Call for papers / Приглашение к публикации

Фонд имени Генриха Белля и проект genderpage.ru объявляют конкурс эссе на гендерную тематику. Конкурс приурочен к 2х-летию проекта «Гендерные страницы» и годовщине открытия сайта www.genderpage.ru

«Гендерные страницы» – это проект, популяризирующий основные положения гендерной теории и идею гендерного равенства на страницах популярных сайтов и блогов рунета. Этот проект рассчитан в первую очередь не на профессиональное сообщество гендерных исследователей, а на широкий круг интеллектуалов, журналистов, правозащитников, политиков, активистов, работников специализированных НКО, студентов, блогеров.

Основные авторы текстов – современные исследователи гендерных отношений в России (социологи, политологи, психологи, филологи и др.), а также активисты политических и общественных движений (антиглобалисты, журналисты, лидеры женских и гендерных организаций), являющиеся авторитетами и экспертами в этой области. Основные сайты размещения статей: www.chaskor.ru, www.polit.ru, www.rabkor.ru, www.civitas.ru, www.genderpage.ru

Для участия в конкурсе приглашаются студенты, аспиранты и преподаватели высших учебных заведений, исследователи, а также журналисты и независимые авторы, заинтересованные в обсуждении актуальных гендерных тем!

По итогам конкурса будут отобраны три работы, которые будут размещены на официальном сайте проекта www.genderpage.ru. Победители конкурса получат денежное вознаграждение в размере 250 евро за 1-е место, 200 евро за 2-е место, 150 евро за 3-е место, а также возможность стать постоянным автором проекта «Гендерная страница»!

Условия участия: до 1.11.11 необходимо прислать оригинальную работу (статью или эссе) по теме конкурса, отражающую гендерную проблематику.

Отбор работ будет осуществляться по требованиям, предъявляемым к постоянным авторам проекта «Гендерная страница». Работа не должна превышать объем в 25.000 знаков (с пробелами) и должна быть написана доступным для широкой аудитории языком (без использования постраничных сносок), ссылки на литературу и источники допустимы только в конце текста.

С актуальной тематикой, а также с примерами статей нашего проекта вы можете ознакомиться на сайте www.genderpage.ru

Работы необходимо присылать по адресу genderpage@gmail.com с темой «конкурс».

В теле письма необходимо указать координаты автора, по которым мы в дальнейшем сможем связаться.

Источник: http://genderpage.ru/archives/448#more-448

The Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

invites you to
take part in the publishing project

"Neo-Anti-Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in
Post-Soviet Space"

This project is devoted to the discussion of anti-colonial, postcolonial, colonial, and imperial discourses in Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.

The outcome of the project will be a publication of a special issue of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal "East/West" by the end of 2012.

The editorial board is seeking contributions related to the following issues:


* "communication vessels": relationships between (former) metropolis and (former) colonies;

* postcolonial interpretation of relevant historical events, literarytexts, movies, museum exhibitions etc.


In the selection of materials the preference will be given to the texts related to the regions of Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.

We will accept scholarly articles, essays, and reviews of no more than 40,000 characters written in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English or German together with a brief summary (abstract).

The materials are to be sent to:

Associate Editor: Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko: gelinada.grinchenko@gmail.com
Invited Editor: Dr. Tetyana Dzyadevych: dziadevych@ukr.net

"East / West" Journal,
The Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute,
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 6 Svobody Square,
aud. 486, Kharkiv, 61077 Ukraine.
Phone number: +38 057 705 26 30
Web-site: http://keui.wordpress.com/

We would ask you to inform us of your intention to take part in the project, and to briefly describe the theme of your contribution by January 10, 2012.

The final date for submitting materials to the editorial board is July 1, 2012.

Gender & History
Special Issue 25.3 (2013): "Gender and Religion"
Issue editors: Joanna DeGroot (University of York) and Sue Morgan (University of Chichester)

CALL FOR PAPERS

From medieval female spirituality to modern Hindu or Muslim ‘fundamentalisms’, from Buddhist saints and African healers to nineteenth-century muscular Christianity, histories of gender and religion have attracted increasing attention from scholars over the last two decades. This special issue will highlight the rich diversity of ongoing historical work in this field and provide an opportunity to critically reflect upon contemporary theoretical, methodological and historiographical debates and issues within this burgeoning area of gender history.

The term ‘religion’ is both fluid and capacious in its meaning including, inter alia, an intellectual belief system, an interior source of personal motivation or mystical experience, an influential public cultural discourse, a platform for political action, a series of ritual performances or an organisational worship structure. Working with this ‘inclusivist’ notion of religion we are interested in proposals which explore any of these aspects, whether in so-called ‘world’ or ‘major’ religions, or in less well known or large scale areas of religious practice. We have no prescriptive definition of the boundaries between the ‘religious’ and the ‘non-religious’; indeed, the question of how such boundaries have operated, as and when they are thought to have existed, and their shifting and permeable nature is an open one with major implications for the gendered study of histories of religion and secularisation; we warmly welcome proposals dealing with such conceptual themes. We are particularly interested in producing a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary volume which includes scholarship on a wide range of periods, places, and cultures, and in which anthropological, literary, political, theological or artistic approaches are brought to bear on historical treatments of gender and religion. We welcome proposals using these approaches or others and also encourage transnational comparative studies and work on premodern and nonwestern cultures.

Other issues might include religious affiliation and gender as markers of difference and/or inequity; the primacy or otherwise of gender in religious identity formations; the (re)periodisation of conventional religious narratives and the historical intersections between confessional or denominational loyalties, race, class and sexuality. In summary this special issue of Gender & History will critically examine the significance of gender as a methodological tool in eliciting news ways of reading the spiritual and the secular.

We plan to approach the creation of this volume via a colloquium to be held 17-18 September 2012 at the University of York (UK). Paper proposals (500-750 words maximum) are to be submitted by 31 October 2011 and invitations to present at the colloquium will be issued by January 2012.

Papers must be submitted for pre-circulation to the editors by 15 July 2012 as a condition of participation. After the colloquium the editors will select papers for publication, and those accepted for publication will be expected to submit their revised text by 31 December 2012. This will allow the editors to work with authors to produce the final text of the issue by July 2013 for publication in November 2013 (which our UK colleagues will note falls within the REF timetable !!).

Send paper proposals to: joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk AND s.morgan@chi.ac.uk by 31 October 2011.

"Nationalism is today outdated and at the same time of current interest", Theodor W. Adorno wrote in 1959. This ambivalent diagnosis is based on the thesis that although the nation state has become obsolete as a model of identification, a mythical force has nevertheless still to be attributed to it. The conference addresses the issue of this ambivalence of the national idea in the present day. It will comprehensively analyse the "Aesthetic figurations of the political" both systematically and also historically, i.e. including all media and all artistic forms.

The starting point for our conference is the assumption that political life did not originally arise out of state institutions, but primarily from imaginations and aesthetic productions of a totality of the collective. From the perspective of the cultural studies it is reasoned that the possibility of national organisations was given through diverse modes of aesthetic representation or "imagined communities" (Benedict Anderson). Although the state has institutional political embodiments (e.g. through police bodies), a common unity and wholeness is only provided by a second, imaginary instance: a "second body". Whether and to what extent Kantorowicz's theory of »the king's two bodies« is accordingly also valid for the political body as a whole (and historically also remains valid beyond the epoch of Absolutism), will be discussed within the scope of our conference.

In modern times, the figurations of the political are more complex in at least three ways than the model of the embodiment of the state in the figure of the king, described by Kantorowicz. First, the principle of the sovereignty of the people reduces the importance of the person of the ruler for the aesthetic representation of the political: if the sovereign is no longer an absolutist prince, the unity of the political must no longer be represented through the body of a monarch.

Second, the mass media situation has changed since the start of the 19th century: the ancien regime of the absolutist princes controlled a relatively small range of medial representations (primarily paintings, statues or theatrical productions), but numerous »new« media have been contributing to the formation of figurations of the political since the 19th century.

Third, the nation state is no longer the sole political actor on the stage since the process of European unification and "globalization".

Papers on (aspects of) the following areas of inquiry are particularly welcome:

1. Fictions/imaginations. Aesthetic figurations of the political from the perspective of aesthetic analyses: What link is there between aesthetic objects (texts or pictures) and the political imaginations? What connection between "Aesthetics" and "Politics" is recognisable in aesthetic figurations of the political?

2. Communities/nations. Aesthetic figurations of the political from the perspective of political philosophy: Which aesthetic figurations of the political are visible today in view of the much discussed problem of the nation state in the 20th century (during the course of »globalization«)? How do political philosophies of »community« behave vis-á-vis the principle of the nation state? Is there something such as aesthetic figurations of Europe?

3. Visibilities/media. Aesthetic figurations of the political from the perspective of media theory: How do technological-media conditions - from photographic media to film, other media representations to »social networks« in the Internet - structure the aesthetic figurations of the political? Which individual media-aesthetic aspects can be linked with this? Which concrete media practices contribute to this?

Organisational aspects:

The international and interdisciplinary conference "Aesthetic Figurations of the Political" is being organized by the research group with the same name, "ATTRACT", at the University of Luxembourg. A large number of well-known scholars are invited to the conference; these include Roberto Esposito, Rodolphe Gasché, Boris Groys, Werner Hamacher, Hermann Kappelhoff, Susanne Lüdemann und Eric Santner.

All costs for travel, meals and accommodation will be paid by University of Luxembourg. The results of the conference will be published in three anthologies by the publishing house Turia + Kant (Vienna/Berlin). A selection of the contributions will also be translated into English and published by a US American publishing house.

For more information about the conference and our research group, please refer to our homepage: www.figurationen.lu

Please send an abstract (maximum 500 words), together with a short bio-bibliographical profile to: info@figurationen.lu before 30th September 2011.

Conference Venue:

Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster /
Kultur- und Begegnungszentrum Abtei Neumünster
28, rue Münster
L-2160 Luxembourg

Conference Organizers: Dr. Martin Doll, Dr. Oliver Kohns, Prof. Dr. Georg Mein (University of Luxemburg)

Contact: info@figurationen.lu

In cooperation with: Institut Pierre Werner, Institut culturel européen au Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster

“Eunamus” is a FP7 collaborative research project dedicated to the history, contemporary practices and future perspectives of European national museums. The project focuses on understanding the uses of the past in negotiations of citizenship and territorial belonging. Research within the program explores the institutional framework, the management of conflicts, strategies of representation, cultural policy and visitors’ experiences concerning national museums in Europe. “Eunamus” is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of eight leading university institutions.

The project develops a collection of comprehensive country reports on each European country mapping and framing her institutions in the period of 1750-2008. Reports are expected to be as long as 10,000 words and answer the following major questions:

1. What museums have been considered national a) in various historical periods of founding museums b) in contemporary societies? Which are the modes of institutionalizing ownership and which national actors invest in these museums?

3. What are the fields of collections in various national museums? Art, archaeology, cultural history, etc.?

Reports are to be published by “Eunamus”. Authors are to receive a honorarium of 600 EUR. Successful candidates will receive a detailed work manual helping them to prepare their reports.

Interested candidates are requested to send a short CV, List of publications and a one-page abstract describing the objectives and methods of their intended work by no later than 20 June 2011 to:

Dr Péter Apor, Eunamus research fellow, Pasts, Center for Historical Studies, CEU, aporp@ceu.hu

Web-site of the project - http://www.eunamus.eu/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dr Anton Shekhovtsov will guest edit a special double issue of the journal "Patterns of Prejudice" on the role of music in the demonization of the Other, to be published at the beginning of 2013.

"Patterns of Prejudice" provides a forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of 'race', nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship. As none of these issues are confined to any one region, "Patterns of Prejudice" maintains a global optic, at the same time as scrutinizing intensely the history and development of intolerance and chauvinism in the United States and Europe, both East and West.

"Patterns of Prejudice" is a peer reviewed journal published five times a year. The views expressed in its pages are those of the individual authors.

Since the end of the nineteenthth century, music has played an increasingly prominent role in constructing national identities and promoting various types of nationalist projects. Some of these projects turned to (largely re-invented) musical folk traditions as evidence of the rootedness and longevity of their nations. Later, music was often employed to show the grandeur of nation-states and empires. With the rise of illiberal nationalisms, many composers and performers contributed to the formation of ‘closed’, exclusivist concepts of national identity.

However, no matter how deeply involved particular composers or musicians might be in promoting illiberal social, cultural or political projects, music cannot, as such, be regarded as nationalist, racist or xenophobic. The racist or nationalist associations of a piece of music might arise from the lyrics that accompany it, but often are constructed from without, from the larger social, historical, political or cultural context. For example, the reasons why ‘Giovinezza’ is banned in Italy or Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is rarely heard in Israel do not have much to do with the music itself, but rather with the memories these works evoke, the historical or cultural baggage they bring with them. The majority of punk fans don’t listen to the songs of Skrewdriver or Macht und Ehre, not because they are ‘bad’ punk rock but because the band members are racist.

This special issue will feature original research articles focusing on historical and contemporary instances of intersection of music and nationalism. We are particularly interested in contributions that address the following issues:

• musical works as lieux de memoires
• appropriation of folk music in nationalist narratives
• music and racial or ethnic conflict
• the role of music in the demonization or stigmatization or ethnic, racial or national communities
• xenophobic tendencies in contemporary musical genres such as Punk, Industrial, Hip-Hop, Neo-Folk, Dark Ambient, Black Metal and others
• the use of music by historical and contemporary far right movements, organizations and parties

Proposals for articles (500 words) addressing these and related issues should be submitted by e-mail before 15 June 2011. All final contributions must be the original work of the author/s; they will be subject to peer review and the editors’ decisions will be final. Please send proposals to Anton Shekhovtso (anton.shekhovtsov@gmail.com) and/or Barbara Rosenbaum (b.rosenbaum@dsl.pipex.com).

Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Works of Joss Whedon
CALL FOR AUTHORS

Editors: Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery Woodall
Deadline: June 1st, 2011

Description: “Not exactly a haven for the brothers, strictly the Caucasian persuasion here in the ‘Dale’,” wryly muses Mr. Trick during his first moments in Buffy "The Vampire Slayer". Indeed, with the majority of characters in of each of Joss Whedon’s televisual works being Caucasian and of American, British, or otherwise “Western” cultural descent, whiteness and white privilege are narratologically centered yet inconsistently articulated throughout the Whedonverses. Similarly, diversity of race, ethnicity, and nationality rarely occupy the foreground of the narrative within Whedon’s works, and what representations do exist of people/communities of color, indigenous peoples, and “minority” cultures have been hotly contested by fans and scholars alike. While several recently published books contain chapters devoted to exploring issues of race, ethnicity, and nationality (The Literary Angel, Investigating Firefly/Serenity, Reading Angel), and though each year many presentations at pop culture conferences touch upon these topics, no single volume devotes itself exclusively to investigating the ways in which race, ethnicity, and nationality operate in the Whedonverses.

To fill this gap, we are soliciting abstracts for an edited collection of essays tentatively titled Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Works of Joss Whedon. We are interested in any and all topics that investigate the role of race, ethnicity, heritage, nationhood, nationality, culture, identity, and social hierarchy/ privilege in the Whedonverses. Essays may approach Whedon’s works from a variety of disciplines, as long as they address how race, ethnicity, nation, and nationality shape, function in and/or complicate the production realities (staffing, producing, casting, etc. of the shows themselves), characters, narratives, and/or interpretations of Joss Whedon’s works.

Topics: Essays may address any of Joss Whedon’s televisual works (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) and/or comics (Buffy Season 8, Fray, The Astonishing X-men, Tales of the Vampyres, Tales of the Slayers, Sugarshock). Essays may address the “Whedon” school of writers (e.g. Jane Espenson, Marti Noxon, Drew Goddard) and their works outside the Whedonverses, but only insofar as they pertain to examining Whedon’s work.

Possible topics include:
- Constructions of nationhood and/or nation-based identity (i.e. American, British, Jewish, etc.)
- Casting controversies: race, role, and representation
- Racism, racial stereotypes and/or internalized Otherness as narrative device and/or characterization tool
- Constructions of whiteness in the Whedonverses
- Treatment of indigenous people and/or historically oppressed cultures (i.e. colonialism, imperialism, Orientalism, etc.)
- Presence/absence/erasure of race/ethnicity in depictions of space and place
- The villainization/victimization of ethnicity
- The Otherness of Slayerdom or Demon-ness
- Fantastic embodiments of lightness and darkness
- Critique of representations of specific races/ethnicities through individual characters; may be recurring (i.e. Gunn from Angel, Ivy from Dollhouse) or non-recurring (i.e. Ampata from “Inca Mummy Girl” etc.)
- Close readings of individual episodes or songs that explicitly address themes of race, ethnicity, and nation/ality (i.e. “That Old Gang Of Mine” from Angel)
Race, ethnicity, nationality, and language (tensions between satire and stereotyping, etc.)
- Human/vampire relationships as miscegenation
- Contemporary political commentary within Whedon’s work with regard to race and ethnicity (i.e. affirmative action, reparations, housing inequities, etc.)
- Explorations of intercultural dynamics across imagined racial boundaries/ demon-human hybridity

Timeline: Proposals will be due June 1st, 2011. Please submit proposals of approx. 500 words as Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) attachments to: maryiatrop@gmail.com and lowery.woodall@gmail.com

Please include both your name and your contact information on your proposal.

We will respond to proposals by June 15th, 2011. Essay drafts will be due by September 15th, 2011, and final drafts will be expected by December 15th, 2011. Final essays will be approximately 6,000 words.

"Палітычная сфера" приглашает авторов к подаче материалов в тематический номер 
"Язык политики. Политика языка" (№ 16 (1) 2011)
 
Срок предоставления материалов:
25 мая 2011 года  
 
“Палітычная сфера” – специализированное издание по политическим и социальным дисциплинам в Беларуси. Журнал публикует результаты научных исследований из различных разделов политической науки и смежных дисциплин. Все статьи журнала проходят анонимное академическое рецензирование. Соответствие научным стандартам, а также эмпирический и теоретический вклад в понимание политики, являются критериями для публикации. Издание включено в несколько международных научных библиотек, в частности Central and Eastern European On-line Library, а также реферируется в International Political Science Association (IPSA) Abstracts.  

Журнал издается с 2001 года.

Основная тема номера № 16 (1) 2011 – языковая политика и политика языка. 

Проблематика номера: 
- Политика языка и язык политиков: национальные, региональные и международные тенденции. 
- Лингвистические сообщества в политическом процессе: программы, выборы, институты. 
- Языковые и культурные движения, политические организации. 
- Языковая политика в Центральной и Восточной Европе: основные стратегии. 
- Языковая политика в Беларуси: ХХ-ХХІ столетие. 
- Язык и национальная идентичность. 
- Политика правописания, лексики и языковые реформы. 

 
К публикации принимаются материалы на белорусском, русском, английском, а также польском и украинском языках. 

Статьи в журнале публикуются на белорусском и русском языке. Редакция самостоятельно осуществляет перевод. 

Тематика материалов может не совпадать с основной темой номера. 

В редакцию предоставляется оригинальный текст, которые никогда до этого не публиковался ни в виде отдельной статьи, ни в виде части монографии. 

Статьи, присланные в редакцию, проходят обязательное анонимное научное  рецензирование.   

Более подробно о требованиях и правилах оформления см. http://journal.palityka.org/rules/

Материалы для печати в №16 принимаются до 25 мая 2011 года 

Контактный адрес: info@palityka.org

The annual journal "The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928" seeks submissions of manuscripts on Soviet history and culture during the 1920s. The journal publishes articles in English or Russian. All article submissions are subject to peer review.

Please send three anonymous copies of an article along with an electronic version in MS Word, Word Perfect, or PDF (which may be submitted separately by e-mail) to: Dr. Alexis Pogorelskin, Department of History, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 1121 University Drive, Duluth, MN 55812-2496, and email to: apogorel@d.umn.edu.

Manuscripts should be in a standard font with one inch margins. The text (including block quotes and endnotes) should be double-spaced. The maximum length for an article is thirty-five double-spaced pages (including endnotes), or nine thousand words. If, however, subject, sources, or treatment warrant greater length, the journal will negotiatean appropriate extension. Authors should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) and the Library of Congress transliteration system.

Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and current contact information. We will acknowledge all submissions and endeavor to make our decision concerning publication as soon as we are able, allowing for the reports of at least two reviewers.

Submissions to The NEP Era should not have been previously published. First publication of submissions should occur in this journal.

For more information about the journal, see its web site at:
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/NEPera/main/index.php

Competition for social scientists in Russia and CIS countries for participation in a program of publications in peer-reviewed journals at Ronald Inglehart’s laboratory.

Laboratory for comparative social research of the Higher School of Economics announces the second round of competition. The target of the activities is production of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Successful bidders must be proficient in statistical methods and the English language.

The bidders should submit two English-language documents: a project description and a short resume to hseconkurs@gmail.com by April 1, 2011.

The competition results will be announced on April 15, 2011 by e-mail correspondence and on the lab’s site.

Successful bidders can become Associate Fellows at the lab, participate in methodological summer schools in Petersburg, EU countries, and the USA, and consult with Ronald Inglehart and other staff on their research. As a result of these activities, we will develop (1) a series of publications in international peer-reviewed journals and (2) an international network of scholars in which Russian professionals will be connected with leading US, European, and post-Soviet specialists.

Successful bidders will be invited to the Lab’s conference to be held in St. Petersburg on April 24-27, 2011

Template for Proposals:

All projects must be comparative (cross-cultural or cross-country) studies, use available data, and apply statistical methods. Please cover the following issues in your proposal:

(1) Key Question: Focus your topic on one central research question or hypothesis.
What is your question? Why is it worth answering?
(2) Specific Contribution: what knowledge exists concerning this question and to what literature will you contribute? Outlining where the existing evidence is deficient or inconclusive, so that your research fills a gap in the literature.
(3) Theoretical Framework: Briefly describe your theoretical framework and its key concepts.
(4) Core Variables and Hypotheses: Describe the core variables of your research: what is the major dependent variable and what are plausible independent variables? Specify a number of alternative hypotheses/mechanisms.
(5) Analyses and Modelling: Outline the analytical techniques and empirical models you will use.
How will you test your question? How will you know if you are wrong?
(6) Targeted Data Base: What comparative or longitudinal evidence would be needed to test your question? What dataset will you use?
(7) Roadmap: Briefly describe the analytical steps that you will follow.

Furthermore, describe what you are going to do in the period between May and August 2011

(1) Literature to read: Which discussion do you want your work to be a part of?
(2) Statistical techniques to learn or improve: What is the appropriate set of statistical techniques you need for your research? Do you need help in learning these techniques? Which courses may you be interested in?