Call for papers for the Journal of Illustration

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ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures

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On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures

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We invite submissions of full manuscripts or expressions of interest (300 word abstract) from those who have participated at the symposium, in any capacity, and from those who are inspired by the themes. Please consider the submission of articles, research, critical and visual essays based on practice-based research on the diverse ways illustration and heritage are connected.

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Papers could address questions such as:  In what ways do contemporary illustrators participate in historical narratives and give voice to people and communities — both remembered and forgotten — through their work? How are historical relics, places, and events represented through illustrative processes? How do researchers and practitioners in heritage utilise the practices, research methods and processes of illustration? How does heritage shape the perspectives, positions, and identities of illustration practitioners and researchers? How is the process of heritage-making practised by illustrators around the world? How do illustrative processes — and the shared languages of categorising, curating, conserving, and communicating heritage— bring illustration into the realms of archaeology, museology, curation, and other heritage practices? Do illustrators who engage with heritage-making as part of their practice communicate and reflect what Stuart Hall described as a ‘collective social memory’? Who should be making the images that shape the future histories of culture and identity? When practising heritage-making with or through illustration, how do we make space for plurality, and how do we reflect on our subjectivity?

Submissions that expand upon, replace, or transcend standard written academic papers are welcome.

Authors should follow the Notes for Contributors, as they are described here and on the call for paper instructions

Submissions, preferably formatted as MS Word, can be sent via the link given on the journal website: www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration .

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The Journal of Illustration (ISSN 20520204, ONLINE ISSN 20520212) published twice a year by Intellect since 2014, provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues in relation to illustration. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as maker, visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts. The journal is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

 

DEADLINES

27th of January 2025: initial manuscripts or expressions of interest

Early February 2025: abstract acceptance

Mid May 2025: submissions of final manuscripts

November 2025: Estimated publication

 

Editor: Rachel Emily Taylor

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