The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania is requesting articles for its annual publication, The Lincoln Humanities Journal. The special theme for 2015 is “Memory & the Poetics of Remembering.” Contributors are invited to examine the issues of representation, transmission, and circulation of memory, as well as the role of personal, cultural and collective memory in shaping meanings, values, attitudes and identities. They are also encouraged to address how dominant national, religious, racial, sexual or ethnic narratives of the past are reproduced or challenged.
Approaches across a broad range of disciplines such as anthropology, politics, religion, education, world literature, philosophy, music, visual arts, and the media, are welcomed.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Autobiographical writing, memoirs, life stories, biographies
Memory suppression, destroyed history, lost memory, contested memories
Negotiating one’s relationship with the past, mourning, nostalgia, denial
Remembering, delusion, manipulation, selective memory, involuntary memory
Collective memory, sites of memory
Politics of commemoration, anniversaries, memorials, political discourse, media, films
Museums, archives, documentaries, oral history and interviews, photo albums, inheritance
The past post-invasion, post-memory, expulsion, exclusion, rewriting the past
Memory as a tool of exclusion / inclusion; political unions, (re)unification
Artificial memory
Amnesia, posttraumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease
Representations of memory in literature, film, theatre, the media, and the arts
Case studies in anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, gender studies, postcolonial studies, psychiatry, etc.
Important Dates & Deadlines
Deadline for submitting manuscripts : June 1, 2015
Acceptance Notification: 60 days after submission
Publication Online: October-November 2015
Paper Version: December 2015
Submission Guidelines
Articles that do not follow the following guidelines are automatically returned. They will be rejected from any further consideration if they are returned twice for incompleteness of information or formatting issues.
Submission Requirements
1.Include name, professional affiliation, phone number, and email address in the cover e-mail.
2.Include the following statement in the cover e-mail: “I solemnly confirm that the attached manuscript has never been published elsewhere, under this, or another title."
3.Include an abstract of 200-300 words.
4.Include a biographical note of 50-250 words
5.The article should be 3500-6000 words (around 12-20 double-spaced pages), including the abstract, the footnotes and the works cited.)
6. Obtain written permission(s) from the copyright holder(s) to reproduce any copyright images, visuals or materials quoted beyond the fair use as defined by the Copyright Law of the United States.
7.Purge the article of all kinds of inflammatory, discriminatory and unlawful statements.
Formatting Guidelines
8.Manuscripts should conform to MLA-style guidelines as detailed in recent editions of MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.
9.Do not number pages.
10.Use auto-numbered footnotes (instead of using endnotes as recommended by MLA).
11.Use font Georgia # 12 (not Times New Roman). The entire article, including the abstract and the indented quotations, should be double-spaced.
For more formatting information, see the journal's website at http://www.lincoln.edu/humanitiesconference
Review Process
Articles should be submitted electronically to Abbes Maazaoui, Editor (maazaoui@lincoln.edu). Articles undergo a (double) blind review process.
Acceptance and Publication
Once a submission is accepted for publication, the author will be asked to provide the following to the Editor by e-mail to maazaoui@lincoln.edu.
- A final, fully revised version of the article
- A final, fully revised abstract. The abstract must be in English.
- If needed, a revised biographical note of 50-250 words
Copyright
It reverts to the author after one year provided that acknowledgement is made to the article’s publication in The Lincoln Humanities Journal.