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Subject: Call for Essays: Film, Literature, and Human Rights

Date: 2007-09-05 08:33

Call for Essays: Film, Literature, and Human Rights

 

Peace Review, a Routledge/Taylor & Francis quarterly, multidisciplinary,
transnational journal of research and analysis, welcomes original
contributions, policy analyses, and research for a special issue devoted to
the topic of Literature, Film, and Human Rights.  This special issue will
consider how the disciplines of literary/film studies and human rights may
be brought into conversation in ways that contribute to progressive work in
peace and conflict studies.

 

Potential topics include: 

 

*	the role of cultural production in shaping, framing, perpetuating,
or intervening in world events with human rights implications;
*	contributions of artistic, narrative, and cultural approaches to
human rights practices and theories;
*	theoretical challenges, rewards, and limitations of human rights
approaches to literature and film, on the one hand, and visual and textual
approaches to human rights, on the other;
*	potential audience responses to literary or cinematic
representations of human rights violations (witnessing, consuming,
eroticizing, etc.);
*	ethical claims in literary and cinematic representations of human
rights violations, and the ethics of representing historical atrocity;
*	specific human rights events depicted through the (literary and
cinematic) stories that are told and circulated about them; and
*	analyses of specific texts or films through the lens of human rights
theories, conventions, and practices

 

Interested participants should submit essays (2500-3500 words) and 2-3 line
bios to Peace Review (peacereview@usfca.edu < 
mailto:peacereview@usfca.edu> ) by October 15, 2007. 

 

Peace Review publishes essays on ideas and research in peace studies,
broadly defined. Our essays are relatively short (2500-3500 words), and are
intended for a wide readership. We are most interested in the cultural and
political issues surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and
peoples. Since we are a transnational journal (we distribute to more than 40
nations), we want to avoid speaking with the voice of any particular
national culture or politics. Relevant topics include war, violence, human
rights, political economy, development, culture and consciousness, the
environment, and related issues. Generally, we do not reprint essays that
have been published elsewhere. 

 

Please send essays on this theme by October 15, 2007. Essays should run
between 2500 and 3500 words, and should be jargon- and footnote- free. See
Submission Guidelines at:

 
http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html. <

http://exchange.usfca.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.usfca.edu/pea
cereview/PRHome.html.>  

 

Send essays to:

 

Peace Review

University of San Francisco

2130 Fulton Street

San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

USA

 

or by email:

 

peacereview@usfca.edu

 

Kerry Donoghue

Managing Editor, Peace Review

University of San Francisco

2130 Fulton Street

San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

 

Phone: 415-422-2910

Email: peacereview@usfca.edu 

http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html