Contributions to special issues of journals and to books
(arranged in the chronological order of the deadlines for proposals)
The Practice of Theory and
the Theories of Practice in British Research in the Social Sciences and
Humanities
First issue of Recherches Britanniques, an online journal on British society, politics and culture, from the 18th to the 21st century Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2010 (closed) |
 http://www.recherches-britanniques.com/The first issue of this
newly-founded e-journal is to be dedicated to an overview of current
engagement with theoretical issues among historians, social scientists,
and specialists of anthropology, geography, politics and international
relations in British research institutions.
Papers are expected to
delineate contemporary debates among British researchers over the
concepts, methods and theory of their discipline. Contributions may
also assess the extent of engagement with both transatlantic, European,
Asian theories and "native" theoretical frameworks. While it is
notorious that American intellectual life has been
greatly influenced by French theory for example, what about British
academia? How far have the works of French thinkers such as Jean
Baudrillard and Michel Foucault been discussed in Britain? What has
been the impact of other foreign theoreticians such as Charles Tilly
and Judith Butler, on methodological and conceptual debates in Britain?
To what extent is it possible to identify an "indigenous" theoretical
tradition, given Britain's privileged position at the crossroads
between Europe and America.
As the title of the issue
implies, the journal also welcomes
contributions on the "theory of practice" in contemporary British
research. By which
we mean an assessment of the impact of organizational change on
research
institutions, individual researchers and teaching practices in Britain.
Concerning teaching, contributions on methodological discussion over
the
use of IT and the Internet in the teaching of humanities at graduate
and
research level would be welcome.
Among potential subjects,
we welcome papers on current debates in
British academia over multiculturalism, gender, or the "pictorial turn"
in historical research.
A more detailed call for contributions may be consulted at the
following address:http://www.recherches-britanniques.com/appels-a-contributions.html Proposals have to be sent by July 15 2010 to Philippe Vervaecke at the following address: <philippe.vervaecke@univ-lille3.fr>. The deadline for the submission of the papers is November 15, 2010. The first issue of Recherches Britanniques will be released in January 2011. (posted 16 Jun 2010)
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Formal and Thematic Innovation Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, issue 5 Deadline for proposals: 30 July 2010 (closed) |
| http://www.mta.ro The Department of Foreign
Languages of the Military Technical Academy invites you to contribute
to the fifth number of the Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural
Studies "formal and thematic innovation".
Editing requirementsLLCS publishes research articles and reviews in the following domains: literature, literature and civilisation, comparative literature and civilization, cultural studies, linguistics, applied linguistics, translation studies, foreign language acquisition, foreign language teaching. We welcome contributions in the above mentioned fields, that are original work, not published elsewhere. All papers are peer reviewed blindly by independent reviewers and the results are communicated in three months' time to the author. Articles
should be provided before 30 July 2010.
Contact : Languages: French and English Paper size: A4, Font size: Times New Roman 14: Spacing: single line, 12 pages maximum, 6 pages minimum Page setup: margins 2,5cm all over Title of the article: Caps, bold, centered, followed by one blank First name, last name, institutional affiliation (full address and e-mail), centered, Times New Roman, followed by two blanks Abstracts should be written in French and in English followed by a blank Key words: maximum 10 Text of the article: justified Footnotes: bottom of page, font size 10, numbering: continuous References: the authors should be ordered alphabetically, not numbered as follows: Deleuze, Gilles, Différence et répétition, Paris, PUF, 1968 Titles of books: italics Titles of articles: quoted Articles will be submitted as MS Word documents. <ameliamolea@yahoo.com>
(English)
<magdamihailescu@gmail.com> (English and French) <daniela_mirea@yahoo.com> (French) See also the calls for
papers for issue 6 on the same subject.
(posted 1 May 2010) |
ASSE
(Albanian Society for the Study of English) and the Department of
Foreign Languages, University of Vlora, would like to announce this
call for papers for contributions for its first issue of in Mrs Gaskell in Context GRAAT Online Deadline for contributions: 31 July 2010 (closed) |
 The success of the BBC’s
2007 series, "Cranford", based on Mrs. Gaskell’s novel -- first
published in 1853 -- illustrates, above and beyond the continuing
fascination with costume drama in Britain, the considerable attraction
which Victorian society still exerts on contemporary popular culture,
as well as the broader appeal of the "neo-Victorian" as a key element
in the national "heritage" industry.Mrs. Gaskell (1810-1865)
remains a central figure in the development of the Victorian
conscience, not least an accomplished exponent of its militant
middle-class humanitarian ethics. And her friendships with the
Brontë sisters, with Carlyle or Dickens, Ruskin or Harriet Beecher
Stowe, combine to alert us to the significance of her work in the
context of British intellectual history.
Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1854) complete a
triptych of works which all convey a vivid image of
mid-nineteenth-century life in England: the two novels published either
side of the "provincial" Cranford doing so from a resolutely industrial
perspective against the backdrop of the massive new manufacturing
centre of Manchester. Her ghost stories, too, now largely forgotten but
very popular during her lifetime, testify to the alluring co-existence
of the “"othic" and the "modern" in her work -- itself so typical of an
emerging Victorian paradox in relation to industrial development and
social welfare, progress and mounting anxieties about its effects.
The editorial board of
GRAAT Online invites submissions for the issue of the review to be
published in October. As well as Mrs. Gaskell's obvious significance as
one of the major figures in the Victorian literary canon, these
articles could address any aspect of Gaskell studies and their
relationship to broader Victorian themes, including, but certainly not
limited to:
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style and language in her work (including her use of
dialect);
Contributions should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words long, formatted
in accordance with the style sheet on this site, and must be sent (as a
Word or Open Office document) to <trevor.harris@univ-tours.fr> no
later
than 31st July. Any enquiries concerning the project may also be sent
to the same e-mail address.- Mrs Gaskell and the genre of the "industrial novel"; - social structures and institutions in her work; Mrs Gaskell's non-fiction (letters, diaries...); - Mrs. Gaskell in relation to Victorian social and political thought; - Mrs. Gaskell as biographer; - Mrs Gaskell and the Industrial Revolution; - Manchester, Knutsford and other locations in her work; - modern adaptations (Cranford was also serialised in 1951 and 1972); - the relationship between Mrs Gaskell's work and twentieth-/early-twenty-first-century popular culture and (re-)visions of the past; - the neo-Victorian... http://www.graat.fr (posted 10 February 2010)
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Reading Misreading Issue 3.1 of L'Atelier Deadline for proposals: 3 September 2010 |
 Contributions are invited from scholars
working in the fields of English studies to issue 3.1 of L’Atelier http://latelier.u-paris10.fr
What is misreading? What
is it to reading? What does it tell us about how we read? Those, simply
put, are the questions that this issue of L’Atelier will address. It
purports to challenge the common notion of misreading as corruption of
reading, as reading gone wrong, to look at it as a condition of
possibility of reading proper.
The following is a list of topics which may be considered, though the
list is by no means exhaustive:- reading the canon,
reading with or against the canon
We welcome papers (30,000-55,000 characters) in English or French.- misreading in the history of reading - scenes of misreading in art, literature and criticism - translation and cultural transfers as modes of reading/misreading - fertile misreading: when misreading opens up new spaces to reading Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) should be sent to: - Isabelle Gadoin
<isabeluis2@free.fr>
Deadline for submission: 3 September 2010.- Richard Pedot <richard.pedot@orange.fr> Deadline for completed essays: 15 December 2010. The issue will appear in Spring 2011. Contributors are invited
to access the site to learn more about the review’s editorial policy
and the submission process: http://latelier.u-paris10.fr/index.php/latelier/about
This call for papers is also available on http://latelier.u-paris10.fr/index.php/latelier/announcement/view/8 (posted 21 June 2010,
updated 30 June 2010)
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RHESIS, International Journal of Linguistics, Philology, and Literature Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2010 |
 The
Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica ( http://www.diplist.it ) of the
University of Cagliari, Italy, announces the birth of a new academic
journal: RHESIS,
International Journal of Linguistics, Philology, and Literature.Rhesis is a new peer-reviewed international online journal that is divided into two streams: Rhesis - Linguistics and Philology
aims at publishing outstanding contributions in all subfields of
functional linguistics that show a methodological orientation to the
empirical verification of theories. It welcomes contributions in all
empirically-oriented language studies with application to both
classical and modern languages, and it devotes particular attention to
theoretically-grounded studies in historical linguistics. It also
welcomes philological studies focusing on either textual or cultural
issues.
 Rhesis - Literature
welcomes contributions on both classical and modern literatures of the
world, with a particular attention to critical innovation and
interdisciplinary research. It features contributions on the diverse
cultural manifestations of literature studies and related disciplines,
with a special focus on hybridization and on the problematisation of
genres Rhesis will be issued twice a year,
in June and December. Both issues will features research articles,
review articles, research notes, and book reviews.
Authors: For further
information and details about submission of manuscripts. Contributions
in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian will be considered, but
an abstract in English should always be included.
Readers: Rhesis does not require a
subscription fee, but registration will be required to access the
contents of the journal; registration information will of course be
kept confidential
Call for PapersThe Editors invite the
submission of papers for the first issues of RHESIS, according to the subject
areas and themes outlined in the Journal presentation.
Submission should follow the guidelines indicated at http://www.diplist.it/rhesis/index.php?phpsessid=ad919be974147dd355ba19a1898e821a&sez=submission
and should reach us no
later than 1 October 2010 (ONE common deadline for both
Linguistics/Philology and Literature has been established for the first
issues).
The process of double
peer reviewing will take approximately one month, after which
individual authors will have a further deadline for the submission of
final versions, in case revising is necessary.
(posted 27 March 2010)
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Authoritarian discourse(s) and resistance in the twentieth century Issue number 6 of online journal Textes et Contextes Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2010 |
| http://revuesshs.u-bourgogne.fr/textes&contextes/ Issue number 6 of Textes et contextes (edited by EA
4182, Centre Interlangues, University of Burgundy) intends to reflect
on the types of discourse produced or imposed by totalitarian and, more
generally, authoritarian regimes or by a dominant central power over
its colonies, its regions or its periphery. The issue will concentrate
on the twentieth century without any geographical limitation. Discourse
is considered as a political tool in the service of power. Aspects
which can be studied are its use and its rhetoric as well as phenomena
of propaganda linked to official discourse, of manipulation, of
censorship, of self-censorship, etc.
It can be suggested that
authoritarian regimes also generate forms of resistance, simultaneously
with, and as a consequence of, authoritarian discourse. Studies about
the link between oppression and resistance in Germany, Italy and France
have shown that "oppressive or occupation regimes in Europe during the
Second World War and their opponents belong to the same world" because
they are born from the same culture, the same state structures, the
same social world and the same geostrategic world (F. Marcot et D
Musiedlak, Les résistances
miroirs des régimes d’oppression, Musée de la
Résistance et de la déportation de Franche Comté,
Université de Franche Comté, Paris X Nanterre, Presses
Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2006). Papers dealing with the
spaces of freedom offered by the forms of resistance born in
authoritarian contexts, with their dynamics, with the modalities
through which they escape authority/authoritarianism (exile, creation,
subversive forms of language, affirmation of individual or regional
history to counter official history...) will be welcome.
Part of the volume will
be devoted to the forms taken by propaganda and/or resistance in
artistic creation (literature, painting, cinema...).
Aspects which could be examined in this perspective include the notion of democracy (or its absence) within artistic forms, the relationships built up between the author (authority?) and the reader/spectator/viewer, the forms of persuasion used by artists and the reader/spectator/viewer’s margin of freedom (of resistance?). In the particular instance of the novel, the works in which Nelly Wolf examines the relationships between literature and politics (Le roman de la démocratie, 2003) could provide useful tools for analysis. Wolf, considering that there exists an analogy between the novel and the principles on which modern democracy is based, coined phrases like "the contractual novel" or "the novel as democracy"; such notions could offer fruitful ground for study. Following such analyses,
papers could examine either how art produced in democratic contexts can
become a form of authoritarian discourse or, conversely, how art born
in authoritarian contexts and constrained by censorship manages to
create internal democracy and therefore a form of resistance.
Paper proposals (a
one-page abstract with a maximum of five bibliographical references)
must be sent before October 1st 2010 to
<revuetil@u-bourgogne.fr>.
Only previously unpublished papers will be considered for publication. Accepted languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Russian. Notice of acceptance: November 15, 2010 Reception of final articles: February 15, 2011 Results of the double-blind review process: May 15, 2011 Reception of revised articles: July 1st , 2011 Publication of the issue: November 2011. Please note that
acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee
publication. Final acceptance for publication will depend on a
double-blind peer-review process.
For all further information please contact
<Melanie.Joseph-Vilain@u-bourgogne.fr>.(posted 9 June 2010)
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Utilitarian Ethics Revue d’Études Benthamiennes Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2010 |
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The Revue d’Etudes
Benthamiennes is a peer-reviewed online periodical, which has
been published by the Centre Bentham since 2006. Its aim is to
contribute to academic debates on all aspects of
classical and contemporary Utilitarianism. The theme of the
Autumn 2011 issue will be "Utilitarian Ethics". The editors invite
submissions from scholars in all disciplinary fields.
In An Introduction to the Principles of
Morals and
Legislation (1789), J. Bentham presented the Utilitarian
calculus
as a method to arbitrate on moral issues. He proposed a
consequentialist approach based on an assessment of the
pleasures and pains resulting from each action, in
opposition to appeals to religious doctrine or
to a universal "moral sense". Bentham however focused more on
the political and legal aspects of Utilitarianism, rather than on
its more purely ethicalaspects. The following generation of
Utilitarian thinkers, including J.S. Mill, H. Sidgwick and
G.E. Moore, attempted to ground Utilitarian ethics on sound
philosophical foundations.
Since the beginning of
the twentieth century, Utilitarian arguments and
methods have been thoroughly revised. In the past thirty years, they
have been at the forefront of debates in normative and applied ethics
in the English-speaking world, but
remain either unknown or caricatured in France.
This special issue will
highlight the vitality of Utilitarian ethics
and assess its relevance to contemporary moral questions. Articles can
deal with classical or contemporary Utilitarianism, normative or
applied ethics, or with the reception of Utilitarian ethics in the
French- or the English-speaking world.
Proposals (one-page
summary with no more than 5 bibliographical
references) should be sent before October 15, 2010 to the following
address: <revue@centrebentham.fr>.
Contributors
whose proposals are accepted will be
notified by November. The deadline for final articles is February 15,
2011. The articles will then be submitted to external
reviewers. Publication will be conditional
on favourable reports from the reviewers.
The REB is available online
at http://revue.centrebentham.fr/.It will be transfered to the http://revues.org portal in September 2010. Articles on other topics related to Utilitarianism will also be welcomed for later publication. (posted 7 July 2010)
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Dislocations and Ecologies European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16 Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2010 |
 Guest Editors: Alexa Weik & Christoph Irmscher.This issue addresses the
dislocation of bodies (human and non-human), concepts, cultures, and
goods across borders of various kinds not just in relation to notions
of mobility, but with special attention to their interaction with their
surrounding environments.
How might we investigate
cultural representations of dislocation and ecology with respect, for
example, to topics like travel, tourism, species invasion, and
international environmental justice? How do travel narratives account
for the complex ecologies of knowledge formed by bodies in physical
contact with new and strange environments? In what way are the
environmental implications of physical travel depicted, and how do
issues of class, race, gender, and nationality play out on the
traveller's body? Or, more generally, how do cultural texts (including
visual, screen, and written media), represent the effects of
dislocations into specific environments? The editors of this special
issue welcome contributions from scholars working in all fields of
Anglophone literature, language, media and culture that engage with
environmental approaches to dislocation, migration, and border
crossings of all kinds. Interdisciplinary projects and theoretical
accounts of relations between dislocation and ecology would be
particularly welcome. Proposals for contributions are welcome on topics
which might include, but are not restricted to topics and themes such
as:
· ecocriticism and
the cultural discourses of dislocation
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words,
as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both
guest editors:· travelogues and their relationship to particular environments · tourism and ecology · physical travel and bodily knowledge · imaginary travel and imagined landscapes · postcolonialism and ecology · cosmopolitanism and ecology · international and transnational environmental justice · migrant workers, labour and the environment · travelling wastes, externalisation of environmental hazards · species invasion and endangered environments · environmental devastation and forced dislocation - Alexa Weik
<alexa.weik@unifr.ch>
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.- and Christoph Irmscher <christoph.irmscher@gmail.com>. Download the cfp in pdf format. (posted 20 February 2010)
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Gender Resistance European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16 Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2010 |
| Guest Editors: Evgenia Sifaki & Angeliki
Spiropoulou. Socio-historical
developments that have characterised the turn of the present century,
such as increasing globalisation, migration and transnationalism, new
technologies, the growth of the beauty industry and the medicalisation
of the body, as well as various initiatives in equality and human
rights legislation, have ushered in new conditions of experiencing and
thinking subjectivity. This issue seeks to interrogate the new
experiences and conceptualisations of gender and sexualities that have
been part of these transformations. Specifically, notwithstanding the
assimilation of traditional feminist demands in official cultural
discourses, what new forms of resistance to conventional gender
discourses, categories and practices, and inversely, what novel
manifestations of resilient gender asymmetries have emerged in this
allegedly 'post-feminist' era?
We invite contributions
that address the modes in which contemporary Anglophone literary,
visual and popular culture refract and respond to the question of
gender and sexualities today. Themes that could be addressed include,
but are not restricted to:
• novel
gender formations and experiences in contemporary Anglophone literature
and culture
• gender and genre • the response of contemporary women writers to the gender conditions of the 21st century • gender and racial, ethnic and religious minorities, transnational communities and diasporas • new ways of performing gender • gender, sexualities and the law • reproduction and new reproductive technologies • reconfigurations of gendered private and public spaces • developments in theories of gender and sexuality Detailed proposals
(1,000-1,500 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:
- Evgenia Sifaki at
<evsifaki@gmail.com >
- and Angeliki Spiropoulou at <aspirop@uop.gr>. The deadline for
proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of completed essays by 31
March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.
Download the cfp in pdf format. (posted 20 February 2010)
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Housing Fictions: the House in Writing and Culture, 1950 to the Present European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16 Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2010 |
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Guest editors: Janet Larson, Francesca Saggini &
Anna Enrichetta Soccio.
This issue aims to engage
the variety of European approaches to the study of the house in
Anglophone literatures and cultures from the standpoint of
contemporaneity. Houses are of course not mere assemblages of bricks,
roofs, rooms, doors, furniture; rather, they are both lived experiences
and the image of an episteme, inhabited dwellings produced through and
producing subjective experiences of time and space. As such they are
signs reflecting the dynamic interplay of diverse and contending
forces: individual and collective, (trans)national and individual,
artistic and theoretical, generic, social, economic, cultural and
psychological. If for many writers the house provided a fiction of
firmness, how well does this notion hold true today in a world in a
state of flow, continually rewritten, restructured or dismantled by
diasporas, resettlements, border-crossings, blendings, and
transformations in identity and culture?
Submissions are invited
from scholars working in the fields of the Anglophone literatures,
language, media and culture, including the arts and architecture.
Contributors may emphasise theoretical/methodological approaches or
textual readings. Invited topics include, but are by no means
restricted to, the following:
• the
cultural architecture of the house;
• the house and the episteme; the disciplines and discourses of the house; • thresholds and boundaries of/in the house; • the
house and the nation or peoples; the discourses of the house in
post-colonial and transcultural perspectives;
• gendered or classed houses;• the house and the visual. Detailed proposals
(500-1,000 words) for articles of c.5,000 words, as well as any
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to all the
three guest editors:
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2010, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2011. The issue will appear in 2012.- Janet Larson at
<jlarson@andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
- Francesca Saggini at <fsaggini@unitus.it> - and Anna Enrichetta Soccio <esoccio@unich.it>. Download the cfp in pdf format. (posted 20 February 2010)
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The UK Political Landscape in the 21st Century: Players, Strategies, Stakes LISA e-journal Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2010 |
 http://lisa.revues.org/index3921.htmlAcademic studies devoted
to contemporary British politics usually focus on either a single or a
series of electoral campaigns (psephology, with a thematic approach); a
leader, a party (chronological monograph) or a set of parties (usually
limited to the three main parties); a political philosophy or school of
thought (anarchism, trade unionism, liberalism, conservatism,
nationalism, euroscepticism, fascism…). Much rarer are works offering
to embrace a more comprehensive thematic spectrum in a synchronic
perspective.
The project is to map, in
as much detail as possible, the British political landscape in the
early 21st century, i.e. to present the players (major, minority,
national parties, party factions, trade unions, federations, pressure
groups, think tanks, etc.) who, on the electoral and media
centre-stage, on its fringe or in the Westminster lobbies, try to
impose their agendas and influence the public debate in a way that
serves their own purposes. The field of research therefore stretches
from the extreme-right to the far-left and includes both registered
parties and organisations whose action is mainly political (influencing
the elected representatives, mobilizing the citizens, taking an active
part in public life outside officially constituted groups, etc.).
Submissions are invited
which examine the contemporary British political landscape and enable
the readers to have a better understanding of its fabric. To this
purpose, authors may decide to explore the following points:
1) Ideology and identity- What
is the ideological background (thinkers, theorists, events, etc.) on
which the identity of the party/organisation is founded?
2) Agendas and strategies- What does the party/organisation now stand for? What are the core values that provide coherence to the group? Is the latter still faithful to its original values (resilience, mutation, rebirth, etc.)? - Is it possible to establish a sociological profile of its members? - What
are the official objectives of the party/organisation in today’s
socioeconomic and political context?
3) Achievements and stakes- What methods does it favour to promote its ideology or carry out its action (election, lobbying, information, etc.)? - What means of communication does it use (media, network, etc.)? - Who is its target audience (voters, militants, elected representatives, opinion leaders, etc.)? - What image does it try to project and how is it generally perceived? - What are the party’s/organisation’s achievements and how influential is it in the early 21st century? - What role does it intend to play on the British political scene? - To what extent can its action produce dramatic economic, social or political changes? Other approaches may be
considered (comparative study between various parties, analysis of the
interactions between political parties and lobbies or think tanks,
etc.). Interdisciplinary researches are welcome (psephology, cultural
studies, communication studies, government and political studies,
political science, political psychology, etc.) and, in this case,
collective contributions may be accepted.
The articles should be
written in English and include a selective bibliography listing the
reference works published on the chosen topic as well as the latest
researches carried out in this field. They should be sent together with
a short biography of the author(s) (max. 200 words), an abstract (max.
300 words) and a selection of keywords (major references, actors and
events). The articles should not exceed 75 000 signs (excluding
footnotes, appendices and bibliography). Please follow the norms for
presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website.
Please send your proposals (maximum one A4 page) together with a short
biography by 1st November 2010 to David Haigron
<david_haigron@yahoo.fr>.(posted 16 April 2010)
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Little Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000 A special issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (RCEI) Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2010 |
 The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
(RCEI) is now accepting
original submissions of essays for publication in the 2011 April issue.
The deadline is November 15, 2010.As editor of this RCEI special issue on "Little
Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000", I would welcome
contributions from scholars around the world, and any others who have a
stake in the understanding of this phenomenon
For more information contact Manuel Brito: <mbrito@ull.es>.Papers, but not limited to, focusing on these issues are invited: - What role/s little
magazines played in changing poetry and social perspectives in the
period 1970-2000?
Completed papers should be no more than 7,000 words.- How academy subsumed innovations and creative research pusblished in little magaziones? - Market vs. individual position in the making of little magazines. - The role of the editors as trademakers, practitioners, and creative researchers. - What are the benefits of these little magazines considered as 'high' culture? Were they useful? - How technological production affected potential readers of these little magazines? - Historical view on this kind of literary proudction. Deadline: November 15, 2010 The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
is a peer-reviewed academic journal auspiced by the University of La
Laguna (Spain) focusing on English studies.
(posted 8 August 2008)
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Formal and Thematic Innovation Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, issue 6 Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2010 |
| http://www.mta.ro The Department of Foreign
Languages
of the Military Technical Academy invites you to contribute to the
sixth number of the Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural
Studies "formal and thematic innovation".
Editing requirementsLLCS publishes research articles and reviews in the following domains: literature, literature and civilisation, comparative literature and civilization, cultural studies, linguistics, applied linguistics, translation studies, foreign language acquisition, foreign language teaching. We welcome contributions in the above mentioned fields, that are original work, not published elsewhere. All papers are peer reviewed blindly by independent reviewers and the results are communicated in three months' time to the author. Articles
should be provided before 30 November 2010.
Contact : Languages: French and English Paper size: A4, Font size: Times New Roman 14: Spacing: single line, 12 pages maximum, 6 pages minimum Page setup: margins 2,5cm all over Title of the article: Caps, bold, centered, followed by one blank First name, last name, institutional affiliation (full address and e-mail), centered, Times New Roman, followed by two blanks Abstracts should be written in French and in English followed by a blank Key words: maximum 10 Text of the article: justified Footnotes: bottom of page, font size 10, numbering: continuous References: the authors should be ordered alphabetically, not numbered as follows: Deleuze, Gilles, Différence et répétition, Paris, PUF, 1968 Titles of books: italics Titles of articles: quoted Articles will be submitted as MS Word documents. <ameliamolea@yahoo.com>
(English)
<magdamihailescu@gmail.com> (English and French) <daniela_mirea@yahoo.com> (French) (posted 1 May 2010)
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Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism Special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies Deadline for proposals: 30 December 2010 |
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Neo-Victorian Studies invites
essays for a 2011 special issue which aims to investigate a hitherto
under-explored aspect of neo-Victorianism: visual and material culture
and the complex relationship between the twentieth/twenty-first and
nineteenth centuries in neo-Victorian products and productions.
The re-entry of the
nineteenth century into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture
tends to be both highly visual and material, making its appearance, as
it does, on a contemporary capitalist market and packaged to appeal to
a wide consumer base. Neo-Victorian visuality and materiality take
centre stage on numerous levels, ranging from memory as haunting,
ghostly appearances and inter-textualities, and biofiction of iconic
figures from the period, through prevalent tropes of photography,
microscopes, dioramas, exhibition and museum spaces, to the
construction of scopic and panoptic regimes, as well as complex
narratological perspectives. Processes of marketing and consuming
Victoriana likewise pertain to the visual, as do constructions of an
academic point of view that seeks to understand the relationship
between the nineteenth-century past and the contemporary moment in
terms of re-vision.
Literary descriptions of
the Nineteenth Century, as well as cultural presentifications
(Gumbrecht) of all things Victorian, try to make the past as tangible
as possible -- via depictions or reproductions of Victorian interiors
and fashions, steampunk culture, or re-enactments of one-time living
conditions – presenting the Nineteenth Century in commodity form.
Theoretical approaches to this current renegotiation of the past
include deconstructionist theorisations and Marxist approaches such as
Cultural Materialism, which deem the neo-Victorian project deeply
ideological, since it allegedly fetishises Victorian culture and
nourishes a nostalgia for the values, social structures and
accomplishments of the past.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):•
materialism, commodity culture, and consumerism
• the world of the senses • neo-Victorian representations of painting and other visual arts • fetishised objects: collections and exhibitions • fashion • scientific vision and the physical world • photography and image culture • other ways of seeing: spiritualism and spectrality • comics and graphic novels • film and TV series This special issue
derives from the international conference "Fashioning the
Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the 19th Century in Contemporary
Literature and Culture" (April 2010, Erlangen, Germany), but is not
limited to submissions by conference participants.
Articles between 6000-8000 words should be submitted by e-mail Word Document attachment to the guest editors: - Nadine Boehm
<nadine.boehm@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de>
Please address enquiries or expressions of interest to the guest
editors.- and Susanne Gruss <susanne.gruss@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de>, - with a further copy to the General Editor, Marie-Luise Kohlke <neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk>. For submission guidelines, please consult the journal website http://www.neovictorianstudies.com Deadline for submission of completed papers: 30 December 2010 (posted 30 August 2010)
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Latinolandia-USA: International Perspectives on the Transforming USA in the 21st century LISA e-journal Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2011 |
| http://lisa.revues.org/index3917.html At a time when the number
of U.S. Latinos is expected to rise to 50 million (15% of the U.S.
population in the 2010 Census), with a U.S. Latino growth rate of 24.3%
almost four times the growth rate of the U.S. population (6.1%), a new
catchphrase is making rounds and headlines: "Latinolandia-USA." The
buzzword, originally initiated by a Californian advertising company,
rightly testifies to the ever-growing profound impacts of U.S. Latinos
on the contemporary and future social, educational, communicational,
technological, religious, cultural, culinary and fashion setup of the
U.S.A..
Surprisingly, domestic
and global politics as well as a large section of the (inter)national
and interdisciplinary research community still do not pay sufficient
attention to these striking developments and transformations in this
Third Millennium. This LISA e-journal number on "Latinolandia-USA:
International Perspective on a Transforming USA in the 21st century"
will aim at contributing to closing this research gap from an
international and interdisciplinary angle. Thus, we invite North,
Central and South American, European and other international
contributors from various disciplines to submit innovative critical
vistas on the emergent real and discursive landscape of
"Latinolandia-U.S.A.," thereby assessing the new (inter)national
significance and role of U.S. Latinos within and beyond an ever-more
Latino-realigned, glocally transforming U.S.A. in the 21st century.
Given the broad scope of
the subject matter we are interested in contributions covering
theoretical angles, linguistic approaches, literary and cultural
treatments, gender analyses, genre discussions, historical ventures,
sociological methodologies, popular cultural emphases, film and
(multi-)media studies, including re-examinations of key concepts and
categories such as migration, diaspora, exile, identity, community,
transnationalism, hybridity, borders, third spaces and third figures.
Proposals, in English
(maximum one A4 page), should be sent together with a short biography,
by 21st September 2010, to both co-editors:
Dr. Karin Ikas
<k.ikas@soz.uni-frankfurt.de>
and Professor Francisco A. Lomelí <lomeli@spanport.ucsb.edu>. Completed articles on the
accepted proposals will be expected for 1st March 2011. Please follow
the norms for presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website and include
a short biography.
(posted 16 April 2010)
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Permanently Valid Calls for Papers
The Brontës and the Idea of Influence A thematic dossier in the “Writers, writings” section of LISA e-journal |
 In March 2007, Stevie Davies, Patricia
Duncker and Michele Roberts gathered around Patsy Stoneman at Haworth
in Yorkshire to talk about the influence that the Brontës had had
on their evolutions as authors, and more generally, about the source of
inspiration that the most famous family of writers in England could
represent. Patsy Stoneman had already tackled the topic by publishing a
book entitled The Brontë
Influence in 2004 with the help of Charmian Knight. The issue of LISA e-journal "Re-Writing Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre, Past and Present" is
further evidence of Charlotte Brontë's influence on the writers of
the following decades or centuries. So far, these studies have been
quite limited and this field of research, "the Brontë influence",
offers a wide range of possible developments.Moreover, if the four authors' poetry and novels have already been the object of numerous studies, there is much left to write about the influences which were exerted on the Brontës, whether religious, literary, philosophical or cultural. Taking account of the context of a work is often a good way of understanding the issues underlying a text: the path taken by the Brontës, their journeys, their stays abroad, the books they read, etc. could prove to be very enlightening. Besides these external factors, one could also consider the interactions between the three sisters, who wrote in the same room and who read passages from their works aloud. A final aspect to identify and study could be the influences which are exerted within the Brontës' works themselves. How can one account for the progress of the heroes and heroines? How is the influence that characters have on one another expressed? What role does nature play in the destiny of characters? Which other elements intervene in the novels? This dossier devoted to the Brontës intends to analyse the works through the perspective of influence and three different fields of research can thus be considered: - influences on the Brontës - the idea of influence in the Brontës’ works - the Brontë influence on the writers of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Accepted articles will be
published in the thematic dossier "The Brontës and the Idea of
Influence" in the "Writers, writings" section of LISA e-journal:
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/publicationsGb.php?p=2&numId=0&it=dossiers(posted 10 January 2008)
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