Calls for Papers

Docomomo US invites submissions for a 2026 special edition focused on Recreation & Play – the mid-twentieth-century sites where communities gathered for leisure, movement, social life, and joy.

This edition will examine parks, plazas, skate spaces, swimming pools, playgrounds, amusement sites, and recreational landscapes built between 1949 and 1969, with particular attention to informal use, cultural practices, and histories of access, exclusion, and belonging. Contributions may address architectural, landscape, social, artistic, or cultural dimensions of recreation and play.

We welcome submissions from scholars, practitioners, preservationists, students, artists, and community members.

Submission types

• Short essays 

• Site profiles

• Interviews 

• Photo essays or visual narratives

Key themes

• Skateboarding and informal use of modernist spaces

• Parks, plazas, and civic leisure

• Pools, playgrounds, and youth-centered design

• Art, sculpture, and interactive landscapes

• Segregation, exclusion, and public space

• Underrecognized or newly eligible sites

Proposal deadline extended to Friday May 15. Notifications will be made by June 5. If your article is accepted, materials are due by Monday, July 20. 

See below for article submission instructions. 

The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) is now accepting submissions for its 2026 editions. We welcome both review and original research papers across a broad range of disciplines, including humanities studies, social sciences, and science and technology. PJIR is particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers that bridge these fields and offer fresh perspectives or innovative approaches to existing research challenges. Our goal is to showcase diverse and thought-provoking scholarship that contributes meaningfully to academic discourse.

The journal will announce submission acceptances within four to eight weeks after each round's deadline. This timeline allows the editorial team and reviewers to thoroughly evaluate all submitted papers to ensure they meet the journal's rigorous standards. Authors will be notified of the acceptance decision via email, and successful submissions will proceed to the next stage of publication preparation.

For each edition, one paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award. The winning paper will be chosen based on the rigor of its research, originality, and potential to make a significant impact on its field. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship and highlights work that exemplifies excellence in academic research and innovation. The author of the winning paper will be notified, and their work will be featured prominently in the journal.

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨

The Eldridge Bulletin of Advanced Inquiry invites submissions for its inaugural issue in Arts and Humanities. The new series opens a space for thought in which form, contradiction, and plurality are recognised as conditions of meaning, not obstacles to it. From this frame, inquiry moves across disciplinary boundaries with purpose and intellectual precision.

𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Submissions across core domains of the Arts and Humanities are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Philosophy and critical theory

• Literary studies and comparative literature

• Cultural studies 

• Media theory

• History and intellectual history

• Aesthetics and art theory

• Psychology, cognition, and behavioural sciences

• Digital humanities, AI, and computational approaches to social life

The Bulletin seeks work that maintains conceptual precision, stylistic awareness, and interpretive depth. Submissions may be theoretical, analytical, or essayistic, provided they sustain coherence and intellectual force.

Papers should demonstrate a clear argument and awareness of their methodological grounding. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome where they remain structurally coherent.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

• Interpretation under conditions of digital and technological change

• The transformation of authorship, meaning, and readership

• Tensions between tradition and innovation in the humanities

• Reconfigurations of critique and theory

• Intersections between culture, language, and power

𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬

• Knowledge under conditions of technological acceleration

• AI, digital epistemologies, and the reshaping of inquiry

• Boundaries and crossings between disciplines

• Methodological innovation and hybrid approaches

• Culture and the future of interpretation

• Conditions of knowledge production in contemporary environments

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞

Publishing in a first issue offers a position that later contributions cannot replicate: early contributions participate in the journal’s formative record, with greater visibility per article, faster publication timelines, and early integration into its citation history.

Higher visibility per article

With no backlog, each contribution stands out more clearly within the issue and is more likely to be noticed, circulated, and cited early.

Long-term citation advantage

Early articles often continue to be cited as “initial” or “defining” contributions once the journal grows.

Closer interaction with the editorial team

Early contributors benefit from direct editorial attention and engagement.

Strategic CV value

Being published in a journal’s first issue signals selectivity and involvement at a formative stage. This can read strongly in academic profiles.

𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬:

• Reduced publication fees

• A transparent and rigorous editorial process

• Rapid handling times, without compromising scholarly standards

𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬

Submissions must be original and unpublished.

All manuscripts undergo double blind peer review.

Authors should ensure consistency, precision, and academic integrity.

Further details regarding formatting and submission procedures are available here:

https://london-ap.uk/eldridge-bulletin/submissions/

Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to encourage research by new and established scholars and critics that reflects both the historical importance and the increasing prominence and diversity of short films in today’s media landscape.

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Send a brief, 75-word abstract (1500–4000 words, double-spaced) that specifies your subject, argument, contextualization and the objectives of your proposed paper; include a 25- to 50-word biographical statement and send to the editor, Cynthia Felando (cfelando@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu).

Upon approval of the abstract, full essays should be sent through Pubkit (https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/429/), or by using the ‘Submit’ button above.

Articles should follow the Harvard citation style. Please consult the Submission Guidelines for citation, images, and other formatting issues, and include a separate cover sheet with author details and affiliation information. The journal’s editorial board will referee all submissions. Please direct any further queries to the editor.

The Editorial Board of Kultura i Społeczeństwo invites submissions for a thematic issue devoted to the relationships between fashion and (in)justice. 

Fashion, understood as a socially structured system of practices, meanings, and relations within which dress becomes a vehicle of identity, power, and difference, today constitutes one of the key arenas in which the tensions of contemporary social orders are revealed. Positioned at the intersection of aesthetics and economics, creativity and exploitation, and global aspirations and local consequences, fashion is simultaneously entangled in processes that produce inequalities, hierarchies, and forms of symbolic exclusion. As an object of sociological and anthropological analysis, fashion cannot be reduced merely to the sphere of consumption or the clothing industry. Rather, it functions as a lens through which one can examine mechanisms of power, social classification, bodily control, and the production of material goods and cultural norms. It is precisely this multidimensional character of fashion that makes it an important and compelling subject for the social sciences.

The planned issue invites reflection on justice in the context of fashion, understood broadly as a social, cultural, and philosophical category encompassing both a distributive dimension (the allocation of goods, resources, and burdens) and a symbolic dimension (the right to representation, recognition, and presence in cultural space). We are interested in fashion as a space in which conflicting values and interests are negotiated: between labour and capital, consumption and care, and aesthetics and the costs borne in global production chains by both people and ecosystems. At the same time, the issue is open to analyses of alternative practices, social movements, and forms of resistance that seek to transform dominant models of clothing production and consumption.

We welcome submissions grounded in the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, particularly sociology, social and cultural anthropology, social thought, and cultural studies, in line with the profile of Kultura i Społeczeństwo. 

We encourage contributions addressing, among others, the following topics:

• Social inequalities, power relations, and working conditions in global clothing production chains — including women’s labor, workers’ rights, and the dignity of work.

• Fashion as a field of class conflict, the unequal distribution of goods, and the responsibilities of transnational corporations.

• Environmental justice — the ecological costs of textile production, greenwashing, and critiques of the “sustainable fashion” discourse.

• Cultural, symbolic, and bodily justice — cultural appropriation, postcolonial perspectives on fashion, aesthetic norms and exclusion, and the (non)representation of gender, class, race, and disability in fashion.

• Adaptive and inclusive fashion as an expression of justice for people with disabilities; clothing as an element of identity, consumer experiences, industry barriers (accessibility of physical stores and fitting rooms, lack of standard sizes), and 3D printing in the design of garments and garment components.

• Fashion as a tool for the control and/or emancipation of the body.

• Social movements and alternative practices — Fashion Revolution, slow fashion, circular fashion, local production, practices of resistance, and education for fashion justice.

• Local and post-socialist perspectives — (in)justice and fashion in post-socialist countries, archives of textile industry memory, sewing practices, DIY, and community-based production as forms of resistance.

• Theoretical and methodological approaches — justice in fashion from the perspectives of social philosophy, critical fashion studies, and qualitative, ethnographic, and visual research.

Submissions should be sent to the three guest editors of the Special Issue: 

• Cherine Fahd (Cherine.Fahd@uts.edu.au), 

• Roberto Filippello (r.filippello@uva.nl),

• Todd Robinson (Todd.Robinson@uts.edu.au)

Fashion, dress and clothing provide a critical lens for interpreting the material, social and affective dimensions of colonial state violence, revealing how vulnerability and power are inscribed onto, and contested by, un/clothed bodies. Yet, within fashion studies, such violence has rarely been treated as an object of analysis, and fashion scholars have remained largely silent in the face of catastrophic geopolitical events. This Special Issue of International Journal of Fashion Studies seeks to develop methods capable of positioning fashion studies in relation to urgent political and humanitarian concerns. Recent work has indeed begun to address this gap by attending to garments as trace, relation and evidence within the image field of unfolding ethnic cleansing in Palestine (Fahd and Robinson 2026; Muhawar 2026). Building on this scholarship, the Special Issue asks what it means to think about fashion under conditions of state violence, and what it means to do so at this current juncture. We take the ongoing destruction of life in Gaza as a central provocation, while also acknowledging other contemporary sites of mass violence, including Sudan, Congo, Lebanon and Iran, among other contexts. Indeed, we welcome contributions on/from other locales extending beyond Palestine.

While this Special Issue will necessarily engage the connections between bodies and clothing under political, social and physical duress, we encourage authors to consider both reparative and diagnostic approaches. Reparative methods might attend to forms of memory, care, resistance and sociality through clothing and material culture, while diagnostic approaches may analyse how garments register and make legible the dynamics and ideologies of state violence. The Special Issue will foreground interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from visual culture, media studies, anthropology, sociology, art history, photography theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, alongside fashion studies.

The issue will include five to seven articles in the 6000–8000-word range that combine theoretical and empirical work, as well as shorter (non-peer-reviewed) submissions, visual essays, creative and/or reflective works and reviews (which will be featured in the journal’s ‘Open Space & Reviews’ section). Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• dress under siege, displacement and occupation

• clothing and the killed body

• dress in images of mass violence

• uses of clothes in solidarity movements

• repression, looting, or confiscation of clothes by military enforcement entities

• archives of clothing, disappearance and loss

• garments as trace or evidence or memorial form

• clothing and grief, mourning and care

• humanitarian visuality and the politics of dress

• the ethics of looking at clothing in images of violence

• children’s clothing and domestic life in conditions of destruction

• interdisciplinary approaches to, and methodological interventions for, the study of dress and violence

Scandi and Sámi cultures are steeped in warmth and wellbeing, with material-based artistic traditions woven into daily life. As the days grow shorter and a winter chill settles in, we invite you on a journey across the Nordic regions—Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, and Sápmi—to celebrate contemporary fiber arts and textiles in Scandinavia.

Proposal Requirements

Abstract: 500 words max,  Word document

Label your file: “FirstNameLastName_Title.doc”

Images: 4-6 representative images, jpg, tiff, or png format

Label your images: “FirstNameLastName_Number.jpg”

Full Articles: (what to expect if your proposal gets accepted!)

Full article: Word count varies depending on department (see below examples for word count)

Images: All images must be High Resolution, 300 dpi, jpg, tiff, or png, minimum 6 inches on the shortest side, shared via Google Form (we will send the form to you once your article is accepted)

Caption sheet: Name, Title, Year, materials, techniques, dimensions, photo credit (all are required for every image).

Example: Nádia Taquary, O Mundo/Ifá,  2019. Old iron ball, shell, cowrie shells, coastal marsh grass, wooden beads, 29 x 31.5 x 31.5 inches. Photo: Andrew Kemp.

Bio: 50 words max

Any relevant links (artist website, Instagram handles, Vimeo/YouTube videos)

Guidelines

Submissions received after deadline will not be accepted.

All articles will be reviewed for consideration but not guaranteed for publication.

Please allow up to 2 weeks for a response. Our staff is working very hard on multiple deadlines and projects, and will require sufficient time for review.

All submissions must be original, and exclusive to Surface Design Journal. We will not consider articles that have already been published, in any form, in print or online.

Our digital journal, Folding Chair, is a space for conversations, perspectives, and storytelling on gender equality, intersectional feminism, violence against women and girls, and social justice.

For 2026, we're seeking writing, photography and film submissions from diverse voices that spark conversation and move us closer to equity. 

Submissions are open globally. Any work published by Folding Chair will be paid commensurate with experience.