Calls for Papers for the Journals of the University of Nebraska Press
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Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
Special Issue Call for Manuscripts: Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Performance.
We are seeking research, clinical, and conceptual manuscripts that offer perspective or shed light upon the Super Bowl LIX halftime performance by Kendrick Lamar. There were a myriad of perspectives and opinions about various portions of the show, and it is crucial that sexuality scholars continue the conversation by means of their research, clinical best practice, pedagogy, or efforts of advocacy. The special issue will allow scholars to engage one another in dialogue about a number of stressors and celebrations that are unique to the relational and sexual experiences of persons who identify or work with persons of the African diaspora. Using Kendrick Lamar’s performance as a potential source of inspiration, submitted manuscripts should consider one (or more) of the following:
- Interpretations of hip-hop lyrics and dance
- The role of race and patriarchy in society
- The impact that capitalism has on race and sexuality
- The confluence of race, sex, and ability and the necessity of discussions that center marginalized populations.
- Symbolic interactionism, social construction, phenomenological approaches of Kendrick Lamar vs Drake beef
- Stereotypic and counter-stereotypic gender roles and identities in the Black community
- The evolution of sexuality language in social media, theater, and performative spaces
- Modern day colorism and texturism
- The role and impact that fascism has on romantic relationships
- Decolonizing entertainment
- Gender expression in music
- Myths of Black sexuality
- May-December relationships including exploitation/coercion of minors in the Black community
- Unpacking the influence of internalized white supremacy in Black relationships and sexual expression.
Please submit your manuscript by April 30, 2025 to jwadley@lincoln.edu, kmarsh1@umd.edu, absc1041@gmail.com. For more information, visit theabsc.com/publication or click here.
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Call for Papers for Special Issue: Political Narratives
This special issue seeks to address and theorize the complex interrelations and overlaps between narrative, politics, and public meaning making. Relevant topics in this context include, but are not limited to:
· the role of narrative in speeches by politicians and in election campaigns
· fictionality and factuality in political narratives
· alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy narratives
· storytelling and new social media
· the (multimodal) form and media affordances of political narratives
· (historical) narratives of political community and (trans-)national identity
· different kinds of disruptive narratives that challenge the status quo
· the role of fictional narratives as a counter-discourse of the political
· the role of utopia and dystopia in the twenty-first century and across different media
· political narratives and cognition
· empirical investigations of the political impact of stories
· post-postmodernism and politics
· the politics of algorithms and AI
Further details can be found here.
Please send a 500-word abstract by May 15, 2025 to Jan.Alber@anglistik.uni-giessen.de and Jan.Rupp@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Studies in American Indian Literatures
Special Issue: Ethical Relations in Indigenous Literary Studies
The Editorial Board of SAIL proposes to publish a Special Issue on: Ethical Relations in Indigenous Literary Studies. This issue will ask contributors to engage the following questions: What does it mean to be a good relative? What is our ethical obligation in responding to conflict within identity politics, academia, and the practice of literary criticism, especially regarding predatory and extractive behaviors? How do we conscientiously talk about Indigenous worldviews in ways that are not reductive and objectifying in our teaching of Indigenous literatures? What do we do with representations of trauma in Indigenous literature, and how do we teach about it while not reproducing it?
This Call For Proposals asks contributors to engage the ethics of relationality in an effort to produce new
scholarship, pedagogical approaches, and other provocations that seek redress, reconciliation, and even
rebuttal in response to the fraught history and ongoing impact of ethnic fraud and identity and resource theft, misogyny and sexism, homophobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, and more.
Please submit an abstract (no more than 500 words) and list of keywords for consideration via email to: SAIL.editors@gmail.com by April 15, 2025.
View the full Call for Proposals here.
Journal of Austrian Studies
Special Issue for Graduate Students
The Journal of Austrian Studies seeks submissions for an upcoming special issue dedicated to the work of graduate students. Prospective contributors will be expected to present a version of their article at the 2025 conference of the Austrian Studies Association (March 27-30, Gettysburg, PA). The deadline for final submissions will be May 1, 2025.
The complete Call for Papers can be accessed here.
For questions, please contact the guest editors of the special, Christine Le Jeune (cmlejeune@ufl.edu) and Julia Lückl (julia.lueckl@univie.ac.at).
Middle West Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal about the American Midwest
Call for Proposals: “The Cold War Midwest”
The journal Middle West Review seeks proposals for articles and essays for a special symposium exploring the various dimensions of the Cold War era Midwest. Topics may include, but are not limited to, Midwestern attitudes toward extensive American involvement in foreign affairs during the Cold War decades; the development of military bases and the installation of nuclear weapons in the Midwest; the role of ethnic groups from the captive nations in domestic politics (Poles, Hungarians, Ukrainians, etc); the experience of Midwesterners in the US military who served in Cold War zones; Midwestern heavy industry and the creation of the American arsenal; the influence of Cold War imperatives on the Civil Rights movement (i.e. the Brown decision); the role Midwestern diplomats such as George Kennan; political leaders skeptical of Cold War interventionism such as Robert Taft and John Bricker; the Vietnam war and the Midwest; Midwestern patriotism in a Cold War context; Midwestern conservatism and its role in American anti-Communism; campus protests and the Midwest; the role of Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and similar anti-Communist political leaders; the role of groups on the progressive left and opposition to Cold War policies; the culture of the Cold War and domesticity; civil defense and bomb shelter construction; anti-Communist churches and religious leaders in the Midwest; the movement of Southeast Asian refugees to Iowa and Wisconsin and other Midwestern places; how the Cold War was experienced differently in the Midwest than other regions; the influence of religion in the Midwest during the Cold War era; films and literature which connect the Cold War and the Midwest.
300-word proposals along with a vita should be sent to Middle West Review at MWR@usd.edu by October 15, 2024. If a proposal is accepted for inclusion in the special symposium, final articles would be due by October 15, 2025.
American Indian Quarterly
Applications are now welcome for Editor (or Co-Editors) of American Indian Quarterly. The term of appointment is for a minimum of four years with possible reappointment thereafter. The current Managing Editor will continue to serve through the end of the 2024-2025 academic year to assure a smooth editorial transition. The new Editor will select a new Book Review Editor. Learn more here.
Resilience → Resistance: A Journal of the Radical Environmental Humanities
Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities is truly interdisciplinary. We welcome contributions from any discipline or interdisciplinary blend. Additionally, we are open to non-academic submissions, including creative writing, poetry, activist reports, and other forms of expression. While submissions can vary in length, please note that we will not publish texts exceeding 7,000 words. We encourage you to share proposals for special issues, intervention series, experiments, or any other innovative projects with us at armiero@icrea.cat.
Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities Special Issue Call for Papers:
Resistance is seeking papers for a special issue titled “Garbage, Discarded Governmentalities and the Ecosystem: Tensions and Resistances.” Submissions will be accepted until May 15, 2024. Read more about the special issue and submissions information here. Submissions and queries should be sent to Sayan Dey at sayandey89@yahoo.com.
Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities Call for Review Essays:
Resistance publishes reviews of books, films, TV series, websites, podcasts, event series or panels, and artworks (e.g., music, soundworks, audio and/or visual, dance). We welcome reviews of scholarly and/or creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, graphic novels, young adult, and genre-radical books and artworks, including visual, audio, and performance-based exhibits or projects. The reviewed works may be in any language; however, at this point, all the reviews will be published in English.
Reviews should be 1500 words or fewer and discuss how a work challenges the dominating status quo, surfaces all-too-resilient and oppressive norms, and/or refuses and rejoinders them, and/or daylight ways that a work fails to do so. The article can reach 2500 words in case it will deal with more than one work.
If you wish to propose a review, please consider that you must declare that no conflict of interest is in place.
Resistance’s review editors are Roberta Biasillo & Carlos Tabernero.
Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
The next issue of the JBSR will be devoted to relational, mental health, or sex therapy devoted to the experiences of Black folks. The editors are looking for manuscripts that address client/therapist relationship, countertransference, transference, issues around race, relational negotiation/strain, issues of sex therapy, couples’ counseling, etc. Instructions for submissions