U Toronto: International Migration (Canada)

“JobAssoc Prof/Professor of International Migration, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada. Deadline: 15 September, 2021.

The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in the area of international migration. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2022.

Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. degree in Sociology or a closely related area, with a clearly demonstrated exceptional record of excellence in research and teaching. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing departmental strengths. Candidates will have an established international reputation and will be expected to sustain and lead innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to maintain an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

CISP: ArtXchange Storytelling Facilitator (Kenya)

“JobArtXchange Storytelling Facilitator, Community Initiative Support Program Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (and online). Deadline: 30 August, 2021.

Community Initiative Support Program (CISP) is the lead agency of a consortium of partners implementing a multi-year and multi-country EU-funded project entitled ArtXchange “Connecting creative youth in Africa and Europe,” aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue, collaboration and exchange among youth professionals from the creative sector in Kenya, Somalia and Europe. CISP is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide high quality Storytelling trainings both online and in person (Nairobi – Kenya). This is an open retainer contract for 6 months only.

Making Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century (Online)

ConferencesMaking Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century conference, CMM Institute with AFT & FKCC, USA & UK, September 23-25, 2021 (online). No deadline, but advance registration is required to receive login information.

Making Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century is a special online conference being hosted jointly by the CMM Institute (USA), the Association for Family Therapy (UK) and the Friends of the Kensington Consulting Centre (KCC, also in the UK). Contributors and participants at the conference will be exploring and reflecting upon the values, ethics and practices of all three host organizations and sharing new developments that can help make a better and more just world for all of us. This conference is fully virtual: all sessions will take place online, with a combination of live and pre-recorded sessions. Replays will also be available for many of the sessions.

The CMM Institute is a connector and cultivator of all things to do with the theory and practice of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) that contributes to making better social worlds. AFT, the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, is a registered charity working to benefit the public by promoting effective family therapy and systemic services and high standards of professional training and practice. FKCC, Friends of the Kensington Consulting Centre, work collectively to grow the values, ethics and practices emanating from the KCC school of therapy, consultation, management and research. 

KC26 Global-Local Dialectic Translated into French

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#26 Global-local dialectic, which Jana Simonis published in English in 2014, and  which Mohammed Guamguami has now translated into French.

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.

KC26 Global-local dialectic_French

Simonis, J. (2021). La dialectique global-local. (M. Guamguami, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 26. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/kc26-global-local-dialectic_french.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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CFP Migration Studies Special Issues

“Publication

Call for
Special Issue Proposals: Migration Studies. Deadline: October 1, 2021.

The journal Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. Migration Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality papers in the broad field of migration, including gender, policies, transnationalism, diaspora, integration, development, and other migration-related issues around the world. They favor proposals engaging with current scholarly debates in the theories and/or methodologies of migration studies. And they welcome proposals by scholars from the South and non-anglophone areas exploring innovative streams of research.

A maximum of eight papers are expected for the published Special Issue, including an introduction laying out the importance and timeliness of the key themes, debates, and questions addressed by the Special Issue, as well as an overview of the key findings of the collection of articles.

KC49 Intersectionality Translated into French

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#49: Intersectionality, which Gust Yep published in English in 2015, and which Mohammed Guamguami has now translated into Spanish.

As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download the PDF. 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.

KC49 Intersectionality_French

Yep, G. (2021). L’intersectionnalité. (M. Guamguami, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 49. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/kc49-intersectionality_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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Musser Fund Grants for Intercultural Harmony 2021 (USA)

Intercultural Harmony Initiative, Laura Jane Musser Fund. Deadline:  October 15, 2021.

 

Through the Intercultural Harmony Initiative, the Laura Jane Musser Fund supports projects that promote mutual understanding and cooperation between groups of community members of different cultural backgrounds. Project planning grants up to $5,000 or implementation grants up to $25,000 will be considered.

Priority is placed on projects that include members of various cultural communities working together on projects with common goals; build positive relationships across cultural lines; engender intercultural harmony, tolerance, understanding, and respect; and enhance intercultural communication, rather than cultural isolation, while at the same time honoring the unique qualities of each culture.

NOTE: The geographic areas for this initiative are only Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wyoming, and limited counties in New York and Texas. 

U Penn: Global Communication (USA)

“JobProfessor of Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Deadline: 30 September 2021.

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is searching for an internationally recognized senior scholar to join our faculty and lead the School’s endowed Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication to begin the fall semester 2022. The School is looking for a productive researcher, engaged scholar, and committed teacher/mentor who studies cross-national, supranational, transnational and/or translocal theories and subjects, using qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Topics may include but are not limited to critical and/or comparative studies of media institutions, systems, and audiences as they relate to digital inequalities; diasporas; development; the uses and structural impacts of technologies; legal, economic and policy frameworks; journalism; the geopolitics of the popular; postcolonial and indigenous studies; and implications of communication infrastructures. Preference will be given to researchers whose work centers on the Global South. Candidates who add to the School and University diversity are strongly encouraged to apply.

Williams College: Asian American Studies (USA)

“Job

Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies, Department of American Studies, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. Deadline: 11 October 2021.

The American Studies Program at Williams College seeks to make a tenure-track appointment in Asian American Studies, to start July 1, 2022, at the rank of Assistant Professor (in exceptional cases, a more advanced appointment may be considered). The program seeks to complement and expand the expertise of existing faculty who teach Asian American topics, at a time when the College is working towards building an Asian American Studies program. It is particularly interested in scholars doing comparative ethnic studies work, especially at the intersection of Asian American and African American/Black studies, but applications from  those working on other topics as well are also welcome.  There is a strong preference for interested candidates who demonstrate a commitment to the interdisciplinary nature and methodologies of American Studies in their research and teaching. The teaching load is two courses per semester and a three-week-long winter-study course every other January.

CFP Governance of Cultural Diversity (Italy but Online)

ConferencesCFP Theories and Practices of Governance of Cultural Diversity Workshop, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, September 28, 2021 (held online). Deadline: September 4, 2021.

Over the past decades, the traditional distinction between national and international spheres has experienced great pressure as conventional state-centric practices and state-sponsored international governance have been challenged or replaced by new forms of governance. The rise of diverse non-state actors and institutional arrangements has profoundly changed the dynamics and outcomes of global politics. This Workshop Series aims to foster debate on a range of topics related to different transnational policy arenas (such as economy, international mobility, security, sustainability) as well as issues cutting across several policy domains (including questions around the legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness of transnational actors and structures). This event will bring together PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars from different strands of research, to discuss key analytical issues and empirical research in progress on multi-level global and regional politics of today.