Call for Papers: Tracking the museum (2019-1)
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As an over-determined urban gadget or as a system able to celebrate the unstoppable process of fetishization typical of the late modernity, the museum lived at the end of the last century a triumphant season, characterized not only by the multiplication of museums and of the museum typologies themselves, which, by now, are incalculable, but also by an increasing critical attention that has considerably nourished the debate and the publishing production.
In view of the economic crisis of the last years, that has, moreover, suggested greater caution in the evaluation of the effects and the excesses of the hyper-musealization, and extinguished the enthusiasms for the marketing and for the museum communications, nowadays the reflection on the museum seems to orientate itself towards a new disciplinary opening. A widening of horizons that does not find expression, simply, in a further expansion of the possible contents of the museums, but rather in the relationship and exchange of methods and perspectives which belong not only to the artists’ and art historians’ work, who are always in dialogue with the museum and its rhetorics, but also in research fields only apparently more distant and even unexpected.
From literature to cinema, from city planning to philosophy, from social history to the natural sciences, from theatre to medicine, the museum is nowadays an object and a subject of theoretical interpretations, of inventions and concrete achievements (one for all, the fortunate case of the Museum of Innocence designed by Pamuk) that destabilize the traditional limits of the discourse and of the role of the museum institution, by underlining its impure, happily delirious (Storrie) nature.
The aim of the call is trying to reconstruct, through fragments and slivers, the irregular palimpsest of proposals and heterodoxical readings in which the museum is a pretext and a protagonist, even though not always a voluntary one, by tracking its tracks far beyond the boundaries, however much permeable, of museology, with a particular attention to researches and provocations which stem from the field of the more recent artistic and curatorial practices.
The interested professors, critics and scholars can submit their proposals to the evaluation of the Editorial Board by sending them as an attachment to the following email address:
Furthermore, in order to submit an article applicants must also comply with the following indications.
How to submit an articleNo later than the 17th December 2018 the applicants must send to the email address redazione.pianob@unibo.it as an attachment a text in a .doc format containing a short abstract (maximum length of 1500 characters, spaces included), no more than 5 keywords and a short biography of the applicant, the valuation of which is entrusted to the Guest Editors of the specific issue. In addition to the original language of the text, the abstract, the applicant’s biography and the keywords must be compulsorily submitted also in English. Once the abstract has been accepted by the Editorial Board, the author can proceed with the writing of the article (a monographic article or an essay) that must not exceed the maximum length of 30.000/40.000 characters (including footnotes and spaces). The drafting of the text, that can be written in Italian, English or French, must follow the editorial guidelines of the journal. All articles must be emailed to the aforementioned email address no later than the 15th April 2019, specifying the title of the article and the full name of the author in the body of the accompanying email. Each submission will undergo a double blind peer-review process and the article will be anonymously send to two referees. If the judgments of the two referees are in contrast, the Editors (dialoguing with the Guest Editor or the Guest Editors) will decide whether to take responsibility and publish the article or send it to a third referee. The Editorial Staff will communicate to the authors the evaluation process results. The upcoming exit of the issue is planned for July 2019.
See also Author’s Guidelines.
