Tag: University of Texas at Austin

U Texas Austin: Assistant Director, Education Abroad (USA)

“JobAssistant Director, Study Abroad, Texas Global, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. Deadline: 29 November 2025.

The University’s 19 colleges and schools enroll over 53,000 students and rank among the top 10 public universities in the U.S. Texas Global is the university’s global engagement arm and a recognized leader in international education, based on the success of the programs delivered and the number of individuals supported. They serve more than 9,000 international students and scholars, as well as more than 4,600 students on education abroad programs annually.

Texas Global advances UT Austin’s academic mission by leading, supporting, and coordinating the university’s international engagement efforts, fostering strategic partnerships on campus and abroad, welcoming a cadre of impressive international students and scholars to campus, and creating opportunities for students and faculty to engage with peers and institutions around the world. Texas Global is comprised of nine units, home to over 140 staff members, and continued growth of the organization is expected.

Your skills will make a difference. You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for academic programs and research. Your work will make a difference in the lives of faculty and staff, thereby enhancing the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in this department and for UT Austin.

Purpose of this position: Provide leadership to the Faculty-Led modality team and Sciences academic cluster, which advances the mission and vision of Texas Global in collaboration with academic departments and international partners to support innovative programming and exceptional student services. Ensure that the core functions of the team are carried out effectively.

U Texas Austin: Assistant VP for Programs, Texas Global (USA)

“JobAssistant Vice President for Programs, Texas Global, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. Deadline: 27 May 2025.

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is one of the largest public universities in the United States and is the flagship of The University of Texas System. UT Austin enrolls more than 53,000 students studying in nearly 120 bachelor’s degree programs and more than 220 graduate programs across 19 colleges and schools. Deeply committed to global engagement, UT Austin hosts over 7,000 international students and 1,500 international scholars from more than 135 countries and supports a network of over 530,000 alumni in 176 counties.

Texas Global advances UT Austin’s academic mission by leading, supporting, and coordinating the university’s international engagement efforts, fostering strategic partnerships on campus and abroad, welcoming a cadre of impressive international students and scholars to campus, and creating opportunities for students and faculty to engage with peers and institutions around the world. Texas Global is comprised of nine units, home to over 140 staff members, and continued growth of the organization is expected.

U Texas Austin: Intercultural Programs Coordinator (USA)

“JobSenior Intercultural Programs Coordinator, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. Deadline: 2 November 2024.

Reporting to the assistant director for intercultural programs and initiatives, the senior coordinator manages the International Student and Scholars Services (ISSS) activities that support and enrich the on-campus experiences for the international student and scholar community. Additionally, the senior program coordinator is responsible for monitoring the ISSS communication plan including emails, social media, and program marketing. Responsibilities include: orientation and intercultural programming; communication, campus outreach and collaboration; and support of ISSS and Texas Global functions.

CFP Brazil-US Colloquium 2020 (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: 9th Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies 2020: Present and Future Directions of Research on Brazil and the US –
Media, Communications, Literature, Culture, and History, March 24-25, 2020, University of Texas, Austin, TX. Deadline: October 15, 2019.

Research is welcome regarding the central theme and on any theme relevant to Brazil and the U.S., as well as other topics on history, literature, media, culture, and/or communication studies in the Americas. Comparative work Brazil-US is welcome but not required. Research may be in Portuguese or English. For selected Brazilian papers, presentations may be in Portuguese but with Powerpoint in English.

The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University and the Brazilian Association of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication (Intercom).

Optional Publication Submission: Due: December 1, 2019.

An edited volume will be published with Emerald Studies in Media and Communications highlighting scholarship from the Colloquium. For consideration in the volume, full papers are due by December 1, 2019

CFP SALSA: Culture, Space & Identity

ConferencesCall for Papers: SALSA XXVI: Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity, April 20-21, 2018, The University of Texas at Austin.

The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual symposium promoting the study of language and its intersection with society. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the Linguistics, Anthropology, and Communication Studies Departments at The University of Texas, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields, including foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, and language departments, including French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, German, and English. Our conference annual proceedings appear in special editions of Texas Linguistic Forum. The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2018.

Language is a distinctly human characteristic, central to all human social organization. It is the medium through which humans shape their identities, relate to one another, and construct social realities. The conference will focus on the ways speakers from diverse sociohistorical and cultural backgrounds use language to negotiate their identities in particular spaces. We welcome both diachronic and synchronic perspectives for the study of language in society.

The Conflict Conference 2016 (Texas)

Call for submissions: The Conflict Conference 2016

The Conflict Conference (TCC) will hold its 2015 conference at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) on April 8-9, 2016. TCC is a multidisciplinary annual conference promoting the study of conflict and conflict resolution. We invite Papers, Panel Proposals, and Posters on any relevant topic such as apologies, advocacy, dispute resolution, peace, negotiation, reconciliation, mediation, restorative justice, conflict management, and ethics.

The DEADLINE for submissions is January 24th 2016. Notices of acceptance will be sent no later than February 7th, 2016.

・PAPER PROPOSALS must include the author’s name and institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and an abstract of no more than 150 words for the program. In addition, proposals must include a 600-word extended abstract without personal information. Abstracts should be based on research that is clearly in progress (if not yet completed), with a well-formulated research question, and with a good description of the types of data used (if the work is empirical) and of the approach.

・PANEL PROPOSALS must include a maximum 150-word abstract for the program, names, titles, and abstracts for each participant.

・POSTERS must include the author’s name and institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and an abstract of no more than 150 words.

A clear description of a research design may be acceptable, as this can lead to useful discussions in the early stages of a project. Documents must be attached to an email as a Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF document.

TCC welcomes submissions from students. Please indicate student status in all paper proposals. Please send all proposals to TCC via email.

Conference events will be held on Friday, April 8th and Saturday, April 9th 2016 on the UT-Austin campus. A registration fee of USD $75.00 (two Austin artisan lunches, coffee, and refreshments included) is required.