Call for Chapters

for a collective monograph

Publication series: Olomouc Asian Studies (OLAS), Vol. 4
Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Type of publication: Open Access (with DOI given to each chapter), Print on Demand Language of publication: English
Fields: Humanities, Social Sciences, Asian Studies
Expected publication date: Summer 2025 (no publication fees)

Framing plays a pivotal role in shaping our comprehension of the world, stemming from various factors such as social-cultural context, power relations, and disciplinary constraints. Consequently, meta- reflection on interpretation remains intricately linked with concrete cases of contention, though not always approached in the most theoretical or philosophical manner. The inherent limits and possibilities of interpretation, alongside critiques of perceived misinterpretations, serve as central points of contention in numerous scholarly debates.

The primary motivation of this volume is to explore the boundaries of interpretation and misinterpretation within Asian studies. We aim to bring together chapters that concern any issues related to framing, interpretation, and misinterpretation and focus on Asian cultures and societies or their diasporic manifestations. The provisional title of the volume is intentionally broad to encourage a broad range of approaches and topics.

We invite both synchronic and diachronic perspectives from anthropology, the arts , cultura l geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, sociology, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. We also welcome interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary investigations. Whether grounded in a specific discipline or moving across and beyond disciplinary boundaries, we hope all contributions will strongly engage with their sources, data, and theory.

The volume follows up on the 17th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (http://acas.upol.cz) organized by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, but is open to any thematically relevant submission. We are interested in any original work of research that has not been previously published elsewhere.

In order to collect chapters for this volume, we first invite extended abstracts in English. The abstracts should be emailed to olas@upol.cz as a PDF file. The subject line should include OLAS_Vol.4_Author's name. The file should include the title of the paper, full name, affiliation, e-mail address, five keywords, and an extended abstract, which must be 700-1,000 words long. The abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2024. Decisions on the abstracts will be sent by June 30, 2024.

The submission deadline for full papers based on the accepted abstracts is August 31, 2024. The required length of full papers is approximately 10,000 words (including references, tables, etc. in the word count). The papers will subsequently undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process by at least two reviewers. We estimate to be able to send out the decisions on all papers in late fall 2024. The expected publication date is summer 2025.

Any questions can be addressed to olas@upol.cz

On behalf of the editorial team,