CFP, Pakistaniaat Special Issue on US-Pakistan Relations

April 26, 2009

The journal that I’m the layout editor for, Pakistaniaat:  A Journal of Pakistan Studies, has just released a special issue CFP devoted to US-Pakistan relations.  Read the full CFP below: 

Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 

Special Issue on US-Pakistan Relations: Past, Present, and Future

We seek submissions for our second issue to be published in December 2009. The issue is themed around the past, present, and future of US-Pakistan relations, but we will also consider works beyond the scope of this particular theme. Please submit your scholarly articles, creative works (fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry), or book reviews that focus on some aspect of Pakistan or Pakistani culture. We read all year.

Pakistaniaat is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal offering a forum for a serious academic and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani culture, literature, and politics. For more details please visit our website.

Masood Raja, Editor

Email: pakistaniaat@gmail.com

Website: http://pakistaniaat.org


Journal Announcement for Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies

January 21, 2009

Kent State University Professor Masood Raja has established a new peer-reviewed electronic journal called Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, and he asked me to be its layout editor.  I’m excited to make a contribution to this cutting-edge journal. 

A description of the journal along with a call for papers is listed below:  

Masood Raja (Kent State University) has started a new academic journal entitled Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. This is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal offering a forum for a serious academic and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani culture, literature, and politics. Though several existing journals do pay a fair degree of attention to the issues of South Asia and Postcoloniality, we feel that under the current climate of high capital and war on terror, Pakistan, often subsumed under the larger registers of South Asia or Postcolonial Studies, needs a particular space of its own in our academic and creative undertakings. Thus, Pakistaniaat aims to provide a public space on the Internet to introduce and discuss hitherto neglected aspects of Pakistani cultural and literary production and to make this knowledge available to a worldwide audience.

Pakistaniaat, thus, aims to provide an inclusive venue to all those interested in issues specifically related to Pakistan, its culture, literature, and its place in the region as well as in the world. We aim to accomplish the important mission of “covering Pakistan” by publishing scholarly articles, creative works, translations, and reviews of books about Pakistan. To visit the journal, go to http://www.pakistaniaat.org.

 The journal is currently seeking submissions for its first issue in June 2009; all those interested in submitting to the journal or working on the staff, should contact Dr. Raja at mraja@kent.edu.


CFP: Science Fiction Film and Television

September 3, 2008

Mark Bould, co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television, recently sent out a CFP for the journal.  This is a journal to watch, and I’ve heard rumblings of their doing a BSG special issue in the future.  Read below for the details, and a little further down for the contents of their latest issue.  

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press and distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies. 

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television, from Hollywood productions to Korean or Turkish sf film, from Sci-Fi Channel productions to the origins of sf tv in Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers or The Quatermass Experiment. We encourage papers which consider neglected texts, propose innovative ways of looking at canonical texts, or explore the tensions and synergies that emerge from the interaction of genre and medium. 

We publish articles (6000-8000 words), book and DVD reviews (1000-2000 words) and review essays (up to 5000 words), as well as archive entries (up to 5000 words) on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television studies or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

Articles should be 6000-8000 words (MLA format) and include a 100-word abstract. Electronic submission in MS Word is preferred. Send submissions to both editors at mark.bould [at] uwe.ac.uk and sherryl.vint [at] gmail.com. If you have an idea for a contribution to the archives section, please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.

Advisory Editorial Board: Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading), Catherine Constable (University of Warwick), Susan A. George (University of California, Berkeley), Elyce Rae Helford (Middle Tennessee State University), Matt Hills (Cardiff University), Brooks Landon (University of Iowa), Rob Latham (University of Iowa), Susan Napier (Tufts University), Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia), David Seed (University of Liverpool), Steve Shaviro (Wayne State University), Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles) and JP Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Here’s the contents for the latest issue of Science Fiction Film and Television:

Science Fiction Film and Television 1.1 (Spring 2008)

Articles

Vivian Sobchack, ‘Love Machines: Boy Toys, Toy Boys and the Oxymorons of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’

Alain Badiou, ‘Dialectics of the Fable’

Matt Hills, ‘The Dispersible Text: Theorising Moments of Doctor Who’

Dave Rolinson and Karen Devlin, ‘“A New Wilderness”: Memory and Language in the Television Science Fiction of Nigel Kneale’

JP Telotte, ‘Serenity, Cinematisation and the Perils of Adaptation’

Mariano Paz, ‘South of the Future: An Overview of Latin American Science Fiction Cinema’

 

Archive

Mary Pharr, ‘The Lab and the Woods: Science and Myth in Les Yeux sans visage’

Sherryl Vint, ‘Embodied Texts, Embodied Subjects: An Overview of N. Katherine Hayles’ 

 

Books reviews

Paul Williams on Wanda Strauven, ed., The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded

Carl Freedman on James Naremore, On Kubrick

David Seed on Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez, What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America.

Andrew M Butler on Will Brooker, ed., The Blade Runner Experience

Rob Latham on Serge Grunberg, ed., David Cronenberg: Interviews

 

DVD reviews

Stacey Abbott on Stereo and Crimes of the Future

Bill Beard on Naked Lunch

Adam Roberts on The Man Who Fell to Earth

Neil Easterbrook on No Maps for These Territories

Mark Bould on Transformers

Aylish Wood on Flatland, the Film

William Brown on Immortal (ad vitam)

Seth Giddings on Fantastic Planet  

Pam Cook on District 13

Jarret Burke on 4


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