Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal: Announcements https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities <p><em>Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal</em> is <em>the</em> humanities and arts journal that publishes scholarship on topics that investigate the critical intersections of the arts and humanities with the aging process and with age across the lifespan. </p> en-US Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:31:36 +0200 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 News from ACH! https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1216 <p class="x_MsoNormal">Dear colleagues, </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">We are pleased to share some news: </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">Heunjung Lee will join our editorial team and work side by side with Katherine Ludwin as editorial assistant. Heun has a background in performance studies and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada. We look forward to working with Heun and are pleased to see our team expanding as we are handling an increase of submissions in 2024. </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">The journal was recently accredited by Scopus and will soon be listed as a Scopus-indexed journal. This will grant our journal and authors a wider visibility through databases and search engines. We are grateful for this suggestion, which was shared with us by anonymous colleagues in our 2023 survey. Since many funding organisms prioritize work published in Scopus-indexed journals, we hope that this will increase submissions to the journal. </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">With best wishes,</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">the team of ACH</p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1216 Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:31:36 +0200 Sneak Preview! https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1171 <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Age, Culture, Humanities </em>has been brewing up a new forum! The topic: <strong>The US American Election</strong>, which is more timely than ever, not least because age is so central to the discussions about who should – or should not – be president.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Under the title “Too old for the job? The 2024 US American Presidential Elections,” we lined up a prominent group of colleagues, who have generously accepted our invitation to write short comments and reflections. Expect the pieces by <em>Kathleen Woodward</em> and <em>Margaret Gullette</em> to be published very soon.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">They will be followed by contributions by <em>Stephen Katz</em> in conversation with <em>Andrew Achenbaum, Kate de Medeiros, Valerie Lipscomb, Cynthia Port and Jørn Brøndal.</em></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">And, to whet your appetite, <strong>listen</strong> to our first-ever interview to be published <em>both</em> in a transcribed and an audio version on <em>Age, Culture, Humanities</em>. The interview is with Ashton Applewhite, and <strong>the audiofile is available under this <a title="Interview" href="https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/193">link</a></strong>. The transcribed version of the interview will follow soon. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Please spread the word and direct your colleagues and friends to our journal!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Aagje Swinnen and Anita Wohlmann,</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">on behalf of the entire ACH-crew</p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1171 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:42:59 +0200 Call for Papers: Call for a Communication Manager https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1122 <p>We are looking for an additional colleague to help us increase the visibility of <em>Age, Culture, Humanities</em> within the field of age studies and beyond. For this purpose, we created a new position – communication manager –, which offers an early to mid-career researcher the opportunity to monitor the newest trends in age studies and network with colleagues in the field while creating more awareness for the journal.</p> <p>The tasks will be the following:</p> <ul> <li>Communicate journal updates via social media</li> <li>Develop effective and innovative communication strategies in collaboration with the</li> <li>journal editors, editorial assistant, and review editor</li> <li>Implement and execute these strategies</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">We expect the workload to be ca. 1 hour per week, possibly less. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed person with some insight into and experience with social media. We expect an advanced level of English. If you have familiarity with the cultural study of age, aging, and later life and have an interest in this position, please send your CV (1-2 pages) and a letter of motivation (0.5-1 page) to Anita Wohlmann (wohlmann@sdu.dk) and Aagje Swinnen (a.swinnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl) before <strong>November 15, 2023</strong>.</span></p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1122 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:46:55 +0200 New review editor needed! https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1105 <p style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed review editor – either a native speaker or with an advanced command of English – to take on the following tasks:</p> <ul> <li>Continuously update the list of relevant publications for review</li> <li>Communicate with reviewers and solicit reviewers</li> <li>Arrange that review copies are sent to the reviewers</li> <li>Manage the online submission system for reviews</li> <li>Copy-edit review submissions</li> <li>Upload copy-edited reviews on the journal website</li> <li>Collaborate with the journal editors in all the steps of the review process</li> <li>Communicate journal updates via Twitter</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you are an early to mid-career scholar with expertise and experience in the cultural study of age, aging, and later life and have an interest in this position, please send your CV (1-2 pages) and a letter of motivation (0.5-1 page) to Anita Wohlmann (wohlmann@sdu.dk) and Aagje Swinnen (a.swinnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl) before <strong>September 1, 2023</strong>.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to have a brief chat about the position and what it implies, feel free to contact the editors or Ella Fegitz, the current review editor (ella@sdu.dk).</p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1105 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:40:29 +0200 Call for Papers: Call for submissions: 2024 Early-Career-Scholar Essay Contest! https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1057 <p style="font-weight: 400;">Current early career scholars in any relevant humanities discipline are invited to submit a manuscript (7,500- 9,000 words) for consideration. We are interested in scholarly articles that investigate the critical intersections of the arts and humanities with the aging process.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">All submitted manuscripts will undergo a blind-peer review process and will be evaluated by an international jury. The winning manuscript will be published open access in the 2024 issue of <em>Age, Culture, Humanities</em> and receive an official acknowledgment. Before submission, please consult the journal’s <a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/about/submissions">guidelines</a> for more information.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Submission deadline:</strong> 31<sup>st</sup> December 2023</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Our flyer for the contest can be downloaded <a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. </p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/1057 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:46:06 +0100 Age, Culture, Humanities: Open for submissions https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/968 <p><em>Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal</em> is an open access peer-reviewed journal that promotes cross-disciplinary, critical investigations of the experiences of age, aging, and old age, as seen through the lens of the humanities and arts. The goals are to consider age as a category of identity, advance understanding of the aging process and of age differences across the lifespan, interrogate cultural articulations of aging and old age, and generate innovative, engaging scholarly approaches to the study of age and aging in the humanities.</p> <p>We are delighted to announce that <strong>Age, Culture, Humanities is now reopened for submissions</strong> after transferring from the Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina to the Danish Royal Library. Please visit our <a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/issue/archive">Archives</a> to consult the five previous issues. </p> <p>A diverse range of scholarly contributions are invited, from research articles, reviews, and pedagogical essays to featured themes and special issues. Please consult <a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/about/submissions">the submission guidelines</a> for more information.</p> https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/announcement/view/968 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:59:13 +0100