for this annual occurrence and to stop the event for good. The game design is primarily driven by narrative design integrated with interactive play. Certain tasks in the game require the player to work together with a banished villager, whose race has been blamed for being the cause of the disaster.

Download the complete essay as a PDF.

U of Georgia: Interpersonal Communication, Race, and Ethnicity (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor Interpersonal Communication, Race, and Ethnicity, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Deadline: 15 November 2021.

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant professor position in Interpersonal Communication, Race, and Ethnicity. The starting date for this position is August 1, 2022. Qualified candidates will have evidence of excellence in teaching and a strong research program in race, ethnicity, and interpersonal communication. The position requires teaching and conducting research at the intersection of interpersonal communication, race, and ethnicity. In addition to developing and teaching classes in their specialty, this faculty member will teach core departmental courses including the undergraduate courses in Interpersonal Communication and Research Methods and the department’s graduate course in Interpersonal Communication Theory.

Georgetown U: Discourse Analysis (USA)

“Job

Assistant Professor in Discourse Analysis, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University. Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: November 15, 2021.

The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Discourse Analysis, beginning August 1, 2022. It seeks candidates who have a record of excellence in research and teaching. The responsibilities of the position include teaching a 2-2 load, with courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level; maintaining an active research trajectory; mentoring students; and contributing to service. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses in Multimodal Interaction and such areas as Language and Politics, Institutional Discourse, Digital Discourse, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Discourse and Identity. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand by the time of the appointment.

Film Competition: African Folktales Reimagined

Applied ICD

Short Film competition, African Folktales, Reimagined, UNESCO and Netflix. Deadline: November 14, 2021.

 

Netflix and UNESCO have partnered to launch an innovative short film competition on ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’ across Sub-Saharan Africa. Winners of the competition will be trained and mentored by industry professionals and provided with a US$75,000 production budget to create short films that will premiere on Netflix in 2022 as an “Anthology of African folktales”. Specifically, each of the 6 winners will receive a production grant of US$75,000 (through a local production company) to develop, shoot and post-produce their films under the guidance of Netflix and industry mentors to ensure everyone involved in the production is fairly compensated. In addition, each of the 6 winners will also receive US$25,000.

One key aim of this competition is to discover new voices and to give emerging filmmakers in Sub-Saharan Africa visibility on a global scale. Organizers want to find the bravest, wittiest, and most surprising retellings of some of Africa’s most-loved folktales and share them with entertainment fans around the world in over 190 countries. For the first round, applicants will be required to submit a synopsis of their concept (no more than 500 words) as well as links to a recent CV and a portfolio/evidence of any past audiovisual work they have produced.

Additional press coverage by The Guardian, and Variety.

CFP IMISCOE: Migration & Time (Norway)

ConferencesCall for papers: 19th IMISCOE Conference: Migration & Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, June 29-July 1, 2022, Oslo, Norway. Deadline: 15 December 2021.

Migration is intertwined with time in myriad ways and at multiple scales. In individual lives, migration propels change over time and entails engagement with personal pasts and futures. Time and temporalities are structuring migration experiences, when refugees are granted temporary protection, labour migrants are offered temporary employment and rights of residency, and undocumented migrants are living with uncertainties for the future. The governance of migration is also the governance of migrants’ relations to and experiences of time. Governance of migration happens in time – sometimes in the form of rapid changes in times of “crisis”, but perhaps also through postponement when the urgency has passed.

Attention to time and temporalities illuminates processes of othering and patterns of inequalities, as well as forms of resistance and adaptations to policies and institutions. The rapid changes in laws, regulations, policies and practices of migration also have repercussions on the topics, theoretical approaches, and methodologies of migration scholars. These and other perspectives on time and migration have flourished as part of the emerging ‘temporal turn’ in migration studies. The theme ‘migration and time’ brings out disciplinary, methodological and theoretical diversity of migration research with a shared focus.

Finding Common Ground: ICD among Youth in North Macedonia (North Macedonia but Online)

EventsFinding Common Ground: Intercultural Dialogue among Youth in North Macedonia, by Marija Krstevska,  Online, November 15, 2021, 12 pm ET.

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Harriman Institute invite you to a talk with Marija Krstevska, Secretary General, Center for Intercultural Dialogue, North Macedonia (held online). Krstevska will discuss her trajectory as a girl raised in a mono-ethnic environment to a young advocate for intercultural acceptance. She is the Secretary General of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, a youth organization in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. Through that organization, she has created learning opportunities within non-formal education for diverse groups of learners, advocated for direct involvement in community decision-making, and supported youth participation through inclusive policies. She will discuss the importance of active citizenship, capacity building, and non-formal education in fostering intercultural dialogue among youth. Marija is a participant in the 2021-22 Human Rights Advocates Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Moderator: Lara J. Nettelfield, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science

For Zoom login, register here: https://bit.ly/HRAPNMacedonia