The Business and Professional Communication Quarterly has had a change of name and scope. BPCQ is published by Association of Business Communication, and ABC is one of the organizations making up the Council of Communication Associations, the parent organization of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue. ABC has international members, including one serving on the CID Advisory Board, so they are definitely open to international responses.
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Department of Communication and Journalism
Tenure-Track Research and Teaching Positions
The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates to apply for tenure-track positions starting July 2015.
Excellent candidates in all areas of communications are invited to apply.
The successful applicant will join a dynamic research-oriented faculty offering innovative undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs.
The language of instruction is Hebrew, although English is acceptable for an initial period.
Applications should include:
*Detailed CV including full list of publications
*A scientific biography, including a research plan for the next several years, 3-4 pages long
*Letters of recommendation from at least two persons qualified to assess the candidate’s achievements and potential
*Copies of three selected recent publications that best showcase the candidate’s scholarship
*Brief description of 3-4 potential courses that the candidate could teach
*Teaching evaluations (if such exist)
Applicants will compete with candidates of other departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences for academic positions.
Application materials, letters of recommendation and/or inquiries should be directed to:
Prof. Esther Schely-Newman, Chair
Deadline for applications: September 15th 2014.
Planning is highly advanced for the International Communication Association Regional Conference, “Digital Transformations, Social Media Engagement, and the Asian Century”, to be held at the Queensland U of Technology (Gardens Point campus) from 1-3 October 2014.
The conference has a very exciting range of keynote speakers, including incoming ICA President Peter Vorderer (U of Mannheim), Mohan Dutta (National U of Singapore), Cynthia Stohl (U of California Santa Barbara), Jack Linchuan Qiu (Chinese U of Hong Kong), Yi-Hui Christine Huang (Chinese U of Hong Kong), ICA fellows Cindy Gallois (U of Queensland) and John Hartley (Curtin U), Lance Bennett (U of Washington), Christoph Neuberger (LMU U, Munich), and Stuart Cunningham (Queensland U of Technology).
There will be a range of special events taking place, including a forum on “Science Communication in the Digital Age” hosted by the U of Queensland at the historic Customs House, and “Crisis Communication in Chinese Context”, sponsored by the Public Relations Institute of Australia. There are also special lunchtime sessions on academic publishing convened by the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) and Taylor & Francis, as well as over 50 paper sessions, panels and poster sessions.
Information on the conference can be found on the conference website. Early bird registration ($300 for faculty and $150 for graduate students) is available until 22 August 2014, with final registration by 12 September 2014. A draft program can be accessed from the conference website, as well as information about accommodation in Brisbane.
Associate Professor in International Studies
UNSW Australia is a progressive research-intensive university committed to academic excellence, social engagement and an international perspective. In 2013, both the Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings placed Social Sciences at UNSW in the top 40 in the world.
UNSW Arts & Social Sciences wishes to appoint an energetic and experienced scholar, at Associate Professor level, to provide academic leadership over the next five years for its prestigious Bachelor of International Studies program. We welcome applications from scholars in disciplines such as Cultures and Languages; International Relations or International Politics; Transnational History; Comparative Literature; Area Studies, etc. The person we are looking for will have an outstanding record in research and teaching, as well as experience of effective academic management.
The position is based in the School of Humanities and Languages, which is home to many internationally recognised scholars who are leaders in their fields. Humanities and Languages ranks as a national leader in a number of disciplines (Excellence in Research for Australia 2012), and in the top 150 internationally (QS World University Rankings 2014).
The UNSW Bachelor of International Studies program is a rigorous four year degree program which attracts bright and globally conscious students who, as graduates, go on to pursue exciting and unpredictable international careers.
The appointee will be expected to build academic staff capacity and rejuvenate the curriculum in the Bachelor of International Studies, and also to play an active role in the collegial life of the Humanities and Languages.
· The position is available on a continuing basis.
· The current salary range for an Associate Professor (Level D) is AUD$134,916 – $148,917 per annum.
· The position attracts up to 17% employer superannuation and leave loading.
· Base salary on appointment will be determined on the basis of previous experience and qualifications.
· The successful applicant is expected to commence in the role by January 2015.
Please direct enquiries about this post to Professor Vanessa Lemm, Head of School.
This programme is open to applicants from all countries, belonging to a foreign research centre, who wish to undertake a research residency in France.
These post-doctoral research stays are designed to enable researchers to carry out a research project in a host laboratory, integrate scientific networks in France and other European countries and build lasting partnerships between their home institution and the host institution. Applicant’s projects should match the areas of research of these institutions.
All social and human sciences are eligible. An interdisciplinary approach to research topics is encouraged.
Candidates can apply to general fellowships and specific fellowships, offered by several research institutions and “Laboratories of excellence” (Labex) who are partners of the programme.
Online application platform is open from September 1 until September 30, 2014.
Deadline for submission : September 30, 2014.
Applications must be submitted electronically via the online application form soon available
Please read carefully the eligibility criteria and the application procedure before applying online.
Go to the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme for details and application.
Journal of Communication and Culture
Theme: Translation, Cosmopolitanism & Resistance
Coordination: Maria Alexandra Lopes
Deadline for submission of original articles: 30th November 2014
Throughout history, translation has always been a site of multiple, often conflicting political, social and aesthetic agendas. Translation has diversely proven a pathway to conquering and steamrolling others into conformity, a locus of resistance and preservation of difference, as well as a space of dialogue between disparate worldviews. In either of these guises, translation has always had a powerful impact on different areas of human experience, from religion to science, from the media to politics, the economy and literature (Woodsworth and Delisle: 1995, 2012).
As an act of negotiation, translation is inextricably linked to processes of exchange of goods and ideas, cosmopolitization, hybridization and mobility (Cronin, 2002, 2010). Resistance, on the other hand, depicts a large array of attitudes, mentalscapes, emotions, political gestures that react against any given circumstance. ‘Resistance’ is taken here as a broad concept encompassing different meanings: on the one hand, the at times strong and/or violent opposition to something extant (the status quo, bigotry, censorship, ideology, globalization, etc.) or to come (new ideas, technology, value systems, etc.); and on the other hand, the ability to remain immune to something (other people, revolutionary trends, innovation, new ways of thinking, etc.). Thus, resistance may imply movement or immobility, creativity or epigone-like repetition, conservatism or unconventionalism with the decision to translate is often governed by one impulse or the other, depending on the degree of interest in change/preservation a given community evinces (Venuti, 2013).
The present issue of Comunicação & Cultura wishes to address and highlight modes of resistance and cosmopolitanism that translation may have promoted or facilitated down the ages and, especially, in the present time, thus reflecting upon the role and the effects of translation in different media, in the shaping of present-day politics and global economy, in acquainting a given culture with different patterns of behaviour, ways of life, narratives and geographies. As a potent tool for spreading ideas and ideologies, translation helps shape worldviews and social attitudes in indelible ways that need further investigation.
Call for Submissions
Communication and Global Engagement Across Cultural Boundaries
Editors: Regina Williams Davis and Andrea Patterson-Masuka
Publisher: Kendall/ Hunt Publishing Company
Essay Submission Deadline: September 2, 2014
Submit essays via email to Andrea Patterson-Masuka
Communication for Global Engagement Across Cultural Boundaries is an edited book under contract with Kendall/ Hunt Publishing Company. We are looking for a few additional essays to complete our collection.
This project is a collection of essays and case studies that situates intercultural communication for global understanding and engagement. While the over-arching approach is from a critical communication perspective, authors may use a variety of approaches to study intercultural communication. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
*Intercultural Communication and Globalization
*Social Justice: Shattering the Intercultural Silence
*Popular Culture
*Intercultural Relationships
*The Culture of Capitalism and Democracy
*Race in a Post-Obama Era
*Culture and Eco-Justice
*Immigration and Border Crossing
*Education Abroad
Submission Procedure:
Each author will be asked to send with their essay five open-ended questions to spark classroom discussion. This reader will be written primarily for undergraduates who are studying intercultural communication.
Potential contributors should submit a short biographical sketch (50-150 words) along with a brief abstract (500-1000 words) stating your essay’s central theme and purpose. Mention in your abstract which of the aforementioned topics your chapter fits. All essays must be received by September 2, 2014. All manuscripts must be submitted in APA style 6th edition and double spaced throughout inclusive of notes and reference matter. For further inquiry, please email Andrea Patterson-Masuka.
Please include a contact number.
The next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC25: Metacommunication by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. 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.
Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2014). Metacommunication. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 25. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/key-concept-metacomm.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. 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.
Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the Irish regional press to be held at Dublin City University (DCU) on Friday 12 December 2014. The conference aims to address the historical and contemporary development of the regional press in the major urban centres and rural areas across Ireland. This conference is organised in association with the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI).
Papers might address, but are not limited to, the historical and contemporary consideration of the following themes in relation to the Irish regional press:
· Biographies of reporters, editors or owners
· History of individual newspapers
· Corporate and business organisation
· Political influence and / or affiliation
· Professional networks
· Sport
· Gender
· Technological and communication developments
· The community and social role of the regional press
· The Irish Language and the regional press
· The urban-rural divide
· Union organisation
Papers which address these themes, and others, from an historical or regional perspective, through case studies or quantitative and qualitative analysis are welcome. The conference is open to all disciplines. Early career researchers and postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to contribute.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, for papers of twenty minutes, should be emailed to irishregionalpress@gmail.com by Friday 3 October 2014. Abstracts should clearly indicate the proposed title, the paper’s main aims, and the name and affiliation of the author(s ). Abstracts should be accompanied by a brief biography and contact details.
For further information or enquiries please contact either Ian Kenneally (ian.kenneally@gmail.com) or James O’Donnell (jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com
Early birds enrollment until 15 September
The EIUC training seminar for International Short-Term Observers is now ready to accept candidatures.
With the patronage of Italian, Spanish and Czech MFA, EIUC has developed two three day modules aiming at providing training to civilian staff in election observation missions at the first steps of their career (i.e. short term observers). Selected applicants will be allowed to become aware of the role, the tasks and the status of international observers, and will be given a theoretical and practical training on election observation and election observation missions functioning.
The first module (17-19 November 2014) will highlight the quantitative observation of the STOs. Starting with a thorough introduction on the international observation theory and legal standards the first module will analyse the practical life of a short term observer from the selection procedure to the end of mission including the observation of the polls, the filling of the forms, the reporting system and the code of the conduct.
The second module (20-22 November 2014) will introduce the participants to the long-term election observation by analysing in depth some of the aspects related to an international observation mission such as working relations, team-building, interviewing techniques and coordination of the STOs.
EIUC will accept candidatures for each separate module or both combined. Applicants will therefore have a possibility to choose the module which is more closely related to their interests and experience or combine the two of them for a more complete understanding of the topic.
The faculty is composed by well-known international trainers and professionals with a long standing practical experience in election observation missions within international organisations such as the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Interested candidates should register by compiling the online application form.
More information can be found at: http://www.eiuc.org/ieo/
For further enquiries please contact us at: training.ieo@eiuc.org
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