CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR TOPICAL ISSUES
"OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES" vol. 2025

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture) - an open access journal published by De Gruyter - invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes, to be considered for publication as topical issues of the journal.

Proposals will be collected by October 15, 2024.

Please send your proposal to Dr Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com

Potential proposals for topical issues may refer to a broad range of subjects, including:

History & memory,
Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian & other cultures,
Popular culture,
Youth cultures & subcultures,
Visual culture,
Photography & film,
Ethnic & traditional cultures,
Comparative Literature,
Media & communication,
Architecture & urban studies,
Multiculturalism, inter- & trans-culturalism,
Gender, lesbian, gay & queer studies,
Music & dance,
Theatre & performance,
Culture & education,
Regional cultural studies,
Political economy,
Area studies,
Cultural policy,
Sports.


OUR PREVIOUS TOPICAL ISSUES INCLUDED:

Russian Speakers After Migration

Plague as Metaphor

Redefining New Black Feminist Thought
Writing the Image, Showing the Word: Agency and Knowledge in Texts and Images
Taiwanese Identity
Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Culture
Alberto Blest Gana at 100
Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience
Media Practices Commoning
Of Sacred Crossroads-Cultural Studies and the Sacred
MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies
Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe
J. G. Ballard and Making
Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis
Capitalist Aesthetics
Images of the Future: Science Fiction across the Media
Motion and Emotion: Cultural Literacy on the Move
Black Womanhood in Popular Culture
Musical Improvisation: Approaches, Practices, Reception and Pedagogy
New Nationalisms in European and Postcolonial Discourses
Media and Emotions
Transmediating Culture(s)?
On Uses of Black Camp
Victorians Like Us—Domesticity and Worldliness
Multicultural Cervantes
Migration and Translation
IN PROGRESS:
Safe Places

Critical Green Theories and Botanical Imaginaries: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements
Cultures of Airborne Diseases



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