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3. The pieces should be around 2000-2500 words. We are open to making exceptions to this rule, if a particular piece deserves more space.
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Guidelines for Guest-Editing an Issue:
We invite our readers, teachers, scholars, students, journalists/media professionals, activists, professionals (practically, anyone who would like to!) to guest-edit an issue of Cafe Dissensus. Here are the guidelines for guest-editing an issue:
1. The Guest-Editor must send in a 150 word concept note/call for papers to the editors (Email: infocafedissensus@gmail.com) well in advance, describing the theme of the issue (along with raising some questions). We will put up the CFP/concept note on the magazine website and on the magazine social-media pages.
2.There must be at least 15 articles plus the guest-editorial.
3. Each article must be between 2000-2500 words. However, the guest-editor might include a few longer essays, if she/he feels necessary.
4. Since the magazine is geared toward non-academic readers, all footnotes and references must be taken out. The citations within the body of the articles must be minimal, in the form of the name of an author or an idea etc. Please keep this readability factor in mind while soliciting articles and editing them.
5. We expect at least some of the pieces to be personal narratives, wherever possible. One of our aims is to weave the personal with the public/political.
6. Audio-visual content is one of our distinctive features. The guest-editors must include at least 3-4 audio-visual interviews, conversations etc. in the edited issue. For example, interviews and conversations recorded as audio-video or audio. We can help with the logistics of recording and editing the content.
7. The guest-editor will be in charge of collecting, selecting, and editing the articles. All articles will go through a final-edit by the Editors of the magazine.
8. The guest-editor must write an 800-1000 word editorial.
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2024 Cafe Dissensus Issues
Issue 71: November 2024: Theatre & Society [Last date for submission: 30 September, 2024; Date of publication: 1 November, 2024]
Guest-Editor: Dr. Sana Khan, Assistant professor, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.
Concept Note: The role that theatre ought to play in contemporary society has been debated among artists and other people across the world. In India too theatre has been used to reach vast audience for various purposes of education, publicity, and propaganda like other countries. It has been an integral part of human society for thousands of years. Human beings have used theatre as a mode of expression, as a mode of communication, as a mode of protest etc.
We invite submissions for a special issue focusing on the intricate relationship between theatre and society. The issue, ‘Theatre and Society’ would look at ways in which theatre and performance speak into their cultural and historical moments. We wish to focus on political drama and other performances in various historical moments and contemporary times in the Indian theatre and society.
Questions/themes that could be explored but are not limited to are:
- How theatre shapes and is shaped by the complex fabric of our social world?
- How theatre responds to and influences social and political movements?
- How does theatre reflect and challenges social norms?
- Analyzing the role of theatre in political activism and the impact of political ideologies on theatrical expressions.
- Reflecting on the ethical consideration, and responsibilities of theatre practitioners in the context of contemporary societal challenges/issues. For e.g. What is the artist’s responsibility to her nation? To her community? How does the artist (or should the artist) represent her community? How does an artist participate as a citizen of a democratic society?
- Theatre and conflict resolution
- Theatre and/in Education
- Socio-cultural impact of specific theatre movements.
- Works of various theatre groups.
Those interested can send in an abstract of 400 words on sana.khan@apu.edu.in by 13 August 2024. Author guidelines will be sent to you after your abstract has been selected. Complete papers should be submitted by 30 September, 2024.
Since the magazine is geared toward both academic and non-academic readers, the citations within the body of the articles must be minimal, in the form of the name of an author or an idea, etc.
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