[Commlist] Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies CFP:,"Transfers and Traversals: Translation and Interdisciplinarity in the Arts"

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies CFP:
"Transfers and Traversals: Translation and Interdisciplinarity in the Arts"

Guest editor:
Martin P. Rossouw, Head of Department: Art History and Image Studies; 
University of the Free State, South Africa, (RossouwMP /at/ ufs.ac.za) 
<mailto:(RossouwMP /at/ ufs.ac.za)>.

Critical Arts is a peer-reviewed journal publishing 6 issues a year. 
Three of the six numbers are reserved for general issues and single 
submissions. Three are allocated to theme issues.

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Having long exceeded the purview of traditional translation studies, the 
topic of translation marks a fertile scene for dialogue across 
disciplines. In fields as diverse as philosophy, anthropology, 
sociology, cultural studies, media theory, comparative literature, 
comparative arts, adaptation studies, art history, and visual culture 
studies (to name but the obvious ones), we see recurring recourse to 
‘translation’ as a concept for thinking about not only social-cultural 
phenomena, practices, and processes, but also fundamental forms of 
knowledge and knowledge creation. Such an expanded category for 
understanding translation has been in fact also emerging from within 
translation studies itself: many translation theorists today are 
increasingly pushing beyond conventional inter-lingual translations to 
also investigate inter-semiotic and multimodal translations of cultures, 
artifacts, practices, and events—a push which by default also pushes 
their investigations into distinctly interdisciplinary registers. On top 
of that, we have proliferating cultural forms such as adaptations, 
remediations, remixes, and gamifications: owing to their inherently 
‘translational’ nature, these typically transmedial forms cannot but 
demand interdisciplinary modes of scrutiny and analysis. Ultimately, 
even interdisciplinary collaboration as such is frequently conceived of 
in terms of ‘translations’—thus underscoring its status as a probing 
meta-concept for reflecting on the various orders of transfers and 
traversals that occur when disciplines work together.

Against this background, Critical Arts invites submissions for its 
special issue, ‘Transfers and Traversals: Translation and 
Interdisciplinarity in the Arts ‘. The issue takes critical stock of the 
uses of translation, broadly construed, for interdisciplinary thinking 
in and around the arts, likewise broadly construed. Active artists, 
translators, and media practitioners are especially encouraged to 
reflect on conceptual relevancies of the art of translation/translation 
of art to their own work.

Possible topics for articles include:

# reflections on (the concept of) translation as means to inter-, 
multi-, post-, or transdisciplinary research related to the arts

# the study and critical analysis of particular translations, 
adaptations, remediations, remixes, gamifications, transmediations, 
intermedialities, etc. with relevant interdisciplinary implications

# the study of relations, interactions, and creative translations 
between arts and/or media

# epistemological, social, political, ethical-moral, and/or legal 
aspects of relevant (intersemiotic, intermedial, interart, 
intercultural) translations or translational processes

# cultural (or cross-cultural) translations, dialogues, appropriations, 
transfers, and migrations related to the arts

# questions about knowledge translation, i.e. the translation and 
application of artistic knowledge, skills, practices, or ‘know-how’ 
within other, seemingly unrelated, societal spheres

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Submission of articles for peer review:
March 1, 2023 or any time before this date

Anticipated publication of accepted papers:
December 2023

Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc 
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc>. Submissions should be original 
works not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, between 5000 to 7000 words 
in length. Referencing should be done according to the Chicago Manual of 
Style.

Article Processing Charges (APC):
Critical Arts is a self-funded publication licensed to Taylor & Francis. 
Its funding largely accrues from APCs levied from authors who are 
affiliated to South African public universities which draw DHET 
publication subsidies. Such authors are requested to cover charges of 
R450 per page from their DHET incentive and/or from funds set aside by 
their respective universities.  Authors not affiliated to South African 
institutions are requested to try to source APCs from their own sources. 
The convenors of a corresponding interdisciplinary translation studies 
conference at the University of the Free State, ‘Transfers and 
Traversals’, have agreed to cover the cost of a special projects editor, 
Dr Julie Grant, who will provide logistical support to the guest editor 
and journal editorial office. This will ensure timely publication and 
continuous editorial backup for authors and the guest editor.

Indexes listing Critical Arts:
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) [Web of Science]; Scopus, ProQuest 
IBSS, Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Alternative Press Index; 
ARTBibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; Film Literature 
Index; Humanities International Index; Index to South African 
Periodicals; International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance; Linguistics 
and Language Behavior Abstracts; MLA International Bibliography; 
Periodicals Index Online; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature.  By 
virtue of first three indexes listed, Critical Arts is DHET approved.

Critical Arts URLs:
Author Services http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/ 
<http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/>
Critical Arts Home Page 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcrcauth.asp 
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcrcauth.asp> Access via your 
institutional library
eJournals Archive (1980-1992) 
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/ 
<http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/>  These are open 
access

Critical Arts encourages conceptual freshness, textured writing, and 
experiential analysis, which draws readers into its articles, narrative 
themes, and theoretical explorations. We furthermore encourage articles 
that influence the ways in which disciplines think about themselves. Our 
niche includes critical dialogues generated within the South-North and 
East-West relationships, with special reference to Africa.

Critical Arts includes amongst its authors original articles by Nobel 
Laureates J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.  Other authors have 
included Stuart Hall, Stacy Vorster, Leora Farber, Gary Richmond, Doreen 
Wu, Sonja Narunsky-Laden, and Arnold Shepperson. Previous Critical Arts 
special issues related to translation studies and semiotics can be 
sourced here:

Peirce, Logic and Mining Safety: 
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/22/2?nav=tocList 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/22/2?nav=tocList>
Rethinking Chinese Questions in Western Literary Theories: 
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/34/2?nav=tocList 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/34/2?nav=tocList>
and in various articles like: You Wu (2020) Globalization, Science 
Fiction and the China Story: Translation, Dissemination and Reception of 
Liu Cixin’s Works across the Globe, Critical Arts, 34:6, 56-70, DOI: 
10.1080/02560046.2020.1850820

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