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CFP - YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 8 (2026) and 9 (2027) [Announcement]
İstanbul
Turkey
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies invites contributions for its eighth and ninth volumes to be published in December 2026 and December 2027. YILLIK isa peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal featuring cutting-edge research on Istanbul’s past and present, published by the Istanbul Research Institute in print and online (via DergiPark). YILLIK is indexed by SCOPUS, TRDizin, ERIH PLUS and the MLA International Bibliography.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies is accepting submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.
Articles submitted for publication in the journal are first evaluated by the Editorial Board. Articles deemed suitable by editors in terms of subject matter and quality will be sent to two anonymous reviewers elected in accordance with their expertise from the Advisory Board or from the larger field. Reports from the double-blind reviewers are combined with the comments of the editors and sent back to the author. Depending on their quality and relevance, articles may be accepted or rejected, or the author may be asked to revise the work.
The review process is mandatory for research articles, while book and exhibition reviews along with the Meclis pieces only require editorial evaluation. The editors of the YILLIK pledge to complete the submission process as quickly and constructively as possible. Our aim is to limit the duration of the evaluation process, from the submission to the journal to the forwarding of reviewer reports to the author, to six weeks.
The deadline for the submission for the eighth volume, to be published in December 2026, is May 15. Some of the accepted articles with revisions may be published in the ninth volume in December 2027.
Every year, one of the articles written by a student or recent PhD will be awarded the YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Early Career Article Prize. For details, click here.
Those who wish to submit a book or exhibition review are strongly recommended to ask for the opinion of the Editorial Board in order to avoid duplicate reviews.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies conforms to Chicago Manual of Style 18th Edition. Before submitting your article, please refer to our submission & publishing style guide.
For the “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Publishing Ethics and Peer Review Statement” click here.
Peer-reviewed article submissions must be made through DergiPark.
For other submissions and questions: istanbu...@iae.org.tr
CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media International Interdisciplinary Seminar [Announcement]
Las Palmas
Spain
Culturas, historical periods, and media, islands have functioned as privileged sites of myth-making and imagination. Often perceived as bounded worlds, islands have generated narratives of origin and apocalypse, utopia and dystopia, exile and belonging, isolation and connection. From ancient mythologies to contemporary cultural production, from oral traditions to visual and digital media, and from colonial imaginaries to ecological discourses, islands have operated as narrative laboratories in which cultural anxieties, desires, and transformations are articulated.
The international seminar Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media invites scholars to explore islands as mythical, symbolic, and narrative spaces. Myths are understood here in a broad sense: as foundational stories, cultural imaginaries, symbolic systems, and narrative frameworks that are inherited, transformed, reimagined, or contested in relation to insular spaces.
Rather than treating islands as merely geographic entities, this seminar approaches them as dynamic sites where overlapping temporalities, negotiated identities, and human and more-than-human relations converge. Particular attention will be given to environmental humanities, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives, and intermedial approaches, while remaining open to comparative, historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary contributions.
Languages: English or Spanish (other languages may be considered).
Abstracts: 250–300 words, including title, research question(s), methodology, and relevance to the seminar theme.
Submission email: mythic...@ulpgc.es
Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026
Notification of acceptance: by 15 April 2026
http://dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/investigacion-dicos/dicos/islas/
CFP – Southern Cultures: Ground
Call for Papers
Southern Cultures: Ground
Guest Editor: Elizabeth M. Webb (artist and filmmaker; Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Ground, to be published Spring 2027. We will accept submissions for this issue through June 5, 2026, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit.
This special issue of Southern Cultures engages ground as method. We are seeking projects that think from and with ground (rather than “about” it), offering southern soils as generative ways of knowing.
Ground here is both literal and conceptual. The particular grounds of the South—from dark, fertile soil to delta silt deposited over centuries to sandy coastal plains to red clay that sticks to the soles (or souls)—hold memory, time, and possibility. Ground is always-already in relation: never separate from water, air, what grows, and what decays. Soil texture, described by varying proportions of clay, sand, and silt, is one expression of this interdependence. Clay retains water but drains slowly, sand allows flow but doesn’t cohere, and silt accumulates as evidence of what has moved through. We’re interested in these and other material qualities of ground as openings for thought, practice, rebellion, and form. Ground can be fertile or depleted, stable or shifting, witness or accomplice. We consider southern groundedness—what it is to be grounded in this place, literally and imaginatively—in our relationship to dirt, and welcome visual art, poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction that engage these tensions and possibilities.
This issue finds roots in Black geographies and Indigenous methodologies, thinking alongside Clyde Woods, Katherine McKittrick, Sylvia Wynter, Tiffany Lethabo King, Mishuana Goeman, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, among many others. We are interested in work that contends with complex sedimentary histories of place, thinking South as both a specific location and a site of ongoing spatial struggle. Our understanding of “the South” is expansive, acknowledging the region’s entanglements in histories of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, plantation slavery, and empire that connect it to broader Global South geographies of extraction, displacement, and resistance.
Possible topics could include but are not limited to:
- Soil/earth as archive: what ground holds, preserves, or refuses to release
- Working materially: how ground’s physical properties guide making, thinking, and form
- Southern dirt: how dirt marks, moves, and makes culture
- Collaborative practices: art, agriculture, or inquiry that works with rather than extracts from ground
- Land-based practices, including mounds and earthworks; contemporary Indigenous land stewardship
- Renewal and repair: reclamation, regenerative agriculture, and rewilding
- Contested ground: land as relation or commodity, Indigenous sovereignty, dispossession, extraction, plantation logics
- Burial grounds and sacred sites: ground as keeper of memory
- Erosion and accumulation: what wears away, what deposits, sedimentary layers of place
- Contaminated ground: toxicity, environmental injustice, what pollutes and persists
- Ground’s expansive relations: to water systems, foodways, climate, migration, labor, law, and other interconnected processes
As Southern Cultures publishes digital content, we encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential video, audio, and interactive visual content along with their essay or artist’s statement. We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. For full submission guidelines, please click here.
CFP: Disease, Mapping and the Colonial Enterprise [Announcement]
OH
United States
Disease, Mapping and the Colonial Enterprise
Editor: Poonam Bala
Navigating disease was a central and defining experience of the colonial project. With its origins
in navigation, exploration and surveying, mapping acquired more thematic forms that
presented the spatial dimension of disease, health and medicine in the 19th century. With its
origins as being artistic, cartography acquired more of a factual form that over the years
presented more accurate pictures of disease, health and medicine. As a result, modern
cartography in the colonies became closely tied to colonial rule and its policies that would
examine the nature, route and entire topography of the disease within defined spaces. Besides
medicine, race and gender, and mapping also exhibited power and authority in control of disease
spaces. This being an important theme of the volume, focus will be on examining the extent to
which disease mapping was used a ‘tool’ for colonial powers to understand, visualise and
manage health environment factors within ‘disease spaces,’ throughout the 19th- and 20th
centuries. Besides, the volume will focus on the indigenous and native knowledge contributions
to new perception of disease, contagion and health spaces in history as much as in creating new
identities with global dimensions of disease.
Chapter contributions are invited on, but not limited to, the following:
• Disease mapping in the empires
• Indigenous knowledge and disease /epidemics
• Authority/ Power over Contagion spaces
• Public health and medical mapping
• Indigenous knowledge and disease /epidemics
• Authority/ Power/Contagion spaces
• Geography and disease spaces
Please send a 200-word Abstract with keywords, and your bio by 30 April 2026. Complete Chapter contributions of 8000 words (incl.fn) are due by 1 August 2026.
Professor Poonam Bala, FRHistS
Department of History, UNISA, SA/ Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Cleveland State University, USA
Deadline Extended: USHMM Faculty Seminar: Resistance to the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, and Beyond (Deadline March 30, 2026) [Announcement]
DC
United States
The 2026 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar explores resistance acts during the Holocaust with a focus on protest, hiding, and rescue. Together, we will examine the different forms of Jews’ resistance to Nazi antisemitic policies, as well as assistance that Jews and non-Jews (or “mixed” categories) provided to Jews, who found hiding places, lived under false identities, and escaped the Nazis during the Holocaust. In addition to discussing individual acts of resistance, we will investigate the ways in which Jewish and non-Jewish men and women were associated with or participated in resistance groups and networks. With the goal of teaching this content, we will consider why Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still often perceived as a rare occurrence, and how gender stereotypes led to a restricted or distorted view of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance. We will also examine the following topics:
- varieties of Jewish resistance, including hiding, passing, and escaping, etc.
- comparative research of rescue across Europe during the Holocaust
- the contexts and methods of Jews' and non-Jews' resistance
- the consequences and moral implications of rescue actions
- Jewish and non-Jewish forms of cooperation
- the politics of commemorating resisters and rescuers, etc.
The 2026 Silberman Seminar helps faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component related to the Holocaust. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines, including but not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, Human Rights, Migration Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Refugee Studies, Sociology, and Trauma and Memory Studies. The seminar aims to deepen, broaden, and enrich how we teach the Holocaust by drawing on a range of perspectives and disciplinary approaches to address different forms of Jews’ resistance to the Holocaust.
The deadline for applications is Monday, March 30, 2026. This seminar will take place June 1–10, 2026 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Seminar applicants must be teaching or anticipate teaching relevant courses at accredited institutions in North America. The full CfA and the application form are available here on the USHMM website. Please contact Campus Outreach Programs (campuso...@ushmm.org) with any questions.
The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman Seminar for University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else Silberman. The Foundation supports programs in higher education that promote, protect, and strengthen Jewish values in democracy, human rights, ethical leadership, and cultural pluralism.
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