Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Key Concept #19: Multiculturalism Translated into Ukrainian

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#19: Multiculturalism, which Polina Golovátina-Mora and Raúl Alberto Mora wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Roxanna M. Senyshyn has now translated into Ukrainian.

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.

Golovátina-Mora, P., & Mora, R. A. (2017). Multiculturalism [Ukrainian]. (R. M. Senyshyn, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 19. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/kc19-multiculturalism_ukrainian1.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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Open City Fellowships (Belgium)

Migration in Europe has preoccupied policymakers and administrations, and prompted enormous policy reform, yet refugees and migrants are themselves often excluded from this policy debate and formulation, particularly those in more recent refugee and migrant populations. The Open City Fellowship responds to this need by supporting the leadership of refugees and migrants in policy development that directly affect urban integration.

The Open City Fellowship in this first year, will offer five fellowships. Four fellowships will involve collaborations with partner cities: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, and Berlin. The fifth fellowship will be based in Brussels with a partner that specializes in refugee and migration policy within the European Union.

The aim is to improve integration through stronger participation of and consultation with refugee and migrant communities. Over time, our ambition is that Open City Fellows will become a cohort of experienced and recognized leaders who represent refugee and migrant communities, benefitting the individual fellows and the community more broadly.

The Open Society Foundations will pay Open City Fellows a stipend, will provide some funding for fellowship-related travel, and may cover other fellowship-related expenses during the course of the fellowship. The Open Society Foundations will additionally provide training and leadership development opportunities for the fellows. Fellowships will be 12 months, with the possibility of extending for an additional six months.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible applicants must meet the following criteria:

have a background as a refugee or migrant
demonstrate a commitment to improving the lives of the refugee or migrant community and their integration through, for example, work, volunteering, organizing, or other activities
possess strong relationships with refugee or migrant communities in the city in which they are applying, as demonstrated through membership or other involvement in a group, organization, NGO, board of an NGO, council, association, initiative, or activities designed to serve refugee or migrant communities
currently be based in one of the fellowship cities (and applying for a fellowship in that same city): Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, or Brussels
be legally entitled to accept a fellowship in current city of residence and be permitted to travel within the European Union
demonstrate civil society leadership potential
bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred (preferably with accreditation in the city where the fellow is applying)
available to start the fellowship in January 2018
meet additional eligibility criteria that may be stipulated by the Open Society Foundations

Applicants must meet the following language proficiency requirements:

proficient in English at a minimum B2 level
proficiency in the language of the city where they are applying (German C1; Greek, Dutch, Spanish, or Catalan B2)
fluency in the language of a refugee or migrant community is strongly preferred

Ineligibility Criteria

The Open City Fellowship does not fund enrollment in an academic institution for degree or non-degree study. Full-time students will not be eligible.

Applications will be accepted until September 15, 2017. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by early October, and will be interviewed later that month.

Shuzhen Huang Profile

Shuzhen Huang (黄淑贞, she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg Campus), USA.

Shuzhen Huang Her research lies at the intersection of gender and sexuality studies, critical intercultural communication, and transnational feminism, serving as a critical intervention in knowledge production that centers and affirms marginalized cultural, gendered, and sexual experiences. Dr. Huang’s work has garnered multiple national and international awards.

With a background in Journalism, Gender Studies, and Communication Studies and life experiences in diverse cultural settings, Dr. Huang approaches her research with a uniquely interdisciplinary, transnational, and intersectional perspective. Her scholarship has been published in leading communication journals, including the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Women’s Studies in Communication.

Selected Publications

Huang, S. (2023). Reclaiming family, reimagining queer relationality. Journal of Homosexuality, 70(1), 17–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2106466

Wong, T. S., & Huang, S. (2023). Differently Chinese, differently queer: Queer Chineseness as heuristic and transnational queer imaginary. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 10(2), 8–26.

Huang, S., & Kang, J. (2022). Counterpublics beyond Western imaginaries. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 108(2), 221–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2022.2055126

Huang, S. (2021). Alternatives to coming out discourses. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1179

Huang, S. (2021). Why does communication need transnational queer studies? Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 18(2), 204–211.

Huang, S. (2020). Unbecoming queer: Chinese queer migrants and impossible subjectivity. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(1), 83–89.

Asante, G., Baig, N., & Huang, S. (2019). (De)politicized pleasures and the construction of (white) queer utopia in Netflix’s Sense8. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 4(3), 319–334.

Huang, S., & Wong, T. (2019). “More coming out, bigger market”: Queer visibility and queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 4(3), 287–302.

Huang, S. (2019). Fifty years since Stonewall: Beyond the borders of the United States. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 6(2), 69–75.

Huang, S., & Brouwer, D. (2018). Negotiating performances of “real” marriage in Chinese queer xinghun. Women’s Studies in Communication, 41(2), 140–158.

Huang, S., & Brouwer, D. (2018). Coming out, coming home, coming with: Models of queer sexuality in contemporary China. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(2), 97–116.

Huang, S. (2018). Beyond the sex-love-marriage alignment: Xinghun among queer people in mainland China. In M. Yarbrough, A. Jones, & J. N. DeFilippis (Eds.), Queer Families and Relationships after Marriage Equality (pp. 136–149). New York, NY: Routledge.

Work for CID:
Shuzhen Huang has served as a reviewer for Chinese translations.

Key Concept #22: Cultural Identity Translated into Simplified Chinese

Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC#22: Cultural identity, which Vivian Hsueh-Hua Chen wrote for publication in English in 2014, and which Yan Qiu has now translated into Simplified Chinese.

Chen, V. H.-H. (2017). Cultural identity [Simplified Chinese]. (Y. Qiu, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 22. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/kc22-cultural-identity_chinese-sim.pdf

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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SSRC Transregional InterAsian Fellowships

The Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Program aims at promoting excellence in transregional research and interrogating boundaries that have long divided world geographies and academic communities. In 2017, the SSRC will offer two separate fellowship competitions as part of its Transregional Research Program:

The first, the Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections, builds upon the SSRC’s current transregional grants program through which more than 65 individual fellowships totaling nearly $2.5 million have been awarded. These longer-term fellowships are designed to support junior scholars as they work on first or second projects and to be disbursed flexibly over a sixteen-month period. Fellows can be affiliated anywhere, need not be full-time employed, and can use the funds for research or writing. Fellowship amounts will vary based on the proposed research activities, timeline, and location, and awards will be granted of $20,000–$45,000. These fellowships are awarded for projects that reconceptualize research on Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from West Asia (including Turkey) through Eurasia, Central Asia and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia, as well as projects that explore linkages beyond this expanse. Proposals that explore the connections between Asia and Africa are particularly encouraged.
The second, the SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of Göttingen, is a short-term fellowship opportunity offered in collaboration with the Global and Transregional Studies Platform at the University of Göttingen in Germany, an InterAsia partner institution, or hub. These three-month residencies will take place during the 2018 summer semester at the University of Göttingen, which runs from April 15, 2018–July 15, 2018. These residencies are designed to support a small cohort of scholars who are working on projects that reflect the existing research expertise at the University of Göttingen and build upon the Global and Transregional Studies Platform research themes: Movements of Knowledge, Transregional Populisms, and Religious Networks. Recipients will receive 2,500 €/month for three months and one round-trip economy class plane ticket to Göttingen.

Lebanese American University: 6 Job Ads

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CID Poster #7: Social Justice/Social Harmony

This is the next of the posters designed by Linda J. de Wit, in her role as CID intern. This is the first poster to use one of the Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue as the source. The content here comes from KC79: Social Cohesion, written by Narine Nora Kerelian & Gizem Arat.

Just in case anyone wants to cite this poster, the following would be the recommended format:

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2017). Social justice/social harmony. CID Posters, 7. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/social-justice-harmony.png

As with other series, CID Posters are available for free on the site; just click on the thumbnail to download a printable PDF. They may be downloaded, printed, and shared as is, without changes, without cost, so long as there is acknowledgment of the source.

As with other series, if you wish to contribute an original contribution, please send an email before starting any work to receive approval, to minimize inadvertent duplication, and to learn about technical requirements. As is the case with other CID Publications, posters should be created initially in English. Given that translations of the Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue have received so many views, anyone who wishes to translate their own poster into another language (or two) is invited to provide that as well. If you want to volunteer to translate someone else’s poster into a language in which you are fluent, send in a note before starting, to receive approval and to confirm no one else is working on the same one.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue
intercult.dialogue AT gmail.com

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Key Concept #22: Cultural Identity Translated into Japanese

Chen, V. H.-H. (2017). Cultural identity [Japanese]. (A. Takenishi, trans). Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 22. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/kc22-cultural-identity_japanese.pdf

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

ICA in Prague 2018 (Czech Republic)

The International Communication Association will hold its annual convention 24-27 May 2018 in Prague (Czech Republic).

Against a backdrop of evolving technologies and shifting sociocultural and political dynamics, the 2018 ICA conference theme, Voices, encourages scholars to delve more deeply into a concept inextricably linked with communication.

Examined from multiple epistemological approaches, a host of methodologies, and numerous levels of analysis, studying voice – or the plurality of voices – can illuminate the process by which it is fostered and/or constrained as well as the conditions under which it is expressed and/or stifled. More important, the study of voice can shed light on the process by which it impacts behaviors, defines relationships, influences policies, and shapes the world in which we live. In other words, the conference theme encourages the submission of scholarship that examines voice vis-à-vis various discourses, actors, processes, and outcomes.

The significance of voice is reflected in contemporary debates around domestic and transnational issues such as the environment and immigration. It also plays a critical role in numerous systems, regardless of whether these systems are bound interpersonally, organizationally, culturally, politically, or socially. Irrespective of the domain of study, the conference theme Voices encourages scholars to address key questions related to:

* Theorizing about voice
* The creation and representation of voice
* The expression of voice
* The impact of voice

Before and after each annual conference, ICA hosts pre- and postconferences. These sessions are either all-day or half-day miniconferences, intended as an extension of the main ICA conference, but separate in terms of budget, programming, and administration.

For the 2018 Prague conference, space in the hotel is limited. While we have approximately 20 slots within the hotels, ICA also accepts proposals for pre/postconferences to be held outside of the hotel and even outside of Prague. All off-site preconferences outside Prague should be held on Wednesday, 24 May, with the following day 25 May given to travelling to Prague. All on-site (in the conference hotels) preconferences will be held on Thursday, 25 May with an end time of 5pm.

All postconferences will be on Tuesday, 29 May if in the hotel or elsewhere in Prague, or Wednesday or later if outside Prague. If you choose to have an off-site conference, you may either propose a location you have already obtained in advance or you may mark on your proposal form that you wish to speak with our local host for help in determining a location.

If you are interested in planning and submitting a preconference or postconference proposal please fill out the proposal form by Thursday, 1 September 2017. More detailed instructions are within the application form. If you have questions after reading the form, please contact Jennifer Le (jleATicahdq.org).

Li Li Profile

Li Li (Ph.D., Ohio University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at University of Wyoming.

Her areas of interest include various aspects of instructional communication and intercultural communication. Specifically, She is dedicated to contributing to the theoretical and empirical understanding of how teachers, especially diverse teachers, plan their communication to enhance various types of student learning in different settings.

Recent publications:

Qian, Y., & Li, L. (2017). Student off-task electronic multitasking predictors: Scale development and validation. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17 (2), 53-73.

Chen, Y. W., Li, L., & Lou, S. (2016). “The superhero in our hearts is Chairman Mao”: The structurating of Chinese sojourners’ conceptualizations of (super)heroes identities. The Howard Journal of Communications, 27 (3), 218-235.

Jia, M., Li, L., & Titsworth, S. (2015). Teaching as emotional work: Instructor’s empathy and students’ motives to communicate out of class. The Electronic Journal of Communication, 25 (3-4).

Li, L., & Titsworth, S. (2015). Student misbehaviors in online classrooms: Scale development and validation. The American Journal of Distance Education, 29, 41-55.

Li, L., Chen, Y. W., & Nakazawa, M. (2013). Voices of Chinese Web-TV audiences: A case of applying Uses and Gratifications theory to examine popularity of Prison Break in China. China Media Research, 9, 63-74.

Li, L., Mazer, J., & Ju, R. (2011). Resolving international teaching assistant language inadequacy through dialogue: Challenges and opportunities for clarity and credibility. Communication Education, 60, 461-478.

Work for CID:
Li Li has served as a reviewer for Simplified Chinese translations.

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