Sharing an Exotic Meal as ICD

Guest Posts

Sharing an Exotic Meal as a Trigger of Intercultural Dialogue. Guest post by Mine Krause.

 

Elif Shafak’s novel The Bastard of Istanbul (Turkish title: Baba ve Piç) tells the captivating story of a Turkish and an American-Armenian-Turkish patchwork family, both female dominated. Coming from very different cultural backgrounds, the characters’ mentalities often seem incompatible. The religious Banu lives under the same roof as her atheist sister Zeliha and their Kemalist mother Gülsüm… and yet they somehow get along and even love each other in this household full of contradictory world views. The serious issues dealt with in this novel are numerous: the role of collective amnesia and individual memory, patriarchy and women’s rights, incest, identity. Among these topics is also the relationship between food experiences and intercultural dialogue.

It might seem trivial but eating habits tell us a lot about other cultures and identities. After all, “we are what we eat,” as the slogan says. When it comes to the search for identity, the universal language of food can indeed play an essential part.

Read the entire essay.

San Francisco State U Job Ad: Global Communication (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor of International, Transnational, and Global Communication at San Francisco State University. Deadline: October 12, 2018.

The Communication Studies Department at San Francisco State University offers an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in international, transnational, and global communication beginning August 2019.  Preference will be given to candidates whose teaching and research interests include one or more of the following: international and intercultural communication, political economy of transmigration, human rights, indigeneity and intersectionality in a global perspective, refugees, diasporas and displaced persons, and international disputes.  We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and service, through diversity, to the excellence of the academic community.

Northeastern U Job Ad: Race, Equity & Inclusion (USA)

Job adsOpen Rank Professor in Race, Equity, and Inclusion, Communication Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Open until filled, posted September 19, 2018.

The Communication Studies Department at Northeastern University seeks an established scholar whose research and teaching focus on cultures, discourses, and practices of communication with an emphasis on race, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants whose work complements and extends the interests of our department, which include argumentation and rhetoric; digital communication; health, interpersonal, and organizational communication; political communication and public advocacy; language & social interaction; and media production and entertainment. We invite applicants who contribute to the excellence and diversity mission of the department, college, and university in research, teaching, and/or outreach. We welcome all applications, especially from candidates at the level of associate or full professor. The position includes responsibilities for teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The ability to collaborate on and eventually lead interdisciplinary, grant-funded projects is desirable.

New University in Exile Consortium

Applied ICDThe New University in Exile Consortium (New UIE Consortium) is an initiative created by The New School to confront today’s surging threats to scholars around the world. The New UIE Consortium is a group of like-minded colleges and universities, each of which is committed to hosting at least one endangered scholar. The founding member institutions are: Barnard College, Brown University, Columbia University, Connecticut College, Georgetown University, George Mason University, The New School, Rutgers University – Newark, Trinity College, and Wellesley College.

The New UIE Consortium is designed to do considerably more than temporarily resettle scholars in new institutions. Its mission is to create an intellectual community of the rescued scholars and of the universities that sponsor them—by hosting seminars designed in collaboration with the scholars and their host institutions, as well as, creating workshops, an annual conference of scholars, and other collaborative projects that will bring the scholars into frequent contact with each other and their host colleagues. These activities will have both online and face to face components.

See also the list of past related activities at The New School.

NOTE: As a result of a follower of CID who wrote to UIE Consortium, a caveat needs to be added: at this time the University in Exile Consortium is not equipped to assist scholars outside the US.

CFP Interaction & Discourse in Flux (Finland)

ConferencesCall for papers: Interaction and discourse in flux: Changing landscapes of everyday life, COACT Conference 2019, University of Oulu, Finland, 24-26 April, 2019. Deadline: 19 October 2018.

This conference explores how changes in society emerge in interactions and discourses. How do these changes influence, and how are they influenced by, participants in various contexts of work and everyday life? Organizers warmly welcome contributions that outline future trends and present new perspectives on interaction and discourse studies. Presentations may investigate the complexity of different settings, data, methods and theories.

COACT – Complexity of (inter)action and multimodal participation is a research community at the University of Oulu. Its members explore complexity from diverse perspectives and focus on examining how social participants manage, coordinate and adapt to complexity, and display complexity socially to others, through skilled multimodal participation. COACT is also interested in studies that expand the notion of interactional complexity to include the participants’ histories and interactions across multiple timescales.

CFP From Branding to Diplomacy: Cities in the International Arena

Publication OpportunitiesCall for Chapter Proposals: Tentative Title: From Branding to Diplomacy: Cities in the International Arena. Deadline: November 1, 2018.

Efe Sevin (Reinhardt University, Waleska, GA), and Sohaela Amiri (Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA) are editing a book on the internationalization of cities, tentatively entitled From Branding to Diplomacy: Cities in the International Arena. Building on the existing studies in the field, we position this book as a way to launch into a larger discussion on cities and their role in international relations. They invite contributions that focus on the role of cities as actors in the international arena. They are looking for three broad approaches to city diplomacy: (1) theoretical approaches to the study of city diplomacy, (2) new methods and methodologies in city diplomacy, and (3) case studies. Abstract submissions of no more than 500 words, along with author name(s) and bio sketches of no more than 200 words should be submitted to citydiplomacy@gmail.com by November 1. Questions about the project can be directed to the co-editors, Efe Sevin and Sohaela Amiri.  More information about the project can be found at http://bit.ly/CfPCities (link case sensitive).

MESO 2018 Conference (Argentina)

ConferencesThe Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina (MESO), a joint initiative between Northwestern University and Universidad de San Andrés, will host its fourth annual conference at the latter’s campus in Victoria, Buenos Aires, on Friday October 19th, 2018. This fourth annual conference is sponsored by Northwestern’s Center for Global Culture and Communication. Registration for this event is free, and will be open until October 5, 2018.

KC46 Politeness Translated into Greek

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#46: Politeness, which Sara Mills wrote for publication in English in 2015, and which Anastasia Karakitsou has now translated into Greek.

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.

KC46 Politeness_GreekMills, S. (2018). Politeness [Greek]. (A. Karakitsou, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 46. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/kc46-politeness_greek.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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Cal Poly Job Ads: Diversity Cluster (USA)

Job adsDiversity Cluster Hire, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, CA, USA. Deadline: 16 October 2018.

As part of a Diversity Cluster Hire, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo is conducting searches for seven tenure-track positions in the disciplines of African American History, Criminology and Gender, Diversity and Organizational Behavior, Elementary Science Education, Global Health and Multicultural Health, Marketing, and Psychology and Sociology of Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sport.

CSU Long Beach Job Ad: Conflict, Mediation, Negotiation (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor of Conflict, Mediation and Negotiation, Department of Communication, California State University, Long Beach, CA. Deadline:  October 15, 2018.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Ph D in Communication, or terminal degree in related field with extensive training, teaching, and/or scholarship in the field of communication. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2019. Demonstrated potential/effectiveness/excellence for teaching and related areas such as research, scholarly and creative activities, etc. Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population.

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Research agenda in communication with emphasis in conflict, mediation and/or negotiation; able to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in conflict, mediation, and negotiation; able to teach one or more of the following communication courses: communication theory, quantitative methods, rhetorical theory and criticism, communication and the law, or organizational communication; a commitment to engaging students outside of the classroom through mentoring, internship supervision, program development, career guidance, and/or service learning.