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Dear ISCAR members,
We are very pleased to announce that “Human Arenas. An interdisciplinary journal of psychology, culture, and meaning” is now on-line and ready to accept submissions. The first issue will be available in March/April 2018.
http://www.springer.com/psychology/cognitive+psychology/journal/42087
We invite all of you to submit your valuable contribution and to experiment the new formats of academic writing the journal is aiming to develop.

Best regards
Pina & Luca
Editors”

Call for Abstracts

Special Issue on

“Karl Marx and the Language Sciences: critical encounters”

To be published in Language Sciences, May 2018

We announce an initial Call for Abstracts for a 2018 Special Issue of Language Sciences on “Karl Marx and the Language Sciences: critical encounters.”

Special Issue guest editor: Peter E Jones (Sheffield Hallam University).

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is one of the most influential philosophers and political thinkers of the past two centuries. His political writings have decisively shaped the modern world, contributing to the development of working class organization and inspiring and informing socialist, communist and national liberation movements internationally. At the same time, Marx’s revolutionary philosophical and scientific work has had an incalculable impact on intellectual culture and, for many, retains its relevance for the understanding and progressive transformation of social life.

This Special Issue sets out to critically examine the inter-relations between Marx’s thinking and contemporary research in language (including the philosophy of language) and communication. Individual papers may aim to survey broad currents or trends of thought in the language sciences from this perspective or to focus more narrowly on particular topics or the work of particular scholars. However, all papers should set out to demonstrate how such a critical engagement with Marx can be productive in contributing to both our understanding of Marx and Marxist theory and to research in the language sciences.

Accordingly, we welcome papers which address the following topics:

1. the relevance of Marx to the language sciences today;
2. the historical influence of Marx’s thinking on developments in the language sciences and allied disciplines (e.g., psychology);
3. Marx’s own views on language and communication and the role of these views in the development of his thinking and on subsequent Marxist theorising;
4. the Influence on Marx’s own thinking of contemporary perspectives on language and communication;
5. the relationship of Marx’s work to one or more present day traditions and approaches in language and communication research (e.g., Critical Discourse Analysis, Dialogism, Ethnomethodology, etc.);
6. critical examination of the linguistic and communicational ideas of particular scholars or collectives who self-identify as Marxist or are commonly associated with Marxist tradition (e,g, Vygotsky, Voloshinov, the Bakhtin circle, Gramsci, etc.);
7. critical re-examination of Marx’s key theoretical concepts from a present day language sciences perspective (e.g, value, commodity fetishism, class struggle, alienation, ).

Word limit for abstracts: 150-200 words.

PLEASE NOTE: At this initial stage we are inviting ABSTRACTS ONLY. Abstracts will be reviewed by Editor and Guest Editor. Selected contributors will then be invited to submit a full article for review.

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 1^st May 2017

Decision on invitation for full article submission: 1^st June 2017

Deadline for first draft of articles: 1^st December 2017

Deadline for final version of articles: 15^th March 2018

Publication date: 5 May 2018

Article abstracts should be sent to Peter E Jones: [email protected]

7th ISCAR Summer University for PhD students 

Cultural-historical psychology: interdisciplinary research perspectives & social practices

3-8 July, 2017

(MSUPE, Moscow, Russia)

The Official Call for Applications

The Second Application Deadline: March 1st, 2017

The ISCAR Summer University provides a broad introduction into the theory and practice of research in the field of development and education with a focus on the cultural-historical psychology and activity approach (L.S. Vygotsky, A.N. Leont’ev, A.R. Luriya). Continue reading 7th ISCAR Summer University for PhD students, 3—8 July 2017 Moscow: 2nd deadline 1 March 2017

The Journal of Homosexuality seeks article-length manuscripts for an upcoming special issue on LGBTQ Muslim Experiences to be published in late 2018.

Research exploring how LGBTQ individuals develop religious and sexual identities has gained momentum in the past decade – although this work has largely focused on Judeo-Christian religions and little is known about the LGBTQ Muslim experience. However, the experiences of individuals who identify as both Islamic religious and sexual minorities deserve further attention in light of the current political climate in the United States and their increased exposure to minority stress. These changes raise questions of how LGBTQ individuals from Muslim backgrounds address questions and conflicts related to identity, community, religion and spirituality, family and health.

This special issue, therefore, seeks articles that examine contemporary sexual and gender minority experiences within Islam from both theoretical and empirical perspectives (i.e., both quantitative and qualitative), welcoming both interdisciplinary as well as multidisciplinary submissions.
Continue reading Call for manuscripts for Journal of Homosexuality