Tag: University of Jena

Roman Lietz Profile

Profiles

Roman Lietz received an MA and a PhD in Intercultural Business Communication from the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, in Germany.

Roman LietzHe gained seven years of practical experience in Berlin (Germany) managing the – at that time – second largest project for integration assistants (Integrationslotsen) in Germany. With this practical backing, he commenced an academic career in teaching and research. He was a researcher at various universities (the Karlshochschule of Applied Sciences, the Hochschule Karlsruhe of Applied Sciences, the University of Landau, and the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz/Germersheim) carrying out several applied research projects concerning questions of integration, participation and intercultural communication. The latest project is the ReDICo project (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively), carried out together with Fergal Lenehan among others. The ReDICo research co-operative also retains editorship of the book series Studies in Digital Interculturality.

His list of publications includes one monograph concerned with quality assurance in integration projects (2018, in German), and three co-edited volumes on the topics of cyber-utopia/dystopia (2022, in English), language and interculturality in the digital world (2024, German and English), and about the reimagining of digital cosmopolitanism (2025, English), and more than 30 articles, research reports and newer forms of science content communication, such as an educast and a podcast.

Work for CID:

Roman Lietz wrote a guest post for the Center, The Need for a Cosmopolitan Perspective.

Fergal Lenehan Profile

Profiles

Fergal Lenehan is adjunct Professor (ausserplanmäßger Professor) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, in Germany. He received a BA and an MA from University College Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD from the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Fergal LenehanHe also completed the German Habilitation – the formal, second PhD which allows you to officially become a Professor – at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. He is also journalistically active and has written for the Dublin Review of Books and The Currency, among other publications.

He has had a varied research profile, but intercultural questions have remained central. He has written a monograph on the intellectual history of the European idea, Intellectuals and Europe: Imagining a Europe of the Regions in Twentieth Century Germany, Britain and Ireland (2014), and a monograph on German depictions of Ireland, Stereotypes, Ideology and Foreign Correspondents: German Media Representations of Ireland, 1946-2010 (2016).

In recent years, he has been a central figure in the research co-operative ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. As part of ReDICo he has been co-editor of a number of open-access publications dealing, theoretically and empirically, with the topic of digital interculturality. These include a special issue of the journal Interculture Journal on Cyber-Utopia / Dystopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitan and Authoritarian Currents (2022), and the edited volumes: Language and Interculturality in the Digital World (2024), Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies (2024), and Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism (2025). He is also co-editor, with Luisa Conti, Roman Lietz and Milene Mendes de Oliviera, of the book series Studies in Digital Interculturality. ReDICo has also developed educasts, a podcast series, and the scholarly platform, the ReDICo-Hub. He recently published the article Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality (2024) in the journal Language and Intercultural Communication.

Work for CID:

Fergal Lenehan has written a guest post for the Center, The Need for a Cosmopolitan Perspective, as well as writing KC114: Digital cosmopolitanism, and then translating it into German.

Friedrich Schiller U Jena: Intercultural Communication, Migration Studies (Germany)

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Professorship in Intercultural Communication with a Focus on Migration Studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. Deadline: 9 June 2024.

The applicant (m/f/d) should have an excellent, relevant doctorate in the field of intercultural communication, in particular from a social or cultural science perspective or in related disciplines (e.g. sociology, political science, social or cultural geography). He/she should be able to represent the field of migration research/migration studies with a focus on intercultural communication in an outstanding manner, both in terms of expertise and methodology. The fundamental willingness to develop a second focus in the area of diversity and social diversification processes in research and teaching compatible with intercultural research is expected and is a prerequisite for the tenure track procedure. He/she/they should show potential for successful international publication activities as well as for highquality teaching in our Bachelor’s degree programmes “Intercultural Business Communication” and “Intercultural Music and Event Management” as well as in the Master’s degree programme “Intercultural Human Resources Development and Communication Management”, including its international doubledegree variants. The language of instruction is primarily German.