Call For Publications: Book on Amitav Ghosh: His Art and Poetics

Call For Publications:

The original and unpublished research articles/papers are solicited from the Scholars, Critics, and Academicians for publication in the forthcoming Anthology on Amitav Ghosh and His Writings. The book will be published from the reputed house likes of Atlantic, Authorpress etc.

Sub-themes of the Book

1. Amitav Ghosh, nation, nationalism and transnationalism.

2. Amitav Ghosh and ‘Writing Past’.

3. Amitav Ghosh, travel, migration and diaspora.

4. Amitav Ghosh, violence and memory.

5. Amitav Ghosh and marginal discourse.

6. Amitav Ghosh and ‘the politics of ambivalence’.

7. Amitav Ghosh and anthropocene.

Editing Requirements:

• Paper Size: A4, Font: Times New Roman Font Size: 12, Spacing: 1.25 inches 

• Title of the Paper: Bold Sentence Case: centered 

• Text of the Paper: justified

• References & Citations: Kindly follow MLA Handbook Documentation Style 8 edition. Please don’t use footnotes; use endnotes

• Titles of Books: Italics; Titles of Articles: in double inverted commas

• Length of the article: 3000-4000 words 

• Work Cited should be given in the following format:

Mode of Submission: 

The learned contributor is advised to email a full-length paper, alongwith a brief bionote and also a declaration stating that the research paper is an original work in a single MS-Word attachment file to animeshbag007@gmail.com, latest by 31 December, 2017. 

Important: 

• No need to send hard copy of your paper.

• There is no publication fee for the contribution of research papers.

Plagiarism Alert: 

All submissions should be original. The contributor is advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas borrowed from others. The editor/publisher will not be held responsible for any lapse on the part of the contributor. If plagiarism is found at any stage, the author of the paper shall be blacklisted and disclosed publically. Therefore, the papers submitted should evince serious academic work, contributing new knowledge and innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

For any queries please feel free to contact 

Prof. Animesh Bag

Assistant Professor in English

K.K.Das College

Kolkata, West Bengal

Mobile No. 8101677829

Whatsapp. 8001558943

Call For Publications:Special Issue: Paradox of Globalization- Sociology Today- Journal

Call For Publications:

Sociology Today (http://sociologytoday.net) is a new journal dedicated to publishing socially  significant, well-researched and theoretically compelling research articles and book reviews predominantly in the field of sociology.

Sociology Today extends a platform for social scientists to present socially significant, well-researched and theoretically compelling research articles and book reviews predominantly in the field of sociology. Each volume will consist of comprehensive commentary on emerging areas of sociological enquiry. Echoing the spirit of Interdisciplinarity, this Journal will not restrict itself to the disciplinary boundaries. Any works that highlight socially relevant inputs from the cutting-edge of the field, in terms of theoretical, methodological, or topical areas, will be given equal consideration. Journal will follow a rigorous double-blind peer reviewing policy.

Scope:

The journal will be of interdisciplinary nature dealing with global and regional issues across the disciplines. Tentatively we have marked the following thrust areas:

• Ways of knowing 
• Knowledge Production 
• Deliberation, decision-making, and uncertainty management 
• Boundary work 
• Professional debates and credibility contests 
• Contentious discourse and narratives 
• Biomedical ethics 
• Tension between social and biological perspectives 
• Science and religion in debate 
• Claims-making in social movements 
• Community disputes over knowledge and values 
• State legitimation of knowledge claims 
• Transnational knowledge flows 
• Inequality and resistance in knowledge production 
• Diffusion of ideas and innovation 
• Institutional supports and impediments to knowledge production 
• Technological advancement and the meaning of progress 
• Epistemological disputes in the social and natural sciences 
• The challenges of mixed methodologies 
• Objectivity versus activism in research 
• Intersectionality,Migration and Urban living 
• Queer perspective 
• Gerontology 
• Diasporic study

Special Issue: Paradox of Globalization

For the Inaugural issue we are inviting papers and book reviews on the broad topics relating to the Paradox of Globalization.

Format of the Articles:

Authors must follow the APA style.

Word Limits:

Research articles: 3000-5000 words including the Reference section. Articles beyond 5000 words will also be considered.

Book Reviews: Word-limit: 1500-3000 words

Publication Charge: Free. No charge of any kind.

Deadline for Submission: 15 December, 2017.

For more information please visit http://sociologytoday.net/cfp/

Contact Info: 

Dr. Sudeshna Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Women Studies, University of Bangalore.

Email: editor@sociologytoday.net

Contact Email: editor@sociologytoday.net

URL: http://sociologytoday.net

Call For Publications: Special Issue: Jane Austen after 200 Years-Spring Magazine for English Literature

Call For Publications:

One of the original bestselling authors, Jane Austen (1775-1817) has successfully managed to bridge the gap between what is often perceived as the non-negotiable chasm between canonical and popular literature. Her works, two centuries after her demise, are, in fact without exaggeration, more popular now than in her own period. Once written off as an author who provides the readers with a limited perspective of the world — as her characters are seemingly unperturbed by political events, Austen shows unparalleled finesse in depicting the characters and setting using a “fine brush” to artistically explore and exploit her “two inches of ivory”. What is evident, debates regarding her subject matter notwithstanding, is that Austen’s popularity has not faded. Right from the first stage production of her work, The Bennets in 1901 to the currently-on-air Kumkum Bhagya — a Hindi TV soap opera inspired by Sense and Sensibility, Austen has successfully straddled generations of readers as well as continents and cultures. Earlier known simply as a novelist who wrote in the tradition of the “novels of sensibility” and one who was part of the transition to nineteenth century realism, Austen is now appropriated by various sections of the intelligentsia. As the conservative Gene Koppel grudgingly pointed out, the ambiguity of Austen’s works lends them to multi-dimensional interpretations.

On Jane Austen’s two hundredth death anniversary, Spring Magazine for English Literature invites articles that explore these interpretations that Austen’s works encourage. The ramifications of Austen’s works when interpreted using literary theories will be dealt with in this issue. Broad areas include (but are not limited to):

• Jane Austen and Psychoanalysis
• Deconstruction and Jane Austen
• Marxism and Jane Austen
• Feminism and Jane Austen
• Jane Austen and New Historicism/Cultural Materialism
• Jane Austen and Eco-criticism
  Jane Austen and Filmic Representation/Adaptation
• Jane Austen and Sequels
• Appropriation and Jane Austen
• Cultural Referencing of Jane Austen
• Sexuality and Jane Austen
• Intertextuality and Jane Austen
• Unreliable narrators in Jane Austen
• Jane Austen and the Age of Transition/Compromise/Conflict

Articles should be student-friendly, (as the journal is primarily aimed at students of English Literature); however, articles should not be derivative of established research on Jane Austen — as there is a high premium on originality. New applications of theories and hitherto-unexplored topics will be given preference. Plagiarism in any form is condemned.

Word Count: 1,500-3,000 words

Style: All articles must adhere to the latest MLA guidelines, and include a 150 word abstract, 5 keywords, and the contributors should have a valid ORCID ID. Please check this link before submitting: http://www.springmagazine.net/submission-guidelines/

Deadline: December 31, 2017.

Contact Info: 

Krishna KBS

Assistant Professor in English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala.

Contact Email: 

chiefeditor@springmagazine.net

URL: 

http://www.springmagazine.net/call-for-papers/

Call For Publications: Special Issue: Corps, Parallax- Taylor and Francis

Call For Publications:

In 1982 in ‘Voice II...’ Jacques Derrida wrote: ‘Today, one often says “body” with the same degree of credulousness or dogmatism, at best with the same faith as, previously, one used to speak of “soul”’. Against such credulousness and dogmatism, this issue of parallax invites papers exploring how contemporary critical theory can challenge preconceptions on the body and interrogate its limits particularly in relation to intertwined foldings of desire, gender, race and sexuality.

In invoking the French term corps — rather than its English counterpart (body/bodies) — we wish to challenge the assumed familiarity of what a ‘body’ or ‘bodies’ are and could be. Generally speaking, this gesture aims to suggest that the Derridean problematization of textuality and (un)translatability might challenge and re-configure the conventional dichotomy between understandings of the body either as physical/material or as socio-culturally constructed. ‘Textuality’ points to the notion that material embodiments remain open to future interpretations, future translations — open to the event of future readings. In particular, we aim to enable novel encounters with corps by emphasising the problem of (un)countability: the French corps is both plural and singular. This linguistic ambivalence thus raises the problems of undecidability and supplementarity in the process of signification and their theoretical, ethical, and political implications, which Derrida famously explored through notions such as ‘différance’ ‘dissemination’ or ‘pharmakon’. In addition to Derrida’s work, the problematization of corps’ (un)countability seeks to encourage interventions mobilizing the work of thinkers who—alongside Derrida—have interrogated this problem in relation to postcolonial critique and critical race theory (such as Saidiya Hartman, Mark Sanders and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) and have argued for sexes and sexualities which are not determined by univocal phallocentric logic (such as Héléne Cixous, Elisabeth Grosz and Paul B. Preciado), or have navigated their interrogations towards the intertwining genesis, evolutions and co-habitations of humans and non-humans (such as Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway and Vicki Kirby).

We also invite contributions exploring corps by opening it/them to its/their own (un)translatability. In this respect, we are interested in the ways in which various intellectual, linguistic and political traditions engage with this problem, but also in contributions engaging with questions opened through this word’s disseminal polysemy. This may include interrogating corps in relation to divisions and units (of ‘bodies’) associated together or acting in formation towards a common direction (called ‘corps’ in English), thus pointing to the problematics of combatting bodies and/or forming alliances. It may also lead to questions related to what has been left behind, the remains, residues or remainders, or, as it is named in English, ‘corpse(s)’ — which implies an opening to the problematic of finitude, memory, survival, but also to theorizing corps in relation to futurity, afterlife, and to the (im)possibility of new and different lives. 

We welcome proposals within but not limited to questions such as:

• Representations of the body
• Different bodies/ bodies of différance
• Sexed bodies - deconstructing sex and sexuality
• Singular and/or plural embodiments
• Collective or communal bodies
• Genes, genres and genealogies
• Bodies in combat
• Translating corps
• Technologies of the body, prostheticity and supplementarity
• (Un)countable and (un)accountable bodies
• Remainders, remains, bodily traces
• Pharmacologies of the body
• Deconstructive biopolitics

By initiating such explorations of corps, this issue of parallax seeks to intervene in the current scholarship of feminist, queer and postcolonial theory, transgender studies, bio-medical humanities, critical science studies, deconstruction, posthumanism, literature and visual art studies.

Submission Guidelines

Potential contributors should submit abstracts of 400 words to the guest editors Thomas Clément Mercier and Lenka Vráblíková by 1st February 2017. Final essays should not exceed 6000 words including references. All essays are subject to peer-review.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page for more details.

Editorial information

Guest Editor: Lenka Vráblíková, University of Leeds (l.vrablikova@leeds.ac.uk)

Guest Editor: Thomas Clément Mercier, CEFRES/ Charles University Prague(thomas.clement.mercier@gmail.com)

Call for Publications- Translation Studies-Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) Journal

Call for Publications-

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an academic journal, invites original and unpublished research papers from scholars on the following:

Establishment of Translation Studies as an independent academic discipline in the second half of 20^th century, and the subsequent burgeoning of its corpus, has apportioned debates on conceptualization of translation within western and non-western frames. These debates concern themselves with the translational praxis across different linguistic cultures which resist a monolithic understanding of the discipline of translation along with the problematic of meaning within the translated texts itself which varies significantly from one culture to another. 

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At this juncture of available scholarship it is recognized that any fruitful discussion of translation addresses, if not necessarily begin with, an act of interpretation. This question of translation as interpretation itself merits scrutiny as to what is involved in a translation/interpretation, for it is only as interpretation that a particular translation limits or delimits the discursive spaces of meaning in a particular text. Focus on translation as interpretation also problematizes the location of translation itself as well as conterminous re-presentation of the source text and the target text. Moreover if translations are to be viewed as “rewritings”, as Andre Lefevere suggests, then the notions of ‘authorship’ too demand to be revisited and complexity of these notions of authorship in individualistic terms need to be played off against “community translations.”

We propose this Call for Papers for a more comprehensive view of what is called translation and its pivotal position at the cross-road of interdisciplinary studies. Please send us papers that delve on or go beyond the following themes -

• Historical and contemporary perspectives on translation
• Tradition of translation
• Translation and authorship
• Evolution of translation practices
• Translability of texts
• Literature in translation
• Praxis of translation
• Interpretation and Localization

The broad aim of Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies consists in providing a discursive space for all the researchers committed to quality work. We believe that in reaching the society at large, quality research has not only the potential to transform it, but also to redefine intellectual landscape by harnessing the synergy essential to inter-disciplinary research. With this broad aim in view, we encourage scholars from humanities, social sciences and other related disciplines to submit their research work.

Only complete papers will be considered for publication. The papers need to be submitted according to the latest guidelines of the MLA format. You are welcome to submit full papers (not less than 3500 words) along with a 150 words abstract, list of keywords, bio-note and word count on or before 20th November, 2017. Please email your submissions to - llids.journal@gmail.com

Note - We do not solicit any fee for publication.

Contact Info: 

Nikita Goel

 llids.journal@gmail.com

Contact Email: 

llids.journal@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.elllids.com