Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Monday, October 3, 2016
Paid to Write in Academic World -- Small Miracle (Call for Authors: Freelance Academic Articles)
We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Research Starters, an expanding online database of introductory articles on a broad range of general-interest topics for students. These articles will be published in 2017 by EBSCO (www.ebsco.com). We are assigning the remaining available articles in the social sciences (business, sociology, education, history).
We are now at Phase 10 (10th assignment project) of Research Starters—topics designed to assist students during the key exploratory phase at the beginning of a research project. Written as an overview, articles should provide general but key information relative to an issue or topic, presented in a fact-based and objective discussion. The articles will act as informative summaries that provide students with background and perspective on the topic/issue at hand so that students have a better understanding of the topic, are prepared to conduct a more specific search, and are prepared to make an educated thesis statement.
Research Starters range from 3,000 words (paid at $100 each) to 1,000 words (paid at $50 each) and 500 words (paid at $35 each). Payments are issued only via PayPal or by check and are only issued in January 2017 after all articles have been accepted by the publisher.
Geared toward an academic audience (secondary school students, undergraduates, librarians, and teachers), these articles should be written using a neutral voice, similar to that found in encyclopedia articles, following the format explained in the guidelines to be provided. Each article will be signed by the contributor and advanced degrees are being listed along with the bylines.
We are currently making assignments with a deadline of December 1. If you cannot meet the deadline, please do not take on the assignment.
The available Article List, Style Guidelines, and a Sample Article will be sent to you as part of the assignment—please read and follow the guidelines to avoid extra revision steps.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding research product, the EBSCO Research Starters, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide your CV or a summary of your academic/publishing credentials in article-related disciplines.
Thanks very much.
Geoff Golson
rs.phase10@gmail.com
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
contact email:
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites submissions for Volume 5. The deadline for this volume is 3/31/17, but this is also an open call for subsequent volumes as well. For more information, please visit the journal at http://qudoublehelixjournal.org/index.php/dh or through its listing at the WAC Clearinghouse at Colorado State University: http://wac.colostate.edu/.
The Silent Professor
From https://tomprof.stanford.edu/
...I teach English, and midway through the spring 2013 semester, I lost my voice. Rather than cancelling my classes, I taught all my courses, from developmental English to Shakespeare, without saying a word. Though my voice had mostly returned by Tuesday evening, what I was observing compelled me to remain silent for the remainder of the week. My experience teaching without talking proved so beneficial to my students, so personally and professionally centering, and so impactful in terms of the intentionality of my classroom behavior that I now “lose my voice” at least once every semester.
A wealth of literature focuses on active learning and learner-centered instruction, but I submit that nothing empowers learners as immediately and profoundly as does removing the professor’s voice from the room. Here is my approach, a few practical suggestions, and some of the benefits I have found in teaching without talking.
Teaching without talking
First, you must decide whether you will tell the class that you cannot speak or that you will notspeak. There are pedagogical advantages to each, but I find that students take ownership of their learning more quickly and convincingly when they think they are helping me out. If you choose to frame the class as one in which you cannot speak, you must be fully committed to remaining silent outside the classroom as well. If students see you talking to a colleague in the hall, you will lose your credibility and their trust. I print a short statement that explains that I have lost my voice, carry it in my pocket, and show it to anyone who speaks to me on campus throughout the day. Be prepared to hold silent office hours, which can be an illuminating exercise in and of itself...
Sunday, October 2, 2016
CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series)
CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series)
deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2016
full name / name of organization:
Labex ICCA / IRCAV (Université Paris 3)
contact email:
sebastien.francois@rocketmail.com
CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series)
Whether through fan mail sent to celebrities and the popular press, critical pieces, derivative narratives such as fan fictions and other outlets, media audiences have often chosen writing as a privileged way to extend their experiences of reception. In very different contexts indeed, individuals have written about the cultural objects they loved or execrated, using various media to express themselves. If preserved and accessible, all these texts can reveal a lot about their authors, but also about the composition and structure of the audiences they belong or have belonged to. Above all, they are spaces in which the making of gendered identities and relationships within these audiences can be observed, providing scholars valuable resources to study media reception from a gender perspective.
This special issue of Gender in Series aims to gather works dedicated to the analysis of audience's writing practices through the lens of gender, broadly speaking, to illuminate both the media cultures and the social discourses produced by these specific audiences. Previous works have already showed how “ordinary”, “domestic” or “fan” writings may be highly gendered and researchers are therefore invited to provide new case studies. Contributions that focus on the writers’ profiles, their writing and, if applicable, publishing conditions, are particularly encouraged, as well as those interested in the social meanings and uses of audience’s texts from individual or collective perspectives. In the line of works that have explored the relation between reading and gender or the construction of identities through mass media, it seems essential to understand how these writings can be means of self-presentation or how they convey ideological representations and determinations about gender. It is all the more important since they are inspired by cultural contents which are themselves embedded within social and gendered norms. Besides, as writing forms continue to have a central role – offline and online – in reception practices, this special issue also welcomes comparative works establishing bridges between different kinds of writing materials or between heterogeneous eras or contexts: identifying the proximities or ruptures within forms of textual reception will be helpful to discuss how media cultures and gender issues interact and how these interactions may change in time.
Contributors should feel free to focus on any type of written textual reception, whatever its content (correspondence, commentary, fiction, etc.) or media (paper, digital, etc.), and whether the texts were supposed to be publicly released or to remain in the private sphere. This special issue wishes to address textual reception in its diversity: articles may deal with objects of affection (or disgust) from literary, musical and audiovisual fields or deal with celebrities related to arts, sports or even politics. Proposals from any of the different social sciences (sociology, history, film and television studies, cultural and media studies, etc.) will be considered, provided the analysis is based on empirical material, derived from archives, ethnographic research and/or digital research. Articles may deal with the most involved amateurs, such as “fans”, but may also focus on more “ordinary” cultural consumers, as long as they have taken a pen or a keyboard to express themselves. Finally, even if studies about writings produced between the end of the nineteenth to the twenty-first century are preferred, more comparative works or approaches relying on older writings will, when appropriate, be taken into account.
Full CFP (with additional research directions, references, and practical information): http://www.thomaspillard.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CFP-Gender-in-Series-Textual-Reception.pdf
(suggested references: http://genreenseries.weebly.com/bibliographie-appel-numeacutero-7.html)
Abstracts should be sent to the coordinators of this special issue:
- Sébastien François: sebastien.francois@rocketmail.com
- Thomas Pillard: thomas@pillard.nom.fr
Important dates:
- Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2016
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: December 15, 2016
- Reception of full papers: March 1, 2017
- Reviews sent to authors: May 2017
- Reception of final articles: September 1, 2017
- Online publication: Fall 2017
deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2016
full name / name of organization:
Labex ICCA / IRCAV (Université Paris 3)
contact email:
sebastien.francois@rocketmail.com
CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series)
Whether through fan mail sent to celebrities and the popular press, critical pieces, derivative narratives such as fan fictions and other outlets, media audiences have often chosen writing as a privileged way to extend their experiences of reception. In very different contexts indeed, individuals have written about the cultural objects they loved or execrated, using various media to express themselves. If preserved and accessible, all these texts can reveal a lot about their authors, but also about the composition and structure of the audiences they belong or have belonged to. Above all, they are spaces in which the making of gendered identities and relationships within these audiences can be observed, providing scholars valuable resources to study media reception from a gender perspective.
This special issue of Gender in Series aims to gather works dedicated to the analysis of audience's writing practices through the lens of gender, broadly speaking, to illuminate both the media cultures and the social discourses produced by these specific audiences. Previous works have already showed how “ordinary”, “domestic” or “fan” writings may be highly gendered and researchers are therefore invited to provide new case studies. Contributions that focus on the writers’ profiles, their writing and, if applicable, publishing conditions, are particularly encouraged, as well as those interested in the social meanings and uses of audience’s texts from individual or collective perspectives. In the line of works that have explored the relation between reading and gender or the construction of identities through mass media, it seems essential to understand how these writings can be means of self-presentation or how they convey ideological representations and determinations about gender. It is all the more important since they are inspired by cultural contents which are themselves embedded within social and gendered norms. Besides, as writing forms continue to have a central role – offline and online – in reception practices, this special issue also welcomes comparative works establishing bridges between different kinds of writing materials or between heterogeneous eras or contexts: identifying the proximities or ruptures within forms of textual reception will be helpful to discuss how media cultures and gender issues interact and how these interactions may change in time.
Contributors should feel free to focus on any type of written textual reception, whatever its content (correspondence, commentary, fiction, etc.) or media (paper, digital, etc.), and whether the texts were supposed to be publicly released or to remain in the private sphere. This special issue wishes to address textual reception in its diversity: articles may deal with objects of affection (or disgust) from literary, musical and audiovisual fields or deal with celebrities related to arts, sports or even politics. Proposals from any of the different social sciences (sociology, history, film and television studies, cultural and media studies, etc.) will be considered, provided the analysis is based on empirical material, derived from archives, ethnographic research and/or digital research. Articles may deal with the most involved amateurs, such as “fans”, but may also focus on more “ordinary” cultural consumers, as long as they have taken a pen or a keyboard to express themselves. Finally, even if studies about writings produced between the end of the nineteenth to the twenty-first century are preferred, more comparative works or approaches relying on older writings will, when appropriate, be taken into account.
Full CFP (with additional research directions, references, and practical information): http://www.thomaspillard.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CFP-Gender-in-Series-Textual-Reception.pdf
(suggested references: http://genreenseries.weebly.com/bibliographie-appel-numeacutero-7.html)
Abstracts should be sent to the coordinators of this special issue:
- Sébastien François: sebastien.francois@rocketmail.com
- Thomas Pillard: thomas@pillard.nom.fr
Important dates:
- Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2016
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: December 15, 2016
- Reception of full papers: March 1, 2017
- Reviews sent to authors: May 2017
- Reception of final articles: September 1, 2017
- Online publication: Fall 2017
Memory Studies October 2016; Vol. 9, No. 4
Editorial
The poverty of memory: For political economy in memory studies
Matthew J Allen
Articles
Collective future thought: Concept, function, and implications for collective memory studies
Piotr M Szpunar and Karl K Szpunar
On agonistic memory
Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen
“You don’t look Puerto Rican”: Collective memory and community in Orlando
Patricia Silver
Remembering war, remaining Soviet: Digital commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia
Seth Bernstein
Witnessing in the age of the database: Viral memorials, affective publics, and the assemblage of mourning
Penelope Papailias
Storyboards of remembrance: Representations of the past in visitors’ photography at Auschwitz
Till Hilmar
Museumizing trauma: Social politics and memory after the 2005 evacuation of the Jewish communities of Gaza
Bar Zecharya
Interview
‘Retracing Steps’: An interview with choreographer and artist Tanya Voges
Tanya Voges, James Leach, and Catherine J Stevens
Book reviews
Book review: Contextualizing Human Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding How Individuals and Groups Remember the Past
Santiago Arango-Muñoz
Book review: Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
David Rodriguez
Book review: The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan
David Janes
Book review: Introducing Peace Museums
Peter van den Dungen
Visual Communication November 2016; Vol. 15, No. 4
Articles
A multimodal analysis of storyline in ‘The Chinese Professor’ political advertisement: narrative construction and positioning in economic hard times
Mary B McVee and Colette Carse
Ruin in the films of Jia Zhangke
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
A pragmatic cognitive model for the interpretation of verbal–visual communication in television news programmes
Roberta Piazza and Louann Haarman
‘Plus de figures!’ On Saussure’s use of images
Hans Dam Christensen
Synthetic personalization of Barack Obama at the 2008 US Democratic National Convention: a social semiotic multimodal analysis of a staged political context
Wayne WB Wong
Visual Essay
Chilean School Façades: Aesthetic Matrixes, Educational Insights
Luis Hernán Errázuriz and Guillermo Marini
Exhibition Review
Tracks in the Snowy Forest, Fishing and Hunting as Traditional Ways of Life: Cultural Artefacts Made of Heilongjiang Fish Skin, Animal Skin and Birch Bark. Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou, China, 14 September to 14 November 2014
Junyu Zhang and Wendy L Bowcher
Book Review
Book Review: A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Richard Andrews
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