Maz Jobrani (an Iranian comedian) and Elon Gold (an Israeli comedian) have started an innovative humorous appeal for peace in the mideast, called Give peace a dance.
What would you do for peace?
Post your own dance for peace on YouTube tagged with #GivePeaceaDance.
Susana Martínez Guillem (Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is also affiliate faculty at the Latin American and Iberian Institute, and the European Studies Program at UNM.
She is originally from Spain, and came to the United States to start her graduate studies in 2000. Before moving to New Mexico, she spent her time between Europe and the U.S., living in Iowa, Italy, Spain and Colorado.
Dr. Martínez Guillem is convinced that the best scholarship comes out of grappling with productive tensions among different methods, theories and disciplines. In her research, she draw from the Discourse Studies as well as the Cultural Studies traditions, together with scholarship on race, ethnicity and whiteness across the humanities and the social sciences. She finds these theoretical and practical intersections necessary as she tries to develop a research agenda that aims at approaching complex phenomena in a holistic way.
Her current projects include examining the ideological dimensions of institutional, mediated, and everyday practices in relation to immigration, place, space, social movements (anti)racism, bilingualism, and their connection to material conditions.
Selected publications:
Martínez Guillem, S. & Toula T.M. (2018) Critical Discourse Studies and/in communication: theories, methodologies, and pedagogies at the intersections. Review of Communication, 18(3), 140-157.
Martínez Guillem, S. & Barnes, C. C. (2018). Am I a good [white] mother? Mad Men, Bad Mothers, and post(racial)feminism. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 35, 3, 286-299.
Martínez Guillem, S. & Cvetkovic, I. (2018). Analysis of discourses and rhetoric in European migration politics. In A. Weinar (Ed.), Handbook on the politics of migration in Europe. London: Routledge.
Martínez Guillem, S. (2017). Precarious privilege: Indignad@s, daily disidentifications, and cultural (re)production. Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, 14(3), 238-253.
Martínez Guillem, S. (2017). Critical discourse studies; Race/ethnicity. In J. Flowerdew & J. E. Richardson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. New York: Routledge.
García Agustín, O., Martín Rojo, L., Pujolar Cos, J., Pérez Milans, M., Moustaoui Srhir, A., Hidalgo McCabe, E. A., Cárdenas Neira, C. & Martínez Guillem, S. (2016). Reflexiones sobre ‘Occupy. The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements’ de Luisa Martin Rojo. Discurso y Sociedad, 10(4) 640-684.
Briziarelli, M., & Martínez Guillem, S. (2016). Reviving Gramsci: Crisis, communication, and change. New York: Routledge.
Martínez Guillem, S., & Flores, L. A. (2015). Maternal transgressions, feminist regressions: How Whiteness mediates the (worst) White moms. In H. L. Hundley & S. E. Hayden (Eds.), Mediated moms: Contemporary challenges to the motherhood myth. New York: Peter Lang.
Martínez Guillem, S. (2015). Exclusive inclusion: EU integration discourse as regulating practice. Critical Discourse Studies, 12(4), 426-444.
Martínez Guillem, S. (2014) Going global, (re)locating privilege: A journey into the borders of Whiteness, foreignness, and performativity. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 9(3), 212-226.
Rollins College (Florida) would like to invite you to consider joining a dedicated team who oversee an interdisciplinary department and undergraduate major in Critical Media and Cultural Studies. Our curriculum includes core courses centered on research and theory; elective courses in an area of concentration congruent with each student’s interests (e.g., Economic Inequality; Gender and Sexualities; Media and Human Rights); and lab requirements focused on skills such as video shooting and image-, sound-, and video editing.
As a small, highly-interdependent department, we seek a colleague who will contribute to and thrive within a collaborative environment. Our program is grounded in Rollins’ core mission of “global citizenship” and in the values of equality, peace, and justice; we seek a colleague whose teaching, research, service, and everyday life strive to embody that mission and those values.
Our new colleague typically will teach 6 courses per year, perhaps half of them in our core: Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies; Researching Media and Culture; Critical Frameworks for Contemporary Culture; and Senior Research Practicum. Typical class size is 18-22.
Research and teaching foci of particular interest include but are not limited to: Social Justice Journalism, Human Rights Journalism, Peace Journalism, Public Interest Journalism, Social Justice Filmmaking, and Digital Storytelling (especially as it pertains to equality, peace, and justice). Other desirable qualities include journalism and/or filmmaking experience; participation in and/or supervision of a campus media outlet; and the ability to train students in video shooting and editing.
This tenure-track assistant professorship begins August 2014. Terminal degree is preferred, advanced A.B.D. considered. The College offers generous research, conference, and international travel funds. Interested candidates must apply online through Rollins’ employment website.
Applicants must upload the following materials when applying for this position:
(1) Cover letter
(2) Curriculum Vita (please include at least 3 three professional references)
Only questions may be directed to:
Dr. Lisa Tillmann, Search Chair
Department of Critical Media and Cultural Studies
Applications must be received by November 1, 2013.
Preparatory Action on Culture in the EU External Relations
The Preparatory Action “Culture in EU External Relations” is an initiative funded by the European Union. It is implemented by the European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture, with the support of a Consortium of eight cultural institutes and organisations, which won an open call for tenders to this effect.
This Preparatory Action was initiated by the European Parliament following its Resolution on the cultural dimensions of the EU external action, which called for the development of a visible common EU strategy on culture in the EU external relations.
The preparatory action will run until mid-2014 and consists of the following stages:
Stage #1
a comprehensive mapping of existing resources, approaches and strategies regarding culture in external relations in Member States and in a number of EU partner countries;
Stage #2
a consultations process involving a wide variety of stakeholders from both the EU and third countries, which should contribute to identifying strategies and visions on the contribution of culture to the development of external relations as well as the positioning of different actors vis-à-vis this topic;
Stage #3
a final conference to be held mid-2014 to draw conclusions and recommendations for a strategic approach to mobilising the potential of culture in EU external relations.
In addition to the EU Member States, this preparatory action covers the following partner countries of the EU:
The purpose of the action is to facilitate and support an on-going process of research, exchange of knowledge and public debate about the role of culture in the EU’s external relations.
Furthermore, the ambition is to engage the broader civil society in the discussion by inviting online debate on this blog and on our social media platforms. Everybody is invited to join the discussion!
The members of the consortium in charge of implementing this action are convinced that culture can play a decisive role in the development of external relations and are committed to bringing new knowledge and research to the attention of policy-makers on a national, European and international level.
List of members of the consortium:
The Goethe Institut, Brussels
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The British Council, Brussels
The Danish Cultural Institute, Brussels
ECF European Cultural Foundation
IFA Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen
The Institut français, Paris
KEA European Affairs
Independent experts:
Prof. Yudhishthir Raj Isar (Team Leader/Scientific Manager)
Rod Fisher
Damien Helly
Associated partner:
EUNIC Global
Call for Papers
NCA at 100: The Microhistories
A Special Issue of Review of Communication
Review of Communication invites essays for a special issue on “NCA at 100: The Microhistories.” With thousands of members, over a century of history, over 40 interest groups, six caucuses, seven sections, and numerous regional, state, local, and affiliated associations, the National Communication Association holds countless stories of founding, revolution, growth, and transformation.
We invite essays of roughly 5,000 words that deploy the histories of specific sub-fields, interest groups, caucuses, persons, theories, and associations to engage questions relevant to the present and future of communication studies. Essays for this volume should not only provide us a history of its subject, but use that history as an opportunity to explore larger questions of communication, pedagogy, and/or scholarship. While authors should not feel compelled to follow a formal method of microhistory, they should keep in mind that such studies do take up the task of relating local narratives to larger-scale phenomena. Manuscripts that do not make a larger connection or contribution will not be considered for publication.
To receive full consideration for this special issue, essays must be received by March 1, 2014. All submissions and correspondences are handled electronically through the ScholarOne Manuscript system. Please clearly indicate that your submission is for the special issue on NCA at 100 in the “Cover Letter” section of the electronic submission process. Inquiries to the editor are welcome.
To facilitate review, manuscripts should be free of any material identifying the author(s) or their affiliation(s). Before submission, authors should be sure their manuscripts are double-spaced throughout and are saved in a standard word processor format (.doc, .docx, or .rtf). Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not be previously published or under review for publication elsewhere, and before publication, authors must ensure their accepted manuscripts conform to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Authors are responsible for acquiring any permissions for the reproduction of texts, images, tables, illustrations, or other materials, as well as for providing camera-ready copies of tables, figures, and images. For further information on permissions, please see here.
For the second year , Gonzaga University‘s Master’s Program in Communication and Leadership Studies is offering a graduate course in Derry, Northern Ireland to MA and PhD students. January 2, 2014-Januray 12, 2014 Peacebuilding through Dialogue in Northern Ireland.
Program Overview:
This hybrid on-line and study abroad program, sponsored by the Master’s Program in Communication and Leadership Studies provides a unique opportunity for students to develop understanding and the skills necessary for fostering peacebuilding and storytelling. With pre and post online components as well as eight days of residency in Derry, Northern Ireland, and a day excursion to Belfast, Northern, Ireland. Additionally there is a free travel day to the Northcoast of Ireland. The aim of this course is to introduce concepts from the field of communication that enable an understanding of how local peacebuilding can build bridges across conflicting groups in deeply divided societies. Communication and dialogue are closely intertwined and together act at the heart of establishing shared space and creating a common future. It is in this shared space that the process of peace has begun to take shape. However as Bakhtin (1981) insists, “each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life” (p.293).
The course will reflect on the causes and history of The Troubles (1969-1998) as well as the tortuous peace process following the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Based on that agreement, Northern Ireland’s devolved government finally became reality in 2008. Local peacebuilding through dialogue is central to understanding how peace has been maintained.
Dialogue requires responsiveness which is made possible by qualities of thought and talk allowing transformation to take place: transformation in how people understand the self, the other, and the societies they inhabit. These qualities of thought and talk include a willingness to risk change in one’s own perspective and a commitment to embracing and struggling with others whose worldviews may be different from and threatening to one’s own.
In addition, working with former combatant’s of these troubles, students will complete a profile writing component of using storytelling and photography to tell the story of a local community member for our Faces and Voices of Derry Project.
Course Objectives:
Given full participation in the course, the student will be able to:
Program Highlights:
Additional Information: See an archive of the student work and reflections in the program.
Dr. D. Ray Heisey Graduate Student Scholarship
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Dr. D. Ray Heisey (1932-2011) was Director (1983-1996) and Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Kent State University. He was a renowned intercultural communication scholar who served as Adviser on many Chinese students’ dissertation committees. He had facilitated research collaborations between scholars and students in the US and from the Far East, Middle East, Europe, and North America. He loved traveling and experiencing other cultures, having lived in or visited over 40 countries. Dr. Heisey taught in Chinese universities and published a great number of research works on Chinese communication studies with Chinese students and scholars. Dr. Heisey was a long term ACCS member. His enthusiasm, dedication to education, and personal and scholarly integrity continue to impact ACCS scholars. In honor of Dr. D. Ray Heisey’s contribution to Chinese Communication Studies, the ACCS has decided to establish a Dr. D. Ray Heisey Scholarship each year. The award amount is $400.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
*Required materials: personal statement, two recommendation letters, current transcript, curriculum vita, and a writing sample.
CRITERIA FOR SCHOLARSHIP SELECTION
The scholarships will be awarded for the academic year (Fall 2013-Spring 2014). The deadline for accepting applications is October 30, 2013. The application form is online here.
The Scholarship Committee Members:
Zhuojun Joyce Chen, Chair (2013-2014), University of Northern Iowa
Guo-ming Chen, University of Rhode Island
Hairong Feng, University of Minnesota – Duluth
Mei Zhang, Missouri Western State University
Mei Zhong, San Diego State University
The Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity
As part of a continuing commitment to advance scholars from underrepresented groups in higher education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity is pleased to announce the availability of postdoctoral research appointments for a period of two years. The purpose of the Program is to develop scholars from underrepresented groups for possible tenure track appointments at the University of North Carolina and other research universities. Postdoctoral scholars will be engaged full-time in research and may elect to teach only one course per fiscal year.
Fields: Applications for study in any discipline represented at the University are welcome.
Stipend: The stipend will be $39,874 per calendar year. Funds are available for research expenses, including travel.
Eligibility: Applicants who will have completed their doctoral degree no later than July 1, 2014 and no earlier than July 1, 2010 are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. This program is funded by the State of North Carolina. The primary criterion for selection is evidence of scholarship potentially competitive for tenure track appointments at the University of North Carolina and other research universities.
To Apply: Interested applicants should apply online. Directions for the electronic submission are provided at the application site. For additional information, please visit the program website. Questions may be directed to Program Manager Judson Fraley at jhfraley AT email.unc.edu
The application deadline is Friday, November 15, 2013.
Health Communication: Building Professional Skills
The Clinical Communication Collaborative (CCC) is proud to announce the release of its first iOS APP for clinicians! Now you can have quick and ready access to theory-driven and evidence-based communication tools that are useful in difficult conversations. Endorsed by the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium and renowned palliative care physician Diane Meier, this APP provides easy-to-deliver responses when communicating in moments of tension, sorrow, fear, anxiety, awkwardness, and hesitancy. Health Communication guides you to provide compassionate and culturally sensitive care to serious and critically-ill patients and their families.
Features:
* Over 100 different communication strategies
* Search by scenarios
* No need for Internet access
CCC also offers free teaching materials on this Website to advance a patient-centered training program called COMFORT. Based on years of clinical research, COMFORT offers healthcare professionals extensive materials – PowerPoint presentations, knowledge assessments, example cases and standardized patient assessment forms – designed to teach communication strategies for patient-centered palliative care.
This iOS app has been designed for healthcare clinicians and students. Built from the COMFORT communication curriculum, an acronym that stands for the seven basic principles of palliative care communication, Drs. Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles (University of Kentucky), Joy Goldsmith (University of Memphis), and Sandra Ragan (University of Oklahoma) have translated health communication theory and research into the first ever
communication studies driven tool to assist clinicians with difficult conversations. Feel free to download the APP as a discussion tool for coursework in health communication, end-of-life care, communication and technology and the like – or better yet, pass it on to a clinician who may be teaching clinical communication.
CCC advances palliative care by fostering clinical communication practices for healthcare
professionals, including nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, students, and other members of interprofessional healthcare teams.
The research group “Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Issues” is pleased to announce the upcoming Sixth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS VI, after the Spanish acronym for “Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social”). EPICS VI will be held on 12-14 May 2014, at the University of Seville, Spain.
After having addressed issues related to (im)politeness, intercultural pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and relevance theory in previous editions, the sixth EPICS Symposium turns its attention to conflict in language. Under the umbrella theme “Perspectives on Language Aggression and Conflict”, EPICS VI aims at providing a forum for practitioners of pragmatics and other related disciplines to present on their latest research, as well as to share experiences and suggest new avenues for research. EPICS VI also wishes to create awareness among graduate students of the growing interest in this area of linguistic expertise within the broad field of pragmatics.
EPICS VI will also host the European launching of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. Co-edited by Pilar Garcés Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Maria Sifianou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), JLAC focuses on the study of aggression and conflict, as manifested in language, from different perspectives such as discursive, pragmatic, sociolinguistic, cultural, cognitive, applied linguistics, or anthropological. Because of the thematic connections between JLAC and EPICS VI, a selection of the best contributions presented at EPICS VI will be published in a special issue JLAC.
Keynote Speakers:
We are very honoured that Professor Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) and Professor John Joseph (The University of Edinburgh) have agreed to be EPICS VI keynote speakers.
Conference Fees:
Until January 30, 2014:
Attendants: EUR 100
Speakers: EUR 150
After January 30:
Attendants: EUR 125
Speakers: EUR 175
These fees are for the full conference (12-14 May) and include the conference pack, coffee breaks and lunches. There will be a conference dinner, whose price is not included in the conference fee. The account to deposit the registration fee will be announced in the second call for papers. Presentations will not be included in the final program if registration fees have not been prepaid. Please note that payment on site will not be possible. In the next call for papers, information about accommodation will also be included.
Call for Papers:
Conference Presentations Types:
We welcome original papers, written in English, on any of the subjects that come within the list of conference topics below or on any other topic related to language aggression and conflict. Presentations can be made in any of the following types:
A) Individual Oral Presentations
These must be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
B) Themed Panels
These must contain a number of thematically-related papers, each of which must be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposals for panels should also include a chair.
C) Posters
Participants presenting a poster should follow the following guidelines:
– Posters should be no larger than 118,9 x 84,1 cm (A0).
– They may be printed in colour or in black and white.
– Poster presenters must bring a printed copy of their poster with them to the conference. Note that there will not be printing facilities at the conference venue. Presenters will also be responsible for displaying the poster and turning it down at the time and in the place designated by the conference organisers.
Topics:
EPICS VI especially focuses, but is not limited to contributions, that address, explore or analyse in depth language aggression and conflict from a pragmatic perspective, as well as to works that present theoretical developments and practical applications on, among others, the following topics:
– Gender differences in language aggression and conflict
– Language aggression and conflict among family members
– Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings
– Language aggression, conflict and identity
– Emotional communication and conflict
– Impoliteness
– Language aggression and conflict in the classroom
– Language aggression and conflict in political discourse
– Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media.
– Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication
– Language aggression and conflict in service encounters
– (Intercultural) Business and conflict
– Forensic linguistics
Submissions:
Proposals must be sent as email attachment to both Manuel Padilla Cruz and Reyes Gómez Morón. Proposals must contain the following information:
A) Oral Presentations and Posters
Contributors to EPICS VI, regardless of whether they give an oral presentation or present a poster, must submit a one-page abstract no longer than 350 words, accompanied by the following information:
i. Author’s name(s) and affiliation
ii. Title of paper
iii. Audio-visual equipment required (computer, VHS video, OHP, etc.)
iv. E-mail address(es)
v. Postal address(es)
B) Themed Panels
Panel proposals must include a one-page abstract no longer than 350 words for the panel, accompanied by the respective 350-word abstracts for each of the presentations included in the panel. The following information must also be included for each of the papers in the panel:
i. Author’s name(s) and affiliation
ii. Title of paper
iii. Audio-visual equipment required (computer, VHS video, OHP, etc.)
iv. E-mail address(es)
v. Postal address(es)
Dates:
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 December 2013. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 January. The organising committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the successful abstracts, so please indicate on the abstracts if you cannot present your paper on any day of the conference (12-14 May), as it is very difficult to reschedule papers after the programme has been planned.
Publication:
After the Symposium, EPICS VI participants are invited to submit revised and extended versions of their work for publication in any of the following venues:
A) Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. Guidelines for publication can be found here.
B) An edited collection. Style guidelines will be provided in due course.
In both cases, the final text can be submitted after the Symposium, but no later than 31 July 2014.
Organising Committee:
Reyes Gómez Morón
Manuel Padilla Cruz
Lucía Fernández Amaya
María de la O Hernández López
Manuel Mejías Borrero
Center for Intercultural Dialogue 