ANZAMEMS
The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies supports and promotes the study of the Medieval and Early Modern periods in New Zealand and Australia. Membership is open to all interested researchers, students and academics. The Association publishes the journal Parergon twice yearly and members can also subscribe to an email list-serv. The Association also holds a major regional conference every two years.
Details and the membership application form are at http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR A THEMED ISSUE OF PARERGON
The journal Parergon, in print since 1971, has recently developed a policy of producing one open issue and one themed issue annually.
Some previous themed issues have been: 21.2, the George Yule commemorative issue, guest-edited by Wilf Prest; 24.2, Houses, Households and Families in Medieval and Early Modern Europe guest-edited by Philippa Maddern. This year, 26.2, Early Modern Friendship guest-edited by Richard Yeo and Vanessa Smith is in press, and for 2010 we are working with guest-editor Megan Cassidy-Welch on 27.2, Practices of Space.
We now call for proposals for future themed issues, most immediately for 2011 (28.2) and 2012 (29.2).
Parergon publishes articles on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, from early medieval through to the eighteenth century. We are particularly interested in research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Themed issues contain up to ten essays, plus the usual reviews section. The guest editor is responsible for setting the theme and drawing up the criteria for the essays. Proposals should give a rationale for the collection and an indication of the range of authors and essays to be included. The guest editor will commission and pre-select the essays before submitting them to the Parergon editor, who will arrange for independent and anonymous peer-review in accordance with the journal’s established criteria.
Time line: Proposals for the 2011 issue are required by 30 January 2010, and completed essays by 30 January 2011.
Proposals for the 2012 issue are required by 30 January 2011, and completed essays by 30 January 2012.
Preliminary expressions of interest are welcome at any time.
Please correspond with Anne Scott anne.scott@uwa.edu.au.
Proposals will be considered by members of the ANZAMEMS committee.
The A-ranked journal Parergon is available in electronic form as part of Project Muse (from 2005), Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (from 1994), and Humanities Full Text (from 2008); it is included in the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.