JEWISH FOLKLORE AND ETHNOLOGY

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) is pleased to announce the publication in March 2023 of its inaugural peer-reviewed annual volume in print and online formats issued by Wayne State University Press. See  https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/journals/detail/jewish-folklore-and-ethnology for information on the publication’s contents and subscription options. The peer-reviewed issue features seven innovative, original analytical studies on traditions of Jewish communities around the world. 

JFE is now accepting submissions for its second volume on Jewish practices and performances of the body, faith, home, and community in the present and the past, in oral, behavioral, visual, and material forms. The editors especially encourage studies of emerging, migratory, and minority communities within the Jewish world and their expressive culture in narrative, song, custom, craft, architecture, dress, and food in the twenty-first century. For information on submitting manuscripts for the volume, see https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jewishfolklore/.  The editors will also welcome proposals for themed future volumes by writing editor Simon J. Bronner at bronners@uwm.edu.

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CFP: Special Issue "Seen and Unseen: The Folklore of Secrecy"

The notion of what is seen but not well understood without esoteric knowledge—as well as what is unseen and only detectable and comprehended by the initiated few—informs various popular beliefs and narratives, including secret societies, lost cities, hidden treasures, elusive monsters, covert rituals, subliminal messages, mysteries of aliens, fairies, ghostly apparitions, and the veiled manifestations of the gods themselves! These legends, cryptic memes, cryptid claims, wonder tales, and beliefs of fantastical, magical, occult, and political intrigue have shaped visions of the ancient as well as the modern world.  We face today not only new vectors of so-called disinformation and potentially dangerous consequences of divergent and disruptive beliefs, but also vivid creations and traditions of speculative mystery, regardless, perhaps, of baleful or benign intent.

In the contemporary moment, it is not simply that visible hopes and anxieties of everyday life and divisive politics are driving the invention and proliferation of popular lore; we also have the role of a vital invisible world. Pervasive memes of apocalyptic spiritual forces, rising belief in ghosts, newsworthy regional legends (the release of Tamamo-no-Ma in Japan from the killing stone), and boosts to socio-political action because of supernatural belief (Huldufólk lore nurturing environmentalism in Iceland) stimulate and renew the living matrix of contemporary folklore of the unseen or the obscurely understood.

Please submit your articles exploring the ways that different communities are engaging folklorically with the concept of secrets, and how those secrets connect to meaningful layers of identity and experiential truth. Finished essays must be at least 5000 words and are due by 20 September 2023. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words, together with a short bibliography of primary and critical texts, to Dr. Jason Harris at jharris@tamu.edu.

Dr. Jason Harris

Guest Editor

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/5B24EV0BD4?fbclid=IwAR2sjaX5kHFHh55jZdkg0ULnQ4eCZr5hylnjIWcXA4vC7bSSFjBN_qDkMpw

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JEF special issue on ethnic and religious hybridity is out

 

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF) has recently published its latest issue Vol. 16 (2). We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and visit our website to read and download articles.

JEF is a joint publication of the University of Tartu, the Estonian National Museum and the Estonian Literary Museum, published by Sciendo.

Sincerely,

Ergo-Hart Västrik
Co-editor of the Journal

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
Special Issue: Hybrid Beliefs and Identities
Vol 16, No 2 (2022)
Table of Contents
https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal 
https://sciendo.com/issue/JEF/16/2

Inspirational Insights
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The Problematic Vernacular (pp. 1–15)
Simon Bronner
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0010

Editorial
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Preface to the Special Issue “Hybrid Beliefs and Identities” (pp. 16–21)
Art Leete
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0011

Articles (Special Issue)
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Buying a God in Paris: Cultural Hybridity in the Thinking of Yuri Vella, Forest Nenets Intellectual (pp. 22–42)
Eva Toulouze, Liivo Niglas, Laur Vallikivi
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0012

Hybridity in a Western Siberian Bear Ceremony (pp. 43–85)
Stephan Dudeck
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0013

Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research: The Komi Case (pp. 86–103)
Art Leete
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0014

Magic Specialists in Udmurt Culture: Some Portraits (pp. 104–131)
Nikolai Anisimov
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0015

Objectified Values at Udmurt Prayers (pp. 132–159)
Ranus Sadikov, Tatiana Minniyakhmetova
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0016

Chuvash Village Sacred Spaces in the Samara Trans-Volga Region (pp. 160–186)
Ekaterina Iagafova, Valeriia Bondareva
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0017

“When They Moved the Cemetery…”: Hybridisation of Belief in the Afterlife after Flood Zone Resettlement in Ukraine(pp. 187–199)
Iryna Koval-Fuchylo
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0018

Jewish Stereotype in the Samogitian Dialect Worldview (pp. 200–218)
Asta Balčiūnienė, Vaida Drukteinytė, Laima Kuprienė, Daiva Pagojienė
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0019

Displaying Exotic Otherness: Does the Space Matter? (pp. 219–238)
Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0020

Territories of Fire: Indigenous Communities, Land, and Anarchy among a Highland People in Mindoro (pp. 239–272)
Christian Rosales
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0021

Articles: Regular
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“The Beach Is Closed, but Not to Us”: Pandemic Experience and Social Boundaries in Rural Okinawa (pp. 273–289)
Jamila Rodrigues
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0022

Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson (pp. 290–307)
Panu Itkonen
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0023

Notes and Reviews
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Book Review: Faith, Doubt and Knowledge in Religious Thinking (pp. 308–310)
Kristel Kivari
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0024

Book Review: New Studies of Folk Religiosity in Poland (pp. 311–315)
Iryna Koval-Fuchylo
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0025

35th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Reykjavik (pp. 316–317)
Tenno Teidearu
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0026

Curating a Sense for the Past: Echo of the Urals Review (pp. 318–119)
Mikaela Jo Krantz
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2022-0027

 

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Extended CfP on Food Sovereignty - Special issue of Social Ecology journal

 

Type: 

Call for Papers

Date: 

July 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022

Location: 

Croatia

Subject Fields: 

Environmental History / Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology

EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS

 

SOCIAL ECOLOGY. Journal for environmental thought and sociological research

ISSN (print): 1330-0113; ISSN (online): 1849-0360

 

SPECIAL ISSUE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN EUROPE

 

About the special issue:

Despite the growing levels of income in European countries, the issues of food scarcity, inequalities and sovereignty are increasingly relevant in times of climate crisis and the global COVID-19 pandemic. The issues of food distribution and prices have only grown as the climate crisis intensifies. To determine the key actors responsible in national and global food policies, as well as identifying guidelines for further action, more sociological research is needed. Access to sustainable, healthy, and affordable food, in today’s networked and globalized world, is not a national issue, but a global one.

 

Therefore, we kindly invite you to submit your theoretical and empirical scientific papers on the issues related to food sovereignty for possible publication in the scientific journal Social Ecology, published by the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia & Croatian Sociological Association.

 

We are honoured to have research professor Daniele Conversi), Ph.D. (https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=hH4c_7sAAAAJ&hl=en) as a Guest Editor for this special issue of Social Ecology.

 

About the journal:

Social Ecology is a scientific journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and methodological papers in environmental sociology and related disciplines. It is published by the Croatian Sociological Association and the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia since 1992. The Editorial Board and the Editorial Council consist of distinguished national and international experts in this field. The journal is indexed/abstracted in prominent databases: Sociological Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography & GEOBASE, FRANCIS, SocINDEX EBSCO, SCOPUS, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and DOAJ.

 

Paper submission guidelines:

Papers should be submitted by the exteneded deadline 30^th November 2022.

Papers can be submitted to the email address: socekol@ffzg.hr or through the journal’s OJS: https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/socijalna-ekologija

The publication of accepted papers in the special issue is expected in 2023.

Submitted papers should be written in English and should not exceed 8 000 - 10 000 words (including abstract, figures, tables and references).

 

The papers should be written in accordance with the Guidelines for authors given at this link: https://hrcak.srce.hr/upute/guide_authors_Socijalna_ekologija.pdf

 

All submissions should include the title page with the following information:

• authors’ name(s), affiliation(s), and email address of the corresponding author;
• title of the paper; and
• abstract of no more than 300 words and 5 keywords. 

 

Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer review process. Authors should follow all appropriate ethical guidelines, disclose all funding and potential conflicts of interest, as well as insure approvals by relevant Ethical Committees for empirical studies. There are no Article Processing Charges or Publication Fee for publication in our journal. All papers published in the journal are available in full and free of charge at the Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals: https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/socijalna-ekologija?lang=en 

 

Respectfully,

Asst. Prof. Tijana Trako Poljak, PhD

Contact Info: 

Asst. Prof. Tijana Trako Poljak, PhD

Editor-in-Chief

Department of Sociology

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Zagreb, Croatia

Contact Email: 

socekol@ffzg.hr

URL: 

https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/socijalna-ekologija

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Winter 2023 CFP, Call for Papers

 

Call for Special Issue Proposals: Winter 2023

 

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology is seeking proposals for the Winter 2023 Special Issue.

 

Submissions are invited that use original research to challenge existing understandings of human social life, and aspire to engage a wide readership. Submissions are encouraged from all theoretical, methodological and political traditions.

 

The maximum length for a Special Issue is 60, 000 words, inclusive of all notes, references, introductions and afterwords. Individual research articles should ordinarily be 8, 000 words in length. No more than 50% of authors named in the proposal should be affiliated to the same institution.

 

Proposals should be sent to the editor (as2672@cam.ac.uk) by no later than July 4th 2022. Proposals should be 2000-2500 words in length and include the following:

 

The name(s), contact details and position(s) of the guest editor(s) and all authors; the proposed title of the Special Issue; an abstract of 750-1000 words that outlines the context, rationale, coherence and contribution of the Special Issue; titles, 125-150 word abstracts and word counts for each individual contribution; an indication of whether drafts of each contribution are complete at the date of proposal.

 

Two shortlisted proposals will be announced in late July 2022, and their editors invited to submit a full manuscript for peer review by October 20th 2022. The successful issue will be announced in January 2023 and published in November 2023.

 

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

Editor: Andrew Sanchez

www.berghahnjournals.com/cja

Submit Your Proposal for the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting in Tulsa

 

The proposal submission window for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Tulsa, OK is now open!

Proposals will be accepted March 1-31, 2022. Read the full CFP here.

If you are part of a proposed paper or panel, you must 1) register and 2) submit your own individual information in the proposal submission system.

Click here to register, or learn more about registration categories, fees, and financial support here.

Read about the proposal submission process here.

We’re looking forward to a full-scale gathering in person this year, but we’re also working to hold the door open for virtual presentations as necessary to support those who are unable to gather in Tulsa.

Please direct questions to annualmeeting@afsnet.org.

In case you didn’t know, there are loads of reasons to get excited about Tulsa. We hope to see you there!

 

Sincerely,
AFS Staff

Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism, Call for Papers, January 31, 2022

 

Call for Book Chapters

Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism

 

While the study of animal-human connectivity within the context of tourism is being explored in a greater diversity of ways within the last decade, the discourse is still divided within two camps: 1) traditional tourism academia and 2) outside disciplines “looking in.” Tourism academics have borrowed philosophical, ethical, gender studies, sociological, ecological conservation, and economic lenses to explore animals in tourism, however truly transdisciplinary approaches within and external to tourism proper remains few. The aim of this book is to strengthen the bridge between “tourism academia” and “non-tourism academia” by highlighting and celebrating fresh perspectives within and external to tourism, and those who bridge the two.

 

We are particularly interested in highlighting emergent transdisciplinary methodologies including, but not limited to multi-species, multi-sited, and virtual ethnographies, embodied empathy, and works which blend theoretical and applied approaches from the biological and social sciences with those of the arts and animal advocacy. We therefore welcome contributions from emerging scholars from around the globe whose work engages with post human explorations of the experiences of animals who appear in the following tourism contexts:

 

• Food tourism: animals as or associated with tastescapes.
• Art: animal literary and visual representations within sites of tourism, or as part of advertisements and marketing of tourism campaigns.
• Passive or active entertainment: animals visually consumed through display, or active performances such as circuses, roadshows, falconry displays, snake charming, and ‘pet’ expose.
• Transportation and recreation: such as elephant rides, donkey rides, horse trekking, llama walking.
• Educational tourism: zoo animal encounters, travelling zoo education programs.
• Sport and racing: competitive sports such as horse racing, greyhound racing, cock fighting, dog fighting, orangutan boxing, and dog agility competitions.
• Animals as photo props: animal selfies, and wildlife encounters on tourist trails.
• Liminal animals at tourist sites: feral, stray, or pest animals.
• Volunteer tourism: sanctuaries, wildlife reserves, in situ conservation programs and gap year experiences.
• Culture and tourism: such as holy cows in India, cats in Egypt or monkey temples in Asia.

 

Participation Process:

1. Submit an abstract no longer than 600 words and an author bio no longer than 200 words by email to Carol Kline (klinecs@appstate.edu) and Jes Hooper (jh1220@exeter.ac.uk). Please send emails with the title “Emerging Voices Chapter Submission”
2. If the proposal is accepted, the chapter between 5,000 and 7,000 words (including references) will be request.
3. Suggested chapter structure: 1) Title. Below the title write the name of each of the authors, their academic degree or job role, their affiliation site and email 2) Introduction. 3) Development of research. 4) Conclusions. 5) References.
4. Citations will be formatted using APA
5. Each chapter will be peer-reviewed, both by the editors and an additional double-blind reviewer.
    

Deadlines:

1. Submission abstract: January 31^st, 2022
2. Notification of acceptance: February 28^th, 2022
3. Submission of chapter: August 31^st, 2022
4. Sending the review of the chapter: November 30^th, 2022
5. Submission of the chapter corrected: January 31^st, 2023
6. Publication of the book: 2023-2024

 

Publishing House:

We are currently in discussion with a publisher for this volume.

 

Contributor Eligibility:

Please contact Carole Kline (klinecs@appstate.edu) and Jes Hooper (jh1220@exeter.ac.uk) with any queries or expressions of interest. We are particularly keen for this book to represent new and emergent voices; therefore, we encourage contributions from current students and recent graduates, alongside those working in the remit of animal tourism on a voluntary or professional basis (i.e., those who wish to share their experiences on the ground). Thus, contributions are not restricted to academics, and we are willing to work with potential authors in the strengthening of submissions prior to the deadline.  

Contact Info: 

Carol Kline klinecs@appstate.edu and Jes Hooper jh1220@exeter.ac.uk 

Knowledge (Dis)Ruptions in/through Science – from Citizens to Science to Citizen Science, SPECIAL ISSUE

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CFP Special Issue ethnoscripts: Knowledge (Dis)Ruptions in/through Science – from Citizens to Science to Citizen Science

From citizen scientists to shaman cosmologists, from rational scientists to esoteric conspiracists, from designers to coders, hierarchies of knowledge productions seem in a mode of reversal. While speed and capability of producing new knowledge increase, rules that guarantee trust and reliability seem to be breaking. Disruptions of academic modes of reasoning emerge on the basis of Moore's Law, mimicking the dynamics of technological development. While science projects grant open access to the public – from citizen science participation to public source code – the privatization of knowledge through patenting and secrecy (Jones 2014), the capitalization of public goods is inflational. Simultaneously, symmetrical concepts of knowledge emerge, yet old hierarchies are reproduced. Depending on the observer, digital modes of capitalism turn into a fairytale or a nightmare for those who actively seek to give voice to the mute within the Anthropocene (Haraway 1997).
We are looking for contributions for our special issue, which study how and under what circumstances citizens engage in academic enterprises. We invite scholars who do research amongst and with humans, non-humans and
other-than-humans (Haraway 1997, De La Cadena 2014), investigating knowledge productions that reverse, subvert and break with the established rulebook of purification and mediation in the modern and post-modern conceptions of knowledge (Latour 1991). We want to discuss historical implications and forerunners of contemporary rediscovery of citizen science, especially from cultural anthropological perspectives, where lay people have always been engaged in science, be it as interlocutors, informants or as participant observers themselves. And last but not least, we invite contributions that study how (citizen) scientists want to heal the world, how microbes, hard- and software, algorithms and data dictate rules and citizens break rules in order to make and shape knowledge. All researchers who critically study engagements in knowledge making of biospheres and technospheres are invited to this special issue.

Questions we would like to discuss include – but are not limited to – the following:

• How is citizen science changing knowledge production in scientific research?
• What new modes of knowledge production emerge?
• How is professional scientific knowledge production being challenged by new actors and ways of doing science?
• How are hierarchies and power structures in scientific knowledge production dismantled, reproduced or renegotiated?
• How can we explain/analyze endeavors to more open access and science alongside privatization of knowledge and data?
• What new actors claim a role in scientific knowledge production and how do they secure and legitimize their position?
• How do citizen science projects/ new forms of scientific knowledge production challenge the everyday practices of professional scientists?
• What new forms of collaborations between professional scientists, the "public", ... can be observed?
• How do (digital) technologies disrupt and enhance existing practices and open up new possibilities of producing knowledge?
• What role do we as ethnographers play in these fields of knowledge disruption?
• How can we as cultural anthropologists design and create e.g. citizen science projects? Or include citizen scientists and other non-professional scientists into our knowledge production?
• How do digital media allow for new access possibilities to knowledge production?
• What is considered as knowledge in citizen science?

Proposals for contributions should include a title and a 200 word abstract and must be submitted by October 3rd.

Literature:

De La Cadena, Marisol (2014): Runa. Human but not only. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (2): 253–259 https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/hau4.2.013/1089

Haraway, Donna (1997):  Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and TechnoScience. New York: Psychology Press.

Jones, Graham (2014): Secrecy. Annual Review of Anthropology 43:53-69 (Volume publication date October 2014)
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030058
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030058

 

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Pronomen / Pronouns: sie, ihr / she, her
Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 München
+49 (0) 89 2180 9635
https://www.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

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New Journal on Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

 

by Simon Bronner

Wayne State University Press is pleased to announce the addition of a new journal to its publishing program. Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) is a peer-reviewed annual journal. An extension of the Press’s Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology, the journal will feature innovative, original analytical studies, essays, and commentaries in English on the diverse ways in which Jewishness is expressed, conceived, transformed, and perceived by Jews and non-Jews through folklore, tradition, and social/cultural practice. Dr. Simon J. Bronner (University of Wisconsin—Madison) will serve as the journal’s founding editor.

JFE is sponsored by the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. JFE’s coverage includes but is not limited to genres of narrative, song, music, speech, custom, ritual, belief, art, craft, architecture, dance, dress, and food; practices and performances of the body, faith, home, and community in the past and present; and ideas of tradition, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, education, and culture.

JFE invites submissions from varied disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and varied methodologies/approaches. The journal strives for an international reach in content and authors and values engaging academic writing that will be of interest to lay as well as scholarly audiences. JFE is currently accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, to be published in Fall 2022. For submission details and to read the call for papers, please visit https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jewishfolklore. The journal is also accepting proposals for special issues, which should be sent by email to the editor at bronners@uwm.edu.

Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance

 

How are folklore studies and performance studies currently connected? What are the divergences and convergences between of the study of folklore through performance and the study of performance through folklore? There has been an intimacy between these two fields and phenomena since the mid-20^th century. Whether it be through the work of Richard Bauman, Irving Goffman, Roger Abrahams, Charles Briggs, Richard Schechner, Dell Hymes, José Esteban Muñoz, Peggy Phelan, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Deborah Kapchan, or Diana Taylor, the relationship between folklore and performance represents a long history of engagement that is both explicit and implicit in expressing interconnected methods, perspectives, and theoretical orientations.  This volume, Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance, seeks to forefront the ways that folklore and performance inform each other and are actively situated in our world today.  

We are calling for submissions that explore existing and emerging discourses between folklore studies and performance studies.  These necessarily include development in areas of research and theory in both fields. Topics may include but are not limited to the intersection of folklore and performance in digital lives, race and technology, social movements, ritual, narrative, quotidian expressive culture, archival practices, ambient play, post-human intersectionalities, speculative world-making, encoded constructions of self and culture, and embodied knowledge. We are also interested in approaches that include an analysis of concepts like practice/praxis, repetition, event, mediation, mobility, materiality, enactment, ephemerality, tradition, and insurgent temporalities.  

We envision this volume being placed at a university press that speaks to audiences in both folklore and performance studies.  Please send a 250-word abstract to Solimar Otero solioter@iu.edu and Anthony Bak Buccitelli abb20@psu.edu by September 1, 2021. 

The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies invites submissions ...

 

1. The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies invites submissions ...
2. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: special issue on Heritage Language Revitalization and Music

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The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, invites submissions on any aspect of the Robin Hood tradition.

The editors especially welcome essays in the following areas:

• formal literary explication,
• manuscript and early printed book investigations,
• historical inquiries, new media examinations, and
• theory and cultural studies approaches.

Proposals for guest-edited special issues are also welcome. Forthcoming special issues focus on Otto Bathurst’s 2018 Robin Hood film and Robin Hood games.

We are looking for concise essays, 4,000-8,000-words long, in current CMS style with footnotes and end bibliographies.

The journal is hosted by Ball State University’s Open Journals platform and is actively indexed in the MLA International Bibliography: https://openjournals.bsu.edu/biarhs.

Submissions and queries should be directed to both Valerie B. Johnson (vjohnso6@montevallo.edu) and also Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu).

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Call for Papers

by Heather Sparling

JMMD solicits articles for publication in a special issue on Heritage Language Revitalization and Music, guest edited by Dr. Begoña Echeverria (University of California, Riverside) and Dr. Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University). 

A response to the incredibly complex challenge of language decay demands not only the perspectives of speakers and learners of a range of languages, but the perspectives offered by diverse disciplines. Approaches to reversing processes of linguistic morbidity have assumed that solutions should focus on the language itself (e.g., offering language classes, availability of services in a given language), often with minimal consideration given to other forms of cultural expression. 

This volume offers an innovative perspective in its emphasis on music as the primary point of encounter with language and, as such, it offers a previously unrecognized and undervalued means of supporting heritage languages – minority languages to which learners typically have exposure through community and family. We welcome papers that foreground music in all aspects of heritage language revitalization, including status, acquisition, and corpus planning.

Key questions

In what ways can/does music:

• elevate the status of a language among non-speakers, learners, and fluent speakers?

• encourage the use of a language in a greater variety of domains? 

• create a gateway to language acquisition?

• offer opportunities to acquire language? 

• open up avenues to use language? 

• provide a tool with which to document a language?

• offer possibilities to study linguistic change? 

• get used to implement linguistic change or policies? 

JMMD is a peer-reviewed cross-disciplinary journal for researchers from diverse scholarly and geographical backgrounds. It is concerned with macro-level coverage of topics in the sociology and social psychology of language, and in language and cultural politics, policy, planning and practice.

Articles should be about 7000 words. The deadline for complete manuscripts is September 15, 2021.

Please visit the journal website for complete submission details:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/current

Please contact the guest editors with any questions:
Dr. Begoña Echeverria (b.echeverria@ucr.edu) or Dr. Heather Sparling (heather_sparling@cbu.ca)

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Metaphors of Migration

 

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Dear colleagues,

We are very excited to announce the publication of On_Culture's Issue 10 (Winter 2020): "Metaphors of Migration," guest-edited by Jörn Ahrens and Axel Fliethmann.

In order to accommodate authors who might have found themselves in stressful circumstances while still adhering to our bi-annual publication rhythm, the 10th issue of On_Culture is published in two parts. The first in December 2020, with contributions on migration politics, housing and border metaphors, or transcultural place-making.

Now the second part of contributions has been published, including an _Essay by Thanos Zartaloudis on "The Experience of Migration: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis" and two more _Articles, one by Laura Soréna Tittel on racial and social dimensions of antiziganism and one by Andreas Hudelist on Jonas Carpignano's feature films Mediterranea (2015) and A Ciambra (2017).

Read the entire issue here: https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-10/

With best wishes,
The Editorial Team