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CFP: react/review Vol 5: "From Ephemeral to Obsolete: The Vanishing Historical Object"

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Posted by: University of California, Santa Barbara
Deadline: Fri, August 9th, 2024

CFP: react/review Vol. 5: Special Issue, “From Ephemeral to Obsolete: The Vanishing Historical Object”

Deadline: August 9, 2024

 

The editors of react/review––a peer review, open-access digital journal dedicated to research by emerging scholars––seek articles, reviews, and “Spotlight” essays for Volume 5 that consider the themes of ephemerality and obsolescence in art, architecture, and related fields. We seek contributions that explore the production and afterlives of ephemeral material culture, planned and unplanned obsolescence in art and architectural production, and/or the ephemeral turn in art and architectural history. What are the temporal horizons of ephemeral objects? How do creators imagine the futurity of their creations? How do conservators prepare for objects’ decay and disappearance? How does materiality, or the lack thereof in the case of digital artifacts, inform the types of claims that makers, users, or viewers read into the object?

 

We invite scholarship on any historical period and geographical focus that considers the vanishing historical object. The journal is open to all submissions from fields related to art history, architectural history, urban studies, museum studies, and visual studies, but we prioritize articles by advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career contingent scholars. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions for our “spotlight” category.

 

The journal is currently open to submissions for all categories (see descriptions below). For feature and spotlight articles, please submit a manuscript, cover sheet, and 150-word bio to the journal’s page on eScholarship using the submit function, located at: https://escholarship.org/uc/reactreview. Please remove any identifying information from manuscripts, as submissions will be evaluated through a double-blind review process. We kindly ask that you provide a separate cover sheet with the title, author’s name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and a short bio.

 

Questions can be directed to the journal co-managing editors, Taylor Van Doorne & Ben Jameson-Ellsmore, at: reactreviewjournal@gmail.com.

 

Posted on Wed, May 22nd, 2024
Expires on Fri, August 9th, 2024

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