Call for Papers: Journal of Illustration

Special Issue: ‘ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration#call-for-papers

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role that illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures.

We invite submissions of full manuscripts or expressions of interest (300 word abstract) from those who have participated at the symposium, in any capacity, and from those who are inspired by the themes. Please consider the submission of articles, research, critical and visual essays based on practice-based research on the diverse ways illustration and heritage are connected.

Papers could address questions such as: In what ways do contemporary illustrators participate in historical narratives and give voice to people and communities – both remembered and forgotten – through their work? How are historical relics, places and events represented through illustrative processes? How do researchers and practitioners in heritage utilise the practices, research methods and processes of illustration? How does heritage shape the perspectives, positions and identities of illustration practitioners and researchers? How is the process of heritage-making practised by illustrators around the world? How do illustrative processes – and the shared languages of categorising, curating, conserving and communicating heritage – bring illustration into the realms of archaeology, museology, curation and other heritage practices? Do illustrators who engage with heritage-making as part of their practice communicate and reflect what Stuart Hall described as a ‘collective social memory’? Who should be making the images that shape the future histories of culture and identity? When practising heritage-making with or through illustration, how do we make space for plurality and how do we reflect on our subjectivity?

Submissions that expand upon, replace or transcend standard written academic papers are welcome.

Issue Editor: Rachel Emily Taylor

DEADLINES:

27 January 2025: initial manuscripts or expressions of interest

Early February 2025: abstract acceptance (exact date tbc)

May 2025: submissions of final manuscripts (exact date tbc)

November 2025: Estimated publication