Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to encourage submissions for The Postcolonialist, a publication to be launched in the Fall of 2013. This is a forum for open discussion between academics, journalists, artists, and activists from across the world. Submissions will be accepted in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Scholarly articles may be peer-reviewed upon request. Shorter essays, commentaries, Op-Eds or artistic/photographic displays will be reviewed and edited by an internal team. Broad categories for which we are accepting articles are: Arts, Civil Discourse, Culture & Criticism, Global Perspectives, and Media.

This panel seeks to examine the way child abuse figures in narratives of the last century that use a supernatural frame and/or supernatural elements. A broad range of texts may be explored, from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw to Gore Verbinski's The Ring. What aspect of abusive environments does the supernatural represent? What might it obscure? Is the supernatural utilized by the child victim as a means by which to regain agency? Or does it result in further objectification? This panel seeks papers that will consider how the abused child functions within a supernatural frame, bearing in mind questions of space, autonomy, and boundaries in regards to both child subject and supernatural element/environment.

Since Ellen Moers' original designation of the Female Gothic, the term continues to evolve: The amalgamation of femininity's depiction in literature and Gothic studies does not conclude with Literary Women (1976). Therefore, this panel will concentrate on the female body's involvement in what is considered Gothic; as Moers denotes, what "predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite auctorial intent: to scare." At the root of this fear is a woman's anxiety of childbirth and the subsequent call to motherhood, according to Moers. This fear can be dealt with in a variety of ways: avoidance, elimination, and torture.

Dear colleagues,
We send to you the information about the possibility to submit an article for an international scientific journal (Eighteenth Call for Papers)
"Problems of Education in the 21st Century" ISSN 1822-7864

http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/Problems_of_Education.htm
http://www.scientiasocialis.lt/pec/