Please consider submitting an abstract by Friday, September 6th 2019
Roundtable Description:
Publishing while in graduate school, and as early career researchers, is increasingly expected as part of preparing for the current job market in higher education. Now more than ever graduate students need more direction and guidance on how to approach publishing during their graduate school years. This roundtable will address concerns, expectations, and advice for publishing in graduate school to speak to these important issues that are a part of the current graduate school and hiring climate, especially for medieval studies in higher education. The methodology for this session will be focused on providing speakers who have a spread of experience, primarily editors and writers who as graduate students have developed and published pieces of their work. But also, we would like to encourage participants who are editors and/or authors that have published and been involved in publishing as early career researchers and can address what they are looking for in new scholars and authors of publishable pieces.
Email abstract submissions to:
Natalie Whitaker [email protected]
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Applications for both positions are due July 15, 2019. Send us an email at [email protected] if you have any questions.
]]>Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semi-annually, the journal collects exceptional examples of work by graduate students on a number of themes, disciplines, subjects, and periods of medieval studies. We also welcome book reviews of monographs published or re-released in the past five years that are of interest to medievalists. For the spring issue we are highly interested in reviews of books that fall under any topic related to medieval studies.
We encourage the submission of articles that take a strongly theoretical and/or interdisciplinary approach, and that examine new and previously unconsidered aspects of these subjects within medieval studies. Articles are welcome from any discipline. Most importantly, we seek engaging, original work that contributes to our collective understanding of the medieval era.
Articles should be in English and roughly 6,000–10,000 words; book reviews should be between 800–2000 words. Please contact [email protected] for more information on submitting a book review. All submission guidelines can be found here.
Send articles to [email protected] by May 1, 2019. If you are interested in submitting a paper but feel you would need additional time, please send a query email and details about an expected time-scale for your submission. Queries about submissions or the journal more generally can also be sent to this address.
]]>Applications for both positions are due July 15, 2018. Send us an email at [email protected] if you have any questions.
]]>The Call for Papers for our Spring/Summer 2018 open issue is itself still open! For more information, have a look here!
]]>Our upcoming issue will be published in the spring/summer of 2018, and is an open issue with no theme. We particularly encourage the submission of proposals that take a strongly theoretical and/or interdisciplinary approach, and that examine new and previously unconsidered aspects of these subjects within medieval studies. Articles may be from any discipline: history, art history, archaeology, literature, linguistics, music, theology, etc. Work from every interpretive angle is encouraged. Most importantly, we seek engaging, original work that contributes to our collective understanding of the medieval era.
Contributions should be in English and roughly 6,000 – 12,000 words, including all documentation and citational apparatus; book reviews are typically between 500-1,000 words but cannot exceed 2,000. Please contact [email protected] for more information on submitting a book review. All notes must be endnotes, and a bibliography must be included; submission guidelines can be found here. Contributions may be submitted to [email protected] and are due April 6, 2018. If you are interested in submitting a paper but feel you would need additional time, please send a query email and details about an expected time-scale for your submission. Queries about submissions or the journal more generally can also be sent to this address.
]]>Assistant editors will help in the editing and proofreading of the articles and reviews accepted by the journal. Assistants may also be asked to take on additional projects such as drafting and disseminating calls for papers, PR, and correspondence; opportunities will be given to assistant editors who wish to gain more experience with HTML coding should they be interested. Assistants will work closely with both the Junior and Senior Editors but will have limited contact with one another. There will be four assistant editor positions open—two for the Spring 2018 open issue and two for the themed issue, “The Senses,” in the Autumn of 2018. The posts will be roughly 5 months in duration, with the majority of the workload taking place in the 3 months prior to the issue’s publication. Applicants must maintain their position as a graduate student (US)/post-graduate researcher (UK) during the entire length of the position and MUST NOT graduate during this period. If you have already received your doctorate degree or WILL receive your doctorate degree during this term you will be ineligible for the position. An assistant editorship will provide a chance to gain some experience working for Hortulus and if you are interested in becoming a Hortulus Editor in the future, taking on an assistant position would serve you well with respect to experience.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Essential
Desirable
Rate of Pay
All positions at Hortulus are un-paid voluntary positions and provide an opportunity for MA/PhD students to get more involved in online academic publishing.
Closing Date
8th of January, 2018
Application
Please email the following items to [email protected]
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Interiority refers to personal emotions, ideals, and beliefs in addition to self-reflection and inner consciousness. Recent scholarship in Cultural Studies asks how these elements of interiority may impact upon culture more broadly, and the extent to which culture impacts interiority. With alterity we refer not only to the state of being ‘other’ or different, but also to the study of how this difference is created. Within the framework of such study a mutual interrogation between center and periphery remains critical in order to prevent a reproduction of cycles of hegemony. In this context, the concepts of interiority and alterity both complement and contrast with each other: to echo Iain Chambers (himself echoing Heidegger), we refer to what unfolds towards us and away from us, to what both envelopes and exceeds us (“Signs of Silence, Lines of Listening”, The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons ed. I. Chambers and L. Curti, pp. 47-63 at p. 54).
For our Fall 2017 themed issue we invite proposals that critically engage with the concepts of interiority and alterity, both as separate concepts and in relation to each other. We hope to attract articles offering comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives, and welcome contributions from the fields of history, art history, literary scholarship, archeology, anthropology, or any other discipline that will contribute to our thinking about the application of these concepts and their broader theoretical contexts in the medieval period. We are particularly interested in submissions that take a more methodology-focused approach and those which engage with the materiality of interiority and alterity in the Middle Ages. Hortulus additionally suggests that contributors familiarize themselves with the current scholarship surrounding the use of the terms ‘Otherness’ and alterity.
Contributions should be in English and roughly 6,000–12,000 words, including all documentation and citational apparatus; book reviews are typically between 500-1,000 words but cannot exceed 2,000. All notes must be endnotes, and a bibliography must be included; submission guidelines can be found here. Contributions may be submitted to hortulus[at]hortulus-journal[dot]com and are due 25 September 2017. If you are interested in submitting a paper but feel you would need additional time, please send a query email and details about an expected time-scale for your submission. Queries about submissions or the journal more generally can also be sent to this address.
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The session organizers wish to bring people together to share experiences, compare approaches, as well as discuss potentials and potential problems. We invite papers that explore efforts to apply innovative technologies to the field of Medieval Studies, but also those which both explore and challenge innovations which apply medieval strategies to modern problems. The session will be structured as a roundtable with a series of short ten- and fifteen-minute papers (the number and duration to be determined depending on response), with ample time for discussion.
Please send abstracts of no more than a page, along with a current CV and the Participation Information Form to Gwendolyne Knight and Ryan Lawrence at [email protected] by September 10, and sooner if possible.
Please feel free to circulate this CFP.
]]>Further information can be found here: https://hortulus-journal.com/job-openings/
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