Through the Intercultural Harmony Initiative, the Laura Jane Musser Fund supports projects that promote mutual understanding and cooperation between groups of community members of different cultural backgrounds. Project planning grants up to $5,000 or implementation grants up to $25,000 will be considered. New programs or projects in their first three years are eligible. Applications will be accepted online through the Fund’s website from September 17 – October 17, 2018. The geographic areas for these initiatives are Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wyoming, and limited counties in Texas.
CFP Ethnography with a Twist (Finland)
Call for Papers and Panels: ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST, 12–14 February 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. Deadline: 31 August 2018.
Contemporary political, environmental, and social challenges and crises, rapidly changing societies, development of technology, and encountering of people and cultures produce new environments of research and a need to rethink innovative research methods. The ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST conference will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. We welcome papers and panels that explore ethnographic research from a wide range of perspectives that reflect the variety of backgrounds and/or address personal and affective experiences of the researchers. The conference will provide an interdisciplinary arena for lively discussion and exchanges in an inspiring environment that allows ethnographic research to be approached without the weight of tradition and encourages thinking outside the box and the usual comfort zones in our respective fields.
KC34 World Englishes Translated into Greek
Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#34: World Englishes, which Larry E. Smith wrote for publication in English in 2014, 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.
Smith, L. E. (2018). World Englishes (Greek). (A. Karakitsou, Trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 34. Retrieved from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/kc34-world-englishes_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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
U Tampa Job Ad: Intercultural Communication (USA)
Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Tampa, Florida. Open until filled, posted August 6, 2018.
The Communication Department at the University of Tampa seeks a candidate with a Ph.D. (by time of appointment) in Communication or a related field to teach a range of possible undergraduate communication courses. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in intercultural communication, and we encourage applications from scholars who approach the field from a perspective informed by critical studies in race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and/or critical engagement with the Global South. We welcome candidates who can strengthen the critical and cultural diversity in our curriculum, including updating existing courses and proposing new ones (as needed).
UCSB Job Ad: Intergroup Communication (USA)
Assistant Professor of Intergroup Communication, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA. Deadline: September 15, 2018.
The Department of Communication invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of intergroup communication at the level of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2019. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in communication or a related field prior to the start date and a strong social science background with a record of publishing innovative, empirical research. Intergroup communication concerns the ways in which intergroup relations affect, and are affected by, communication. We seek candidates whose work focuses on either traditional (e.g., language, gender, race and ethnicity) or emerging areas of inquiry, such as health, evolution, cognition, and new media. The successful candidate will be a social scientist whose work foregrounds the role of intergroup communication in their area of expertise. Candidates are expected to teach courses at undergraduate and graduate levels and be active in professional and campus service.
CFP Communicative Construction of Conflicts: Catalan
Call for articles for the special issue: Discourses, Actors and Citizens in the Communicative Construction of Conflicts: The Catalan Case. To be published in Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. Deadline for full proposals: 15 January 2019.
The main goal of this special issue is to collect different approaches to the communicative construction of the Catalan conflict from a broad point of view. We aim to confront different perspectives about one of the most controversial political issues in the recent history of Spain and so we invite scholars, researchers and practitioners from around the world to submit full articles and viewpoints on a wide range of topics.
Guest Editors
Alain-G. Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Marta Montagut (Rovira i Virgili University)
Carlota Moragas-Fernández (Rovira i Virgili University)
Finding Your Way: COMPAS Photo Competition 2018
The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) is a Research Centre within the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. They hold photo competitions each year. For this year’s competition theme, Finding your Way, they are looking for photos and illustrations exploring the experiences and strategies of migrants finding their way in unfamiliar territory. Images can be anything from a symbolic illustration of the changing attitudes towards migration, to a personal depiction of moving to a new place. Winning entries will be of high quality, good composition and contain strong imagery. Enter online by 5pm, Friday 26 October 2018.
CFP Out-of-the-Box Student Travel
Call for Chapter Proposals: Designing, Teaching, Leading, & Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Student Travel (Domestic or Int’l). Editors: Irina Gendelman and Jeff Birkenstein.
This collection will attempt to cover a variety of possible travel models, both international and domestic. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
– History and culture of places through (Slow) food;
– Exploring place through psychogeography and derive;
– Finding and documenting insurgent and reclaimed public spaces;
– Slow travel, being a flâneur in the 21st Century;
– Deconstructing the myths of historical markers and heritage sites;
– Photography, video, and other digital means of (re-)producing travel;
– Sustainability of travel.
Abstract of 500 words are due on November 1, 2018. Please send your proposals to Irina Gendelman.
CID Video Competition 2018 Results
CID’s first video competition is now over, and the judges have reviewed all the videos. As a reminder, the instructions were to answer the question “What does intercultural dialogue look like?” in 90-120 seconds, on video. Separate posts have appeared over the past weeks describing each of the videos and their makers, but here is a single list with links to all of them.
The winners were:
1st prize: Jinsuk Kim, MA student, Temple University, USA
2nd prize: Class 5B, School of Arts “Aldo Passoni,” Turin, Italy
3rd prize: Sahiti Bonam, BA student, Temple University, USA
In addition, there are three Awards of Excellence:
Victoria Wasner, PHD student, Durham University, UK
Mónica Estrella Oliva,Gabriela Quevedo Rabanal and Renato Morales Camacho, BA students, University of Lima, Peru
Coyote Creative Practicum, BA students, University of South Dakota, USA
My thanks to all the competitors, who took the time to really think about the question of how to show intercultural dialogue visually. Thanks to colleagues around the world, who helped spread the word about the competition. Thanks to the judges of the competition, professionals who made time to review student videos (and special thanks to Mary Schaffer, on the CID Advisory Board, who not only served herself but recruited the other judges, and helped guide me through the logistics.) Thanks to Heather Birks, for initially suggesting the idea, for arranging funding for the award to be provided by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), for providing server space for the videos, and for JD Boyle, at BEA, to provide technical support. Thanks to Linda J. de Wit, former CID intern, for designing the poster. The competition would have been impossible without all of the work of all these people.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue
Award of Excellence CID Video Competition: Coyote Creative Practicum
CID’s first video competition is now over, and the judges have reviewed all the videos. As a reminder, the instructions were to answer the question “What does intercultural dialogue look like?” in 90-120 seconds, on video.
An award of excellence goes to students in the Coyote Creative Practicum, made up of Andrew Candela, Rebecca Vaca, Davis Van Egdom, Ezra Voigt, and Shiyuan Wang, all undergraduates studying Media and Journalism at the University of South Dakota. Judges praised the honest from-the-heart discussion, as well as the use of camera and editing.
Title: Chewing the Fat – Interculturally
Description: “The entry was produced by undergraduate students taking part in the Department of Media & Journalism’s Coyote Creative practicum class. The subjects in the video were minority students at the University of South Dakota (NOT the students who produced it). Their discussion was videotaped at USD’s Center for Diversity & Community on April 5, 2018. Special thanks go to Coyote Creative advisor, Todd Mechling, Instructor, Media & Journalism; Lamont Sellers, Associate Vice President for Diversity, Office of Diversity; and Marcus Destin, President, Union of African American Students, all at USD.”
There were first, second and third place winners, as well as 3 videos that merited awards of excellence. Each of these is being highlighted in a separate post, as they warrant our attention. My thanks to the judges of the competition, professionals who made time to review student videos. Thanks also to all the competitors, who took the time to really think about the question of how to show intercultural dialogue visually.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue
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