The Center for Intercultural Dialogue serves members of any of the eight associations that jointly make up the Council of Communication Associations (NCA, ICA, AEJMC, ASJMC, BEA, ABC, AJHA, and BCCA). The mission of the Center is "To facilitate connections between Communication scholars interested in intercultural dialogue by encouraging international collaborative research, serving as a source for grants, and as a clearinghouse for information." Of these, the obvious first step was to establish a clearinghouse through the Center's website (http://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org). The website now exists, and has already received far more visits than anticipated (over 7000 page views in the first six months), demonstrating that such a clearinghouse was definitely needed.

In addition to information about such obvious topics as international conferences, study abroad programs, grant or publication opportunities, available positions, or relevant publications, the Center is now accepting and posting Researcher Profiles. The first set of profiles to be posted illustrate several possible models: http://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/research-2/.

If you would like to have a description about you and your work posted, either because you are interested in intercultural dialogue as a specific topic, or as a way to connect with international peers and begin your own intercultural dialogue on any communication topic, send your information to the Center's Director, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, at intercult.dialogue@gmail.com. In addition to several paragraphs describing your research interests, please include your current affiliation, and identify a set of keywords describing your specializations. Alternatively, as for any content relevant to the site, you may post information directly in the form of a "comment."

In other Center news, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz will be traveling to Israel, China, and Japan this spring, talking with international colleagues about potential future collaborative projects that may be established through the Center. Also, she has been invited to speak at the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, April 7-9, 2011. Most of the participants are practitioners (politicians and others) but a few scholars have been invited as well.

As a reminder, the Center's Advisory Board members are:

• Donal Carbaugh (U of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
• William Evans (U of Alabama, USA)
• Nazan Haydari (Maltepe U, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Barbara Hines (Howard U, USA)
• Janice Hume (U of Georgia, USA)
• Leena Louhiala-Salminen (Aalto U School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland)
• Charles Self (U of Oklahoma, USA)
• Michael D. Slater (Ohio State U, USA)
• Katérina Stenou (Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO, Paris, France)
• Valerie White (Florida A & M U, USA)