Three Religions, One House (Germany)

Applied ICD

The House of One: Three Religions Under one Roof, Berlin, Germany.

House of One in Berlin

Berlin is soon to become home to something truly unique. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are building a house of worship together – bringing a synagogue, a church, and a mosque together under one roof. The three separate sections will be linked by a communal room in the center of the building. This will serve as a meeting place, where worshippers and members of the public can come together and learn more about the religions and each other.

The House of One on Petriplatz, the medieval birthplace of Berlin, aims to add a new and hopeful chapter to the diverse history of this city. It is being built on the foundations of Berlin’s oldest church (12th century). The architects are Kuehn Malvezzi, who provide detailed drawings of the design.

For further information, see the articles by the BBC, or Visit Berlin.

KC92 Kintsugi Translated into German

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#92: Kintsugi, which Akari Takenishi wrote for publication in English in 2018, and which Marlena Pompino has now translated into German.

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.

KC92 Kintsugi_GermanTakenishi, A. (2021). Kintsugi. (M. Pompino, Trans.). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 92. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kc92-kintsugi_german.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 Sustainable Development Goals SDG18 Communication for All

“PublicationCall for Chapters: Sustainable Development Goals SDG18 Communication for All, to be edited by Jan Servaes and Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u. Deadline: 10 June, 2021.

The 2030 agenda for development or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed by 193 countries in human history…Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development comprising key stakeholders from all sectors of all life forgot to dedicate one goal on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such an oversight has attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike, journalists and policy makers who understand that it is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development.

The COVID-19 pandemic which struck in 2019 has shown why communication is essential to human survival. The Pandemic which started as a health crisis and later metamorphosed into a full-blown economic crisis is now having a direct and indirect impact on the possibility of achieving each of the SDGs…A major lesson that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the role of communication in providing support for the survival of the global economy and society as a whole. The global community became more attached to the traditional and social media in order to understand the nature of the virus, how it spreads and measures needed to curtail the spread of the infection.

Stories of Home VR: Immigrant & Refugee Voices (USA but Online)

EventsStories of Home VR: Immigrant and Refugee Voices, StoryCenter, Berkeley, CA, USA (Online), June 11, 2021, 8-9pm GMT.

Pull up a chair and bring along your favorite Friday afternoon snacks as you join StoryCenter for a FREE, one-hour online screening of new immersive media work from Stories of Home VR. Artist-in-Residence Parul Wadhwa has been hard at work during the pandemic, collaborating with three women to document their material memories of home through virtual reality (VR) filmmaking techniques.

Help organizers honor these unique voices as World Refugee Day approaches (June 20). The event will also feature short interviews with the storytellers, captured in partnership with the California Film Institute, and a Q&A with Parul on the value of VR for enhancing wellbeing and building community and compassion.

At the event, the stories will be shown as 360 videos, but after you register, organizers will send you the information you will need to view them on the Oculus Store, if you have a VR headset.

Nadia Abid Profile

Profiles

Nadia Abid is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax (FLSH Sfax), Tunisia.

Nadia Abid

She obtained a joint PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sfax, Tunisia and the University of Lorraine, France in 2012. She is currently a member of LAD (Laboratory on Approaches to Discourse, FLSH Sfax) and a coordinator of a Professional Master’s program in English for Communication.

She teaches TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), intercultural communication, ESP (English for Specific Purposes), TEYL (Teaching English to Young Learners), and theories of learning.

In her research, Nadia is interested in intercultural language learning and related issues including:  the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in textbooks and virtual exchanges, the evaluation of the intercultural and global dimensions of EFL textbooks, learners’ attitudes, learners’ identity (re)construction in different intercultural contexts such as EFL classes, study abroad programs, and virtual exchanges.

Key publications

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2020). The promotion of the good intercultural speaker through intercultural contacts in a Tunisian EFL textbook.  Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(1), 37-49.

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2020). Tunisian students’ identity development in study abroad. I-LanD Journal: Negotiation of L2 Identities in the Age of Transnational Mobility. DOI: 10.26379/IL2020001_008.

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2021). The intercultural speaker across time: A study of Tunisian EFL textbooks. Compare: A Journal of comparative and international education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1853506.

Abid, N.,  Moalla, A., & Omidvar, I. (2020). The use of a blog for the development of intercultural communicative competence: The case of Tunisian and American students. SHS Web of Conferences 88, 02011. LLT Forum. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208802011.

Work for CID:
Nadia Abid reviews translations into Arabic.

IOM: International Careers for a Social Purpose (Online Job Fair)

“Job

International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations, is holding an online job fair, June 3, 2021.

 

IOM writes: “We are constantly looking for professionals with a wide variety of skills and educational backgrounds. For example: finance and budget, human resourced management, procurement and logistics, health professionals, information technology, project management, legal experts, monitoring and evaluation, communications, migration and border management, fundraising and many more; to work in our more than 400 offices located around the world.

Professionals from any nationality can apply to our positions, but we are especially interested in having applicants from our non-Represented Member States. IOM takes care of all work permit formalities once a candidate is selected for an international position. You can find all open vacancies here and we invite you to check back as every Friday more vacancies are published. Our event will be open for 8 hours straight in order to accommodate various time zones. We look forward to meeting you.”

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the UN entity charged with supporting governments and migrants worldwide, to ensure safe and orderly migration. 

CFP Geoculture & Geopolitics

“PublicationCall for proposals: Geoculture and geopolitics: What interplay for soft power inter-communication(s) in a globalized world? special issue of Arab Journal of International Law. Deadline: June 1, 2021 (for working title & intention only).

Historically, cultural ideologies in world communication and public relations have usually bred their own undoing. Indeed, cultural factors and dimensions are resorted to explain emerging political and economic emerging phenomena. It is high time culture were brought into international studies. Generally, international relations (IRs) were envisaged through two models – notably geopolitics and geoeconomics. However, as the international society is marked by the cultural turn in the politics of international and inter- civilizational relations (Tibi, 2012 & Petito, 2009), IRs are approached from a third prism – geoculture. Geoculture is a new emerging paradigm that addresses the influence of culture or, more broadly, civilization in shaping the cultural and political discourses of intercultural and international relations.

Papers may be submitted in English, French, or Arabic.

Aspen Institute: Community Manager for Weave (USA)

“JobCommunity Manager, Weave: The Social Fabric Project, Aspen Institute, Washington, DC. Deadline: Open until filled.

Weave’s Community Manager helps lead one of three strategic pillars: Connecting and Supporting Weavers through peer support, learning, links to resources and opportunities for collaboration. Weave connect Weavers through an online community platform, in-person and virtual gatherings, our website, newsletter and social media. Weavers receive support, training, ideas and a sense of belonging and purpose through our work.

Weave seeks an experienced relationship manager who understands the demands of setting a content strategy, overseeing an online platform such as Jive or Hoopla, inspiring high engagement and adjusting tactics to meet the changing needs of a community. This position will deputize and support superusers to engage others as the community grows. The Community Manager oversees the Community Associate, several Community Facilitators (part-time super-users) and interns, as needed.

Weave: The Social Fabric Project was started by columnist David Brooks and the Aspen Institute in May of 2018 to counter a culture of hyper-individualism in the US that has left Americans divided, isolated and unhappy. This crisis of connection and decline in social trust has led to rising rates of addiction and suicide, persistent inequality and discrimination, and gridlocked politics. Yet in every community, some people have chosen to weave the social fabric by investing in relationships, making commitments to others and creating connection. These “Weavers” are all different. Some work at a suicide hotline, a mentoring program or in schools. Others run a coffee shop where everybody feels at home. Still others just gather neighbors to talk or stop to listen when they see someone distraught. They lead with love, creating countercultural islands where connection and community are more important than ego and self. You will find their stories at WeAreWeavers.org.

Aarhus U: Intercultural Studies & Literature (Denmark)

“JobAssistant/Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Literature and/or History and Society, Department of English,  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 10 June 2021.

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of either tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor of intercultural studies and literature and/or history and society, with an emphasis on English-language texts and contexts, based at the Department of English. The tenure-track assistant professorship begins with a full-time, fixed-term, five-year appointment as assistant professor with a view to permanent employment as associate professor. The associate professorship is full-time and tenured. The department’s research covers literature, social/historical/media studies, linguistics and regions in which English is the primary language, as well as English as the global language of international business communication.

Summer School: Language Diversity, Education, Social Participation (Germany)

Study AbroadLanguage diversity, education, and social participation, Hamburg International Summer School, Germany (but virtual). July 5-30, 2021. Deadline: open until all spaces filled.

The program consists of four modules:

  • Key issues in multilingualism
  • Language development and education in multilingual settings
  • Language diversity in formal and informal settings
  • Multilingual learning motivation in a foreign language context

Linguistic (as well as cultural and social) diversity are basic characteristics of today’s societies. Their causes include, among others, increasing migration, globalisation, new technical possibilities of communication, and interactions across traditional borders. Using three nations with significant migration – Australia, China and Germany – as examples, we will explore how increasing diversity affects education and social participation, and what policies and discourses have been developed in response to linguistic diversity. Despite their different socio-political traditions in dealing with migration, the challenges and responses to linguistic diversity in the three countries share many similarities. Central among these is that linguistic diversity continues to be a central factor in social exclusion in the three countries.

The Summer School is suitable for graduate students and will be taught by a group of academics from Hamburg University (Germany), Macquarie University (Australia), Fudan University (China), and several other Asian, European, and North American universities. The fee of Euro200 also includes one week of German language lessons! Discounts are available for students from partner universities, and scholarships for students from low-income countries.