Aarhus U: American History with Global Focus (Denmark)

“JobAssistant/Associate Professor of American History with a Global Focus, Department of English,  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 2 August 2024.

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of either tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor of American history with a global focus based at the Department of English. The tenure-track assistant professorship begins with a full-time, five-year appointment as an assistant professor with a view to permanent employment as a tenured associate professor. The associate professorship is full time and tenured.

They are looking for an applicant with a specialisation in the history of the United States of America or a closely related field in American studies. Candidates with an interdisciplinary orientation towards one or more areas that bridge the humanities and social sciences (such as cultural studies or gender studies) are particularly welcome to apply. They envision a colleague concerned not only with American history, society, politics and culture but also with the processes whereby societies and cultures interact and influence each other. Individuals able to contribute to the development of students’ knowledge, skills and competences in subjects related to interculturality (such as migration and transnational identities) are encouraged to apply.

Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature

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Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature by Edward Sampson (printed version, 2008; Taos Institute Publications WorldShare Books version, 2024). The ebook version is free to download.

In this important book, Sampson launches a new attack – this time on Western culture’s centuries-long preoccupation with a contained, individualistic, monologic Self and its fearful suppression of all that is Other – all that is experienced as different from the implicit, self-affirming white male standard.

This view, he demonstrates, focuses more on the leading protagonist and supporting cast that he has assembled to service his own interests, desires and fears, than on others as viable people in their own right. Denying the Other so as to create a world secured on behalf of the dominant groups’ interests has become an obsession driving not only the larger culture but also the human sciences, in particular psychology’s theories of human nature. Women, African-Americans and others not of the dominant classes have been constructed as serviceable Others, and appear in textbooks, journals and popular accounts as figures whose images and everyday realities have been created to serve the dominant groups’ desires.

Sampson uses the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, George Herbert Mead, and postmodern and feminist theorists to reject this dangerous obsession and to create a dialogic foundation to replace the Other-suppressing views of psychology, and indeed, of all Western culture. Sampson’s arguments are convincing, liberating, and have major implications for the human sciences and the people they claim to serve. ‘Celebrating the Other’ changes the way human nature is viewed and studied. As the author reminds us, in silencing the Other we distort our own situation and stunt our opportunities for growth – ‘no one voice can be quoted without losing the greatest opportunity of all: to converse with otherness and to learn about our own otherness in and through those conversations.’

Related publications: Key Concept #39: Otherness and the Other by Peter Praxmarer; Seeds of Dialogue, Guest post by Maria Flora Mangano.

Scoville Peace Fellowships (USA)

Grants

Call for applications: Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline for Spring 2025: 7 October 2024.

The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program invites recent college and graduate school alumni to apply for full-time, six-to-nine month fellowships in Washington, DC. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues. Applications are especially encouraged from candidates with a strong interest in these issues who have prior experience with public-interest activism or advocacy.

Scoville Fellows will choose to work with one of the twenty-five organizations participating in the program. With the assistance of alumni, board, and staff, fellows will select a placement which best matches their interests and the needs of the host organization. Participating organizations provide office space and support, supervision and guidance for fellows’ work. With the exception of Congressional lobbying, fellows may undertake a variety of activities, including research, writing, and organizing that support the goals of their host organization.

Scoville Fellows create a project, in partnership with their host organizations, related to multiple broad areas, including: nuclear nonproliferation, climate and security, emerging technology threats, global health security, and also:

• Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution. This category includes but is not limited to: current and potential incursions within or between neighboring countries; conventional weapons and arms trade; cross-border refugee movements; ethnic tensions with security implications; atrocity prevention; building international and regional institutions to resolve conflicts; development and implementation of novel conflict resolutions strategies; counterterrorism and terrorism reduction strategies; supporting international agreements that can lead to peace, prosperity, and sustainability.

Broadcasts Foster Dialogue among Refugees and Host Communities (Moldova)

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Broadcasts to foster dialogue and understanding among refugees and host communities, Moldova.

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, UNESCO supported broadcasters in neighbouring countries, such as Teleradio-Moldova (TRM), to launch a series of programmes to aid Ukrainian refugees with support from the Government of Japan. Displaced Ukrainian media professionals were included in the broadcasts to better help refugees navigate their new lives in Moldova. Funded by the Government of Japan as an emergency project under the UN’s Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Ukraine Situation, UNESCO supported TRM to produce and broadcast programmes accessible to the displaced Ukrainians to help them settle and rebuild their lives in Moldova.

Daria Russu, host of TV Moldova 1’s 30-minute Ukrainian-language “Weekly” TV-programme, noted the challenge refugees face in accessing credible news in their mother tongue: “Ukrainian refugees have nowhere to get information about Moldova and they have nowhere to get information about the world in general. That is exactly why this project is needed, so they can get verified, truthful and complete information in their native language.”

Over the course of seven months, TRM broadcasted nearly 100 programmes for tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Moldova. These covered a wide range of topics, including health, education, housing and daily life in the host country. More than 200 refugees, national experts and humanitarian actors were interviewed, providing valuable insights and perspectives for the programmes.

A key component of the project was a baseline study on the media habits and information needs of the Ukrainian refugees, commissioned by UNESCO from its long-term partner, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Loreana Sacara, TRM’s Project Coordinator, highlighted that the programmes were designed based on the research’s findings: “The programmes early gathered a wide loyal audience both among the refugees and the local population. They were aired in the Ukrainian language with subtitles or voiceovers in Romanian”.

DAAD Postgraduate Scholarships & Research Grants (Germany)

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Postgraduate studies, scholarships and research grants , DAAD, Bonn, Germany. Deadline: varies by program.

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or German Academic Exchange Service) has a scholarship programme offering a wide range of opportunities, from master’s degrees to doctoral degrees, and including research grants. A few examples include:

Master Studies for All Academic Disciplines

Research Grants in Germany (during doctorate or early post-doctoral phase)

Research Grants – Doctoral Programmes in Germany

 

KC107 Interculturality Translated into German

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Continuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC107: Interculturality, originally written by Mélodine Sommier & Malgorzata Lahti for publication in 2023, and now translated by Marlena Pompino into German.

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.

KC107 Interculturality in German

Sommier, M., & Lahti, M. (2024). Interkulturalität. (M. Pompino, trans.) Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 107. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/kc107-interculturality_german.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.

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NUS: International Relations (Singapore)

“JobAssociate Professor/Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

The Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore invites application for one full-time tenure-track or tenured position in International Relations at the rank of full Professor or Associate Professor. They welcome applications from candidates working in all areas of the subfield, including but not limited to non-traditional security, human security, and gender and international relations. They especially encourage applications from candidates with research experience relating to Asia and whose backgrounds are traditionally underrepresented in the discipline. Successful candidates are expected to teach graduate and undergraduate classes and take a leading role in developing new departmental initiatives.

UNESCO: Programme Specialist Education (France)

“JobProgramme Specialist (Education), Education Sector, UNESCO, Paris, France. Deadline: 5 August 2024.

Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education (ADG/ED), the guidance from the Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development and the direct supervision from the Chief of Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education, the incumbent will serve as Programme Specialist for UNESCO’s activities on global citizenship, peace and human rights education. Further, s/he will ensure the development and delivery of a wide spectrum of activities and projects in line with the established priorities of the Section. S/he will coordinate UNESCO’s follow-up efforts to the adoption of the Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development (2023), oversee the reporting process on the Recommendation and related monitoring activities, and advise and support countries in their implementation efforts, notably as concerns educational planning. This can include designing and coordinating research and developing policy guidance documents and briefs with a variety of internal and external partners, individual experts and institutions. S/he will mobilize resources to support the Section’s work plan through the preparation of project proposals (draft and budget), cooperation frameworks, and negotiation with funding entities. S/He will develop and sustain productive partnerships that expand the visibility and reach of UNESCO’s work in this area.

Collegium de Lyon Fellowships 2025-26 (France)

Fellowships

Collegium de Lyon Fulbright fellowships, Lyon, France. Deadline: 16 September 2024.

Through a new partnership between the Franco-American Fulbright Commission and the Collegium de Lyon, applicants to one of the three national Fulbright scholarship programs (All Disciplines, French Studies, Fulbright-Tocqueville) who wish to be hosted in a research unit in Lyon or Saint-Etienne are now eligible for a Collegium fellowship. This includes all-inclusive housing in the Collegium residence on the ENS de Lyon campus, assistance with administrative formalities, and integration into the 2025-2026 interdisciplinary cohort of international fellows.

Scholars interested in the Collegium fellowship program are asked to include a letter of support from the director of the targeted research unit at the University of Lyon with their Fulbright application.

NCA: Communication Pedagogy Grants 2024

GrantsCommunication Pedagogy Grants, National Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 September 2024.

The Teaching and Learning Council supports and promotes disciplinary pedagogy. The Communication Pedagogy Grant (CPG) envisions a space for communication educators to explore innovative pedagogical practices, assessment design, and learning environments. The CPG will fund proposals that are most likely to (a) have a long-term impact on faculty, students, or community environments through the development of learning opportunities; (b) that support, challenge, experiment with, and/or advocate for impactful and enduring change in marginalized spaces inside or outside the classroom, such as (but not limited to) grants that foster critical thinking and deliberative engagement with social discourses; and (c) that support exploration of transferable instructional communication methodologies, practices, content, or models, that if adopted by others will create a meaningful teaching experience.

The CPG seeks to benefit instructors at any career stage and to address a gap in pedagogical funding to support:

  • instructors who seek to translate research findings into practice related to instructional communication methodologies, practices, models, or variables (immediacy, clarity, teacher authenticity, etc.);

  • instructors who seek to explore innovative instructional communication pedagogical methodologies, practices or models focusing on inclusivity;

  • instructors who seek to explore innovative instructional communication pedagogical methodologies, practices, or models to teach fundamental communication theories and concepts; and

  • creation of pedagogical materials that could be used by others.

    Applicants may seek support up to $15,000. Applications are due September 1 for awards given in the following calendar year.

Other NCA Grant opportunities available here.