As Section Editor of Open Cultural Studies, I wish to bring the following to your attention:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES

OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES vol. 2025


Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture)
 – an open access journal published by De Gruyter – invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes, to be considered for publication as special/topical issues of the journal.

Proposals will be collected by October 15, 2024

Proposals will be collected by Dr Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com)

Potential proposals for topical issues may refer to a broad range of subjects, including:
* History & memory,
* Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian & other cultures,
* Popular culture,
* Youth cultures & subcultures,
* Visual culture,
* Photography & film,
* Ethnic & traditional cultures,
* Comparative Literature,
* Media & communication,
* Architecture & urban studies,
* Multiculturalism, inter- & trans-culturalism,
* Gender, lesbian, gay & queer studies,
* Music & dance,
* Theatre & performance,
* Culture & education,
* Regional cultural studies,
* Political economy,
* Area studies,
* Cultural policy,
* Sports.

OUR PREVIOUS TOPICAL ISSUES INCLUDED:
* Russian Speakers After Migration
* Plague as Metaphor
* Redefining New Black Feminist Thought
* Writing the Image, Showing the Word: Agency and Knowledge in Texts and Images
* Taiwanese Identity
* Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Culture
* Alberto Blest Gana at 100
* Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience
* Media Practices Commoning
* Of Sacred Crossroads-Cultural Studies and the Sacred
* MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies
* Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe
* J. G. Ballard and Making
* Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis
* Capitalist Aesthetics
* Images of the Future: Science Fiction across the Media
* Motion and Emotion: Cultural Literacy on the Move
* Black Womanhood in Popular Culture
* Musical Improvisation: Approaches, Practices, Reception and Pedagogy
* New Nationalisms in European and Postcolonial Discourses
* Media and Emotions
* Transmediating Culture(s)?
* On Uses of Black Camp
* Victorians Like Us—Domesticity and Worldliness
* Multicultural Cervantes
* Migration and Translation

IN PROGRESS:
* Safe Places
* Critical Green Theories and Botanical Imaginaries: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements
* Cultures of Airborne Diseases

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