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Call for submissions: ‘France and Ireland: cultures and countries en crise’.
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies (JOFIS)
Deadline for submissions: June 1st 2010 for Autumn 2010 publication.
Following on from the success of the 2008 La Rencontre / Encounters edition of JOFIS, electronic submissions of 4000-6000 words are welcomed in either English or French examining French and Irish approaches to the notion of ‘crise/crisis.’ Postgraduate students and scholars are invited to address the corpus of Franco-Irish Studies, in the arts, history, culture, linguistics, theory, political, geographical and media studies from past to present.
The idea of crisis could refers to a host of contemporary and concrete socio-economic issues such as the financial crisis, health and immigration concerns, which both France and Ireland have suffered and negotiated. It could also be expanded upon to include historical and contemporary Franco-Irish literary and theoretical responses to cultural, linguistic, religious crises and political threats, as well as the artistic revelations which emanate from these.
Submissions might wish to address some of the following questions and will hopefully inspire further concerns;
- Linguistic crises such as cultural exclusion - L'Académie vs. verlan, Anglicization, Hiberno-English and investment in Irish language teaching.
- Do Franco-Irish responses to crises breed identity formation and in some instances encourage creative artistic endeavours?
-Does crisis encourage prevarication as a means of progression nowadays, when in the past crisis invoked stolid but certain responses and even Franco- or Celtophobia?
- Is a state of cultural, artistic and national crisis no longer considered politically correct?
- Considering the parallels which exist between Ireland and France and other Celtic nations and smaller Francophone countries, how do culture and country condition responses to crises?
Submissions should be sent as Word attachments in Times New Roman, 12 font.
Footnotes should not be employed where possible. Author date references to be employed in the main text, followed by a Works Cited at the end.
JOFIS (http://www.ittdublin.ie/ncfis/jofis/) is an online peer-reviewed and postgraduate student edited e-journal which is hosted by the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies. Please contact guest editors Lauren Clark bf48yp@student.sunderland.ac.uk<mailto:bf48yp@student.sunderland.ac.uk> and Matthew Hayward m.c.hayward@durham.ac.uk<mailto:m.c.hayward@durham.ac.uk> for further submission details. |