CfA: "Shaping the Republic of Letters: Communication, Correspondence and Networks in Early Modern Europe", The Journal of Early Modern Studies
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft, Weitere Teilbereiche
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
- Frist: 01.03.12
The Journal of Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its first issue (Fall 2012). It will be a special issue, devoted to the theme:
Shaping the Republic of Letters: Communication, Correspondence and Networks in Early Modern Europe
Editor: Vlad Alexandrescu
A well known metaphor of the early European modernity and an important instrument in the understanding of seventeenth-century thought, the “Republic of Letters” was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily a label for new projects of intellectual and scientific association. Various models for the Republic of Letters have been investigated and described as closed circles or open networks, shaped around a variety of elements: scientific societies, intellectual networks, formal or informal circles of intellectuals, proponents of the new and old philosophies. What all such models had in common was a an ideal of shaping communities around a moral, intellectual and sometimes a religious project understood as a reformation of the (whole) human being.
This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of such models of early modern communities governed by the ideal of the Republic of Letters. The journal is particularly seeking papers dedicated to the exploration of various ways of disseminating and communicating knowledge within the Republic of Letters, with a special focus on the exchanges between the East and the West of Europe.
JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It aims to respond to the growing awareness within the scholarly community of an emerging new field of research that crosses the boundaries of the traditional disciplines and goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts.
JEMS publishes high-quality articles reporting results of research in intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of early modern science, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community as yet unexplored topics, which testify to the multiple intellectual exchanges and interactions between Eastern and Western Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
JEMS is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest (http://modernthought-unibuc.blogspot.com/), and published and distributed by Zeta Books (http://www.zetabooks.com/).
The main language of the journal is English, although contributions in French are also accepted.
Publication: 2 issues per year
1. Spring: 1st of April; deadline for submissions: 1st of October
2. Fall: 1st of November; deadline for submissions: 1st of March
The first issue is scheduled for the Fall of 2012. Please send your contributions no later than the 1st of March 2012 to Journal of Early Modern Studies
jems@zetabooks.com
Format:
Papers: maximum 10,000 words; in English or French, with an abstract and key-words in English
Book reviews: maximum 2,000 words
Review essays: maximum 4,000 words
For the style guide see www.zetabooks.com/download2/GUIDELINES-FOR-AUTHORS.pdf
Books for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor:
Sorana Corneanu
English Department, University of Bucharest
7-13 Pitar Mos St., 010451 Bucharest, Romania
Editors:
Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest)
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
Book review editor:
Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest)
Editorial board:
Igor Agostini (University of Salento)
Peter Anstey (University of Otago)
Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Peter Harrison (University of Queensland)
Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Koen Vermeir (C.N.R.S., Paris)
Advisory board:
Jean-Robert Armogathe (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Giulia Belgioioso (University of Salento)
Vincent Carraud (University of Caen)
Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Smaranda Elian (University of Bucharest)
Gérard Ferreyrolles (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne)
Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)
Howard Hotson (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Mihai Moraru (University of Bucharest)
Ovidiu Olar (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy)
Tamás Pavlovits (University of Szeged)
Martine Pécharman (C.N.R.S., Paris)
Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University, Montreal)
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