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The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) is typically described as a project of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA), established in March 2010.[1] The goal of the CID is double: to encourage research on intercultural dialogue, but to do so through bringing international scholars interested in the subject together in shared intercultural dialogues about their work.[2] The CID is creating an international network of scholars, including both scholars and practitioners.[3] One of the goals is to ensure that multiple perspectives are considered, especially across subdisciplinary boundaries. [4] The CID broadly represents scholars in the discipline of Communication, but has a specific mandate to directly serve those who are members of any of the 8 member associations of CCA:

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History

The CID was created as a direct result of the National Communication Association's Summer Conference on Intercultural Dialogue, held in Istanbul, Turkey, July 22-26, 2009.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). [5] Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, in her role as Chair of the International and Intercultural Communication Division of NCA, served as conference organizer, and Nazan Haydari, based at Maltepe University in Istanbul, served as local arrangements coordinator.[6] Other members of the organizing committee were Donal Carbaugh (US), Tamar Katriel (Israel), Kristine Fitch Muñoz (US), Yves Winkin (France), and Saskia Witteborn (Hong Kong).[7] Support for the conference was provided by both NCA and Maltepe University.[8] Buzzanell (2011) describes one of the plenary presentations in some detail.[9] The Summer Conference resulted in a preconference at the International Communication Association convention in Singapore in 2010, organized by Evelyn Ho.[10] The first publication resulting from the presentations appeared in 2011, in a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, edited by Prue Holmes and Shiv Ganesh.[11] A book, Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue, edited by Nazan Haydari and Prue Holmes, is currently in production with Kendall-Hunt, and should appear in 2014.[12] Broome & Collier (2012)[13] praise the increased attention paid by intercultural scholars to intercultural dialogue as a specific focus, listing the CID as evidence for this attention.

Participants at the Summer Conference wanted a way to encourage further international travel for intercultural research, and so a proposal was brought before the Council of Communication Associations' Board of Directors at their March 2010 meeting to create the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, which was approved.[1] Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz was appointed Director of CID at that same meeting. The first Advisory Board was approved at the September 2010 meeting, and include: Donal Carbaugh, William Evans, Nazan Haydari, Barbara Hines, Janice Hume, Leena Louhiala-Salminen, Charles Self, Michael Slater, Katerina Sténou and Valerie White.[14] Together this group represents all 8 of the CCA member associations (through overlapping memberships), as well as the applied context of international non-profits.

Activities

Director's travels

CID Director, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, travels and meets with Communication scholars outside the US in order to learn more about who is doing what kinds of research where. In this way she is better able to help US faculty members make appropriate international connections by gradually building up a network of scholars.[15] Leeds-Hurwitz often has been invited to speak at conferences about issues related to intercultural dialogue, as at the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Baku, Azerbaijan in April 2011[16] or the Conferência Ouvindo o Outro: sobre o diálogo entre culturas [Conference on Listening to the Other: About Dialogue between Cultures] held in Carregal-do-Sal, Portugal in October 2012.[17]

Grants

CID applies for funding and then distributes micro grants for cultural research to Communication scholars so they can travel in order to develop, or take advantage of existing, international research connections. By design these are small grants, intended to serve as an incentive for universities to provide matching funding for research related activities (conducting research in another country, meeting with potential collaborators for future research in another country, presenting a paper at a university in another country).[18] NCA set aside $5000 for its members to receive micro grants in 2012-13.[19] ABC set aside another $5000 for its members to receive micro grants in 2013-14.[20] In addition to running grants competitions itself, the CID maintains a database of grants available from other sources, as well as listing international collaborative research opportunities and projects (all published to the website). Since Fulbright grants provide an obvious source of funding for international research-related collaborations, a section of the website is devoted to descriptions of Fulbright projects completed by Communication scholars.

Clearinghouse

The CID website serves as a clearinghouse for Communication scholars interested in a variety of topics supporting not only research into intercultural dialogue but international and intercultural research and collaboration more generally. Lists of related centers and organizations, blogs, podcasts and videotapes, projects and exhibits, job ads, and publication opportunities are all among those kept up to date on the website.

The CID website also maintains a list of publications not only on intercultural dialogue but also on a wide variety of related topics (intercultural communication, intercultural competence, dialogue, public dialogue, etc.). Examples of applied intercultural dialogue, relevant museum exhibits, and poetry discussing intercultural dialogue also may be posted.

The website further posts databases of opportunities for international travel (conferences on topics related to intercultural dialogue, but also international conferences more generally, international teaching opportunities for faculty, and study abroad opportunities for students).

Researcher Profiles

The CID website publishes profiles of researchers, not only those with interests in intercultural dialogue specifically, but also related matters, such as intercultural pedagogy. These are divided geographically, for ease in finding an appropriate peer in a particular part of the world. The CID website occasionally posts insights on intercultural dialogue issues by researchers profiled on the site. These describe and analyze direct observation of interactions between members of different cultural groups.

Social Media Presence

The CID website is a WordPress blog.[21] In addition, CID maintains an active social media presence in order to facilitate intercultural dialogues among researchers. The current roster includes: a Facebook organizational page,[22] a LinkedIn group,[23] a Twitter feed,[24] a Pinterest site,[25] a YouTube channel,[26] and a Google Plus site.[27] The WordPress site was established in 2010, the Facebook organization page in 2012, and the others in 2013. Expertise in social media was initially provided by Sean Rintel in 2012, and substantially supplemented by Minh Cao, in her role as Assistant to the Director in 2013.[28]

Other Centers for Intercultural Dialogue

Dialogue generally, and intercultural dialogue specifically, have been discussed at multiple conferences, and served as the topic of consideration by many organizations over the past few years, becoming a key term and a "preferred form for human action"[29], and Carbaugh specifically lists this CID as one such effort.[29] Several other organizations have either the same or a similar name. For example, there are CIDs in Belarus[30] and Macedonia[31]. Other centers with related names include the Cuernavaca Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Development in Mexico and the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation in Egypt. Most recently, and best funded, is the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, established in Austria. The CID described in this entry is the only one designed to serve the Communication discipline specifically, and to facilitate the study of intercultural dialogue as a research topic by creating an international network of scholars.[3] It is for this reason that the CID's slogan is "Bridging Cultures Through Research."

References

  1. ^ a b "Council of Communication Associations Minutes for March 2010". Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Center for Intercultural Dialogue".
  3. ^ a b Witteborn, Saskia. "The Center for Intercultural Dialogue: Creating scholarly community, merging theory and practice". Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Convention, 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ^ Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy (2012). "These fictions we call disciplines". Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication. 22 (3–4). Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  5. ^ Holmes, Prue (2014). "Intercultural dialogue: Challenges to theory, practice, and research". Language and Intercultural Communication. 14 (1).
  6. ^ Leila Monaghan (2012). "Perspectives on intercultural discourse and communication.". In C. B. Paulston, S. F. Kiesling & E. S. Rangel (ed.). The handbook of intercultural discourse and communication. New York: Wiley. p. 26.
  7. ^ National Communication Association (2008). "NCA is going to Istanbul". Spectra. 44 (11): 5.
  8. ^ "NCA Programs".
  9. ^ Buzzanell, Patrice (2011). "Interrogating culture". Intercultural Communication Studies. 20 (1): 1–2.
  10. ^ Ho, Evelyn (2010). "Preconference on Intercultural Dialogue: In Singapore or From Your Own Home." ICA Newsletter. 38 (5). Retrieved 7 January 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  11. ^ Ganesh, S (2012). "Culture, communication, and peacebuilding: A reflexive multi-dimensional contextual framework". Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 5 (4): 245–269. doi:10.1080/17513057.2012.716858. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue".
  13. ^ Broome, B. (2012). "Culture, communication, and peacebuilding: A reflexive multi-dimensional contextual framework". Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 4 (2): 81–86. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ "Council of Communication Associations Minutes for September 2010".
  15. ^ "CID Director's Activities".
  16. ^ Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy. "Dialogue about dialogue: Taking a (meta)communication perspective on the role of women in intercultural dialogue". World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2011. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  17. ^ Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy. "The need for intercultural dialogue". Paper presented at Conferência Ouvindo o Outro: sobre o diálogo entre culturas [Conference on Listening to the Other: About Dialogue between Cultures, 2012]. Centro Cultural Carregal do Sal, Portugal. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  18. ^ Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy. "Roundtable panelist for Ways forward: Institutes, centers, and affiliations". Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward, Omaha, NB, 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  19. ^ "NCA Micro Grants".
  20. ^ "ABC Micro Grants".
  21. ^ "CID Website".
  22. ^ "CID Facebook".
  23. ^ "CID Linkedin".
  24. ^ "CID Twitter".
  25. ^ "CID Pinterest".
  26. ^ "CID Youtube".
  27. ^ "CID Google Plus".
  28. ^ Cite error: The named reference CID Assistant to the Director was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  29. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Carbaugh 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  30. ^ "Institution Intercultural Dialogue, Belarus".
  31. ^ "Center for Intercultural Dialogue, Macedonia".
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