Calls for Papers
2011
Conference
- San Francisco
Transformations
March 3 to 5, 2011
3.
Transformative Creative Contributions
a. Active Humanities
contributions through workshops, performances, and discussion groups
4. Making
the Most of this Transformative Moment
a. Using the
Humanities, including Humanities Education and Research, what are ways that
we can avoid pitfalls like cynicism and embrace qualities like optimism and
courage as we use what power we have to make the most of this transformative
moment
PROPOSALS
Proposals should include your name, the title of your paper, school affiliation, A/V equipment needs (if any), your email address, phone number, and a 250-word abstract.
Send completed proposals to: Shawn Tucker stucker@elon.edu and Marcia Green mgreen@sfsu.edu.
The
2011 San Francisco conference of the Humanities Research and Education
Association will center around transformations.
Th0se
transformations happen in four groupings or "streams." The
conference seeks a very broad range of contributions, but will be structured
in such a way that participants can follow one particular "stream" or may
move among "streams" if they so desire.
Conference
proposals will be selected on the basis of how well they make a substantial
contribution to their "stream."
Streams
1.
Transformative Humanities Pedagogy
a. Humanities
teaching at all levels b.
Engaged learning
c. Teaching to
transform
2.
Transformative Humanities Research
a. Humanities
research in many disciplines including but not limited to Architecture, Art,
Art History, Aesthetics, Classics, Composition, Dance, Design, Film Studies,
History, Literature, Media, Museum Studies, Music, Music Theater, Philosophy,
Religion and Theater.
b. Humanities research in many different areas including
but not limited to Globalization, Sexuality, Gender, Family, Technology, Ethnic
studies, the Environment, and Sustainability studies.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
HUMANITIES
Ongoing call
for essays
and poems
Upcoming Issues
Deadline:
Nov. 1, 2010
Spring 2011 - Intersections
based on papers
delivered at the 2010 HERA conference in El Paso, Texas. Co-edited by Stephen
Husarik and Lee Ann Westman.
Deadline:
May 1, 2011
Fall 2011 - (mis)Representing Difference in Media and Everyday Items
- Susan Booker Morris, Director of Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University,
guest editor.
Although reason and
discourse are important in framing and communicating ’truths’ about the human
being, increasingly visual representation is serving to communicate attitudes,
histories, beliefs, and values. This special issue on the representation of
the ‘other’ invites your analysis of race, ethnicity, nationality, queerness,
or gender as found in representations in television, ads, films, photographs,
video games, computer images, etc. As these othernesses are constructed, the
visual representation is one arena in which the construction takes place and
is disseminated. Any theoretical bases are welcome. Use of the Jim Crow Museum
at www.ferris.edu/jimcrow
is particularly encouraged but not required.
Spring 2012 - Children's Media. Wynn Yarbrough, guest editor. This issue will offer up articles, essays, interviews, and creative works by authors who write or produce works for children. Video games, picture books, fantasy, hi-hop children's poetry: the various media that are relevant to children and have become part of twenty first century humanities warrants study and exploration for teachers and scholars in the humanities. Send inquiries and submissions to Dr. Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail.com.
Deadline:
May 1, 2012
Fall 2012 - Service Learning in the Humanities, Isabel Baca, UTEP,
guest editor.
Service learning
across the humanities will include articles, essays, and reflective pieces
on service-learning from various points of view: students, faculty, agency
mentors, and higher-education and non-profit community administration and
staff. Documents may focus on studies, theory, and reflection.
Send inquiries and papers to Isabel Baca at: ibaca@utep.edu.
Submission deadline: Nov. 1, 2013
Spring 2013 - Restorying Nature: The Voices of the Natural World, Marion
W. Copeland and NILAS (Nature in Legend and Story), guest editor.
The
NILAS issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (NILAS (Nature in Legend and Story
at http://www.h-net.org/~nilas/)
is dedicated to understanding relationships between humans and the natural
world through the mediation of stories, legends, artworks, and other cultural
products. We regard the interactions of people with fauna and flora as a subject
that is sufficiently significant, complex, and interesting to merit the most
serious attention of poets and scholars. NILAS promotes the understanding
and exploration of these relationships thorough education (k-12, higher education
and beyond), the arts, and other activities such as storytelling. Our interdisciplinary
and intercultural emphasis naturally partners with the humanities and other
traditional disciplines as well as with environmental and ecofeminist studies,
Animal Studies with its interdisciplinary emphasis, and Human-Animals Relations.
For this special
issue we are defining story as Patrick D. Murphy does in Further Afield: “nature
is…a story in the sense of an unfolding series of events with various forms
of causality and coincidence in which all life forms are potential characters.”
Because Euro-American scholarship has maintained such an anthropocentric bias,
we are looking for work that foregrounds the bio- and animal-centric story
(narrative). In Pieces of White Shell, Terry Tempest Williams further defines
story as “an affirmation of our ties to one another” and by one another means
“all life forms: people, land, and creatures”—eukaryotes (plants and animals),
bacteria, and archaea (microbes).
Send proposals
to Marion W. Copeland at: mwcopeland@comcast.net
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2013
Fall 2013 -Conference Issue (2012 and 2013)
Book
Reviews
Deadline: Ongoing
Send book reviews to Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail
.com
Deadline:
Ongoing
General essays: We ask that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature
and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Moreover, essays should be in Microsoft
Word format. Submit your essays for consideration to Stephen
Husarik and Lee Ann Westman.
Other Humanities Related Calls for Papers
Deadline:
Oct. 31, 2010
MOSAIC - Romance Issue
Mosaic
is a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, at the University
of Manitoba and invites submissions for a special issue on "Romance".
The OED has
to give some three pages to defining the word ROMANCE that, with all of
its rich history, is at the centre of this special issue. We invite innovative
interdisciplinary literary and critical submissions. Our interests include,
but are not limited to, the following: "the Romantics," who have undergone
a renascence of late; the French novel, the roman; romantic fiction; Romanticism;
the state of the love story in literature and/or film; and the figure
of the "romantic."
If you would
like to contribute an essay for review, please refer to our Guidelines
for New Submissions document in PDF format at: http://umanitoba.ca/mosaic/forms/
For
more information on Mosaic, visit: http://www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/
Deadline:
Ongoing
CRITIQUE is a peer-reviewed literary journal devoted to essays
on contemporary fiction. The editors are also interested in critical essays
on the fiction of significant emerging writers from any country.
More information
about CRITIQUE is available at: www.heldref.org/critique.php.
Deadline:
Various
English and American Literature
The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts a website at:
www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
for calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture for journals
and conferences.
The host encourages
conference or panel organizers and volume editors to post calls to gain the
largest possible audience for their announcements by posting them on this
list and web archive. Announcements can include calls for upcoming conferences,
panels, essay collections, and special journal issues related to English and
American literature, and can include calls for completed papers, abstracts,
and proposals. The boundaries are flexible: all English-language literatures,
cultural studies, literary theory, bibliography, humanities computing, and
comparative literature (even when not concerned specifically with English
or American literature) are within the pale.
Due to the volume
of postings and the fact that each posting must be approved and edited by
hand, the CFP list and web archive is only for calls for papers, not for general
conference announcements.
Deadline:
Ongoing
NEBULA is an online academic periodical interested in all things intellectual
with the intention of providing a platform for interdisciplinary reading.
NEBULA accepts academic articles from any discipline provided that these are
written in non-specialist language and in a manner that appeals to a broad
audience. In addition, the editors encourage academics and intellectuals to
participate in a public debate as regards world politics. Nebula particularly
welcomes submissions of a marginal or "against the grain" nature and those
that heavily interrogate popular political ideologies in a sound and well-evidenced
manner. Writings of high caliber that are particularly underrepresented in
other academic periodicals are most welcome for consideration. Nebula
also publishes literary and art works and is willing to consider any (graphic,
cartoon etc.) material, which can be published on the world wide web.
More
info on submissions is available at www.nobleworld.biz/index.html
Deadlines
vary by issue
OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality is an academic, peer-reviewed,
online journal published by the Women's Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion
MA and PhD program at California Institute of Integral Studies. OCHRE provides
an interdisciplinary and international forum for discourse on women's spirituality
among a diversity of voices. The intent of the journal is to utilize the wisdom
of women's spirituality to create greater justice, well-being, and peace in
our local, global, and planetary communities. You can view the inaugural issue
of OCHRE at www.ciis.edu/ochrejournal.
Call for Papers, Poetry, Artworks, Reviews
It is with great
enthusiasm that the OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality Editorial
Council invites you to submit your scholarly and artistic work for our second
issue. To be considered for this next issue, submissions must be received
by September 15, 2009.
OCHRE
strives to engage the academic and larger communities in an embodied, intellectual,
and creative reflection on the spirituality of women and the sacred female.
The journal seeks to add to the rich and complex wisdom of women's spirituality
by providing a necessary forum for discourse in this growing field. To ensure
access by a wider range of individuals, OCHRE is published online,
and all content is made available without subscription fees. Additionally,
decisions are made collaboratively, supporting a cooperative way of working
and interacting. It is hoped that this conversation will lead to personal
and cultural transformation.
Submissions to
OCHRE may address topics such as: Interdisciplinary work or work within
one discipline with a women's spirituality emphasis. Feminist/Womanist interpretations
of spiritual and religious traditions and culture. Impact of women's spirituality
on one's relationship to self, body, Earth, culture, and/or cosmos. Creative
expression of women's spirituality in poetry, art, photography, or other mediums.
Women's spiritual, religious, and ecological activism. Womanist/Feminist philosophical
explorations with a spiritual/religious emphasis. Book reviews of women's
spirituality literature (poetry, fiction, prose) . Film reviews of women's
visionary film (primarily produced, > written, and/or directed by women, with
a spiritual focus).
OCHRE:
Contact Information OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality, Attention:
Editorial Council California Institute of Integral Studies Women's Spirituality,
Philosophy and Religion MA and PhD Program, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco,
CA 94103 USA. Email: OCHRE@ciis.edu.
OCHRE
seeks to expand the boundaries of scholarship in academia through publication
of material that honors multiple ways of knowing and embraces diversity in
both subject matter and methodology. The journal is dedicated to publishing
engaging, high quality scholarship in a multiplicity of forms: academic research,
poetry, artwork, multimedia presentations, and literature and film reviews.
All published pieces undergo a rigorous review process by the Editorial Council
and International Editorial Board. The International Editorial Board is composed
of traditional and non-traditional scholars who are renowned in their respective
fields.
Submissions due
September 15, 2009. Specifications: page limit for articles: 20-35 pages.
Citations in Chicago Style. Author's name and contact information only included
on title page, which will be separated before review. Written submissions
only in MS Word format; art submissions in PDF. For inquiries, submission
guidelines and submission email: OCHRE@ciis.edu.
