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PhaenEx

The EPTC's electronic journal is available online at PhaenEx.

  1. Call for Papers: PhaenEx 7.2
  2. Call for Papers: PhaenEx 8.1
  3. Authors Wanted for "Book Encounters"
  4. Early Call for Papers: PhaenEx Special Topics Issue 8.2


Call for Papers: PhaenEx 7.2

Special Topic: Phenomenology, Affect, and Emotion (Fall/Winter 2012)

Lead Editors: Ami Harbin (amiharbin@dal.ca) and Lisa Guenther (lisa.guenther@vanderbilt.edu)

Papers dealing with the topic of Phenomenology, Affect, and Emotion are invited for publication review for the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. Submissions should be made on line at http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ by April 1, 2012.

Please contact the lead editors directly with any questions regarding submissions. PhaenEx publishes in both French and English. All submissions will be subject to double peer review.

Possible paper topics include:

  • Critical discussions of phenomenological accounts of affect and/or emotion in the work of Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, Levinas, Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, Scheler, Solomon, Tomkins and others. What are the possibilities for phenomenological engagements with Deleuze's theory of affect, or Deleuzian engagements with phenomenological approaches to affect?
  • Original phenomenological accounts of affects such as anxiety, shame, joy, anger, lust, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, fatigue, and so forth.
  • Broader philosophical reflections on the significance of affect and emotion: To what extent are affects and emotions individual or collective? How do affect and emotion relate to expression and action? In what particular ways do phenomenological approaches enrich our understanding of what emotions do and motivate? What are the temporal dimensions of affect and emotion, and how do these shape our experience of temporality as such? How do affects and emotions intersect with and structure physical and social spaces?
  • Engagements with the literature on phenomenological psychology: What is the role of affect in schizophrenia, depression, mania, and other psychiatric disorders (as discussed, for example, in the work of Sass, Parnas, Minkowski, and others)? What is the relation between affect, perception and cognition (for example, in the work of Gallagher, Zahavi, Dreyfus, Prinz, De Sousa, Goldie and others who are working to bridge the gap between phenomenology and cognitive science)?
  • Engagements with recent literature on affect in literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies and other disciplines, such as work by Lauren Berlant, Sara Ahmed, Teresa Brennan, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sandra Bartky and others.
  • Explorations of the politics of affect: How do affect and emotion shape the political landscape in specific political contexts, such as the War on Terror, the "Arab Spring," the politics of the hijab, and recent protests in Europe and the US against economic restructuring?  What role does affect play in racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression?

Call for Papers: PhaenEx 8.1

PhaenEx, the online journal for the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for our next Open Issue (Volume 8, No. 1, spring/summer 2013).

We seek papers related to the interests of our Society including phenomenology, psychoanalysis, existentialism, critical theory, feminist philosophy, hermeneutics, feminist philosophy, queer theory, philosophy and literature, bioethics (broadly construed), biopolitics, aesthetics, deconstruction, animal studies, etc.

Our publication is inter-disciplinary and we welcome submissions from philosophy, critical and cultural studies, political theory, film studies, literary studies, critical race studies, women's studies, etc.

Submissions should be made online via the Phaenex web site and are due September 1, 2012. All submissions will be subject to peer review.

For more information contact lead Editors: Tracey Nicholls (tracey.j.nicholls@gmail.com) or Bronwyn Singleton (bronwynsingleton@gmail.com)

Note that PhaenEx publishes in both French and English. We publish two editions yearly in Spring and Fall. For more information see the submissions guidelines posted here.


Authors Wanted "Book Encounters" for PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture

PhaenEx, the online journal for EPTC, is looking for submissions for the "Book Encounters" section of the publication. We are looking for reviews of books (preferably published in 2009 or later) relating to the interests of our readers, including phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, feminist philosophy, queer theory, philosophy and literature, bioethics (broadly construed), existentialism, critical theory, biopolitics, deconstruction, animal studies, etc. We are also looking for creative projects that may not correspond to the typical model of a review such as interviews, dialogues, or more creative pieces about "encountering" recent publications. PhaenEx publishes two editions each year in Spring and Fall and Book Encounters are published in both French and English. Due dates for sending us your book encounter are typically January 1st and August 1st of each year.

We do welcome (high-quality) submissions from graduate students. If you are new to publishing and unsure how to get involved and/or if you have graduate students who are interested in publishing please don't hesitate to contact one of the editors. We can also work with reviewers to get review copies of suitable publications.

For more information please contact:

English: Bronwyn Singleton at bronwynsingleton@gmail.com

French: Martine Beland at martine.beland@college-em.qc.ca



Early Call for Papers

Continental Approaches to International Studies and Issues (tentative title)

PhaenEx Special Topics Issue 8.2.
To be published November/December 2013.
Final submissions due April 1 2013.
Lead editor: John Duncan, Director,
The Ethics, Society, and Law program,
The University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto.

Related to the Continental Approaches to International Studies and Issues issue is a panel to be held on the same topic at the annual EPTC/TCEP conference in conjunction with the huge Canadian Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences to be held in early June, 2012 near Toronto, in Waterloo, Ontario, for which draft paper submissions will be due January 9, 2012.

PhaenEx is a young peer-reviewed journal that has published 2 issues a year for nearly 6 years now. The journal's vision has been to produce a collectively-run, open-access, and interdisciplinary forum for excellent peer-reviewed work in the broad area of existential, phenomenological, and continental theory and culture. The journal's institutional home is EPTC/TCEP, the Canadian-based bilingual and international association of academics and authors working in these areas. Beginning with Issue 7.1., to be published in May 2012, PhaenEx is moving to the next phase of development, working to raise its profile significantly internationally.

Contact John Duncan: jduncan@trinity.utoronto.ca