02/27/2019

ECA Intercultural Interest Group - Center for Intercultural Dialogue Contest

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue announces its second annual video competition, open to students enrolled in any college or university during spring 2019. As an organization devoted to intercultural dialogue, we view this as a good way to involve students in an international conversation by showcasing their work to an international audience. 

What is intercultural dialogue (ICD)? It is “the art and science of understanding the Other.” ICD can include international, interracial, interethnic, and interfaith interactions, but it is always active (“a matter of what someone does”) rather than passive (“a matter of what someone knows”). Typically, people assume that ICD requires face-to-face interaction. This competition asks: “How do social media influence intercultural dialogue?” Entries must be between 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length and will be accepted May 1-31, 2019 at the URL to be posted to the CID website by May 1. Longer videos will be disqualified.

You are invited to discuss intercultural dialogue in a class, perhaps showing winning entries from 2018, and to suggest students produce videos as their responses. Please encourage students to be creative, show off their knowledge and skills, and have fun with this topic.

The top award winner will receive a $200 prize. All award-winning entries will be posted to the CID YouTube channel, and highlighted on the CID website, LinkedIn group, Facebook group, and Twitter feed, through posts describing the creators and highlighting each of their videos. Perhaps most important to student learning, all entries will be sent comments from the judges. Winning entries last year came from not only the USA, but also Italy, the UK, and Peru.

Please share this opportunity with your students, via email or through social media (especially appropriate given the topic this year). Suggested social media copy: How do social media influence intercultural dialogue? Enter the Center for Intercultural Dialogue’s video competition and join the conversation. https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org

Contact Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, CID Director, with any questions: intercult.dialogue@gmail.com