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e-misférica is a biannual, peer reviewed, online journal published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
The journal publishes scholarly essays, multimedia artist presentations, and book and performance reviews; we publish materials in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, exploring intersections of performance and politics in the Americas. Past issues have focused on topics such as performance and democracy, Native American performance, sexualities and politics, performance and the law, border performance, and the political uses of affect.
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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 Submissions are understood to be original, unpublished, and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.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, videos, and/or other materials related to performance in the Americas, please send your proposal to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Proposals should include a brief description of the work and the author's approach to it (150 words); a short author bio (100 words); and a link to a previously published writing sample, or an unpublished writing sample as an attachment. Reviews are 800 words (up to 1500 for pieces covering more than one book, performance, or film). Please note that the review section is scholarly in nature and does not accept proposals from artists to write about their own work. Contributions that do not follow the editorial guidelines of the journal will not be considered for publication. Check the right column of this page for our guidelines, style sheet, and a selection of books open for review for the forthcoming issue of e-misférica. We welcome additional suggestions as well as advanced queries.
e-misférica 9.1 - For Review – Para Reseñar – Para Revisão (125.81 kB)
Call for participation – e-misférica 9.1 —On the Subject of Archives
(Invited editors: Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor)
e-misférica invites artist/activist presentations, review essays and reviews (books, films, performance, visual arts) for its Summer 2012 issue, entitled On the Subject of Archives. More than a repository of objects or texts, the archive is also the process of selecting, ordering, and preserving the past. But in recent years, the term “archive” has become increasingly capacious, interchangeable with “save,” “contain,” “record,” “upload,” “preserve,” and “share” and with systems of organization such as a “collection,” “library,” “inventory,” and “museum.” “Archive” in the digital age seems to magically transcend the contradictions between “open” and “closed,” democratic and elitist, the curated selection process and the do-it-yourself upload. But have the logics of intelligibility shifted to bring the unspoken and the unthought into public awareness? How have the power structures behind archival practices been transformed through technological and creative innovation over the past decades? What are the continuities that persist in the present? How have the boundaries between archival subjects and archival objects been reconfigured in the process? Do “live” acts, such as performances, resist the archive? Or does the archive produce its own special kind of performances? This special issue of e-misférica explores how scholars, artists, and activists throughout the Americas are using and theorizing “archives” to rethink the politics of what is saved (remembered), and what is discarded (forgotten), and in the process redefining the representational forms through which the unthought and the unspoken are made intelligible.
The deadline for review essays is November 15, 2011. To submit multimedia presentations and reviews, please contact the editors with proposals by October 15, 2011. All final texts will be due November 15, 2011. All contributions, proposals, and consultations should be sent to the editors to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Contributions that do not follow the editorial guidelines of the journal will not be considered for publication. Our guidelines and style sheet can be found here. Advance queries are most welcome.