[ecrea] one-day academic symposium and launch of the MONAD project and journal at the University of Northampton

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

On Thursday 31^st August we are holding a one-day academic symposium and 
launch of the MONAD project and journal at the University of 
Northampton, Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology.

This event is building upon the successes, at Northampton, of both the 
Trans- States and Punk Scholar’s Network conferences and their common 
core themes of progressive change by way of transformative practice. An 
outline of the Monad project and journal can be found below.

We have a number of exciting contributors and affiliates in place for 
the project and launch symposium but in line with the project’s 
democratising principles we would like to advertise our openness for 
additional expressions of interests.

If you would like express your interest in being involved in some 
capacity with this engaging and progressive project, please forward a 
short (250 word maximum) proposal which explains your area of interest 
and addresses the themes outlined below, along with a personal biography 
and contact details to:

(info /at/ monadjournal.com) <mailto:(info /at/ monadjournal.com)>

Look forward to hearing from you.

Cavan McLaughlin & Roy Wallace

*Project Synopsis*

The Monad project and journal, will function as a digital hub, archiving 
and sharing principles of ‘best practice’ for realising progressive 
change. We recognise that such change comes both from self-development 
and engaging with community. We also recognise, that transformative 
practice is not the domain of any single field or discipline. A good 
idea is evidenced by putting it into practice, and good practice, speaks 
for itself.

The Monad journal, is a transdisciplinary, open access (OA), scholastic 
journal focusing on contemporary practices (and practitioners) that 
engage in progressive individual and/or cultural transformation.

We aim to provide a digital publishing platform for practices, and 
practitioners, that actively seek to combat hegemony, challenge 
normativity and contravene conformity.

We seek authors, but not necessarily authorities. As part of our 
democratising principles, the project and journal will be radically 
inclusive. We will facilitate the discovery and dissemination of 
exceptional transformative practice by utilising the open-source model 
of shared and decentralised development, encouraging open-collaboration, 
but also recognising, individual authorship and achievement — thereby 
providing both individual and cultural benefit. (Better technologies and 
methods of transformative practice, and recognition of individual 
innovation and excellence, through a dedicated, transdisciplinary, 
publishing platform and archive).

Our mission is to seek out, publish and share — methods, models and 
makers of change.

All work will be judged entirely on its own merit. Affiliates and 
contributors may be from any background, with no minimum education 
levels, but the work itself will evidence expertise and innovation, in 
the area of interest it engages. When we refer to the content of this 
project as scholastic, we mean: implicitly educational.

Materials we seek to archive and share will include text-based articles, 
audio-visual works (e.g. short films and documentaries, video art, 
audio-visual presentations), audio-only works, or even, images with 
exegesis. As a guide, we are equally interested in the following fields:

• Transformative spiritual/religious practice

• Transformative artistic practice

• Transformative political practice

• Transformative scientific and clinical practice



Dr Claire Allen
Senior Lecturer in English, Level Four Year Tutor, and Fellow of the HEA
Faculty of Education and Humanities
Office: MR72
University of Northampton
Avenue Campus
St George's Avenue
Northampton
NN2 6JD

Telephone: 01604 893290
Email:(claire.allen /at/ northampton.ac.uk)

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