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BAD SUBJECTS
Call for Reviews
Iraq War Culture

Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1000-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War.  We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment. 

This review essay series will be especially concerned to address issues created by the ideologies of the American Empire and ‘democratic imperialism’; permanent military mobilization and domestic security watches; diminution of civil liberties and human rights; religious triumphalism and its relations with state violence; and the deepening of economic inequalities and poverty under global capitalism.  How are such issues reflected in Iraq War culture and challenged through cultural critique? The editors will be interested equally in essays that review resistant cultural or political responses to Iraq War culture. 

Bad Subjects is a heterodox progressive journal publishing on ‘the politics of everyday life.’ It currently serves approximately 5000 readers daily from the English Server at Iowa State University and is the oldest cultural studies publication on the Internet.  The journal is located at: http://bad.eserver.org. 

This is currently an open-deadline call.  Submit review essays as Word attachments to Joe Lockard (English Department, Arizona State University): Joe.Lockard@asu.edu. Deadline:  open.

UCLA JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC AND NEAR EASTERN LAW (JINEL)
CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL), the first law school journal of its kind in the country, is currently seeking contributions for its next issue, to be published in the Spring of 2006. JINEL’s goal is to emphasize and critically analyze all legal issues–social, political, civil, historical, economic, and commercial– that are of particular relevance to Muslims and Near Easterners in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies. We are also concerned with the theoretical aspects of Islamic law and jurisprudence. All articles related to Islamic or Near Eastern law are welcome.

JINEL welcomes submissions of articles and comments by students, scholars, and practitioners. To submit an article, please email the manuscript as an attachment to jinel@orgs.law.ucla.edu or mail a copy of the manuscript on a disk and as a hardcopy to the following address: UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard Ave., Box 951476, Los Angeles CA  90095-1476.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced, with wide margins; please attach the author’s curriculum vitae. JINEL follows the transliteration system established by the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.  Manuscripts should not, however, contain any diacritical marks except for ayn and hamza. Citations should conform to The Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citations (18th ed. 2005). To obtain more information about JINEL, visit: www.law.ucla.edu/jinel or email jinel@orgs.law.ucla.edu.   

CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES REVIEW (CESR)

The goal of CESR is to foster scholarly dialogue and exchange of views and information across disciplines and academic traditions.  Do you have ideas, research findings, teaching experiences, or views on recently published resources that you would like to share with other scholars of Central Eurasia?  Please consider contributing an article or review to CESR!

Editors of the five sections of CESR (Perspectives, Research Reports, Reviews and Abstracts, Conferences and Lecture Series, and Educational Developments and Resources) are accepting submissions to Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2006) and to Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter 2007). Please consult “Information for Contributors” on the CESR webpage (http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/cesr/CESR_contribution.html) for details on the substance and format of your submissions. Questions? Write to the appropriate section editor, whose email is provided on the webpage, or to the Chief Editor, Marianne Kamp (mkamp@uwyo.edu). Deadlines: Summer issue: April 1, 2006; Winter issue: November 1, 2006.

THE CULTURE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE AMERICAS
(Forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press)

We are looking for essays for an edited book volume on the cultural politics of the Middle East in the Americas, to be published by The University of Michigan Press in 2007. Essays should focus on representation and diaspora as impacted by the transnational circulation of goods, ideas, images and sounds.  The essays should be written within an interdisciplinary cultural studies approach. The volume aims at deconstructing the academic boundaries established between area studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. We will also consider essays written within a comparative perspective, in relation to Middle Eastern communities in other “Western” spaces such as Europe. While unpublished work is preferred, some previously published pieces will be considered.

We will accept abstracts, conference papers, and full-length essays. Please include title, full mailing address, and contact information. All submissions should be emailed to Ella Shohat (ella.shohat@nyu.edu) and Evelyn Alsultany (alsultan@umich.edu) and longer submissions should also be mailed to: Evelyn Alsultany, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, 3700 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045.  For a more detailed description of the project, visit: www.middleeastamericas.info. The anticipated date for final essay submissions is July 15, 2006. Call for submissions deadline: December 15, 2006.

ENTERTEXT
“War and Society” themed issue
Submissions are invited. The theme can be interpreted broadly or narrowly, and submissions are welcome in a variety of formats, including: scholarly articles (normally up to 8,000 words);  short  ‘notes and comments’ pieces; commentaries on documents; and creative submissions of any kind suitable for electronic publication, including artwork, photography, poetry, short stories, drama scripts, etc. Multi-media submissions are especially welcome, including still and moving images and sound-clips. Submissions can be political, historical or cultural, or may use a combination of disciplinary perspectives. EnterText is a free-access peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by Brunel University, London. Visit: www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/entertext. Call for submissions deadline: February 1, 2006.

EXIT 9
“Jagged Edges: Rethinking the Canon(s) Through Gendered Lenses”

Exit 9 invites papers that focus on the issue of censorship in various literatures, texts, and theories.  Whether implicit or explicit, censorship is a common theme in literature and theory; we ask participants to consider the intersections of an idea such as censorship with regards to current trends in the interdiscipline of Women’s and Gender Studies. Submissions may consider the topic from one or a combination of the following approaches: class; gender;   globalization; identity politics; masculinity/masculinities; queer theory; race; sexual difference; sexuality; and transnationalism. Submissions are required to be in English, but we encourage submissions focusing on non-English as well as English texts.

Exit 9 is an academic journal published by graduate students from the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature of Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey.  From its inception in the autumn of 1993, Exit 9 has fostered discussions concerning the following issues and representations: literary, multicultural, multilingual, political, gender, racial, mythical, psychoanalytic, historical, and religious.

Submissions should follow MLA format (endnotes and complete bibliography) and should include two hard copies, an electronic copy, and a short biography (50 words).  Mail submissions to: Exit 9, The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Graduate Program in Comparative Literature, 205 Ruth Adams Building, New Brunswick NJ 08901-0270 (exitnine@rci.rutgers.edu; http://complit.rutgers.edu/exit9). Call for papers deadline: January 16, 2006.

The Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies
Call for submissions
Article submissions are invited for the second issue of 2005. Discussions of all aspects of cultural and intellectual studies, and in relation to all historical periods since the rise of Islam, are invited. English is the primary language of the journal, but from time to time it will publish original articles in one or another of the indigenous languages of the Middle East and North Africa (e.g., Arabic, Turkish, Persian) or in European languages other than English, and it will accompany these with full English translations.

Contributions may be submitted electronically by way of Microsoft Word attachments. They should be addressed to: estanley@binghamton.edu. Contributors should send copies of articles on a standard, IBM-compatible disk (using Microsoft Word) in the event that an attachment cannot be opened.

Articles are read by the editorial board, including co-editors Ralph M. Coury of Fairfield University (History and Cultural Studies) and R. Kevin Lacey (Chair, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Director, Middle East and North African Program [MENA], the State University of New York at Binghamton) and by selected outside reviewers.

The Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies is a biannual journal published in association with Binghamton University’s Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and MENA program, and with Fairfield University’s Office of the Vice-President and College of Arts and Sciences. Inquiries and correspondences may be addressed to Middle East and North Africa Program (MENA), Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton NY 13902.

The journal’s special issue on the literature of Tangier is now available. To view articles from this and previous issues, one may go to the Binghamton University website for Middle East & North African Studies and connect to http://mena.binghamton.edu.
 

JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies)

The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) invites original scholarship, including research informed by transnational feminist studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies in both the humanities and social sciences, science and technology studies, masculinity studies, and emergent forms of historiography and ethnography.  We hope to publish work from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, ranging from macroeconomics to ethnomusicology; submissions in the humanities are especially encouraged at this time.  Scholars from disciplines outside these domains, such as public health, social work, public policy, architecture and urban planning, are also encouraged to submit work of potential interest to JMEWS readers.

For submission guidelines or any other information, please write jmews@umich.edu or visit https://www.iupress.indiana.edu. To be considered for publication in 2006, articles must be submitted no later than February 1, 2006.

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM IN AMERICA, CANADA AND INDONESIA
Call for Submissions

The first issue, of the first volume, of the biannual "Journal for the Study of Islam in America, Canada and Indonesia" is scheduled to appear in July, 2006. The journal is to be published by the newly established Pesantren Nawesea (Center for the Study of Islam in North America, Western Europe and Southeast Asia). The journal invites submission of articles and book reviews. Please follow IJMES guidelines for submission format. Please submit articles and book reviews to: Pesantren Nawesea Press, Atten.: Yudian Wahyudi, Jalan Raya Wonosari KM 8, Sekarsuli RT 05/RW 23/Kios 6-7, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Call for submissions deadlines: February 1, 2006 (for the first issue) and May 1, 2006 (for the second).

THE MCNEESE REVIEW
Call For Papers

As the incoming editor of The McNeese Review, I am inviting scholars in appropriate disciplines to submit articles for upcoming issues of the journal. The McNeese Review has been published since 1948 and serves as a forum for articles and essays in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The editorial policies of The McNeese Review are formulated and supervised by an Advisory Board comprised of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at McNeese State University.

Articles and essays should be of a high scholarly standard but also directed towards an audience of multiple disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Still, articles firmly rooted in a specific discipline are welcome as are works that explicitly utilize interdisciplinary approaches. All submissions should be double-spaced, submitted in duplicate, and bear the author’s name only on the cover letter. Submissions should also conform to Chicago Manuel Style documentation. Address all submissions and correspondence to: Jacob Blevins, Editor, The McNeese Review, McNeese State University, PO Box 93465, Lake Charles LA 70609-3465. No deadline listed.

MELUS
Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Iranian American Literature

We are inviting proposals for a special issue on Iranian American Literature, projected for publication in 2008. The explosion in memoirs written by Iranian women in the last few years has provided an unprecedented literary introduction into the lives and experiences of Iranians, whether exiles, immigrants, or in several cases, second-generation Iranian Americans. This special issue of MELUS will focus on the emerging literature of Iranian Americans, (written by both women and men) and will explore the relationship between literature and Iranian immigration and the politics of US-Iranian relations in the second half of the 20th century and the emerging literature of this community at the start of the 21st century.  Possible topics might include: memoir and women’s narratives; the fiction of the Iranian Revolution; the return narrative to Iran; growing up Iranian/growing up American; expatriates and exiles; and Iranian American poetry. We welcome proposals that discuss the emergence of Iranian American literature (including Canada) and explore the role of literature in creating a public Iranian identity in North America. Please submit a 2-page abstract to Persis Karim at pkarim@helios.sjsu.edu and Nasrin Rahimieh at nasrin@mcmaster.ca by no later than April 15, 2006.

MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Essays addressing Pedagogy and/or Current Issues in the Profession

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is currently seeking essays addressing pedagogy and/or current issues in the profession. Essays may address pedagogical theory, practical teaching strategies, faculty/student collaboration, curriculum development, information technology, small college/research university dynamics, institutional politics, graduate and faculty unionization, part-time faculty, tenure and promotion, the legal reverberations of affirmation action, academia and the "two-body" problem, and other related topics. Essays typically range in length from 1250-7000 words. Through February 28, 2005, we are especially interested in submissions that address issues surrounding dual-career couples (1250-2750 words), but all submissions are welcome and encouraged at any time. NEMLA membership is not required to submit to MLS; however, membership is required for publication. Submission information: All manuscripts submitted should use MLA style for citations and notes, with notes placed at the end of the text. Manuscripts submitted by post should include an e-mail address for acknowledgment. If you wish the essays returned to you, include a SASE with appropriate postage. Manuscripts submitted as Microsoft Word email attachments will be accepted and should be accompanied by a cover message that includes the author’s relevant affiliations and a U.S. or international postal address. Queries and submissions should be sent to Amy Winans, Associate Editor, Pedagogy and Profession, Modern Language Studies, Susquehanna University, Box 1861, Selinsgrove PA 17870 (Winans@susqu.edu). Call for submissions deadline: ongoing.

NEBULA
Nebula is an online academic periodical which is interested in all things intellectual with the intention of providing a platform for interdisciplinary reading. Unlike other academic periodicals, Nebula is not limited to one Faculty or subject. We accept academic articles from any discipline provided that these are written in non-specialist language and in a manner that appeals to a broad audience. Nebula also publishes intellectual writings that may not necessarily meet the generic conventions of an academic article. In addition, we encourage academics and intellectuals to participate in a public debate as regards world politics. We particularly welcome submissions of a marginal or “against the grain” nature and those that heavily interrogate popular political ideologies in a sound and well-evidenced manner. Writings of high calibre that are particularly underrepresented in other academic periodicals are most welcome for consideration. Nebula also publishes literary and art works and is willing to consider any (graphic, cartoon etc.) material, which can be published on the world wide web. Submissions intended for Nebula are not limited by a particular house style; we simply ask that whichever referencing style is being used, that it is used consistently and thoroughly throughout each piece.

Nebula is presently running a concurrent CFP which is seeking targeted contributions. This CFP is without deadline. To view the Special project CFP please visit: http://www.nobleworld.biz/pages/10/index.htm. Submissions for Nebula 3.1 are due April 2, 2006. Email articles in .doc or equivalent to nebula@nobleworld.biz or editors@nobleworld.biz.

“Psychotherapy in a Turmoil Region: Reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis from a Psychological Perspective”
Call for Submissions for Edited Book

On topics relevant for an edited book that explains psychological issues in Palestinian and Israeli society that is intended to create better mutual understanding of both societies.  

Manuscripts can also introduce readers to efforts currently being used to facilitate dialogue, cooperation and reconciliation between the two societies from a psychological perspective, including professional techniques and psychosocial programs.

Content: papers/manuscripts from both Palestinian and Israeli professionals in the field of psychology, social work and social sciences, describing their work dealing with the psychological issues in their culture, therapeutic approaches they use, or collaborations they have been involved with -- bringing Palestinians and Israelis together with the aim of mutual psychological understanding. The chapters cover topics including: an overview of the culture, the psychology of men, women, and children, experiences of therapists, models of treatment, and psychosocial efforts to dialogue the two cultures towards mutual understanding.

Specific Topics: Papers sought include the cultural background within which psychological treatments are offered, since only with an understanding of these specific cultures can the therapeutic approaches truly be appreciated and understood, as well as be effective for the populations they serve.

In addition, papers can describe (1) the psyche of the culture; (2) the populations who avail themselves of psychological services; (3) epidemiological and statistical documentations of services currently available; (4) new models of clinical services offered; (5) the effectiveness and outcome of services wherever possible from a scientific basis; and (6) recommendations for services that would better serve the needs of patients and the public.

We are accepting manuscripts that will address the above general issues as well as the following for both Palestinians and Israelis:

1.        Overview of the psychosocial cultures.

2.        Types of specific psychological problems in the general population and seen in clinical services or programs.

3.        Particular psychological position and issues faced by women.

4.        Particular psychological position and issues faced by men.

5.        Particular psychological position and issues faced by children.

6.        Particular psychological position and issues faced by young adults (aged 20-30).

7.        Family structures and dynamics within the cultures.

8.        Particular psychological issues in the contemporary culture (i.e. depression, humiliation, revenge, victimhood, hate, coping, and resilience).

9.        Intergenerational issues as they affect the contemporary psyche.

10.     Personal experiences and efforts, as well as being a therapist in the region.

11.     Any of the above as they are affected by the intifada (grief reactions and psychology of male and female suicide bombers and their families)

12.     Various programs, groups and efforts making efforts to bring the two populations together for mutual understanding, tolerance, trust, and peace through psychological techniques and understanding.

Paper Length: about 8,000 words. In professional journal style but also “reader-friendly” to a general public. Intended audience: academics, libraries, social scientists, universities, policy makers, and the public. Original papers preferred, but manuscripts can certainly build on a book or paper already published or speech given. Papers that have been published in a newsletter or journal that would give permission for republication can be submitted for consideration as well.

For information, contact: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Editor, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College, New York NY (212) 307-6771; DrJudyKuri@aol.com). Submissions being accepted now.
 

SOAS LITERARY REVIEW

SOAS Literary Review (http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/home.html) is a refereed online journal edited and produced by research students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The journal seeks to provide an international forum for research students working on humanities topics and focusing on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Papers on literature, visual and performing arts, film and media are welcome. There are also three themed issues planned for 2005-06.These  themes, detailed below, are meant to act as rough guidelines for anyone wishing to submit a paper. The Editors encourage a broad interpretation of the themes and research questions, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to them.

 Sexuality— How is sexuality represented in literature? How do different literary traditions and social contexts affect representations of sexuality? For example, what can the discussion of Asian and African literatures add to the understanding of sexuality and its representation?; How appropriate is it to use theoretical approaches to sexuality and gender developed in the Western academy to discuss non-Western literatures? Is the very concept of sexual identity too culturally specific to be applicable to anything other than modern Western cultural production?; How do representations of sexuality interact with systems of censorship and expectations of propriety in different cultures?; and How is the literary representation of sexuality affected by genre? To what extent do non-literary genres, such as legal, psychiatric, medical or religious discourses determine the language in which sexuality is represented in both literature and literary criticism?

The Modern, the Postmodern and the Postcolonial—What are the possible non-Eurocentric conceptualisations of modernism?; Does modernism's elevation of the aesthetic necessarily obfuscate the material conditions of cultural production?; How do non-western modernisms negotiate the tension between their local contexts and the homogenising impulses of advanced capitalism?; What is the value (if any) of postmodernism’s insistence on plurality, heterogeneity and difference, for postcolonial criticism?; Is literary postmodernism preoccupied with textuality and verbal surfaces at the expense of referential reality? If so, how does postmodern writing from Asia and Africa manage to engage with history?; and  Does postcolonial literature resist, or does it reproduce, the logic and features of the global literary marketplace? Please consult the notes for contributors on the Review website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/contributors.htm . For information, contact: The Editors, SOAS Literary Review, c/o AHRB Centre for Asian & African Literatures, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG (soas.lit@soas.ac.uk). Call for submissions is on going.