Tag: Malaysia

The Role of Visual Arts in Improving Intercultural Dialogue 2025 (Malaysia)

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The role of visual arts in improving intercultural dialogue between sister cities, research project by Ramin Hajianfard, City University Malaysia, would appreciate your input.

Dr. Ramin Hajianfard, Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Art at City University Malaysia, is looking for those with interests in visual arts and/or sister-city exchanges to complete a brief set of questions. The project is titled Intercultural Exchanges Between Isfahan and Kuala Lumpur in the Context of Visual Arts. Your observations and experiences are critical to understanding how visual art can foster intercultural dialogue.

This study examines how visual arts can strengthen the sister-city partnership between Isfahan and Kuala Lumpur—established in 1997—by fostering intercultural dialogue, preserving shared heritage, and advancing Sustainable Development Goals in education, urban development, and global partnerships. Employing a qualitative approach that combines semi-structured text interviews with experts, artists, and intercultural specialists, alongside case studies and document analysis, the research identifies both the barriers (e.g., limited past collaborations and misaligned policies) and the opportunities (e.g., complementary Islamic art traditions and digital platforms) for meaningful exchange. Grounded in cultural semiotics and intercultural aesthetics, the findings will inform policy alignment, institutional partnerships, and practical programs—such as reciprocal exhibitions, artist residencies, and virtual platforms—to enhance mutual understanding and sustainable cultural cooperation between the two cities.

The questions to be answered are these:

  • Arts as a Dialogue Tool: From a global perspective, what makes visual art an effective tool for fostering intercultural dialogue between communities or cities?
  • Respecting Cultural Heritage: How can international art initiatives be designed to respectfully highlight each participant’s cultural heritage while engaging diverse audiences?
  • Aligning with Global Goals: In your experience, how do intercultural arts exchanges contribute to broader goals like education and sustainable community building (for instance, what impacts have you seen related to learning outcomes or community resilience)?
  • Sustaining Partnerships: What strategies or best practices are important for establishing and sustaining successful intercultural art partnerships (such as those aligning with international collaboration goals like SDG 17)?

If you are interested, please contact him directly via email.

CFP IALA: Linguistic Diversity, Inclusion & Sustainability (Malaysia)

ConferencesCall for Papers: IALA 2024: Linguistic Diversity, Inclusion & Sustainability, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11-16 August 2024. Deadline: 31 July 2023.

The 21st International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress 2024 is part of a celebration of 6 decades of AILA (1964 – 2024). Building on the success of previous congresses, the theme for the 2024 event is Linguistic Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability. Organizers look forward to new outlooks and innovations in research work on various topics in the field of applied linguistics from scholars, academics, professionals in the industry and government. To be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, with the iconic PETRONAS Twin Towers as the backdrop, participants will enjoy the bustling city set against lush and serene surroundings that go beyond applied linguistics. Types of presentations and conference tracks available here.

U Oxford: Global Parenting Initiative Research Manager for Malaysia (UK)

“JobGlobal Parenting Initiative Research Manager for Malaysia, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, UK. Deadline: 3 January 2023.

The Department of Social Policy & Intervention is looking to appoint an outstanding individual for a new Research Manager role to work on their flagship Global Parenting Initiative (GPI). The GPI is a multi-million-pound five-year project with a vision that is bold, ambitious, and immediate: to provide access to free, evidence-based, playful parenting support to every parent, everywhere, so that they are equipped with the knowledge and tools to help their children realise their learning potential. The research team is committed to improving outcomes for high-risk children and globally, and this is their primary guiding aim.

You will be responsible for managing Oxford’s role on the research project in Malaysia including supporting the study team on research design, data collection, data analysis, research uptake, and partner coordination across multiple international partners including the Universiti Putra Malaysia, UNICEF Malaysia, Parenting for Lifelong Health, IDEMS International, the Malaysian Association of Social Workers, and the Malaysian government.

Lancaster U at Sunway: Dean (Malaysia)

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Academic Dean, Lancaster University at Sunway, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Deadline: 31 May 2019.

In 2006, Lancaster University established a strategic partnership with Sunway University in Subang Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They are now seeking to appoint an Academic Dean who will play a substantial role in maintaining the high profile and reputation of the partnership in Malaysia and the broader South East Asia region. As Academic Dean, you will be the senior representative for Lancaster University at Sunway University. You will be expected to build on the successful partnership and advance activities along three major themes: teaching, research and engagement.

You will play a lead role in ensuring the quality of teaching, enhancing standards, promoting existing programmes and developing new opportunities across the academic portfolio of Lancaster/Sunway Dual Degree undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.  Current enrolments on these programmes exceed four thousand students. There will be a requirement for travel, both within Malaysia and overseas – such as to Lancaster – to strengthen the working relationship between partners and to attend student recruitment fairs.

CFP Discourse & Society Conference 2019 (Malaysia)

ConferencesCall for Papers: 7th University of Malaya Discourse and Society International Conference 2019 (UMDS2019), 1-2 August 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Deadline: 30 April 2019.

UMDS2019’s theme, “Discourse, Society and Interaction”, aims to bring about fresh new insights into the ways we can understand communicative data of everyday interaction, and it aims to offer solutions to language, linguistic and communicative problems. “Discourse, Society and Interaction” covers various areas of language research of meaningful data that comes from social and discourse engagements, such as in the home, at the workplace, in schools, and other social gatherings. Scholars in this conference will use novel and established frameworks of analyses to present enriching insightful analyses. Because UMDS2019 is a congregation of expert scholars who specialise in analysis of discourse, society, and interaction. One should also expect interesting engagements of debates and conversations into methodologies of research designs, analytical frameworks, and research findings.

CFP CALA 2020: Asian Text, Global Context (Malaysia)

ConferencesCall for papers: The (Annual) Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology: Asian Text, Global Context, University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 5-8, 2020. Deadline: May 9, 2019.

The CALA 2020 calls for renewed interpretations of Asian texts, and asks that we seek new perspectives of these complex texts, in global contexts. These interpretations increase in significance as; return migration to Asia is now a salient factor in transnational flows; online texts and their textual modes now compete ever more enthusiastically to effect disjunctures in previously Western dominated technologies; ontological conceptions of life and social interaction now increasingly draw from Asian philosophies, sociocultural models, lifeworlds, and Asian urban anthropologies, thus producing interstices for new or revised textual and textualized semiotics; the entangled complexities and intersubjectivities of political, sociocultural, and religious practices and their constraints motivate engagements in interfaith dialogue, shifting ethnic demarcations, and sociopolitical interventions. Ultimately, the massive sets of Eastern demographics, and their expansive set of social dynamics, models, and praxis, continue to uniquely inform and complexify productions of Asian texts, in both local and in global contexts.

Sunway U Job Ad: Communication & Media (Malaysia)

Job adsProfessor of Communication and Media Studies, Department of Communication and Liberal Arts, Sunway University, Malaysia. Deadline: 21 July 2018.

The Sunway University Department of Communication and Liberal Arts invites outstanding applicants for the position of Professor in the discipline of Communication and Media Studies (Advertising, Public Relations, or Corporate Communication).

We welcome dynamic, self-driven candidates who will contribute to the advancement of our tradition of excellence. Successful candidates will hold a PhD in the field of Communication, with ideally five years of university experience. Candidates should have a sound record of research with a clear research strategy, demonstrating the potential to develop research leadership in any one of the above areas of expertise. Applicants must have the ability to teach and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Monash U Malaysia Job: Communication & Media Studies

Job adsMonash University Malaysia invites applications for the position of Professor or Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Established in 2008, the School has built its strength in the disciplines of International Studies, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Film and Television Studies. It aspires to develop a strong record of interdisciplinary collaboration through its research strength, Social Transformation in Southeast Asia.

The ideal candidate will be an eminent scholar with the academic credentials to be appointed as Professor or Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at a leading research university. We particularly seek scholars who have the capacity to provide strong academic leadership of the discipline and who have a research focus on Southeast Asia. The responsibilities will include curriculum revitalisation, course coordination at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervision and mentoring of junior academic staff.

The successful candidate will lead, grow and develop the future of the discipline in consultation with other academics and key stakeholders. Key research responsibilities will be to provide leadership in the school’s research strength, Social Transformation in Southeast Asia, enhance HDR students’ enrolment and completions, and further links with diverse constituencies to obtain external competitive grants to improve the research profile of the School.

U Nottingham Malaysia job ad: Applied Linguistics

Assistant Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics
The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus – School of English
Closes: 18th February 2016

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) is expanding. It is looking for ambitious, talented academics with a passion for teaching as well as research flair to join its team of experts. UNMC is part of the University of Nottingham, and offers unique teaching and research opportunities in a highly dynamic context. The School of English (UNMC) was founded in 2013, and has developed a range of BA and MA programmes in the areas of applied linguistics, stylistics, discourse studies, world Englishes, modern literary studies and creative writing. Additionally, the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) has been established at UNMC as a branch of CRAL in Nottingham, UK, and it is home to the Centre for Southeast Asian Writing (CSAW).

Duties:
• To teach and contribute to core modules in the specified areas and to supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
• To Examine and invigilate at examinations, and generally assist with the work of the School.
• Original research is regarded as an essential part of the job. Time, duties and facilities are provided for this purpose.
• Pastoral care of students via a personal tutorial system.
• Administrative duties relating to teaching (assessment, standardisation, lesson preparation, report writing, attendance of regular course and general meetings).
• To undertake a two-day Introductory Course on effective teaching, and the PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education), if appropriate.
• To attend professional-development workshops as deemed appropriate.
• Any other reasonable duties appropriate to the post.

This job description may be subject to revision following discussion with the person appointed and forms part of the contract of employment.

Salary depending on qualifications and experience will be within the following:
• Assistant Professor: RM 6,000 – RM 11,500 per calendar month (with discretionary points thereafter)

This position is available from February 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter, on a fixed term contract for a period of 5 years in the first instance. The contract will be held with The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and is subject to you obtaining the appropriate work permit from the Malaysian Department of Immigration. Additional benefits and relocation packages are available for international candidates.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to the Head of School, Dr. Derek Irwin. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. Applications, specifying the job being applied for, with current curriculum vitae, should be sent by email by 18 February 2016.

Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide two supporting letters of reference and copies of published or pre-published work. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

CFP Int’l Conference on Communication and Media (Malaysia)

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA 2016 (i-COME’16): AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION REGIONAL CONFERENCE
EXPLORING COMMUNICATION: BEYOND NATIONAL CULTURAL ADAPTION, IMAGES, AND IDENTITIES
September 18-20, 2016
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Communication in the 21st century is transforming rapidly through the globalization of organizations and digital technologies. Communication not only shapes a nation’s image and identity but it also influences its populace’s ways of thinking. Because of these forces, the roles of communication must be explored in the context of culture, images and identity and its impact on society. The economic crisis in East Asian countries (e.g., Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea) just before the turn of the 21st century and in Europe a decade or so later has proven to be a transformative factor helping to create new images and identities of these nations (e.g., leadership transitions and uneven liberalization of global economic policies, among others) and creating new organizing processes, forcing once disparate countries together into closer interactions. These interactions manifest into pressures for conformity and adherence to institutional cultural norms. But, the basic clash between the conceptions of Western liberalism in economic regionalism and the mercantilism of Asian values has generated conflicts making future cooperation among nations more difficult.

We invite papers from various meta-theoretical perspectives that discuss crucial issues (and their potential solutions) related to these emergent, interconnected elements that influence our ways of thinking about meso or micro level phenomena related to nation’s cultures, images and identities. The conference will take place on 18 – 20 September, 2016 in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. The conference seeks to advance knowledge in the field of communication – knowledge that can then benefit various communities experiencing changes. We welcome paper submissions on a broad range of topics and from various sub-disciplines (e.g., interpersonal communication, media studies, organizational communication). Papers may address theoretical, methodological, or practical aspects of communication. We seek papers that go beyond prejudices and the stereotyping of other cultures, and those that can lead scholars to deliberate on applications of their findings to real-life settings.

Authors are invited to submit complete, original and unpublished research papers to the International Conference on Communication and Media 2016 (i-COME’16): An International Communication Association Regional Conference. The submission deadline is: March 1, 2016. Please submit papers electronically.

For further details, please contact:
Secretariat
i-COME’16: An ICA Regional Conference
School of Multimedia Technology and Communication, College of Art and Science, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah, MALAYSIA