CFP Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict

Journal of Asian Pacific Journal (JAPC) Special Issue Call for Papers

The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts in Territorial Disputes among China, Japan, and South Korea

Submissions are encouraged from scholars that use different theoretical and empirical approaches to the special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication on the role of communication (e.g. legal, diplomatic, and public discourses) in territorial disputes among China, Japan, and South Korea. Territorial disputes between China and Japan over Diaoyu (Chinese) or Senkaku (Japanese) island and between Japan and South Korea over the Dokdo (Korea) or Takeshima (Japanese) island have escalated particularly in recent years and given rise to concerns about peace and security in the region. The special issue will examine the roles of communication and discourse on their political, cultural, historical, and economical aspects of the territorial disputes with a focus on the key internal and external factors shaping current and future relations. The articles will examine communication and discourse in institutional and political settings, i.e., in and around organizations, in the media, and on the internet. They will focus on how use of language and non-verbal symbolic systems in specific, esp. institutional, communicative contexts, including face-to-face diplomatic interactions/conversations, news release, and popular cultural texts such as films, music, animation, television drama, etc. impact the territorial disputes.

(1) News Coverage on the Disputes: Articles may examine how news media cover the disputes and the accompanying debates on international and domestic levels by conducting content (quantitative) or textural (qualitative) analysis of newspaper articles or broadcasting news contents in two territorial disputes among three nations (or comparative studies). They may also examine how media represent conflict and its potential impact on the audience.

(2) Public Opinion and Propaganda: Although territorial disputes are one of the most fraught issues among states, how public opinion and official and unofficial propaganda on territorial disputes varies within states and what explains the variation are often overlooked. Some articles may examine the dynamics of messages and see how public prioritizes and processes nationalistic, historical, and economic considerations over such disputes. They may hypothesize, for example, that younger generations are more likely to support some level of compromise while older generations would take a more a hawkish stance.

(3) Political and Diplomatic Communication: There are inevitable political aspects in disputed territories. The role of the U.S. can be an explosive force in these disputes. Although the U.S. may maintain the neutrality in the territorial disputes among three nations, the U.S. concerns that China’s muscle in the region could escalate the conflicts with neighboring Vietnam, Malaysia, and Philippine and Japan. The U.S. may support their territorial disputes in order to counter China’s regional hegemonic ambition. The papers may examine rhetorical aspects of political communication (emails, news releases, press conferences, legal action threats, languages of peace and conflicts) in these disputes.

(4) Role of Social Media and Bloggers: Angry and reasonable participants of social media have escalated various international conflicts including the territorial disputes. Papers may analyze social media, internet, and cyber warfare on the disputes among three nations and see how these disputes are mediated, produced, received, and reconstituted.

(5) Role of Popular Cultural Texts: These disputes have been constructed and deconstructed through comics, television dramas, films, dance, theaters, and music in three nations. They are also largely consumed and shared in internet. Papers may explore how these popular cultural texts can personalize and frame the disputes and make the readers to frame of references in their opinions on the topic. Or analyze the texts based on power, ideology, and discourses.

All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this special issue. Manuscripts must be submitted online. All submissions will go through a regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and processes. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2016. Submissions should be emailed to Eungjun Min.

Language and Conflict: Politics of Language and Identity across Contexts (UK)

Language and Conflict: Politics of Language and Identity across Contexts
20 May 2016, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Brunei Gallery, Room B102, SOAS University of London

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Hilary Footitt (University of Reading)
Dr Zoë Marriage (Violence, Peace and Development Research Cluster, SOAS, University of London)

This one day workshop brings together scholars and graduate students working on the role of language in on-going and post-conflict contexts. Examples could include (but are not limited to) the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Western Europe, including diaspora and migration contexts.

Attendance is free and there is no need to register.

Oregon State U job ad: Intercultural Communication

Visiting Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication at Oregon State University
EFFECTIVE DATE OF POSITION: 16 September 2016
APPOINTMENT: 1.0 FTE, 9-month, fixed-term
LOCATION: This job is based on-campus at Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Oregon.

The Speech Communication Area of the School of Arts and Communication invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE) Visiting Assistant Professor in Intercultural Communication. Primary areas of interests should include: intercultural communication and qualitative research methods. Secondary areas in support of primary area include: communication theory, international communication, postcolonial studies, language and discourse analysis, conflict management, rhetorical theory. For complete position details go to posting P00269UF at http://oregonstate.edu/jobs/.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 75% Teaching – 3 courses per quarter (nine in the academic year) including introductory as well as upper division and graduate level classes; 25% Research and Scholarship.

QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum Required: ABD in Communication or related field; demonstrated excellence in teaching; record of scholarly promise in a program of research; and a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

Preferred: PhD in communication with an educational emphasis in intercultural communication; with a secondary area of expertise: qualitative research methods, communication theory, international communication, postcolonial studies, language and discourse analysis, conflict management, rhetorical theory. A demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Apply to posting #P00269UF online at http://jobs.oregonstate.edu. When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:
1) A resume/CV
2) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position.
3) A professional statement that includes your philosophy of teaching and research/scholarship.
4) Evidence of teaching excellence such as teaching evaluation summaries for lower & upper division courses and graduate courses, if available. (Upload as Portfolio)

You will also be required to submit the names of at least three professional references, their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers as part of the application process.

For additional information please contact Loril Chandler.

OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

APPLICATION DUE DATE: For full consideration submit a complete file by May 22, 2016.

Grants for Communities Connecting Heritage Program

ECA-ECAPEC-16-047
FY 2016 Communities Connecting Heritage Program
US Department of State
Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs

In support of U.S. Department of State foreign policy objectives, the FY 2016 Communities Connecting Heritage program is an international people-to-people exchange program that engages communities and empowers people through the exploration of cultural heritage issues. The program brings together U.S. and international communities, especially youth, women, ethnic minorities and other underserved groups, through collaborative exchange projects that focus on cultural heritage and may also include social issues, such as social inclusion, interfaith tolerance, women’s empowerment, and/or youth development. The program will include six to eight international exchange projects that develop and showcase new partnerships between U.S. and foreign cultural organizations and the communities they serve, while advancing cultural heritage through community outreach and public education. Communities Connecting Heritage is a new initiative. For more information, please see the full announcement.

Peacebuilding and New Media

Media and Communication has released the new issue (2016, volume 4, issue 1) on Peacebuilding and New Media. All articles are published as open access, free for to read, download, and share. The issue was edited by Vladimir Bratic (Hollins University, USA). The complete issue is available online.

Articles include:
Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media by Vladimir Bratic

Elicitive Conflict Transformation and New Media: In Search for a Common Ground by Wolfgang Suetzl

“Likes” for Peace: Can Facebook Promote Dialogue in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict? by Yifat Mor , Yiftach Ron and Ifat Maoz

Fields and Facebook: Ta’ayush’s Grassroots Activism and Archiving the Peace that Will Have Come in Israel/Palestine by Jon Simons

Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools: Escaping the Control of the Syrian Regime by Walid Al-Saqaf

EU Armed Forces’ Use of Social Media in Areas of Deployment by Maria Hellman , Eva-Karin Olsson and Charlotte Wagnsson

Building Peace through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media by Rukhsana Aslam

Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa by Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Jane Jackson Profile

ProfilesJane Jackson (PhD, OISE/University of Toronto) is professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in intercultural communication.

Jane JacksonShe also supervises postgraduate research in language and intercultural communication; identity; student and academic mobility; international and intercultural education; intercultural competence; autonomous learning; English as a second language education; informal language learning; and intercultural transitions.

Professor Jackson has teaching and research experience in many countries/regions: Canada, the USA, the Sultanate of Oman, Egypt, Mainland China, the U.K., and Hong Kong SAR. Recognized for innovative teaching practices, she is the recipient of CUHK’s 2013 Education Award and a member of the University’s Teaching Excellence Ambassador Program, which promotes effective teaching and learning.

Her research interests include intercultural communication/education, language and identity, multiculturalism/multilingualism, and education abroad. With the support of competitive research grants, Professor Jackson has been investigating the ‘whole person development’ of international exchange students from Greater China as well as the language and intercultural learning of incoming international students in Asia. Teaching Development grants have enabled her to design and offer research-inspired blended and fully online courses that aim to promote intercultural competence and optimize education abroad learning. Professor Jackson is a frequent speaker at international conferences that center on intercultural learning, teaching, and research. She has published widely in academic journals and has many chapters in edited collections. Recent books include Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication (Routledge, 2014), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (Routledge, 2012) (editor), Intercultural Journeys: From Study to Residence Abroad (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), and Language, Identity, and Study Abroad: Sociocultural Perspectives (Equinox, 2008).

She is an elected fellow and Board member of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) and a member of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC). She also serves on the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication (Wiley-Blackwell) and is a member of the advisory board of the Language and Intercultural Communication journal. Professor Jackson is an Editorial Board member for Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education and the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education.

See her webpage for further information and contact details.

Work for CID:
Jane Jackson wrote KC78: Language and Intercultural Communication.

CFP EURIAS Fellowship Programme 2017/2018

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 18 participating Institutes: Aahrus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 18 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. To match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues.

For the 2017-2018 academic year EURIAS offers 48 fellowships (25 junior and 23 senior positions).

All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of € 26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.

APPLICATION
– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where, you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, and selection procedure.
– Applications period April 19th → June 8th, 2016, 12 pm (noon) GMT.
– Late applications will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE
– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers
– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee
– Final selection by the IAS Academic Boards
– Publication of results: January 2017

For further information on the Programme, please consult the EURIAS website.
For further information on the IAS and their specific working conditions, please see this page.

Universität der Bundeswehr München job ad: Conflict Research (Germany)

Universität der Bundeswehr München Germany announces a position as a research assistant to the Professorship in Intercultural communication and Conflict Research. The position is announced as supporting teaching and research of the professorship as documented on the website of the professorship.

Applicants will be required to show a good command of German in speaking, reading and writing. However, non-native speakers are welcome.

For further details and for how to apply please refer to the full announcement.

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Universität der Bundeswehr München

An der Professur für interkulturelle Kommunikation und Konfliktforschung an der Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt – vorerst befristet auf 2 Jahre – eine Stelle als

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Entgeltgruppe E13 TVöD

zu besetzen. Die Stelle ist teilzeitfähig.

Aufgaben:
• Mitwirkung bei Forschungsvorhaben der Professur, insbesondere bei gegenwärtigen und daraus für die Zukunft zu entwickelnden Forschungsgegenständen im Sinne der auf der Homepage dokumentierten Arbeitsfelder (vgl. http://www.unibw.de/icc),
• Mitwirkung bei der Gestaltung und Durchführung der Lehre im B.A.-Studiengang Bildungswissenschaft und im M.A.-Studiengang Bildungswissenschaft, insbesondere interkulturelle, Medien- und Erwachsenenbildung,
• Mitwirkung bei der Betreuung von Seminar- und Abschlussarbeiten,
• Mitwirkung beim Erstellen von Publikationen
• Mitwirkung bei Verwaltungsaufgaben des Lehrgebietes.

Die Möglichkeit zur Promotion, bzw. bei Vorliegen einer einschlägigen und exzellenten Promotion zur Habilitation ist gegeben.

Voraussetzungen:
• Sehr guter Abschluss eines universitären Studienganges mit fachlicher Einschlägigkeit zu der Professur,
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse in dem interdisziplinär angelegten Forschungsfeld der interkulturellen Kommunikation,
• Sehr gute Englischkenntnisse und Interesse an Publikationen in englischer Sprache.

Die Universität der Bundeswehr München strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils an, Bewerbungen von Frauen werden ausdrücklich begrüßt. Personen mit Handicap werden bei gleicher Eignung besonders berücksichtigt.

Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, Bescheinigungen) richten Sie bitte bis 25. Mai 2016 im pdf-Format per E-Mail an Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch.

New Journal: Annals of the ICA

Annals of the International Communication Association
A Publication of the International Communication Association
Editor: David R. Ewoldsen, Michigan State U (effective August, 2016)

Associate Editors
Miyase Christensen, Stockholm U; KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Thomas Hanitzsch, LMU Munich
Weiyu Zheng, National U of Singapore
Herman Wasserman, U of Cape Town

The Annals of the International Communication Association is a new peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays dedicated to the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms.

The Annals will continue the traditions established in Communication Yearbook by providing an updated context for key research from across the Association. The Annals of the International Communication Association publishes three types of articles.

Review Articles are state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays, including descriptive reviews, meta-analyses, and theoretical essays. Reviews can be retrospective reviews, which help readers understand the development of current knowledge within the discipline, or prescriptive essays that create a roadmap for where research needs to go in the future. Reviews will go through the traditional peer review process.

Communication Insights are solicited reviews that examine a set of predetermined topics that provide a degree of continuity across the years and indicate how a specific research domain has developed. A set of predetermined topics will rotate over 5-year periods.

Topical Book Review Essays are essays that should include a discussion of recently published books that focus on a central theme within the discipline. The goal of the Annals Topical Book Review Essays is to provide a critical synthesis of a set of published books, but the essay should go beyond the confines of a traditional book review. Rather, the focus is on a critical essay that addresses issues pertinent to the discipline. The Editor recommends that at least two books be reviewed within an essay and while the books should be recently published, the inclusion of more classic texts is acceptable. The Editor encourages authors from non-English-speaking countries to consider submitting topical review essays of books not available in the English language in order to increase the reach of communication studies research globally. Unlike traditional book reviews, which are solicited, the Topical Book Review Essays are open submission and they will go through the traditional peer review process.

The Annals is both international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. All submissions will be subject to initial editor screening and subsequent peer review as necessary.

Details

More information: Annals of the International Communication Association. The Annals works on a continuous submission cycle. There are no deadlines for submissions. The editor anticipates publishing four issues per year. The first issue will be published in the first quarter of 2017.

For more information about the Annals of the International Communication Association, please contact Dr. Ewoldsen.

Venice Academy of Human Rights 2016

The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 4-13 July 2016 on the topic “Backlash against Human Rights?”. The faculty includes a distinguished opening lecture by Judge András Sajó (Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights), a general course by Robert McCorquodale (BIICL) as well as lectures and discussion sessions with Joseph A. Cannataci (UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy), Helen Fenkwick (Durham University), Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne) and Geir Ulfstein (University of Oslo).

The Venice Academy of Human Rights 2016, in co-operation with PluriCourts – Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, discusses the expansion and restriction of human rights regimes, questions of inequality and social change, counter-terrorist laws, same sex unions, privacy and data protection issues as well as the reform of the European Court of Human Rights and UN human rights treaty bodies. The course aims at academics, practitioners, PhD/JSD and master students.
Applications are accepted until 29 May 2016 with an early-bird discount until 24 April 2016.

You can view the detailed programme here.