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		Calls for Papers 2014 Conference - Washington, D.C. Spring, 2014 Humane, Inhumane, Human HERA 2014 Conference Call In keeping with HERA's mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines, presentations range across the theme of Humane, Inhumane, Human. Submissions are not yet open. Please check back. Questions may be directed to Marcia Green at mgreen@sfsu.edu. ___________________________________________________________
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	INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES Ongoing call for essays, poems, and cover artwork Upcoming Issues Please note: The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm. Deadline: May 1, 2013 Fall 2013 - Fat Representations Co-Editors: Dr. Brenda Risch and Christoph Zepeda, M.A. The peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Humanities invites submissions of scholarly articles, nonfiction essays, and book and film reviews that explore representations and theories of fat, gender and eating. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Eating: Representations of eating in popular culture, literature, film, and art. How is eating positioned as an activity of significance/insignificance? How is eating gendered, raced, classed, sexed, etc? What are the linkages between eating and identity, and how are these connections theorized? Fat Positive Representations: How do positive representations of fat articulate subjectivity? How is gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, age, physical ability woven into or expressed through fat positive view points? What theories of being rise out of positioning fat/plenitude/abundance as a positive attribute? Fat Superheros: What makes a Hero or Heroine of size? What complexities and textures of superhero-hood become visible in a fat superhero? How is she/he translated in film, literature, paintings, action figures, comic books, graphic novels, ceramics, and music? Additional topics include: Fat Sexualities; Fat Abroad; Global Perspectives on Fat/Size…. IH asks that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature, double-spaced, numbered, with one-inch margins on all sides, and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Please include a 100 word abstract, c.v. and author biography of 200 words with your submission. Send queries and submissions to: Co-Editors: Brenda Risch (brisch@utep.edu) and Christoph Zepeda (czepeda@alliant.edu). Please note: The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2013* Spring 2014 - Online Learning in the Humanities Send queries and submissions to Mary Ann Koory at (mak@broadviewnet.net), Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas--Fort Smith (shusarik@fortsmith.edu), o r Ronald Weber at (rweber@utep.edu). IH is soliciting original research and reflective articles on the use of technology for teaching Humanities. The editors are open to all aspects and issues related to the use of technology for teaching Humanities especially online instruction in Humanities, especially studies of a data driven nature whether based in either a quantitative or a qualitative methodology. We encourage reflective, integrative evaluations or essays that challenge current practices and expectations and encourage experimentation in novel approaches to humanities teaching and learning. Attention will also be given to articles that review former experiences or provide case studies that illustrate multidisciplinary approaches such as the use of technologically enhanced instructional models in study abroad courses. The goal of this project is to explore the growing use of technology in the field of Humanities and to assess the impact of technology and online instruction upon the levels of learning among students in the Humanities. Please note: The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2014* Summer 2014 - Houston Conference Issue Sacred Sites, Secular Spaces: Scenes, Sounds, and Signs in Humanistic, Artistic, and Technological Culture Deadline: May 1, 2014 Fall 2014 -- Re-Imagining, Re-Remembering and Cultural Recycling: Adaptation Across the Humanities Guest Editor: Robert L. Neblett, robert.neblett@gmail.com In an attempt to reclaim adaptation as a more expansive subject of study that crosses disciplinary thresholds, this issue deals with a broad range of topics related to the re-visioning, or "seeing again," of familiar structures and patterns, and the many innovations and anxieties associated with this process. A number of issues will be considered, including but not limited to reinterpreting the classics, in/fidelity to source materials, chronological precedence as an in/accurate gauge for textual primacy, the intention/agenda of the adaptor, adaptation across media (novel to film, poem to song, play to musical, legend to opera, pop culture snafu into internet meme), stylistic superimposition, intertextuality and adaptation from multiple sources, and knowing vs. unknowing audiences. Deadline: November 1, 2014 Spring 2015 - Alfred Hitchcock Guest Editor: Michael Howarth This special issue will focus on Alfred Hitchcock, the "master of suspense" whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. Hitchcock produced and directed over fifty motion pictures, in addition to hosting two anthology series on television. His film craftsmanship is still relevant today, as his influence is continuously cited by contemporary filmmakers and he is regularly taught in cinema classes. For this special issue, we will be looking for scholarly articles, book reviews, and nonfiction essays that explore various aspects of Hitchcock's work and personal life, and how the two often connected: music, television, gender, humor, voyeurism, film history, or film theory, to name just a few. All essays should be interdisciplinary in nature and not exceed 6,000 words. Please send inquiries and submissions to Dr. Michael Howarth at howarth-m@mssu.edu. Deadline: Jan 15, 2015 Summer 2015: Conference Issue from 2014 Conference Deadline: May 1, 2015 Fall 2015 - Environmental Aesthetics Guest Editor: Tony Lack, The University of Alaska, Anchorage This special issue will focus on Environmental Aesthetics, broadly conceived, to include the following suggested topics: The aesthetic value and/or function of selected works of environmental literature, art and architecture; re-visioning traditional aesthetic theories of the beautiful and the sublime in light of environmentalist critiques; the relationship between environmental aesthetics and environmental preservation; critiques of the anthropocentric point of view and the aesthetics of nature; the "enhancement" of nature; the aesthetics of wilderness; historical, cross-cultural and comparative analyses of environmental aesthetics; and evolutionary approaches to the aesthetics of nature. Of particular interest are scholarly articles, book reviews, and nonfiction essays. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words. Please send inquiries and submissions to Dr. Tony Lack at: alack@kpc.alaska.edu.
			Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015 *Spring 2016 - Out of the Past and Into the Night: The Noir* Vision in American Culture** Guest Editor: Doré Ripley, California State University, East Bay When American movies made their way across the Atlantic after World War II, the French film critics couldn't help but notice their dark and brooding quality, dubbing them noir. Classic noir texts by authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler featured characters that take on the big dark city as alienated, angst-ridden antiheroes. Classic noir faded in the late 1950s, but during the 1970s, we find a resurgence of noir with the emergence of a new form dubbed neo-noir, a form set in the near future where a gloomy dystopia with an environmentally corrupt aesthetic reflects the characters' personalities as they question the essence of human nature. When set in the past, such as Polanski's neo-noir, Chinatown, the concerns are contemporary, most decidedly. Neo-noir, in turn, has spawned cyberpunk, retro noir, and steam punk as aficionados still squabble over whether noir is a genre, style, or movement. From classic to neo-noir, this issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities will examine from a diversity of perspectives, themes, and approaches, the history, issues, and theories of the noir vision in American culture as exemplified by literary and mass cultural fiction (films, texts, art, pulps, comics) and explore a wide variety of interactions with historical, social, political, psychological and literary-cinematic contexts. Please send inquiries and submissions to Doré Ripley at dore.ripley@gmail.com. Deadline: May 1, 2016 Fall 2016: Expanding the Scope of Horror Guest Editors: Edmund Cueva and William Novak The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model for research and analysis as an alternative to the rigid and dichotomous methodologies often used in investigations on horror. Currently, most of the scholarship either tends to situate horror on the fringe of academic research and therefore not worthy of attention. Or, research isolates and defines horror as being strictly the intellectual property of those who are experts in literature or film. The proposed paradigm would seek to create a multidisciplinary investigatory paradigm that will bring together into productive discussion such varied disciplines as classics, art history, philosophy, architecture, psychology, religious studies, history, gender studies, music, and the traditionally associated areas of literature and film. The special issue would serve as a starting point for future discussion and research on horror in all of its multiple and complex forms. Please send inquiries and submissions to: Edmund Cueva at cuevae@uhd.edu and William Nowak at nowakw@uhd.edu. Calling all Book Reviewers! IH editors are looking for well written book reviews of new publications that educators might use in interdisciplinary classrooms or scholarship. These can be scholarly works as well as textbooks that examine themes and ideas across disciplines. This is an excellent opportunity for young scholars and graduate students to publish! Please submit your reviews to Ed Cueva (cuevae@uhd.edu). Books Available for Review Blom, Philipp and Veronica Buckely Twilight of the Romanovs: a Photographic Odyssey across Imperial Russia Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-51668-3. (http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Twilight_ of_the_Romanovs/9780500516683) Englehardt, Joshua, ed. Agency in Ancient Writing University Press of Colorado, 2012. 978-1-60732-199-6. (http://www.upcolorado.com/book/_ welcome/Agency_in_Ancient_Writing_cloth) Esterberg, Kristin G. and John Wooding Divided Conversations: Identities, Leadership, and Change in Public Higher Education Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. 978-0-8265-1899-6 (http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/ index.php/books/490/divided-conversations) Furtado, Peter, ed. Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-25181-2 (http://thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-histories-of-nations/) Glenney Boggs, Colleen Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity Columbia University Press, 2013. 978-0-231-16122-0 (http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/ 978-0-231-16122-0/animalia-americana) Goldstein, Phyllis A Convenient Hatred: the History of Antisemitism. Facing History and Ourselves 2012. 978-0-9819543-8-7. (http://convenienthatred.facinghistory.org/) Hayot, Eric On Literary Worlds Oxford University Press, 2012. 978-0-19-992669-5. (http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/ subject/LiteratureEnglish/LiteraryTheory /?view=usa&ci=9780199926695) Joyce, Arthur, A., ed. Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca University Press of Colorado, 2013. 978-1-60732-202-3 (http://www.upcolorado.com/book/ Polity_and_Ecology_in_Formative_Period _Coastal_Oaxaca) Mair, Victor H., Sanping Chen, and Frances Wood Chinese Lives: the People Who Made a Civilization Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-25192-8 (http://www.thamesandhudson.com/media /images/Chinese_Lives_PR_25696.pdf) Mallory, J. P. The Origins of the Irish Thames and Hudson, 2013. 978-0-500-05175-7 (http://www.thamesandhudson.com/ The_Origins_of_the_Irish/9780500051757) Morris, M. Michelle Jarrett Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2013. 978-0-674-06633-5. (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ catalog.php?isbn=9780674066335) Contact Ed Cueva (cuevae@uhd.edu) so that he can send you a copy of the book. 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 at shusarik@uafortsmith.edu and Lee Ann Westman at lewestman@utep.edu. Detailed submissions guidelines can be found on the >Journal webpage. Interdisciplinary Humanities defines "interdisciplinary humanities education" as any learning activities with content that draws upon the human cultural heritage, methods that derive from the humanistic disciplines, and a purpose that is concerned with human values. Academic courses don't have to be labeled "humanities" to be interdisciplinary. Integrated courses and units are often disguised under such names as World History, Freshman English, Music Appreciation, Beginning Spanish, Introduction to Religion, Senior Honors, etc. Integration can range from the use of a novel in a history course to team teaching to comprehensive thematic extravaganzas that combine the arts, literature, philosophy, and social sciences. HERA welcomes manuscripts from university colleagues, but also ones that examine interdisciplinary scholarship and education in elementary grades, teacher education, adult public programs, graduate seminars, educational radio and television, museums, and historic parks. Artists wishing to have their works published on the cover of IH should submit works that are representative of the theme(s) of a particular issue. Please note: The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities*’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.