CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL PHILOLOGIA (Comenius University, Bratislava)
The aim of the journal Philologia is to present the results of research in the field of philology, didactics of languages and language policy. The journal presents reviews of publications and reports from the life of the scientific community of philologists in Slovakia and abroad. The papers are written mainly in Slovak, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Czech, or in other languages. Their quality is assessed mainly by members of the Scientific Board as well as experts from other workplaces.
The journal publishes only papers that are formally edited according to the guidelines and reviewed by two reviewers.
Since June 2020 the journal is indexed in ERIH PLUS.
TOPIC: CHILDHOOD IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS
There is not one version or definition of childhood, as every child is different and experiences its growing up differently. Also, we reconstruct our past from a new angle every time we look back at it. For this issue of Philologia, we are interested in how this topic is the focus of research in various disciplines in academia. The idea is not only to highlight the multifacetedness of this theme, but to foster the dialogue within the different fields of expertise by making intersections visible – regarding shared approaches to the topic in theory and analysis. As a result, the contributions to this issue will present and represent the latest research and a depiction of current questions and discourses on „childhood“.
Possible suggestions for disciplines and topics:
Educational sciences: intermedial approach to childhood (through language, sound and image); the didactical approach to children’s and youth literature at schools and universities; the critical analysis of ideology, gender and social norms in fairy tales
Cultural studies and literature: literary depictions of childhood and children; writing and talking about children in social and cultural change; topographies of autobiographical childhood concepts; intergenerational perspectives: adult-child relationships: conflicts and potential solutions; threshold experiences in childhood and youth – travel, adventure, initiation, identity; childhood spaces (significant childhood locations or formative institutions in childhood such as home, school, boarding school); being small and growing up; the myth of childhood: the potential of literature and art as approaches to childhood memories; panoramas of childhood in the labyrinth of literary mnemographies
History: representations and descriptions of childhood in different eras; child rearing through the ages; the idealization of childhood in the Romantic period
Linguistics: aspects of language development and language promotion in childhood; mono- or multilingual language acquisition, the effects of early childhood trauma; linguistic representation of various aspects of childhood through ages
Social sciences: childhood in different social contexts, impact of war and refugee experiences on children
Gender studies: Childhood and gender norms, gender stereotypes in children's and young adult literature; queer and non-binary childhood in heteronormative structures
Please submit the abstract until June 30th to one of the following addresses:
Timeline:
Final submission of articles:
September 2, 2026
Review of articles:
by September 30, 2026
Submission of issue for printing:
November 4, 2026
Publication date of issue:
December 31, 2026
Contact Information
Andrea Mikulášová, Elisabeth Oberlerchner
Contact Email
URL
https://www.fedu.uniba.sk/index.php?id=39373
[Quelle: Pressemitteilung]