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Calls for Submissions

One-time Calls for Submissions and Proposals

Resource Book on Women Rights

A key challenge facing the overall women rights scenario in a remote region like Northeast India is availability of professionally trained and effective lawyers in local courts to assist the disadvantaged ‘women’ to fight rights violation cases, or otherwise advance their interests. Such legal services, embracing both individual access to justice and public interest law transcending individual needs, contribute to the rule of law, good governance, human rights, empowerment of the poor and poverty alleviation. The women rights lawyers need special training and set of professional tools for forging the future of legal services and legal systems across the Northeast region. In order to address this gap, The British High Commission, New Delhi has funded a special training workshop that is being organized by PFI Foundation in collaboration with NEF Law College, Guwahati in February, 2012.  

On the occasion of this Workshop and as a reference book, a Resource Book on Women Rights will be published. Interested advocates, teachers, and researchers may submit a Paper / Chapter on any topic related to Women Rights Issues that will form a part of the proposed book (with ISBN).

Kindly intimate us in advance about your topic and we will confirm your Chapter/Topic. We will expect to receive your manuscript/paper latest by 31 Jan 2012 at Email: . You are requested to strictly follow the “Instructions for the preparation of Manuscript," which can be found here.

The Henry Kaufman Conference on Religious Traditions and Business Behavior:

This conference explores two central questions in the relationship between the world’s major religious traditions and the business behavior of adherents to those traditions: 

First, what do the world’s major organized religious traditions – Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism – proscribe about business and financial ethics and behavior?

Second, how and why have business and financial actors seriously compromised the leading religious traditions of their cultures?

By interrogating these two core questions, the conference will yield insights valuable to contemporary business and religious leaders about abiding questions such as:  Do the scriptures and doctrines of these religions appear to have had a marked effect on financial behavior?  Does religion appear to be a more potent or less potent influence than business ethics courses in fostering sound, ethical, and socially responsible financial behavior?  How can religion best be promulgated to make financial behavior more sound, ethical, and socially responsible?

Authors are invited to submit papers related to the questions listed above. Click here for the call for papers.

The deadline for submitting papers is February 1, 2012. The conference will be held in the Spring of 2013.  Please submit completed papers as e-mail attachments to  . 

Note: When submitting a paper, please include a title page with an abstract, names of authors/affiliations, and contact information for the submitting author. 

Scholars will be invited to participate in two discussion sessions in College Park, MD, prior to the Spring 2013 conference.  Further instructions will be communicated to the scholars at the time of proposal selection. 

For more information, contact: 
Michelle Lui, Assistant Director, Center for Financial Policy: 301-405-0400 or 
David Sicilia, Henry Kaufman Fellow in Business History: 301-405-7778 or 

Call for Chapter Proposals: The Body In a Global World

The editor of a new volume tentatively entitled The Body In a Global World, invites chapter proposals of original work of up to 500 words. The volume will consist of multi-disciplinary, historical and comparative reflections on the body in a global world.  The submission deadline for proposals is March 10, 2012.

The editor invites scholars to think of the various ideals and practices associated with the body, and about how these have developed and changed in a world characterized by a fast-paced flow of ideas, products, and people. Topics may include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • tattooing
  • henna
  • body piercing, body carving
  • body hair removal
  • cosmetic surgery (including "ethnic surgery")
  • hair straightening
  • skin lightening/ bleaching
  • working out
  • the global beauty industry and the marketing of "Western" ideals
  • beauty pageants, "international standards" of beauty
  • body-image disorders

Since the volume is focused on the globalized and globalizing nature of body practices and ideals, proposed works should consider how these practices and ideals have travelled from their place of origin to where they are practiced now; and how specific practices and ideals regarding the body are changing, or resisting change, in a particular society through the process and rhetoric of globalization and/or nationalism.

The volume will comprise two kinds of essays: original scholarly essays (between 6,000-9,000 words), and shorter original personal reflection pieces (under 2,500 words). Once a proposal has been conditionally accepted, a first draft of the entire chapter will need to be submitted by July 15, 2012.

To submit a proposal for a scholarly or personal reflection essay, or for further information, please contact the editor:

Afshan Jafar, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Connecticut College

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, Thematic Issue

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum is pleased to announce a call for submissions for a themed issue: Roads to Reconciliation. Within this issue, we encourage artists, scholars, and activists to take up the notion of reconciliation and invite submissions that address the idea that even though laws can be changed, people's hearts and minds do not always follow. In order to be considered for our next issue all materials must be submitted by no later than March 15, 2012.

Click here to submit your work and help push social justice to new levels! Prior to submitting, please check Catalyst’s Policies page for specific guidelines.

Please click here to join our mailing list and receive notices from the editors.

The Walk of Shame

This call for papers is targeted at original texts portraying current permutations (both qualitative and quantitative) of the walk of shame. These could include a wide range of multi-dimensional media phenomena focusing on political aspects, national discourse, financial crises, security leaks, sex scandals, embezzlement, treason and other kinds of cultural configurations. Click here for more details.

Submission procedure
General guidelines: All entries must be written in American English and typed in double-spaced Microsoft Word format (Times New Roman 12 pt. font). Texts in PDF format will not be accepted.

Proposals: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 700-word chapter proposal which clearly outlines the mission and concerns of his/her proposed chapter. Each proposal should address one of the topics mentioned in the above PDF. Proposals should be sent directly to the editors ( ) by January 31st, 2012. A separate cover sheet should be provided stating the name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) of the author(s). Authors whose proposals are accepted will be notified by March 15th, 2012.

 Completed chapters: These should be submitted on or before June 15th, 2012. They should constitute high-quality original papers of a theoretical or empirical nature that shed light upon and engage with the topic of “The Walk of Shame”. The submitted chapters should elaborate on the ideas and topics that were presented in contributors’ proposals. Manuscripts should be prepared in strict accordance with the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Edition). They should be a maximum of 9,000 words in length (including references, tables, figures, appendices and endnotes).

Contributors whose articles are accepted for publication will be obliged to sign a document specifying the publisher’s terms and conditions, as well as a copyright agreement.

The fact that an abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript. All chapters submitted will be judged on the basis of a double-blind reviewing process.

Timetable
January 31st, 2012: Deadline for proposal submission
March 31st, 2012: Notification of acceptance
June 30th, 2012: Full chapter submission
September 30th, 2012: Return of review results
October 31st, 2012: Submission of completed chapters

Beyond Borders with James Baldwin: A Practical Guide for Everyone:

James Baldwin received international acclaim as a writer, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, social critic, and civil rights activist. In the twenty-fifth year of James Baldwin's passing, we propose a book entitled Beyond Borders with James Baldwin: A Practical Guide for Everyone. Baldwin's writings foster diverse perspectives, dialogues, and debates in educational settings, community settings, and public venues. His works capture complex social, psychological, humanistic, philosophical, and political issues, and his writings demonstrate his multidimensionality and versatility. Always true to his convictions rather than the tastes of others, Baldwin wrote what he wanted to write.

If you have ever studied the works of James Baldwin, then you should consider contributing to a peer-reviewed book publication. The book chapters will be organized into discussions that address the what, the how, and/or the why of Baldwin's works from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book is co-edited by Dr. Rosa Bobia, Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages and Former Director of the Center for African and African Diaspora Studies, Kennesaw State University; Dr. Valerie Whittlesey, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology, Kennesaw State University; Dr. Mary Zeigler, Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, English Department, Georgia State University. Inquiries regarding submissions can be directed to one of the co-editors: Dr. Rosa Bobia at rbobia@kennesaw.edu; Dr. Valerie Whittlesey at ; or Dr. Mary Zeigler at . 

This call for proposals is for a broadly based, edited book on how James Baldwin's works can be used in a broad range of settings- both academic and non-academic. The audience for the book is diverse- classrooms, educational settings, and community settings.

This is a request for book chapter abstracts, due by July 15, 2012, and book chapters are due September 30, 2012. Chapters can address the significance of the words, the messages, the analyses, and/or applications of James Baldwin's works.
Possible themes/topics might include, but not be limited to:

  • Baldwin and issues of religion, spirituality, ethics, and morality
  • Baldwin and issues of racism and race relations
  • Baldwin and the Civil Rights movement and issues of nationalism
  • Baldwin and issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation
  • Baldwin and political and social systems
  • Baldwin and transnationalism and exiled citizenship
  • Baldwin and issues of music and artistic expressions
  • Baldwin and issues of family relationships
  • Baldwin and issues of love and identity

Chapter abstracts should include the following materials: 300-500 word abstract with chapter title. In a separate attachment, 300 word professional bio containing your chapter title and your contact information (affiliation, address, telephone number, and email address). Please send these materials to Dr. Rosa Bobia at by July 15, 2012.

The Comments on Abstracts are returned by July 31, 2012.

The Book Chapter Submissions (20-30 pages) are due by September 30, 2012.

Journal of Juvenile Justice: Call for Papers:

The Journal of Juvenile Justice (JOJJ) is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

JOJJ staff invites manuscripts for consideration for its third and fourth issues, scheduled for publication in November 2012 and March 2013. Manuscripts may address any of the full range of issues in juvenile justice, such as juvenile victimization, delinquency prevention, intervention, and treatment. Journal readers are expected to include practitioners, clinicians, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, educators, and students.

An online submission and review system for JOJJ is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jojj. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages and should follow current American Psychological Association (APA) style. Further instructions for authors can be found on this site. For more information, please contact Monica Robbers, Ph.D., Managing Editor, JOJJ, at or visit the journal’s Web page at http://www.journalofjuvjustice.org/.

Ongoing Calls for Submission

African Journal of History and Culture  is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject.The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance. All articles published in AJHC will be peer-reviewed. 

The mission of Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum is to bring together research and multimedia from multiple disciplines that is oriented toward the understanding and practice of social justice, broadly defined. By offering an innovative, peer-reviewed space that is open to rigorous research from all disciplines, as well as offerings from outside of academia, we hope to push the ideals of social justice to new levels. Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum runs on a rolling submission deadline for its general issues. Please see the Call for Submissions page for details and click the Submit Article link on the left to submit manuscripts or media files.

The Journal of Applied Social Science publishes original research articles, project reports, teaching notes, and book reviews on a wide range of topics of interest to social scientists in applied, public, clinical, and practice contexts.  All submissions are processed electronically. Send your submission to our editor at  . 

Solving Social Problems is an ongoing series that provides a forum for the description and measurement of social problems, with a keen focus on the concrete remedies proposed for their solution. 

Taiwan International Studies Quarterly,  Published by the Taiwan International Studies Association. The journal accepts manuscripts in Chinese or English.   Manuscripts or any submission inquiry for Taiwan International Studies Quarterly should email to Executive Editor Dr. Jolan Hsieh at  . 

War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity is a multidisciplinary, peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to understanding the conceptualization, etiology, and prevention of violations of international criminal and humanitarian law.

Conferences/Annual Meetings

The Eastern Sociological Society meetings on the Sociology of Reproduction is holding a mini-conference on February 23-26, 2012 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. The Sociology of Reproduction is located at the nexus of several subfields, so having a mini-conference insures that the papers from many perspectives and on various topics within the study of pregnancy, reproduction, and birth will be together, facilitating useful discussion. Because this is a mini-conference, you may submit your abstracts directly to ESS at http://essnet.org/AnnualMeeting_Call.aspx. Under the keyword drop-down menu, select “Mini Conference: Sociology of Reproduction” (see the attached screenshot image). The deadline for submission to ESS is Saturday, October 15, 2011. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact or

The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce our 72nd Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012.   The theme of the Program is “Bays, Boundaries, and Borders.” The deadline for abstract submission is October 15th, 2011.

The 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences will be held from May 30th-June 2nd, 2012 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Submission Proposal Deadline is January 27th, 2012. Click here for the call for papers.

The Justice Studies Association's 14th Annual Conference will take place May 30th-June 1st, 2012. The theme of the conference is Justice and Work and will be held at Loyola University Chicago's Lake Shore Campus, Roger Park. Those interested in participating in the conference should send a title and abstract (fewer than 200 words) to 2012 Program Chair, before March 1, 2012. 

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY is hosting the International Conference on Global Perspectives on Justice, Security and Human Rights on June 6-9 in New York City. To submit proposals, click here. The deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2011. For more information, contact