On this page, the Center posts opportunities for scholars and graduate students to have their work published. Some of the calls for submissions are from book projects, some are for print journals, and some are for electronic journals. Some have specific current deadlines, and some have a standing invitation to submit. Information about the Austrian History Yearbook can be found here.
Invitations with current submissions deadlines
None at the moment.
Standing invitations to submit articles, and information on other publishing projects
United Kingdom: Austrian Studies.
Now edited by Dr. Judith Beniston and Dr, Robert Vilain of the University of London, this prestigious annual was relaunched by the MHRA in the autumn of 2003. As before, each volume has a coherent but broadly based theme. Volume 13 (2005) entitled Austria and France is now published both in print and online. Volume 14, entitled Politics and Culture in 'Red Vienna', will be published in October 2006.
Each annual volume includes a wide range of articles in English, together with a selection of book reviews, with the aim of making recent research accessible to a broadly based international readership. The focus is on Austrian culture from 1750 to the present. Literature is considered in relation to psychology, philosophy, political theory, music, theatre, film and the visual arts. 'Austrian' includes the German-language culture of former areas of the Habsburg Empire, such as Prague and Bukovina, as well as the work of people of Austrian origin living abroad. Austrian interactions with other linguistic and ethnic groups -- the Jewish communities of Austria-Hungary, for example -- will also be taken into account.
A sample article is available here. Originally published in Austrian Studies 11 (2003), Lisa Silverman's article "Repossessing the Past? Property, Memory and Austrian-Jewish Narrative Histories" considers the confiscation of Austrian-Jewish property during the Holocaust and its literary representation as a paradigm for examining the theoretical relationship between property and Jewish identity in Central Europe. For further information, please contact either of the editors, Dr. Robert Vilain or Dr. Judith Beniston.
United States: Balkanistica.
Manuscripts are being accepted for publication in the "new" Balkanistica. Papers written in English from any discipline which deal with Balkan or Southeast European topics are welcome. Manuscripts should be submitted in hard copy; three copies should be submitted. All submissions will undergo a double-blind refereeing process, and, if accepted for publication, they must ultimately be tendered on a 3.5" computer disk. Both Macintosh and IBM formats are acceptable, though Macintosh is preferred. Authors are asked, within reason, to attempt to conceal their identity in the manuscript. Authors of submitted manuscripts should follow one of the generally accepted styles within their specific discipline.
Please send manuscripts to:
Donald L. Dyer
General Editor, Balkanistica
Department of Modern Languages
The University of Mississippi
Oxford MS 38677.
For more information, you may also contact Professor Dyer at:
Telephone: 601-232-7298
Fax: 601-232-7033
e-mail: mldyer@vm.cc.olemiss.edu.
Balkanistica is being revived by SEESA, the Southeast European Studies Association, formerly known as the Association for Southeast European Studies. Membership in the organization costs $20 for faculty and $15 for students, and will guarantee receipt of both the first and second new issues (volumes 9 and 10) of Balkanistica. Volume 9 is due out this summer.
Dues for membership should be sent to:
James Augerot
Treasurer, SEESA Department of Slavic Languages
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
Balkanistica also maintains a website at http://home.olemiss.edu/~mldyer/balk/.
United Kingdom and United States: Cold War History.
As the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, scholars of contemporary international affairs started taking a new look at the basic conflicts that had dominated the latter part of the twentieth century. Over the last fifteen years a new historical literature on the Cold War era has come into being, greatly helped by the increase in access to archives and other source materials in most countries of the world, from the former communist states in Europe, to China, to South Africa and elsewhere.
Cold War History is a new journal, based in the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics, and which was recently re-launched with a new format and design. It aims to make available to the general public the results of recent research on the origins and development of the Cold War and its impact on nations, alliances and regions at various levels of statecraft, as well as in areas such as the military and intelligence, the economy, the social and intellectual developments.
The new history of the Cold War is a fascinating example of how experts—often working across national and disciplinary boundaries—are able to use newly available information to refine, or in some cases destroy, old images and interpretations. Cold War History aims at publishing the best of this emerging scholarship, from a perspective that attempts to de-center the era through paying special attention to the role of Europe and the Third World. The journal welcomes contributions from historians and representatives of other disciplines on all aspects of the global Cold War and its present repercussions.
For any information or to submit an article, please send us an email at the following address: cwh@lse.ac.uk
You can also visit our webpage at the following address:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14682745.asp.
We look forward to receiving your contributions,
Editorial Board of Cold War History
United States: European Studies Journal.
The European Studies Journal is a refereed publication, devoted to the research interests of scholars in all aspects of European social, political, and cultural life, past and present. The journal would like particularly to foster work on interdisciplinary topics. Formal proposals for special issues on specific topics are also welcome.
Submission of manuscripts for review: To be considered for publication in the European Studies Journal, please send three copies of the manuscript and a stamped postcard or e-mail address for acknowledgment of manuscript's arrival. Submitted manuscripts should be written in English and be roughly 15-25 pages long. Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously. In the preparation of the manuscript, the author's name should only appear on a separate title page together with professional affiliation, address (including e-mail address), and the title of the paper. Only original articles not previously published elsewhere will be accepted.
Editors: Michelle Mattson and Matthias Kaelberer
All correspondence and manuscripts should be sent to:
European Studies Journal
300 Pearson Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Tel: (515) 294-8749 or 294-8910
Fax: (515) 294-9914
E-mail: mmattson@iastate.edu or mkaelber@iastate.edu.
Canada: Germano-Slavica: A Canadian Journal of Germanic and Slavic Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Manuscripts should conform to the MLA Handbook; English-language articles should use the Library of Congress system of transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet. Germano-Slavica is a reviewed journal. Submitted manuscripts should not bear the author's name or other identifying information, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission.
Manuscripts and inquiries should be directed to:
Paul M. Malone
Editor, Germano-Slavica
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1
E-mail: pmalone@uwaterloo.ca
Subscription information and an index of the contents of back issues are available on the web at: http://www.germano-slavica.uwaterloo.ca/.
United States: German Studies Review.
The German Studies Review is published thrice yearly, in February, May, and October. The German Studies Association and the GSR are venues for Austrian and Central European Studies, too, and Diethelm Prowe, editor of the GSR, is interested in soliciting submissions that fit the profile of the GSR: " The journal publishes articles and book reviews in history, literature, culture studies, political science, as well as interdisciplinary topics relating to the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland."
For information on the GSR, consult http://www.people.carleton.edu/~dprowe/GSR.index.html.
United States and Poland: Intermarium.
Columbia University and the Polish Academy of Sciences announce the new electronic journal, Intermarium. Intermarium provides an electronic medium for noteworthy scholarship and provocative thinking about the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe following World War II. The journal is meant to broaden the discourse on aspects of national histories that are undergoing change thanks to the availability of new documentation from recently opened archives. Its name reflects East Central Europe's geographic location between the seas: Baltic, Adriatic and Black.
The editors' purpose is to facilitate interaction among scholarly communities by making research, essays, commentaries, documents, and reviews from the region available in English. It is a project of the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Columbia University's Institute on East Central Europe.
The editors are:
Andrzej Paczkowski, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
John S. Micgiel, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University.
The journal's internet address is: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ece/research/intermarium/index.html.
United States: Kosmas.
The only scholarly, English-language journal in North America devoted to the Czech Republic and Slovakia seeks authors and subscribers as it moves to Texas A&M University.
Kosmas was launched by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America in 1982 and has made many significant contributions to knowledge of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the English-speaking world, quite in the spirit of its namesake, the chronicler Kosmas of Prague (1045-1125). These two countries and peoples in the center of Europe, whose importance to the understanding of the Cold War, of both World Wars and of the religious conflicts of earlier times is well known, remain worthy of interest today in the context of NATO expansion, socio-economic transformation and European integration. The Czechs and Slovaks are also worthy of study as American immigrant groups prominent in a variety of settings and periods from Northern industrial cities to the Great Plains and Texas.
Kosmas accepts manuscripts on all subjects relating to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to their Central European context, and to Czechs and Slovaks throughout the world. General information and instructions for authors are on the World Wide Web at
http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=948.
Manuscripts should be sent to the editor:
Clinton Machann
Dept. of English
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4227
E-mail c-machann@tamu.edu.
Annual subscriptions are $27 for individuals and $30 for institutions and should be sent to the managing editor,
David Chroust
Slavic Studies Librarian
Evans Library, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-5000
E-mail dchroust@lib-gw.tamu.edu.
Tel.: (409) 458-1265
Fax: (409) 862-1166
United States: Modern Austrian Literature.
Modern Austrian Literature, the journal of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA, formerly International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association), is published quarterly with the assistance of Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Published contributions have been submitted to blind peer review and are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
For more information on the submissions process, please go to http://www.malca.org/mal/specifications.html.
United Kingdom: National Identities: History, Geography, Image.
Scope and objectives: National identity has been one of the principal forces shaping the course of history, certainly since the French Revolution. This new journal would be the first concentrating on historical and geographical approaches to national identities, their interpretation and expression and their economic, social and political impact. Its themes will be the origins and development of nationality. These will include analysis of the uneven nature of the historical process of the development of national identity, and of the emergence of nationalism within territorially based ancien regime states. In the process the journal will seek to assess the forces shaping national identity, how far it is constructed by, as Hobsbawn and Ranger argue, `The Invention of Tradition', and the uses to which it is put. The historical significance of `nation' in political and cultural terms will also be considered in relationship to other important, and in some cases countervailing, forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe, or class. The journal will examine historically how identity and concepts of ethnicity relate, the role in forging identity of cultural (language, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other", etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining the ways in which these have been shaped and changed over time. How and why national identities emerged, their expression, and their transmission (for instance, the impact of occidental ideas on the growth of colonial nationalisms) will be key themes of the journal.
The proposed journal will not be prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach. It will not seek to peddle some spurious orthodoxy. Instead, it aims to act as a forum within which the growing number of scholars working in this field, in particular historians and geographers, can explore this important subject. There is therefore no intention of confining the journal to a particular time period, although it is anticipated that the core of the articles and features in each issue may deal principally with the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It is also anticipated that a proportion of articles for the journal will focus on contemporary developments, but these nevertheless will be expected to show an awareness of the historical context in which their subjects are set, and to approach their topics within a historical framework.
Comparative perspectives, for instance of western and eastern concepts of identity in the nineteenth century, will also be encouraged. There will be synoptic articles exploring particular issues and review essays, as well as book reviews. It is intended that the journal will also contain some information features which are designed to maximize its value for scholars working in this field. For instance, there will be a regular news feature, containing notices for and reports on conferences and symposia around the world, and an annual bibliography of recently published key works is also envisaged.
If you are interested in contributing to National Identities, please contact the editors:
Peter Catterall
ICBH
Room 357, Senate House
Malet St.
London WCIH 7HU
phone: +17 1 436 2478
David Hooson
Geography Department
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
fax: (510) 642-3370
Elfie Rembold, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Christopher Vernon
School of Planning, Landscape Architecture & Surveying
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane, Queensland 4001 Australia
phone +61 7 3864 2077
fax: +61 7 3864.4308.
If your would like to contribute a review to National Identities, please contact the reviews editor:
Chandrika Kaul
Nuffield College
Oxford, OX1 1NF United Kingdom.
United Kingdom: Slovo.
Now in its nineteenth volume, Slovo is a fully refereed journal, edited and managed by postgraduates of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and published in two volumes each year by Maney Publishing. The journal aims to discuss and interpret Russian, Eastern and Central European, and Eurasian affairs from a number of perspectives including, but not limited to, anthropology, art, economics, film, history, international studies, linguistics, literature, media, philosophy, politics and sociology.
Articles should be 6-8,000 words, including footnotes. Slovo adheres to the Modern Humanities Research Association Style Guide. Communications should be directed by email.
Contact: slovo@ssees.ac.uk.
Poland: Sprawy Narodowosciowe/Nationalities Affairs.
Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs is a premier European semiannual journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of nationalism and ethnicity, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences. The journal, initially published between 1928 and 1939, was revived in 1992.
Since 2000, English-language contributions have regularly appeared in Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs. We accept submissions on various aspects of the national and the ethnic, written from various disciplinary and methodological standpoints, and pertaining to all the geographical regions. We especially encourage contributions novel in approach as well as in form. Apart from the traditional academic-style articles, we are ready to consider biographical, opinion, and participatory observation essays. Articles should be in English. The world limit is 10,000 except in special cases to be discussed with the editors. Depending on the nature of a study, references can be given in footnotes or in parentheses with, in the latter case, the list of literature attached at the end of the contribution. Titles of quoted books and articles should be Romanized, if not in the Latin script, and appended, in brackets, with English translations unless these titles are in English, German, or French.
With your contribution, please, include the following:
- abstract (up to 200 words)
- key words (up to 7)
- information on the Author (up to 150 words)
- institutional affiliation of the Author
- email or postal address to be included with the contribution.
The deadline: This is an ongoing call, though the journal's two annual issues are published in spring and fall.
Send to:
Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs Unit for the Study of Nationalities
Institute of Slavonic Studies
Polish Academy of Sciences
Stary Rynek 78/79
61-771 Poznan, Poland
Tel/Fax +48 61 8520950
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Wojciech J Burszta
Coordinator of English-Language Submissions: Dr Tomasz Kamusella
Website with the text of the journal: www.ceeol.com, select "Poland," and then Sprawy Narodowosciowe.
The journal can also be purchased in hard copy from: secret@ispan.waw.pl or zbnpan@rose.man.poznan.pl.
Czech Republic: Transitions Online.
Transitions Online is the Internet version of Transitions magazine, which has stopped printing in hard copy. The site, http://www.tol.cz, receives over 300,000 hits a month. Transitions Online is the most prominent and extensive online source of information on 28 postcommunist countries in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
Readers of Transitions depend on the magazine for balanced coverage of issues, offering crucial local perspective on issues that were often underreported by Western publications. Transitions Online promises to be the most prestigious and most frequently visited site on the region. Reliable, motivated journalists are crucial to our project's success. To keep our coverage up-to-date and relevant, we are seeking responsible journalists from the region who are seeking international exposure and a challenging part-time position. The duties of the stringers—one in each of the 28 countries—will be:
- to work closely with editors regarding the events in their home country, suggesting story and feature ideas
- to contribute news bites for our weekly news service
- to monitor media in their region
- to occasionally write full-length stories and to suggest and contact local journalists from whom such articles could be commissioned
- to contact local photographers and artists to provide visual accompaniment to stories
The journalists will remain in their country of origin but will be in touch with Transitions Online editors via telephone and email. We are looking for dynamic, experienced and motivated journalists who can provide interesting local angles on wider regional trends with a thorough knowledge of their home country. The candidates must have excellent English skills and sound news judgment, and should be easily contactable—preferably by e-mail—on a daily basis. Salary and weekly commitments will be discussed at a later date.
If you are interested in becoming a Transitions Online stringer, please send a resume to jobs@ijt.cz, a brief letter telling us how you think you could benefit Transitions Online, and a story idea about an issue affecting your region that you feel has been underreported in the international press. Please pass this message along to anyone you think might be a good candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.
Jeremy Druker
Staff Writer/Syndicate Coordinator
Transitions magazine
Seifertova 47, 130 00 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Tel.: 420 2 627-9445, 627-9472, 627-9473
Fax: 420 2 627-9444 (fax)
Website: http://www.tol.cz
United States
German Studies Association Newsletter
Dissertation list
Starting with the forthcoming Spring Newsletter, the German Studies
Association will publish a list of dissertations completed in recent
years in any field of German studies, including German, Austrian, and
Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science,
economics, and other fields.
We rely on the help of our members in carrying out this initiative. If you received your Ph.D. in 2005, 2006, or 2007, please send the title and brief, 100-word description of your dissertation to Celia Applegate(celia.applegate@rochester.edu), by MARCH 20th. If one of your advisees completed her or his degree in the past 3 years, we would very much appreciate it if you could either send us her/his name and email address or contact your former student with this information.
Again, please send all communication regarding the dissertation listing to celia.applegate@rochester.edu.
We are eager to have as full as listing as possible. With a membership as diverse in interests and as far-flung in location as is that of the GSA, we seek to provide more ways to make members aware of the range work that German studies encompasses. The dissertation listing will help us toward that end, but just as important, it will provide some visibility for young scholars at the start of their career.