CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2003 UPDATE: Our electronic deadline
has been extended to until January 6th to encourage electronic
submissions. Also to clear possible confusion, papers based on
specific arguements on social subjects are being accepted. (ie
homeless, World Trade ect.)
>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2003:
>CHANGING MINDS
>Deadline: January 1st (Electronic Deadline January 6th)
>
>Changing Minds is a student run interdisciplinary journal committed to
>the open exploration and debate of issues that move to often through
>conventional thought without question. Investigative approaches
>encouraged within these issues include: poetry, belletristic essay,
>critical/research essay short story, photography (B&W), and other
>artwork.
>
>Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
>himself. - Leo Tolstoy
>
>As a new journal among many, choosing a theme for our first issue
>seemed a daunting task. With the massive amount of important and
>relatively unexplored social questions that exist for each of us to
>discover, which issues rise above the rest? Our decision to welcome
>inquiry into how and why people s minds change seemed more reflective
>of the core purpose behind Changing Minds than a specific focus upon
>any single social problem. It is this attempt to understand and effect
>change that is at the heart of challenging cultural, political,
>economic, and philosophical assumptions among others). Possible topics
>include, but are not limited to:
>
>-What prevents us from changing our opinions?
>-Does debate truly encourage people to change their minds, or does it
>actually prevent the formation of new opinions? -Can one look at the
>opinions of others accurately without looking closely at their own
>assumptions? -What is the role of mainstream media in the formation of
>public opinion? Does it allow for people to change opinions or work
>against it? -Is action necessary to prove an opinion has truly
>changed; is saying one has changed enough? -Is violence an option in
>changing opinions? -If one can t live outside of one s basic
>assumptions, what effect does an absence of change have one s agency?
>-Does academia serve to foster or prevent the changing of minds? -Does
>experience override education (or vice versa) in the formation of
>beliefs, values, and opinions?
>
>Submissions should be previously unpublished and range from 8 to 25
>pages. This may come in the form of one essay or story, an individual
>or (short) set of poems, or photographs and other art pieces. Multiple
>submissions within a single category are not permitted. Submissions
>for multiple categories, however, are permitted
> (e.g., one poetry submission and one essay submission). The author s
> name,
>submission category, address, institutional affiliation, and e-mail
>should be included on a detachable cover-sheet with all submitted
>work. Only titles should be placed on the actual work submitted.
>Submissions should use MLA format, and electronic references, while
>not prohibited, are discouraged due to the short lifespan of such
>sources.
>
>Send two copies of submissions to:
>
>Changing Minds
>Box 290
>University of Maine at Presque Isle
>181 Maine Street
>Presque Isle, Maine 04769
>Alternatively, electronic copies may be sent to
>changing@umpi.maine.edu All such submissions must follow the above
>guidelines and be formatted as Microsoft Office 97 (Word) or higher.
>Please include Changing Minds on the subject line.
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