The editors of Skepsi, a postgraduate-run journal within the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) are calling for articles on the themes of ‘Wandering’ and ‘Home’ for publication in a future issue to be published during 2019.

The issue will build upon the success of the journal’s eleventh interdisciplinary conference, which investigated the ambiguous relationship between the two concepts, the terms presenting both a binary opposition as well as being closely connected.

Articles are welcomed from all disciplines within the Humanities as well as Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Sociology, Politics, Architecture and Visual Arts. Papers coming from an inter-, trans- or multidisciplinary background are particularly welcomed.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following and their interrelations:

• Wandering in European Romanticism and Modernism.
• Wandering women in European literature and film.
• The figure of the flâneur and the flâneuse in modern and contemporary literature.
• The connection between migration and ‘feeling at home’; the concept of home viewed from the perspective of a displayed person.
• Home as a social or private spatial dimension, a psychological experience of safety, stability and emotional experience, a practice and/or an active state of being in the world.
• ‘Feeling at home’, or ‘not at home’ as a distinctive emotional experience influenced by the social, political and economic context and by the architectural configuration of domestic environment.
• Feeling at home in our mind; mind-wandering; the boundaries between wandering creatively and getting lost in speculations.
• The internet and virtual wandering as a means of transforming the way we inhabit the non-virtual realm of the home.

Articles must be in English, between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, and accompanied by an abstract of about 250 words and brief biographical details of the author, both of which may, if desired be included in one file with the article. If quotations from works originally published in a language other than English are included, please observe the following conventions:

• If the works have a published translation into English, the quotations may be either solely from the published translation or from the original language version followed by the published translation.
• If the works do not have a published translation into English, the quotations must be from the original language version followed by a translation by the author of the article.

Submissions should be sent as Word files to skepsi@kent.ac.uk.

The closing date for submissions is 31 August 2017.

For the original detailed fro conference papers, please see the page here.