Hebrew U Job Ad: Communication (Israel)

Job adsThe Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tenure-track position, all areas of communication. Deadline: 26 September 2018.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree at the time of hire, and demonstrate an active research program, indicating the potential for outstanding scholarship. The person hired will teach introductory and advanced courses in communications in their areas of specialization. He/she will also be expected to supervise Masters and Ph.D. students and to contribute to departmental and university service. Ability to teach in Hebrew is required.

Our World in Data

Applied ICDOur World in Data is a non-profit, open-access project based out of the University of Oxford. It started out as a personal project by Max Roser in 2012; since then he has found a home for it at the University of Oxford, secured a stable source of funding from a range of supporters, and brought together a team of researchers and programmers.

Of particular interest to most of the followers of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue will be data relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – especially #16: “promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies.”

International Congress on Cultural Mapping (Portugal)

ConferencesInternational Congress on Cultural Mapping: Linking Heritage (Tangible and Intangible) and Creative Tourism, November 29-30, 2018, Évora, Portugal. Registration deadline: October 15, 2018.

Structured in two days the congress aims to provide a better understanding of how cultural mapping can propose actions that enhance the awareness of cultural identities, debate its implications for local development, community engagement and policymaking, including sustainable and creative tourism practices, and foster debate over its long-term results.

Holding Local, Not Global, Intercultural Dialogues

“UNESCO”The new UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue eLearning Platform was described in a prior post. Now, my essay entitled Holding Local, Not Global, Intercultural Dialogues has just been posted to that ePlatform. Their invitation was to write about something in my own domain of expertise. Because my research has always focused on interaction, I wrote about the need to study intercultural dialogue at the interpersonal, local level rather than only the political, global level, as is more common. As an example, I used research about intercultural weddings, published in Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual, in 2002.

The E-Platform is open to other scholars with interests in intercultural dialogue. As they say, “The platform is an evolving global hub of resources and information to record, inspire, share and exchange innovative and impactful action on intercultural dialogue among diverse audiences.” So contact them directly if you would like to post information about your own or your organization’s activities and/or research.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Fellowships (Finland)

FellowshipsHelsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies offers each year 20–25 fellowships for researchers in different career stages both in Finland and abroad, thus giving them an opportunity to pursue their research in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. Deadline for Core Fellowships: 13 September 2018.

Intercultural Couples Wanted for TV Production

Collaborative OpportunitiesCID has been asked to share the following flyer. There is no specific deadline, but this is being posted August 20, 2018.

Intercultural Couples Wanted

Auburn U Job Ad: International Education (USA)

Job adsInternational Education Specialist, Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama. Open until filled, posted August 14, 2018.

Among other duties:

Provides advising, administrative, and logistical support to students, faculty, and staff for study abroad programs.

Designs and implements a comprehensive study abroad program for AUM , to include individual student programs; faculty-led, Exchange Student and prestigious scholarships.

Sechenov U Job Ads: Linguistics/Intercultural Comm (Russia)

Job adsAssociate Professor in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia. Deadline: 6 October 2018.

Recently launched project Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication is a unique structural unit for a medical university in Russia.

CURRENT OBJECTIVES 

  • To make the staff international

  • To make the student community more international (admit more international students to our Master’s linguistic programme)

  • To modernize the teaching process (e.g. by introducing the latest technologies of teaching in general, and in teaching languages, in particular; by developing new courses and teaching materials, etc.).

  • To expand international activity (organizing and participating in international conferences, launching and/or joining international projects in education and research, publishing articles in highly reputed international journals to make Sechenov University and Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication visible by the global professional community)

Available:

  • Full-time job in the Institute of linguistics and Intercultural Communication in Moscow

  • Part-time job in the Institute of linguistics in Moscow combined with distant activities

Children’s Picturebooks and Language Hierarchies (New Zealand)

“Book NotesDaly, Nicola. (May 31, 2018). How children’s picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies. The Conversation.

“There are many factors that shape the value we place on different languages. Some languages seem more pleasant to listen to, easier to learn or more logical. These perceptions are generally influenced by our attitudes towards the speakers of a  and the different situations in which the language is spoken.

One reflection of the differential status of languages comes through in bilingual children’s picturebooks. Here I explore how te reo Māori (the indigenous language of New Zealand) is represented and argue that the way languages are displayed in bilingual picturebooks can disrupt the status quo.”

Leading Intercultural Dialogues with High School Students

Applied ICDRafuls, Maylen. (26 June 2018). Cultural dialogue leads to empathy in Toulouse. CIEE Global Navigator: High School Study Abroad.

This article provides useful details about how to lead discussion of intercultural dialogue at the high school level, based on the work of Isabelle Jaffe, Director of CIEE Toulouse, with the High School Summer Abroad Program. She “facilitates cultural reflection by providing a space in which students can discuss new experiences and cultural differences and their reactions to them.” Others could learn from her experience.

Additional resources on holding intercultural dialogues: Constructing Intercultural Dialogues includes case studies on Intercultural Dialogue as an Activity of Daily Living, “America the Beautiful,” The Privilege of Listening First; and Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue includes Dialogue as a Space of Relationship.