e-misférica welcomes submissions of essays, artist presentations, and reviews. Please consult the guidelines below for more information. Submissions are understood to be original, unpublished, and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The journal issues calls for papers two times per year (below) that outline themes and deadlines.
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If you are interested in contributing to e-misférica's Reviews section, comprising reviews of books, performances, films, and/or other materials related to performance in the Americas, please send a query, writing sample, and brief bio to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please note that the review section is scholarly in nature and does not accept proposals from artists to write about their own work. Check this page (coming soon– right column) for a selection of books open for review for the forthcoming issue of e-misférica.
e-misférica invites scholarly essays and artist/activist presentations for its Fall 2010 issue entitled “After Truth: Justice, Memory and Related Aftermaths.” A generation after Latin America’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) and following decades of sustained activism and critical reflection around the politics of memory, this issue seeks to explore the subjects, social processes and representational practices that both official and unofficial transitional justice projects—like TRCs—have left in their wake. What is the status of the “truth” sought and produced through such projects? What kinds of pasts and futures have been inaugurated through these enactments? How have struggles over memory changed as activist demands have been partially incorporated into regimes of neoliberal governance through TRCs and other mechanisms? How have these processes shaped the social, cultural and political landscapes of post-war and post-dictatorship societies? How are new generations reshaping these contexts and struggles? What alternative strategies of truth production and truth telling have these transitional justice projects set in motion? What are the afterlives of the vast evidentiary archives that they have generated?
We also welcome submissions that reflect on these issues in the contexts of ongoing debates surrounding practices of torture in the so-called “War on Terror”, the Canadian TRC on residential schools, and projects of reparation in relation to slavery, among other topics. We are particularly interested in the role of performance and the visual in the production of truth: photography in/as archive; museums and exhibition politics; theatrical productions; and other strategies of intervention in the public sphere.
This issue will be published in December 2010. All essays are peer reviewed, and should be 5000-7000 words. Reviews are 750 words. Please submit completed essays by June 1, 2010 to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and include "e-misférica 7.2" in the subject heading. To submit multimedia presentations and reviews, please contact the editors with proposals by May 1, 2010. Advance queries are most welcome.