[Air-L] Call for Papers: Research in the Humanities

[Tama Leaver]

*May be of interest to some of you ...*


*Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy*



Call for Papers: Research in the Humanities
<http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal/research-in-the-humanities-call-for-papers/>



The editors invite submissions to a forthcoming special issue of *Ctrl-Z:
New Media Philosophy* on the question of ‘research’ in the humanities
today. What counts as research; what doesn’t; and who decides?



Does the traditional distinction between critical and creative work still
hold? Is creative work, or any form of non-traditional academic work (i.e.
whatever doesn’t conform to a notion of the standard academic essay),
quantifiable and measurable according to an idea of research modelled on a
certain conception of science?



And who or what is humanities research for? What are its most appropriate
or effective means of dissemination, and what kinds of effects might be
expected of it once—*if*—it reaches its proposed destination?



The editors have begun to address these questions in earlier issues—see
Briggs & Lucy, ‘Art as Research?
<http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal?slug=briggs-lucy-art-as-research>’ (
http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal?slug=briggs-lucy-art-as-research), for
example—but there are many other possible responses.



Ctrl-Z welcomes contributions in a variety of forms, including:



• Essays between 3,000 and 6,000 words

• Reviews (books, films, exhibitions, performances, etc.), up to 2,000 words

• Audio-visual texts

• Short fiction/creative nonfiction between 3,000 and 6,000 words

• Poetry



Contributors are encouraged to incorporate images in their work, and the
journal favours multidisciplinary approaches.



The issue is scheduled for publication in 2015, and the deadline for
submissions is 31 December 2014. For the journal’s preferred style of
presentation, see previous issues.



Email submissions to Robert Briggs <R.Briggs at curtin.edu.au>.