Meridian: Associate, Diplomatic Engagement (USA)

“JobAssociate, Diplomatic Engagement, Meridian International, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 17 November 2023.

The Associate, Diplomatic Engagement serves in a support role managing the day-to-day elements of the Center for Diplomatic Engagement, with an emphasis on the Insights and Diplocraft series and other convening programs for the diplomatic corps. This includes audience management, program preparation and database organization. The Associate is responsible for conducting the Center’s financial and administrative deliverables. The Associate is also involved in two signature programs – the Meridian Global Leadership Summit and the Meridian Diplomacy Forum.

This position is located in Washington, DC. Meridian requires MD, DC, or VA residence for all employees. The position may work partially remotely until further notice.

International House UC Berkeley: Residence Life Coordinator (USA)

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Residence Life Coordinator, International House, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Deadline: open until filled.

Reporting to the Resident Life Manager of the Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership Programs, you will be part of a team that is integral to the overall resident experience. You will be supporting the overall mission and goals of I-House and RCILP. Your role will focus on resident life operations and resident life programming and marketing. This position requires evening and weekend working hours, as needed.

International House mission: To foster intercultural respect and understanding, lifelong friendships, and leadership skills for a more just and peaceful world.

CFP EACL 2024: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI (Malta)

ConferencesCall for papers: European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:
Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights, 21-22 March 2024, Malta. Deadline: 18 December 2023.

Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This, combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters.

This workshop to be held at EACL aims at addressing these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development and commissioning of conversational AI systems.

Key Themes:

  • Holistic Approach: Bridging the gap between technology and socio-cultural context.
  • Ethical Development: Addressing concerns of linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks.
  • Inclusive Data Sets: Emphasizing the importance of interaction-based language data sets and inclusion of gestural, social, and emotional aspects.

Meridian International Center Fellowships (USA)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Meridian International Center Fellowships 2024, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 December 2023 for spring awards, but April for summer, and July for fall.

Meridian International Center’s Fellowship Program exposes rising students and professionals to public diplomacy, international relations, exchanges, cultural and corporate diplomacy, and more. Fellows develop the professional experience that will allow them to explore the fields of diplomacy and international affairs by gaining an overview of the operations of a nonprofit public diplomacy center. The fellowship includes professional development activities, including mentorship, training and education sessions, lunches with senior leadership, and an opportunity to create a capstone project that can be used as part of a professional portfolio.

All Fellows will be paid the Washington, D.C. minimum wage. In addition, all Fellows working in person will be eligible for a $75 per month Metro SmartBenefits contribution.

The Meridian Fellowship Program is located in Washington D.C., and Meridian requires MD, DC, or VA residence for all employees. Fellows must have current authorization to work in the United States. Meridian does not sponsor work visas. The position may work partially remotely until further notice.

Open to undergraduate students, master’s candidates, or recent graduates of associate’s programs, bachelor’s programs, or graduate programs OR emerging professionals looking to shift their career focus.

Call for Nominations: Editor, Communication, Culture & Critique 2024

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations: Editors of Communication, Culture and Critique and also Human Communication Research, International Communication Association journals. Deadline: 31 January 2024.

The ICA Publications Committee is soliciting applications for the next editor(s) of Human Communication Research and Communication, Culture and Critique. The four-year terms will begin with a transition in September 2024.

Human Communication Research works to advance understanding of human symbolic processes with a strong emphasis on theory-driven research, the development of new theoretical models in communication, and the development of innovative methods for observing and measuring communication behavior. The journal has a broad social-science focus and offers important applications for scholars in psychology, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, as well as areas of communication studies.

Communication, Culture & Critique publishes high-quality, original scholarship utilizing a diversity of critical approaches to place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC prioritizes qualitative scholarship that engages with wider historical, economic, cultural, and political dynamics. The Journal is particularly interested in providing a space for scholarship on, by, and/or about people and topics underrepresented in academic publishing.

Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grants 2024/25

Grants

Waterhouse Family Institute Faculty and  Doctoral Student Research Grants, 2024-5, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Deadline: 15 May 2024.

Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grants are available to faculty at any institution of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, and other doctoral-level scholars. However, eligibility to apply for the WFI grant program is limited to those in Communication or a closely related discipline. Although they do not limit grants to a specific methodological orientation or subdisciplinary focus, all projects supported by the WFI have two things in common: they make communication the primary, and not secondary, focus, and they engage communication in terms of its impact on the world around us, its ability to create social change.

KC 100: Transcultural Communication Translated into German

Key Concepts in ICDContinuing translations of Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, today I am posting KC100: Transcultural Communication, originally written by Mohammed Guamguami for publication in 2021, 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.

KC100 Transcultural Communication translated into GermanGuamguami, M. (2023). Transcultural communication [German]. (M. Pompino, Trans.)  Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 100. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2023/11/13/kc-100-transcultural-communication-translated-into-german/

If you are interested in translating one of the Key Concepts, please contact me for approval first because dozens are currently in process. As always, if there is a concept you think should be written up as one of the Key Concepts, whether in English or any other language, propose it. If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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U Notre Dame: Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs (USA)

“Job Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Deadline: 6 December 2023.

The University of Notre Dame seeks a strategic and collaborative intellectual leader to serve as the next Dean of the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs. Founded in 2014, the Keough School plays a pivotally important role for Notre Dame. The University’s purpose is to be a force for good in the world. To that end, Keough School faculty, staff, and students pursue understanding of, and solutions to, some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including poverty, war, disease, political oppression, democratic erosion, environmental degradation, and other threats to human dignity. Keough’s eight institutes and one center are bound together by the School’s mission: to advance integral human development, a concept drawn from Catholic social thought which promotes the flourishing of every person and the whole person, so that all people can reach their full potential. This mission encompasses both fundamental research and policy applications.

In its founding decade, the School has established a strong record of success. It offers a Master of Global Affairs—a two-year professional degree—and a newly-established undergraduate major in global affairs, as well as doctoral programs jointly sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and relevant departments within Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters. Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, a pair of conjoined buildings, opened their doors in 2018 and house the Keough School.

The Keough School recently issued its Strategic Plan 2030. The plan calls for extending Keough’s reputation as a mission-driven global public policy school drawing on the strengths of its eight institutes and one center; growing and maturing the School’s programs and co-curricular offerings; and sustaining and expanding research, public policy, and practice partnerships, as well as increased external engagement.

The Dean will join Notre Dame and lead the Keough School at a propitious moment, made all the more so by the release of the University’s Strategic Framework 2033, which sets forth ambitious goals for global reach and impact. Against this backdrop, Notre Dame seeks a Dean who will elevate the impact of the School and champion its distinctive identity; consolidate and expand its achievements; develop effective intellectual and programmatic connections across the University and beyond; ensure the organizational health of the School; and attract the social, political, and financial resources to advance the School’s work.

Institute for Study Abroad: Multiple Positions (International)

“Job Multiple positions at the Institute for Study Abroad (IFSA), (organization is based in Indiana, USA, but these positions are based in UK, Australia, and the Czech Republic). Deadlines vary by position.

  • Director, England and Wales Programmes (based in London, UK; deadline: 25 December 2023)

    The Director of England and Wales Programmes is responsible for the development and leadership of all IFSA sites in England and Wales including the following: inspiring a commitment to first in class customer service for partners and students; ensuring high-quality programming that support student learning and satisfaction outcomes; delivering business results through creative and intentional programme design to support student learning; diversifying the program offering to meet market needs; leading team’s day-to-day programme administration; and growing relationships with host universities, industry, and other partners with a goal of increased enrollment.

  • Student Experience Coordinator (one full-time or two part-time positions based in Sydney, Australia); deadline: open until filled – posted 1 November 2023).

    They are looking for an individual(s) to supports IFSA’s programs in Sydney. This position provides academic and cultural support for undergraduate students; organises co-curricular activities and contributes to the overall operations. In this position, you will work with colleagues from our sites in Australia and the Asia Pacific, the Global Health & Safety Team, Academic Programs and Student Engagement Team. You will work from home and then meet students on campus or at activities/excursions. Hours are flexible and for part-time positions, the workload can be broken up over multiple days of choice over the week.

  • Student Experience Coordinator (Prague, Czech Republic); deadline: open until filled – unclear when posted.

The Student Experience Coordinator supports IFSA’s programs in Prague. This position provides pre arrival and onsite support for students through orientations; cultural engagement opportunities to deepen the student experience; coordinates housing; organizes co-curricular activities; and contributes to overall program operations. The Student Experience Coordinator works closely with all members of the local team and Director.

WOSM/KAICIID: Dialogue for Peace

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The International Dialogue Centre – KAICIID and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) have signed a new memorandum of understanding to continue the Dialogue for Peace programme.

Through the Dialogue for Peace programme, KAICIID and WOSM have increased the number of dialogue facilitators and trainers within the Scouting movement, helping Scouts acquire the skills to promote a culture of peace and create positive change in their communities. Since 2013, they have jointly trained over 1,000 people from 120 countries. The renewed partnership will seek to build on and expand the existing successes of the Dialogue for Peace initiative and other awareness activations around dialogue. The Dialogue for Peace Challenge Badge is an initiative co-designed by WOSM and KAICIID to develop competencies related to dialogue in young people to promote active listening, non-judgemental communications, and ultimately build a culture of peace.