Interculture Journal – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Call for submissions: Photography and (Post-) Coloniality: Visual Representations of Colonial Encounters in Intercultural Perspective, Interculture Journal. Deadline: 30 August 2025.

Special issue editors: Romuald Valentin Nkouda Sopgui, (University of Maroua, Cameroon)
Christoph Vatter (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

Interculture Journal is looking for contributions in German, English or French for issue 02/2026 on the topic of “Photography and (Post-)Coloniality: Visual Representations of Colonial Encounters in Intercultural Perspective”. This special issue explores the role of photography as a central medium of (post-)coloniality and welcomes contributions examining visual representations of colonial encounters from an intercultural perspective. Contributions may examine both historical and contemporary photographic practices to locate the medium of photography in (post)colonial and intercultural discourse. The bracketed prefix “(post-)” indicates that the colonial as an ongoing historical power structure is not always obvious, but is always present and must be deconstructed to achieve the decolonization of society and culture. This thematic issue explores the intersection of photography, (post)coloniality and interculturality offering a research perspective that has not yet been adequately examined and aligning with current German and international discussions about the insufficiently addressed cultural “legacy” of colonialism.

Call for papers: Interculture journal special issue, to be published in 2025; articles may be in English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Deadline: 30 August 2024.

“Embracing a Relational Paradigm to Navigate Cultural Complexity.” Organizers invite scholars from diverse disciplines, including but not limited to cultural studies, communication studies, organizational theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, to contribute conceptual contributions, empirical studies, interviews and reviews that explore a relational view on cultural complexity and its conceptual and practical implications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Mapping the current developments and trends in intercultural communication under the lens of a relational paradigm • Overview of relational concepts in the field of intercultural communication (e.g. Bolten 2020, etc.)
• Theoretical frameworks for understanding the creation of shared meaning and action
• The role of relational processes in shaping culturally complex events and practices
• Strategies for navigating cultural complexity in organizational contexts
• Innovative approaches to cross-cultural communication, management and cooperation
• Implications of cultural complexity for inter- and transcultural competence and training
• The impact of globalization and digitalization on inter-, cross- and transcultural practices
• Methodological approaches for studying relational aspects of cultural complexity
• Teaching and learning concepts building on a relational view on cultural complexity.

Submissions should engage with contemporary debates and offer insights into the potentials of a relational paradigm for the fields of intercultural communication, multicultural teamwork or transcultural cooperation.