Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CFP DiscourseNet Winter School (Spain)

DiscourseNet Winter School
Doing research on academic, educational and intellectual discourses
20.01.2015-24.01.2015
Valencia, Spain

Discourse Studies is a field which studies meaning- and sense-making practices in their political, social and historical contexts. The DiscourseNet Winter School brings together advanced BA and MA as well as PhD students who want to pursue research in Discourse Studies and to discuss the methodological and theoretical challenges of their thesis projects (or first ideas). Its aim is to bring young and confirmed discourse researchers together and to address practical challenges in discourse research. The event will privilege collaborative exchange and hands-on research experience in a rather informal workshop setting. Introductory lectures will be given by Johannes Angermuller (Warwick), Benno Herzog (Valencia) and Luisa Martín Rojo (Madrid).

Participants can come from linguistics, sociology, political sciences, literary and cultural studies, media and communication, education, geography and related areas in the social sciences and humanities. The DiscourseNet Winter School is free but a small contribution for coffee etc. may be charged. There are places for 15-20 students. A limited number of stipends is available for students in need of financial support for travel and accommodation. The working language is English. Participants can stay until the weekend after and join in the social activities with the group.

Applicants are expected to send in proposals which include a short letter of motivation, an abstract with one’s project (no more than one page) as well as an (academic) CV. If a stipend is needed, the organisers would expect a short explanation why financial assistance is needed (e.g. lack of institutional support). The abstract will consist of a title and a description of the proposed research project which can deal with academic, educational and intellectual discourses and/or methodological questions in discourse research.

Proposals should be sent in by the 30th of September 2014. In case of acceptance, each participant will send in a 10-page version of the research project by December 15th 2014. These longer versions will define the research object, lay out the research questions, situate the project in the field and reflect on the preferred methods. These longer versions will circulate among the participants prior to the event. During the DiscourseNet Winter School, the students will not read their papers but elaborate on specific points, practical problems and methodological challenges of their projects. If they wish, the participants can stay the weekend after and join in the social activities with the organisers in the Valencia region.

The Winter School is a Warwick-Valencia event, organised by members of DiscourseNet, an interdisciplinary and international network of discourse researchers existing since 2007. It is supported by the ERC DISCONEX project, led by Johannes Angermuller, which studies academic discourse in the social sciences and humanities. DiscourseNet regularly organizes workshops, e.g. DiscourseNet 14 in Mannheim (Germany, winter 2014), DiscourseNet 15 in Belgrade (Serbia, spring 2015), DiscourseNet 16 in Bremen (Germany, autumn 2015) and DiscourseNet 17 in Pamplona (Spain, spring 2016).

Please contact Ronny Scholz if you have questions and want to send in your application (in one single pdf file only).

Network: DiscourseNet
Organizing Committee: Johannes Angermuller (Warwick), Benno Herzog (Valencia), Francesc Hernàndez (Valencia), Ronny Scholz (Warwick)

Rosanne Teniente-Micro grant report

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In Spring 2014, Rosanne Teniente was awarded a micro grant funded by the Association for Business Communication. The following is her report.

This past August I was privileged to have the opportunity to attend the Institute for Peace and Dialogue’s Summer Academy on Peacebuilding and Intercultural Dialogue hosted in Baar, Switzerland. IPD is an organization dedicated to conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and intercultural dialogue, and host conferences and trainings for those interested in peacebuilding and cross-cultural communication. I was there for ten days from August 17^th through 27^thand was partially funded through a microgrant from ABC, awarded through CID.

To say the least, it was a truly inspiring experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life. The experts invited were all very knowledgeable about their speaking topics, ranging from the Middle East conflict, non-violent communication and civil disobedience, to learning how to influence and persuade others, especially in dealing with conflict. Experts included a former French diplomat, the founder of the Pancevo peace movement in Serbia who was also directly involved in the Otpor movement that brought down Milosevic, as well as a former British colonel who worked on the Transnistrian conflict. There were also several experts in communication topics, ranging from cross-cultural communication, persuasive communication for successful negotiation, and non-violent communication. Every day had enthralling lectures, with great exercises and activities to really involve the participants.

Perhaps what really made the conference as special as it was were the other attendees. There were about thirty other participants, attending from all over the world. Everyone’s unique cultural background and experiences lent to amazing discussion and insight. One gentleman hailed from the Democratic Republic of Congo and was able to share his experiences in such a high-conflict country. Another came from Iraq and was able to eloquently explain the issues of ISIS and how his country is faring in the post-Iraq war years. Other participants were active peace practitioners, working for the United Nations, the Carter Center, and Peace Brigades International. At the end of the conference, we all agreed that one of the most rewarding aspects was that we were all blessed to have met and gotten to know each other during the time there, and to have forged such great connections with people from unlikely places.

I feel so fortunate that I was able to participate in such an event. As a graduate student and military spouse, it would have been very difficult to afford to attend the conference without funding from CID. I was also lucky that my university program was also able assist with a supplementary travel grant. While I did have to cover about half of the cost by myself, the microgrant from CID made it possible to attend, and as I said before, this will be an experience that I carry with me for the rest of my life.

EuroVision – Museums Exhibiting Europe (EMEE)

EuroVision: Museums Exhibiting Europe (EMEE) is a European museum development project for national and regional museums. It explores an innovative interdisciplinary approach for museums to re-interpret their objects in a broader context of European and trans-national history. The necessary theoretical and practical framework is developed, put into practice and evaluated by an international, trans-sectoral network bringing together the creative excellence of museums and cultural workers in a project based on the scientific expertise of History Didactics in mediating culture. It will be presented to the visitor in the so-called ‘EuroVision Lab.’ exhibitions, using the motto: ‘One Object – Many Visions – EuroVisions’. The ‘EuroVision Lab.’ is experimental by nature and is taking place at all partner institutions. It involves a variety of different activities with public appeal (e. g. exhibition projects, cultural performances), which put into practice the concept of the ‘Change of Perspective’ (COP) for the Europeanization of regional and national museums. In order to deal with historical culture and historical identity the COP has three components:

COP 1: European re-interpretation of objects
As if they were looking through a range of different lenses, experts and visitors discover that one and the same object can be perceived in multi-layered ways and contexts. Hence, the COP 1 encourages visitors to actively be engaged in the European re-interpretation of objects by intersecting local, national, transnational and global perspectives.

COP 2: Activation and participation of visitors
The COP 2 practices the change of perspective between museum experts and visitors. The museum puts strategies to the test that lead away from its traditional prerogative of historical interpretation by encouraging the visitors to reflect and express their own approach to the museum contents. The steps range from the activating presentation of the objects to a synaesthetic exhibition design and to accompanying cultural programmes in parts designed by visitors and even ‘non-visitors’.

COP 3: Broadening perspectives
The COP 3 is achieved by changing the perspectives by means of international and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, expertise and objects in order to overcome the narrowness of national and Eurocentric perspectives. In order to fulfill this aim, a European network of museum experts and cultural workers will be established.

In order to implement the “Change of Perspective“, the EMEE partners developed five so called toolkits. These manuals aim to mediate between theory and practice and to offer all interested museums instructions for innovative and creative concepts that are in support of the modernization and Europeanization of museum activities. The manuals can be downloaded for free from the project’s website along with the accompanying workshops.

The EMEE project also launched the EMEE Young Scenographers Contest which calls for young designers and scenographs to make the Change of Perspective visible in exhibitions.

Contact
Universität Augsburg
Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Geschichte
Universitätsstraße 10
86159 Augsburg
Germany

Coordination: Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp
Project manager: Susanne Schilling M.A.

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Kristen Cole Profile

Kristen Cole (PhD, University of New Mexico) is Assistant Professor of Critical Health Communication at San Jose State University in California.

Dr. Cole’s research and teaching span Rhetoric, Media and Cultural Studies. Her interests include constructions of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, citizenship and immigration, conflict and community, and science and technology. She investigates formations of identity and enactments of agency within marginalized communities and how these are represented in publicly mediated spaces. She utilizes rhetorical, critical/cultural, feminist, and queer approaches to media texts in order to understand the ways power is exerted and negotiated and the ways change is enacted. Her research and teaching focus on how communication at interpersonal, social, and cultural levels restricts and promotes a multiplicity of lived experiences. Her recent publications can be found in the Sage Handbook of Conflict Communication, Review of Communication and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.

Work for CID:
Kristen Cole wrote KC33: Moral Conflict.

Key Concept #32: Ethno-Political Conflict by Don Ellis

The next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC32: Ethno-Political Conflict by Donald G. Ellis. As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. 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.

Ellis, D. (2014). Ethno-political conflict. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 32. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/key-concept-ethnopollitical-conflict.pdf

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. Prior concepts are available on the main publications page. 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.

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

Symbolic Dimensions of Mediated Activism in Inter-Asia

Symbolic Dimensions of Mediated Activism in Inter-Asia
9/26/2014 Daylong PARGC, Penn SAS, SSRC Symposium

Location: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Room 108
From 8:30 AM To 5:00 PM

A symposium presented by the Social Science Research Council. Co-sponsored by PARGC of the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

About the Symposium:

Symbolic Dimensions of Mediated Activism in Inter-Asia is one of many workshop discussions organized as part of the SSRC’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI) on “Media, Activism, and the New Political in InterAsia.” Directed by Guobin Yang, this daylong workshop will explore, through comparative and historical discussions, the empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues in the analysis of the production, circulation, and impact of icons and symbols of protest and opposition in inter-Asia (China, India, and MENA). Our goal is to understand the discursive and symbolic connections and interactions of mediated activism in inter-Asia. In popular imagination, incidents of dissent and popular protest are often remembered for some critical moments with great symbolic value – the storming of the Bastille, the tank man in Tiananmen Square, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan in Iran. How are they preserved, passed down and absorbed into the repertoires of contention? How are new political symbols created and disseminated? What is the role of social media? Under what conditions do local and national political symbols become trans-local and trans-national? How do global media spectacles impinge on regional and local mobilization? These are some of the questions we will explore in this conference.

Speakers include:
Payal Arora (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Radha Hegde (NYU)
Annemarie Iddins (University of Michigan)
Min Jiang (UNC-Charlotte)
Joe Khalil (Northwestern University in Qatar)
Marwan Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania)
Wazhmah Osman (Temple University)
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)
Steven Schrag (University of Pennsylvania)
Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Elaine Yuan (UI-Chicago)

Please email rsvp@asc.upenn.edu to RSVP

Study of Internat’l students’ communication with host nationals

Collaboration request from Ioana Cionea, at the University of Oklahoma:
Participants needed for study on international students’ communication with host nationals

“We are currently conducting a longitudinal study in which we examine the factors that affect international students’ communication with host nationals. If you are an incoming international student (i.e., first semester in the United States) or if you know such students that you could forward this message to, we would appreciate your help with completing an online survey.

The survey has demographic questions, questions about expected communicate with host nationals, and anticipated experiences. Participation is completely voluntary. At the end of the survey, participants can enter a raffle to win Amazon gift cards.

If you have any questions or concerns about the research project you may contact any of the researchers on the team in the Department of Communication at The University of Oklahoma, an equal opportunity institution.”

Jackie Bruscella, M.A.
Bobbi Van Gilder, M.A.
Ioana A. Cionea, Ph.D.

Stanford U job ad: South Asian Studies

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
South Asian Studies
Assistant Professor

STANFORD UNIVERSITY invites applications for a tenure-line, assistant professor position in SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES to begin in the academic year 2015-16. The scholar appointed will be based in a department but is also expected to make contributions to the interdisciplinary study of South Asia across the University. The appointment will be in one of the following departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences: Communication, Political Science, or Sociology. Teaching responsibilities will be determined by the home department.

Applicants should provide a cover letter including a brief statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae including list of publications, and sample(s) of recent scholarship. Applicants should arrange to have three letters of reference submitted by the deadline to Academic Jobs Online.

Please go to http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4141 in order to apply to Political Science and to http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4158 to apply to Communication or Sociology.

For full consideration, materials must be received by October 1, 2014.

Post-doc FMSH (Paris)

Call for post-doctoral application : Gerda Henkel Stiftung – FMSH – 2015

As part of the partnership between the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Collège d’études mondiales, two post-doctoral grants will be awarded, for a period of 12 months, to two young researchers living outside of France.

The Collège d’études mondiales is a center of exchange and reflexion for researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The institution faces head-on the methodological, epistemological and conceptual changes demanded of those who interpret contemporary phenomena.

These post-doctoral researchers will be received by one of the Chairs or one of the research initiatives at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris: http://www.college-etudesmondiales.org

Candidates’ research projects must be devoted to one of the following two research areas:
“Social progress and global justice”
Relevant disciplines: philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, history or philosophy of law, history or philosophy of economics.
“Images, bodies and techniques in the global era”
Relevant disciplines: history of art, aesthetics, philosophy, political science, anthropology, anthropology or sociology of medicine.

Funding
This post-doctoral grant is worth 2,000€ per month. Travel expenses from home countries to Paris will be taken care of by the institution. The post-doctoral researchers are responsible for the costs of medical insurance.

Qualifications for admission
The admissions process for candidates will focus on the quality of the their scientific backgrounds as well as their post-doctoral projects and their integration into the research conducted at the Collège d’études mondiales.

The conditions for eligibility are the following:
*Candidates must hold a PhD by the date that applications are due, having presented a thesis.
*Candidates must have lived in France for less than twelve months in the last three years.
*Candidates may submit their applications only within the first six years after the presentation of their theses.
*Candidates should be fluent in French.

The application should include (in English or French):
*Doctorate degree (PhD).
*Candidate’s Curriculum Vitae and publications.
*A research project with a bibliography of main works cited (project + bibliography no more than 5 pages).
*2 Letters of Recommendation
*1 Welcome letter from one of the Chairholders or associated researchers at the Collège d’études mondiales

Without exception, applications must be submitted via email before September 15th, 2014 to the scientific coordination at the Collège d’études mondiales:

Sara Guindani-Riquier: sara.guindani-riquier@msh-paris.fr

Nathanaël Cretin: nathanael.cretin@msh-paris.fr

CFP Social Media in the Middle East

Social Media in the Middle East
Call for Chapter Proposals
Deadline: September 20, 2014

Editors:
Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia/Shanghai International Studies University
Adil Nurmakov, Ph.D., International IT University, Kazakhstan
Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran, Iran

Publication information: to be published in late 2015 or early in 2016 by Dignity Press.

The Middle East is a challenging and highly provocative region today, and many countries and regional or local groups have a vibrant/fractured social media in interaction or opposition. The editors believe that Social Media in the Middle East will be a valuable scholarly book which will provide greater insights into the historical and contemporary events in the rapidly changing Middle East.

Seeking online chapter proposals of 200-300 words and a resume, for intended scholarly analytical chapters of 22-25 pages on topics related to social media in the Middle East: historically, politically, militarily, geographically, economically, religiously, culturally, and/or cross-culturally, the chapters including an abstract of about 200 words; key words; an analytical framework; with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method methodology; discussion; appropriate charts and graphs; and generous citations and references according to the sixth edition of the APA Guidelines. A maximum of three coauthors for each chapter is allowed.

Interested scholars of the Middle East seeking to submit a high quality chapter proposal of 200-300 words, plus a resume, should send it all of the editors (emails in links above) by September 20, 2014.

Decisions about accepted chapters will be made in between mid-September to early October, 2014. Selected authors will have four months from acceptance to complete their chapters (not later than February 1, 2015). All finalized chapters will be reviewed by the three coeditors for recommended revisions, additions, or changes. Social Media in the Middle East will also include authors’ 200-250 word biographies in the third person, and thumbnail photos as an attachment, with at least 300 pixils. It is intended that Social Media in the Middle East will be in the range of 500+ pages with a preface, introduction, 14-15 high quality chapters, biographies and thumbnail photos of authors, and an index.

In the meantime, already planned tentative chapters include:
*Dr. Haneen Mohammad Shoaib, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business and Technology, Saudia Arabia: social media in Saudia Arabia and immediate environs, with Dr. Samar M. Shoaib as coauthor; *Adil Numakov, International IT University, Kazakhstan: a cross-cultural study relating to social media in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan as they border the Middle East; and
*Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran: social media in Iran.

These tentative chapters do not exclude other possible proposed chapters relating to similar topics.

The editors have an interest in additional topics, as illustrative, among other possibilities: Cross-cultural study of social media in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; Social media historically and contemporarily in Egypt; Cross-cultural study of social media in Sudan and South Sudan; Cross-cultural study of social media in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Dubai; Cross-cultural study of social media among the Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Turkey; Cross-cultural study of social media in the Syrian government and opposition groups in Syria; Social media in Iraq; Social media in Turkey; Social media in Lebanon; Social media in Kuwait; Social media of ISIS, the Levant, proposed Caliphate; etc.

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