Call for Submissions

Historical Encounters is a new interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of: 

• historical consciousness (how we experience the past as something alien to the present; how we understand and relate, both cognitively and affectively, to the past; and how our historically-constituted consciousness shapes our understanding and interpretation of historical representations in the present and influences how we orient ourselves to possible futures);

• historical cultures (the effective and affective relationship that a human group has with its own past; the agents who create and transform it; the oral, print, visual, dramatic, and interactive media representations by which it is disseminated; the personal, social, economic, and political uses to which it is put; and the processes of reception that shape encounters with it);

• history education (how we know, teach, and learn history through: schools, universities, museums, public commemorations, tourist venues, heritage sites, local history societies, and other formal and informal settings).

We welcome submissions from across the various public history, history didactic/education, cultural studies, narrative theory, curriculum studies, and historical theory fields, where such topics are typically debated. 

The journal seeks to promote conversations within and across national borders, and therefore invites contributions from around the globe.

The journal editors are particularly interested in presenting a variety of voices from scholars at various career stages, and therefore encourages early career researchers to submit their work for review.