San Francisco State U Job Ad: Conflict Management/Public Dialogue (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor, Conflict Management and Public Dialogue, Communication Studies Department, San Francisco State University, CA, USA. Deadline: Open until filled, posted Sept 19, 2018.

This tenure-track position begins August 2019. Preference will be given to candidates with dialogue facilitation experience and a demonstrated record of civic and community engagement. The position requires graduate and undergraduate teaching in the areas of: conflict management, dialogue, dialogue facilitation, and mediation theory and practice. Faculty develop and maintain an active scholarship program.

U Colorado Denver Job Ad: International/Intercultural Comm (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor of International and Intercultural Communication, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: October 15, 2018.

“The primary research and teaching focus of this position falls within our Global and Intercultural communication pathway. The most competitive candidates will also demonstrate connections to one or more of the Department’s other pathways and areas of focus, which are community service and public affairs, media and cultural studies, strategic communication, health communication, and environmental communication. The Department is also interested in candidates whose teaching and research in international and intercultural studies intersects with questions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and/or disability, while addressing social justice through community engagement and/or service learning. Social scientists and humanists are both encouraged to apply.”

UW-Parkside Job Ad: Intercultural/Conflict (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI. Deadline: Open until filled; posted October 4, 2018.

The Communication Department is seeking to hire a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Communication Studies with specialization in either health communication, interpersonal/intercultural communication, or digital media production.  The candidate will be able to teach lower and upper level communication courses which will ensure staffing and scheduling consistency.   The department places a high value on issues of social justice and diversity as well as service-learning and online teaching and so seeks a colleague who can contribute to those emphases.

NOTE: Further down in qualifications, this ad also says “Able to contribute to one or more of the following areas: conflict, digital media production or intercultural/interpersonal communication.”

CFP Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves (Finland)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves. June 11-14, 2019, Helsinki, Finland. Deadline: December 1, 2018.

The University of Helsinki cordially invites scholars working on or interested in Ethnography of Communication to Helsinki, Finland for a conference to be held June 11-14, 2019 The conference is titled Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves. This is the fourth conference devoted to Ethnography of Communication approaches; other conferences have gathered in Washington, Omaha, and most recently in New York.

The theoretical-methodological approach of Ethnography of Communication is a particular way to study culture, communication and interaction. It lives in and nourishes multiple languages and countries and pulls on different academic communities such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, anthropological linguistics, folklore studies, media studies, conversation analysis, etc.

The June 2019 conference has a two-fold structure designed to benefit local and international researchers. First, invited workshops and paper presentations will explore the ways in which Ethnography of Communication relates in particular with language ideology, folklore studies, and media ethnography. All three approaches or disciplines are alive and strong at the University of Helsinki, and they are closely related to Ethnography of Communication. Second, individual papers and panels will present recent research and other works on the Ethnography of Communication.

Opera as a Way to Integrate Refugees (Germany)

Applied ICDBarone, J. (12 August 2018). A German opera spotlights the refugee crisis, with refugees. New York Times.

A performance of Moses, by the Bavarian State Opera’s youth program, written for refugees, children of immigrants and born-and-raised Bavarians, demonstrates how to integrate and welcome refugees while simultaneously giving them language skills and producing opera. “In the opera, a mixture of new music by Benedikt Brachtel and adapted excerpts from Rossini’s “Mosè in Egitto,” the teenagers tell the story of Moses — common ground for followers of the Bible, Torah and Quran — with Brechtian interludes about refugee experiences and current events.”

AIEMCA 2018 (Macau)

Conferences11th Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) Conference, hosted by the Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macau, China, 27-29 November 2018.

The biennial AIEMCA conference provides a forum for scholars from a range of disciplines using ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorisation analysis or discursive psychology in studies of everyday and/or institutional talk-in-interaction.

The theme for the 2018 conference to be held at the University of Macau is on Investigating Methods and Methodologies.

KC3 Intercultural Competence Translated into Portuguese

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#3: Intercultural Competence, which Lily A. Arasaratnam wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Lûiz Fêrnando da Silva has now translated into Portuguese.

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.

KC3 Intercultural Competence_PortugueseArasaratnam, L. A. (2018). Competência intercultural. (L. F. Silva, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 3. Retrieved from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kc3-intercultural-competence_portuguese-v2.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

U Utah Job Ad: Latinx/Indigenous Communication (USA)

Job adsAssistant Professor in Latinx/ Indigenous Communication, University of Utah. Deadline: October 1, 2018.

The University of Utah’s Department of Communication, housed in the College of Humanities, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Latinx/Indigenous Communication, effective July 1, 2019. We seek a scholar whose research focuses on the intersection between communication and Latinx and/or indigenous studies, and also aligns with one or more of our areas of emphasis (Critical/Cultural, Rhetoric, Digital Media, CommSHER, and Interpersonal).

The successful candidate will have an outstanding research record (or the promise of such a record) in communication from a critical, qualitative, and/or quantitative methodological perspective. Areas of research could include:
*  racial identity, discrimination, targeting and/or tokenism;
* immigration, refugee, border, transnationalism, and/or globalization studies;
*  feminist, queer, and/or disability studies;
* decolonization, settler colonialism, and/or postcolonialism; economic, health, environmental, workplace, and/or educational discrimination; and/or social activism, equity, access, inclusion, and empowerment.

London School of Economics Job Ads: International Relations (UK)

Job adsLondon School of Economics and Political Science (UK) has posted ads for 2 positions in International Relations:

1. Assistant Professor in International Institutions, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Deadline: 23 September 2018.

2. Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Deadline: 23 September 2018.

CFP Media & Post-Conflict (Re)Development

Publication OpportunitiesCall for Papers, Special Issue of International Communication Gazette: Media and Post-Conflict (Re)Development to be edited by Meghan Sobel. Deadline: October 30, 2018.

In order to better understand the ways that media function in post-conflict times, this special issue of International Communication Gazette aims to address theoretical, social, cultural, and political issues surrounding the role of media in post-conflict eras of redevelopment. We are particularly interested in the role of media during and after conflicts such as genocides, civil wars or between-nation wars, but would consider submissions regarding media during and after coup d’états and/or times of martial law, large-scale protests, pronouncements of independence, etc.