Hiring for the 2022-2023 Management Board is now open:
The following criteria must be met for paper submissions:
LUJA Call for Papers
The Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts (LUJA) is a journal for undergraduate students in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Each year the journal publishes one issue representing high-quality original research in the arts. Submitted manuscripts should be original scholarly contributions that aim to answer a novel question or address an issue in a novel way. This year the journal is relaunching with a new editorial process and a theme for its Renewal issue.
The theme of the 2022 issue is Renewal, Regression, and Revolution. Renewal is defined as “an instance of resuming an activity or state after an interruption.” This year’s issue is looking for submissions focused on instances of renewal, regression, or revolution (be it an actual revolution or revolutionary (new) ideas) in politics, history, society, literature, or film. After two years of inactivity, LUJA is back with a fresh start. We want the 2022 issue to reflect this fresh start and serve as a home for student ingenuity and creativity in renewing society, knowledge, and ideas. LUJA’s renewal also coincides with recovery and renewal from the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of the pandemic, society is adapting to new ways of working, living, and socializing. Remote work has become the norm and people are discovering innovative ways to thrive in this new environment. Therefore, we hope that the 2022 issue represents the hope of renewal and the new course of society. However, change can also mean regression. For example, in the United States and Europe, we are seeing a revival of authoritarianism, book banning, and white supremacy. We hope that the 2022 renewal issue will explore these themes and address both the positives and negatives of various forms of renewal as they appear in politics, society, history, literature, and film.
The editorial board is considering renewal to be a broad topic focused on instances of new or old, ideas, practices, and events, good or bad in the journals five main categories. Papers can focus on the recovery of old ideas, the regression of certain aspects of society, or the creation and implementation of new ideas. Authors can present ways in which society has renewed, regressed, or erupted into a revolution after conflict or disaster in real life or fiction. The editorial board looks favourably upon submissions that focus on analyzing new or old ideas as well as individuals’ reactions to instances of renewal. These reactions could be individuals embracing change, backlash, protest or revolution.
The submission deadline is April 30, 2022. Students registered in an undergraduate Arts program or those who graduated in 2021 are welcome to submit. Interested authors should submit their manuscripts via the journal’s homepage: https://scholars.wlu.ca/luja/. All submissions must conform to the journal’s submission guidelines below. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process and those selected by the LUJA editorial team will be revised, finalized, and published in the 2022 issue of the journal. Any questions should be directed to the LUJA editorial team at Laurierundergraduatejournal@gmail.com.
We look forward to reading your submissions.
From the LUJA Team
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Submission Guidelines
Additional Guidelines
If you have any further questions about submitting, we invite you to send us an email to: laurierundergraduatejournal@gmail.com (Please do not send submissions to this email address)