Call for Papers Issue no.1/2024
HEROS JOURNAL publishes original articles on Romanian language, literature, culture and civilization, proposing various interferences between philological sciences, arts and humanities and social sciences. HEROS issues are non-thematic/thematic and address to any researcher interested in Romanian culture and civilization in a national and/or global context. Thus, HEROS Journal accepts proposals of special issues, thus welcoming a guest editor responsabile for the issue. Respecting academic requirements, contributors are invited to submit texts from any field that can present a novel perspective on Romania. Authors may consider various areas such as linguistics, literature, visual and performing arts, cinema, history, philosophy, political studies, etc. that include, in a personal form, concepts such as: identity and identity construction, geography, marginality, the Centre, neighbourhoods, freedom and the negotiation of freedom, censorship and totalitarianism, integration and resilience, individuality and collectivity, dystopia and utopia, the 'Other' in various contexts, exclusion and exile, diaspora and emigration, nationality and transnationality, gender and ethnicity, religion and spirituality, popular culture and the academic dimensions of education, influences and manifestations of new media, transdiciplinary approaches integrating medical and science terms, up to the new construction of worlds through AI. Each author is free to propose any theme through which Romania can be exploited in a novel view.
Hence you are invited to submit articles on every of the topics in Romanian studies listed above by 15th September 2024 to the journal website at https://journals.helsinki.fi/heros, to the section Make a submission.
HEROS Journal also welcomes academic review articles or scientific book reviews.
The journal publishes articles in Romanian, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
Submission: The manuscript should be both in Microsoft Word format and as PDF, and submitted as an attachment to the journal’s site.
Length: 4000-8000 words including abstract, key words and bibliography
Fonts: Times New Roman 12 (TNR)
Line spacing: 1 (single)
Name of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, and ORCID: under the title. Should the author not have an ORCID, he or she will receive one upon the publication of the article in HEROS Journal.
Please remember that each submission must be accompanied by a separate short biographical note on the author(s).
Title: both in the language of the article and in English
Abstract: 300-400 words, both in the language of the article and in English
Keywords: 5, under the abstract, in English
Citations: integrated into the text, placed between quotation marks. Preferably, excessively long citations are to be avoided.
For the writing and citation guidelines, consult the section Author guidelines.
The ISBN of HEROS Journal will be officially made public upon the publication of the first issue of the journal.
Journal contact: heros-journal@helsinki.fi
