Tree of 40 Fruit TED Talk

Applied ICDVan Aken, S. (2019, June). How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_van_aken_how_one_tree_grows_40_different_kinds_of_fruit

Sam Van Aken TED talk

 

A few months ago, CID put up a post suggesting that Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit provides a good metaphor for intercultural dialogue. So it seems appropriate to now point out that he gave a TED Talk this summer updating his project, for those who wish to learn more about how it has been going. And to show off his astonishing trees after a few years. of growth As he says, “This is definitely not a sport of immediate gratification.” Again, this sure sounds like a metaphor for intercultural dialogue!

Sheyla Finkelshteyn Profile

ProfilesSheyla Finkelshteyn is an international student from Uzbekistan. She is currently working on her PhD in Communication at Ohio University.

Sheyla Finkelshteyn

Sheyla speaks English, Russian and Spanish, and has traveled to 17 countries, leading to a focus in intercultural communication. She is a member of the International and Intercultural Communication Division and Vice Chair Elect at the Peace and Conflict Division of the National Communication Association. Her dissertation focuses on Jewish Community Organizing efforts using theories like Co-cultural Theory and Communication Theory of Identity. She is also an engaged scholar, spending a lot of her time outside of academia helping build communities through fund-raising and event management.

Work for CID:
Sheyla Finkelshteyn translated KC3: Intercultural Competence and KC71: Safe Space into Russian.

U Penn: Postdoc in Global Communication (USA)

PostdocsPostdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Deadline: February 1, 2020.

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a “CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.” This is a one-year position renewable for a second year based on successful performance. With a core commitment to the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes. CARGC postdoctoral fellows work on their own research, typically a book manuscript, and collaborate with staff and postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate fellows. They may design and teach one undergraduate course during their second year. They present a CARGC Colloquium and publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are provided a stipend of $50,000, a research fund of $3000, health insurance, a work space, computer and library access.

CARGC Fellows integrate primary sources and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal and transnational analyses of media, technology, geopolitics and culture. Candidates challenging normative paradigms and incorporating non-Western theories, sources and contexts, are especially welcome. Ongoing research groups focus on theory and history in global media studies, geopolitics and the popular, digital sovereignty, and radical media and culture. We recommend that applicants read our 5 year-report to familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities. This year we are particularly interested in candidates working on the Middle East and/or Latin America with Arabic and/or Spanish primary sources, though all candidates will be actively considered.

CFP History of Recent Social Science (Canada)

ConferencesCall for Papers: 7th Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), University of Toronto, Canada, June 12–13, 2020. Deadline: February 7, 2020.

This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law, and linguistics. The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences.

The two-day conference will be organized as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all participants. Ample time will be set aside for intellectual exchange between presenters and attendees, as all participants are expected to read pre-circulated papers in advance.

KC 35 Media Ecology Translated into Chinese

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#35: Media Ecology, which Casey Man Kong Lum wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Zhichao Qiu has now translated into Chinese.

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

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Media Ecology in Traditional Chinese
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Media Ecology in Simplified Chinese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lum, C. M. K. (2019). Media ecology [Traditional Chinese]. (Z. Qiu, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 35. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/kc35-media-ecology_chinese-trad.pdf

Lum, C. M. K. (2019). Media ecology [Simplified Chinese]. (Z. Qiu, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 35. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/kc35-media-ecology_chinese-sim.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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NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture & Society (USA)

FellowshipsThe NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society, Hagley Library, Wilmington Delaware. Deadline: February 15, 2020.

The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society supports residencies at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware for junior and senior scholars whose projects make use of Hagley’s substantial research collections. Scholars must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degrees by the February 15 application deadline. In accordance with NEH requirements, these fellowships are restricted to United States citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. These fellowships are made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fellowships may be four to twelve months in length, and will provide a monthly stipend of $5,000 and complimentary lodging in housing on Hagley’s property. Scholars receive office space, Internet access, Inter-Library Loan privileges, and the full benefits of visiting scholars, including special access to Hagley’s research collections. They are expected to be in regular and continuous residence and to participate in the Center’s scholarly programs. They must devote full time to their study and may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during their residency. Fellows may hold other major fellowships or grants during fellowship tenure, in addition to sabbaticals and supplemental grants from their own institutions, but only those that do not interfere with their residency at Hagley. Other NEH-funded grants may be held serially, but not concurrently.

NOTE: There are a wide variety of other grants and fellowships available from the Hagley Library.

Paris Seine Initiative Junior Chairs (France)

“Job
Junior Chairs, Paris Seine Initiative 2020 – TALENT program, Paris, France. Deadline: 17 January 2020.

The Paris Seine Initiative TALENT PROGRAM invites applications from high-profile young researchers willing to develop their research in one of the Paris Seine research groups.It offers the possibility to young researchers to demonstrate their capacity to lead an ambitious research project at the highest level, as well as a research team, in all academic fields. The recruitment will take the form of junior chairs, with a duration of three years, integrated in a Paris Seine research center and offering attractive compensation and research environment. The project will contribute to the development of the Paris Seine scientific community. It is expected that the research program of the candidate be articulated with the research strategy of the hosting Paris Seine research center and create research synergies therein, and beyond.

The Paris Seine Initiative gathers the University of Cergy-Pontoise (UCP), ESSEC Business School, and EISTI engineering school. These three institutions have joined forces under an ambitious project, with the objective to boost their research potential and international attractiveness.

Columbia Basin College: Intercultural Studies (USA)

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Assistant Professor for Intercultural Studies, Columbia Basin College, Kennewick, Washington. Deadline: January 6, 2020 or until filled.

Columbia Basin College is currently seeking an outstanding and enthusiastic individual who can teach a broad range of courses in Intercultural Studies.  The individual chosen will teach Hispanic Cultures and other possible courses in Chicano History, Mexican History, American Diversity, History, Sociology, Anthropology or Foreign Language, depending on the candidate’s academic degree and background.

Venice School of Human Rights 2020 (Italy)

Applied ICDThe Global Campus of Human Rights is now accepting applications for the Venice School of Human Rights 2020. The School will take place in Venice, at the Global Campus of Human Rights Headquarters, 28 March-4 April 2020.Application deadline: 24 February 2020, early bird until 27 January to receive a 10% discount.

The programme is divided into three separate streams covering human rights defenders, gender equality, and rights of the child. A core introduction to each of the main themes will be provided to all participants in plenary, and following this, specialised seminars will be organised in smaller groups in the respective subject areas. A red thread running through the programme will be to highlight and work with the concrete experience of participants, who bring a rich legacy of engagement in complex human rights situations to bear on the programme. The faculty of the School includes prominent academics, representatives of leading human rights NGOs, members of the European Parliament and Sakharov Prize Laureates.

Maria F. Townsend Profile

ProfilesMaría Fernanda Townsend is a graduate student in the Bilingual Education program at New York University from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Maria Townsend
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Maria holds a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Relay Graduate School of Education in New York and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from the University of Notre Dame. As a researcher, María’s area of study is bilingual early childhood education, and specifically the impact bilingual early childhood programs have on children’s linguistic and academic development as well as on communities of immigrants and other minority groups. María recently completed the Teach For America program, through which she taught 3K and Pre-K in a community based organization on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Work for CID:
María Fernanda Townsend translated KC35: Media Ecology into Spanish.