KC115 Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Key Concepts in ICDThe next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC115: Cross cultural adaptation, by Su-Ann Tan. 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.

Tan, S.-A. (2025). Cross-cultural adaptation. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 115. Available from:
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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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Gettysburg College: Global Study Coordinator (USA)

“JobGlobal Study Coordinator, Center for Global Education, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA. Deadline: 11 May 2025.

The Center for Global Education seeks a dynamic and innovative Global Study Coordinator with strong administrative, student advising, and collaborative skills. This full-time position primarily divides time between student advising, global study program coordination, and supporting the overall goals of the CGE Office. The coordinator serves as the primary point of contact for various global study programs and their enrolled students throughout their entire global learning journey.

Picasso in Dialogue (Hong Kong)

Applied ICDPicasso for Asia: A Conversation, Hong Kong Jockey Club Series, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 15 March-13 July 2025.

…the exhibition poses an interpretative framework for examining the works of the twentieth-century European master in relation to contemporary Asian and Asian-diasporic artists active today and in the recent past.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, proudly presents The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation. The Special Exhibition is a rich intercultural and intergenerational dialogue between more than sixty masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from the Musée national Picasso-Paris, which holds the largest collection of works by Picasso in the world, and around 130 works by thirty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections, and select loans from a museum, a foundation, and private collections. Co-organised by M+ and MnPP, this exhibition is a significant milestone in which masterpieces from MnPP are being shown alongside works from a museum collection in Asia for the first time. It is also the first major showcase of Picasso’s works in Hong Kong in over a decade, offering an unprecedented and unique perspective on the artist’s wide-reaching influence and what it means to be an artist in our time.

This Special Exhibition introduces four artist archetypes that encapsulate why Picasso is considered the quintessential twentieth-century artist and how the legacy of his art and life continues to influence contemporary artists as well as the public to this day. The four archetypes also serve as the sections of the exhibition and as powerful paradigms to which the contemporary Asian artists in the exhibition respond in their diverse, individualistic practices. The four are: the genius, the outsider, the magician, and the apprentice.

U College Dublin: Postdoc with Generation Peace (Ireland)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Generation Peace, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 11 July 2025.

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 within UCD School of Psychology, temporary from 1st Sep 2025 to 31st Aug 2026.

GENERATION PEACE does not ask how to protect 1.8 billion children in conflict-affected countries. Instead, it shows how youth – one-third of the world’s population – can build peace. This approach challenges the portrayal of youth as perpetrators (i.e. number of child soldiers) and positions youth as a driver of quality peace, rather than an outcome (e.g. primary school enrolment). Addressing the gaps in the existing research necessitates a holistic, multilevel model tested with diverse methods across contexts and time.

More specifically, this role will advance Work Package 2 (WP2) of GENERATION PEACE, quantitatively examining the cross-national impact of youth peacebuilding on quality peace. WP2 will produce a Youth Peacebuilding Indicator (YPI), compatible with cross-national databases from 1946-2020 for 193 UN member states, operationalised across two domains: (1) capacities for nonviolent conflict transformation and (2) foundations for sustainable peace and development. The YPI will integrate (a) existing data on youth; (b) recode or ‘slice’ existing data to focus on youth; and (c) create additional variables within each domain. Supervised coding and Expert Review will ensure data compatibility and quality. Critical to identifying potential threats to endogeneity, multilevel analyses will be complemented by an instrumental variable test and sensitivity analyses to selection and bias. The relative degree of confidence in the YPI codes will also be modelled.

Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship 2025 (USA)

FellowshipsSharing Language Diversity Fellowship, Endangered Language Fund, New Haven, CT, USA. Deadline: 23 May 2025.

The Endangered Language Fund (ELF) is pleased to announce the Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to support the research of Ph.D. students who have completed two years of study in a graduate program in Linguistics and related disciplines, and who are engaged in the documentation of Indigenous languages and the archiving of linguistic data as part of their PhD graduate studies.

The primary purpose of this fellowship is to encourage emerging linguists, in collaboration with their Indigenous partners, to responsibly share annotated materials in a sustainable public forum for equitable access to ongoing and finished research, both for community members and for other scholars. This fellowship aims to create a culture of archiving and Open Access sharing in linguistics, as is common in many other disciplines. In the interests of equity and discovery, the grant is meant to contribute to the normalizing of the archiving of language and cultural materials in trusted repositories on an ongoing basis and making not just results but also data freely accessible to the public, with appropriate community approval.

Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grants 2025-26

Grants

Waterhouse Family Institute Faculty and  Doctoral Student Research Grants, 2025-26, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Deadline: 15 May 2025.

Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grants are available to faculty at any institution of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, and other doctoral-level scholars. However, eligibility to apply for the WFI grant program is limited to those in Communication or a closely related discipline. Although they do not limit grants to a specific methodological orientation or subdisciplinary focus, all projects supported by the WFI have two things in common: they make communication the primary, and not secondary, focus, and they engage communication in terms of its impact on the world around us, its ability to create social change.

Su-Ann Tan Profile

Profiles

Dr. Su-Ann Tan is the Founder and Chief Education Officer of Dr Culture Shift, an education and training consultancy that delivers cross-cultural and intercultural competency programs for individuals and organisations working across diverse cultural contexts. She is also an Adjunct Academic at The University of Queensland, Australia, where she teaches in the School of Communication and Arts.

Su-Ann TanSu-Ann holds a PhD in Intercultural Communication and Cross-cultural Psychology, as well as an Honours degree in Intercultural Communication, and Bachelor’s Degree in Organisational Communication from The University of Queensland, Australia.

Su-Ann has 20 years’ experience in the international education sector, having held senior leadership positions including Director of the Southeast Asia Office for the Australian National University (ANU) at the Australian High Commission in Singapore, Director of Communications and Outreach at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU, a number of Regional Manager (Asia Pacific markets) roles in leading Australian institutions. Su-Ann’s professional expertise spans strategic partnerships, international engagement, and designing innovative educational programs to enhance cross-cultural understanding and adaptation.

Her work focuses on acculturation, expectancy violations, cross-cultural adaptation, international student experiences, and the development of cross-cultural competence frameworks. She is passionate about fostering intercultural understanding by building cultural intelligence, aligning expectations, and enhancing intercultural communication.

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Su-Ann Tan is the author of KC115: Cross-Cultural Adaptation.

U of the Pacific: Assistant Director of Intergroup Dialogue and Restorative Practices (USA)

“JobAssistant Director of Intergroup Dialogue and Restorative Practices, University of the Pacific, CA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 9 April 2025.

Reporting to the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Assistant Director of Intergroup Dialogue and Restorative Practices at University of the Pacific plays a crucial role developing a university-wide intergroup dialogue program for the campus community. This role supports the university’s efforts to resolve conflict, strengthen relationships, and foster a sense of community and belonging by introducing and implementing education, training, and discourse that are grounded in intergroup dialogue and restorative practices. This position works collaboratively across multiple stakeholder groups and across all three campuses (Stockton, Sacramento, San Francisco), providing specialized expertise and programming to promote understanding, healing, and accountability.

Schwartzman Scholars: Director for Residence Life (China)

“JobDirector for Residence Life, Schwartzman Scholars, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Deadline: 31 May 2025.

Schwarzman Scholars is a one-year, fully-funded master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed to build a global community of future leaders who will strengthen understanding between China and the rest of the world. Schwarzman Scholars is the first scholarship program created to respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century. As China’s role in global trends continues to grow, the success of future leaders in any sector depends upon an immersive understanding of the country and its culture. Schwarzman Scholars supports up 150 graduate students annually from the U.S. (40%), China (20%), and around the world (40% from 43 countries) for a Master’s Degree in Global Affairs program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Scholars chosen for this highly selective program will live in Beijing for one year of study, experiential learning, cultural immersion, traveling in China to develop a better understanding of China.

They are seeking highly qualified person to join Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China to facilitate a dynamic, safe, and meaningful residential experience for Scholars. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, team player, culturally competent, passionate about international education, and adept at navigating global perspectives/ideologies. Must be willing to relocate to Beijing, China for this position.

The Director for Residence Life is employed by Tsinghua University and is a 12-month live-in professional position in the Office of Student Life at Schwarzman College located in Beijing, China. Supervised by the Chief Student Affairs Office, the Director for Residence Life is responsible for the residential experience at Schwarzman College, a state-of-the-art university college model facility housing 150 graduate students from 43 countries. Responsibilities include leading and managing all aspects of the residential/communal experience for Scholars