CFP M.K. Gandhi and the Media (UK)

ConferencesCall for Papers:  M.K. Gandhi and the Media, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, 5-6 October 2019. Deadline: 15 May 2019.

On 2 October 2019, the world will celebrate the 150th anniversary of M. K. Gandhi’s birth. Accordingly, the University of St Andrews would like to announce a call for papers to be delivered at an international symposium convened by the School of History. The symposium will bring researchers from the around the world together to present papers on Gandhi as a journalist and how the media covered Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent political philosophy became a model for the next generation of political activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States and Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

Reflection on Making a Video for CID’s Competition

CID Video Competition

“The Making of…”: A Path between Cultures by Bruno Alicata and Giorgia Culotta.


In the following contribution we wish to present ‘The Making of’ the video of Class 5B which won the Second Prize in the 2018 CID international video competition “What Does Intercultural Dialogue Look Like?” We believe it is important to share such experience because making the video became the occasion for a meta-reflection on what ‘intercultural dialogue’ means to us and, at the same time, the occasion to actually practice several forms of intercultural dialogue. Therefore, besides the final result – which came unexpectedly, and made us greatly rejoice! – we wish to show how a collective and co-constructed endeavor can be the occasion to realize intercultural practices in their widest and most profound sense. – Paola Giorgis, Teacher, the School of Arts “Aldo Passoni,” Turin, Italy

[If you want to participate this year, check out 2019 CID Video Competition details]

Bruno Alicata: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” (Carl Gustav Jung, 2005 [1933], p. 49) Taking my cue from Jung, I must say that this experience was transformative, I believe for each person who took part in our work. As one of the most important reasons why we chose to take part in this competition was to experience an inner transformation by meeting other personalities from other cultures, I can say that, at the end of all this, this objective was fulfilled.

Read the full essay.

Hong Kong U: Marketing (Hong Kong)

“JobProfessor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Marketing, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. Review of applications will start as soon as possible and continue until August 11, 2019, or until the post is filled, whichever is earlier.

Applications are invited for appointment as Tenure-Track Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Economics, to commence on July 1, 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis with the possibility of renewal, or on tenured terms for exceptionally outstanding candidates subject to approval.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree, with preference given to those with a research focus on quantitative marketing, marketing strategy, or services marketing.  Research excellence (i.e. published papers or papers in advanced stages in top-tier marketing or related journals) and strong teaching performance are expected.  The appointee is expected to be committed to high-quality scholarly research and teaching undergraduate and/or graduate marketing courses.

Australian National U: International Relations (Australia)

“JobAssociate Professor of International Relations, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Deadline: 15 May 2019.

The Associate Professor will be a leading member of the Department of International Relations and will promote innovative research and intellectual dialogue between Australia and Korea, especially through the ANU Korea Institute and the Department of International Relations. The Associate Professor will maintain and further develop their research, disciplinary and policy networks, especially connected to Australia-Korea relations, to enhance the Department’s position both globally and nationally.

ENCATC Research Award: Cultural Policy & Management (Belgium)

AwardsEuropean network on cultural management and policy (ENCATC) Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management. Deadline: 1 May 2019.

Launched in 2014, the ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management is bestowed annually upon the best and most relevant recent PhD Thesis on comparative cultural policies or management topics presented by a young/emerging researcher. This prestigious recognition aims to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy and cultural management with an emphasis on its applied implications. The ENCATC Award also has the ambition to contribute to the process of creating a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research projects in cultural policy and cultural management.

Award consists of the publication of the thesis in the Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education Book Series, a new series of publications specialising in topics related to cultural management and cultural policy headed by ENCATC. The international dissemination of the ENCATC Book Series is ensured by Peter Lang, an international publishing group based in Switzerland and operating throughout the world. Emerging researchers in the field of cultural policy and cultural management from Europe and the rest of the world are eligible to apply. Applicants must have recently published PhD thesis exploring, through comparative and cross-cultural research, issues at stake and taking a step from evaluative (descriptive) to comparative applied research. The PhD thesis should inform policymaking and benefit practitioners active in the broad field of culture.

CFP Development in Intercultural Competence Research

“PublicationCall for Submissions: Development in Intercultural Competence Research, for special section of China Media Research. Deadline: May 26, 2019.

This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Development in Intercultural Competence Research.” Intercultural competence is one of the key concepts of intercultural communication. It has drawn much scholarly attention since the 1980s. In the past decades, scholars from foreign language education, social psychology, human communication, and business management have examined and assessed intercultural competence from diverse perspectives, which resulted in the abundant literature as well as the deepened understanding on the concept. Nevertheless, despite the progress in intercultural competence research, many problems still need to be addressed. For instances, most of the theories focus more on how effectiveness is achieved but much less on how appropriateness is realized; Western theories dominate intercultural competence research; how Western and non-Western perspectives can be integrated is rarely explored; most of the measuring instruments are self-report scales that measure behavior and knowledge rather than measure emotion and awareness; and reliable and valid scales are limited. This special section aims to further explore these issues.

CMR invites scholars to submit their original manuscripts that consider but are not restricted to the following topics: re/conceptualizing intercultural competence; critiques on Western or non-Western intercultural competence theories; possible ways to integrate Western and non-Western perspectives on intercultural competence; the development of intercultural competence measuring instruments; empirical researches on intercultural competence in the global contexts.

Both qualitative and quantitative approaches examining the development of intercultural competence are welcome. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by May 26, 2019. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by August 18, 2019. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision. CMR is a quarterly journal, which publishes both print and online versions. Send your questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor Dr. Xiaodong Dai.

CFP Migration & Integration in Contemporary Societies (Sweden)

ConferencesOrganizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies [OMICS] Conference, 6-9 November, 2019, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2019; Deadline for full papers: 9 October 2019.

Growth in international migration has prompted a diversity of efforts to manage global migratory flows as well as improve and streamline the economic, social and political integration of migrants into the host countries. Migration and integration today involve a myriad of actors such as international and regional bodies, state agencies and municipalities, companies, interest groups, community-embedded, civil society organizations as well as individuals, including migrants, who design, implement reproduce, participate in, and replicate individual or collaborative initiatives aimed at facilitating migration and integration. Some efforts are planned and involve years of preparation and the engagement of large coalition of actors; others are ephemeral and ad hoc, emerging from one day to the next only to disappear again quickly. Some efforts aim at facilitating transnational migration others at improving migrants’ health, at supporting migrants’ inclusion into the host countries’ education system or the labour market, at preventing radicalization, or securing migrants’ civic, social and legal inclusion in the new country. From a coordination and organizing perspective, this myriad of actors and activities separated in time and space poses not only far-reaching challenges, but also great opportunities.

These challenges and opportunities demand novel and critical research and interdisciplinary approaches from a range of disciplines, such as anthropology, educational sciences, health sciences, information technology, international studies, law and human rights, management and organization studies, migration studies, political science, social work and sociology. This to rethink how migration shapes and produces inclusion and exclusion around the world – from welfare states in the Global North to the states of the Global South.

Intercultural Achievement Awards 2019 (Austria)

AwardsCall for nominations: Intercultural Achievement Awards, Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austria. Deadline: 30 April 2019.

Do you know of a project that promotes intercultural dialogue, in Austria and internationally? Once again this year, the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs awards prizes to successful and innovative projects in the field of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. Intercultural projects which are active in the following thematic areas are eligible for a prize: Art/Culture, Youth, Human Rights, Global Citizenship Education and Integration (the competition in Integration is open to projects based and operating in Austria exclusively).

The IAA 2019 will be awarded for the best respective project in each of these four categories:

* SUSTAINABILITY: Best on-going project with sustainable impact (Prize: EUR 10.000,-)
* RECENT EVENTS: Best project with reference to current issues (Prize: EUR 5.000,-)
* INNOVATION: Most innovative intercultural project (Prize: EUR 5.000,-)
* MEDIA: Best media contribution for intercultural understanding (Prize: EUR 5.000,-)

The IAA 2018 award winners are described in this brochure.

KC22 Cultural Identity Translated into Romanian

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#22: Cultural Identity, which Vivian Hsueh-Hua Chen wrote in English in 2014, and which Alina Timofte has now translated into Romanian.

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.

KC22 Cultural Identity_RomanianChen, V. H.-H. (2019). Identitatea culturală [Romanian]. (A. Timofte, trans.) Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 22. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/kc22-cultural-identity_romanian.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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Fulbright Award in Comm/Media Studies (Portugal)

FulbrightsFulbright Award in Communication & Media Studies, Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline: September 16, 2019.

The School of Communication and Media Studies (Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, ESCS-IPL), known as the premier college in Communications in Portugal, seeks to cover the main strands of Communication taught in Bachelor and Master’s degrees. To this end, ESCS counts with the involvement of its nuclear Departments in Audiovisual & Multimedia; Journalism; Advertising & Marketing; Public Relations & Organizational Communication.

The Fulbright Scholar for 2020-2021 will be hosted by the Department of Audiovisual & Multimedia. The Scholar will research and debate subjects such as Digital Film Production, Business Model Journalism and Digital Strategic Communications.