Medieval History
Kalamazoo 2016: Recipe for a Better Peer Review
Session Organizers: Asa Simon Mittman and Myra Seaman
Peer review has long stood as the gold standard for academic
publications, trusted to determine if a work?s methods and conclusions
meet the discipline?s requirements and thus prove it is ?serious
scholarship.? Peer review is at times ?blind,? in which the reviewer
remains anonymous, and sometimes ?double-blind,? in which both author
and reviewer remain ? at least in theory ? unknown to one another. This
system is the bedrock of scholarly production and an integral part of
the hiring, tenure, and promotion processes. But does it continue to
work for today?s scholarly community the way it once did? Does it
function to foster new ideas and approaches, to improve the writing we
do, and to maintain appropriate ?standards,? however defined? We believe
that this vital and influential process should not be taken as a given,
as currently practiced. This session will present a series of practical
proposals for renovation or replacement, rather than providing a forum
for documenting the problems with peer review. We invite participants in
all parts of the process, including editors from academic presses and
journals, academic grant officers, digital humanities publishers,
authors, and administrators who oversee the tenure and promotion
processes that often depend on publications. We welcome presentations on
recently adopted variants, as well as pledges for new approaches. Topics
for discussion might include: anonymity; reward for reviewers;
accountability; effects on innovation; basic goals of the process; and
whether, in fact, peer review ought to remain the standard model.
Please send abstracts of 300 words, a brief bio, and the ICMS PIF
(http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
<http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF>) to Myra
Seaman ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) by Sept. 15, 2015.
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- 51st International Congress On Medieval Studies May 12-15, 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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Medieval History
Kalamazoo 2016: Recipe for a Better Peer Review
Kalamazoo 2016: Recipe for a Better Peer Review
Session Organizers: Asa Simon Mittman and Myra Seaman
Peer review has long stood as the gold standard for academic
publications, trusted to determine if a work?s methods and conclusions
meet the discipline?s requirements and thus prove it is ?serious
scholarship.? Peer review is at times ?blind,? in which the reviewer
remains anonymous, and sometimes ?double-blind,? in which both author
and reviewer remain ? at least in theory ? unknown to one another. This
system is the bedrock of scholarly production and an integral part of
the hiring, tenure, and promotion processes. But does it continue to
work for today?s scholarly community the way it once did? Does it
function to foster new ideas and approaches, to improve the writing we
do, and to maintain appropriate ?standards,? however defined? We believe
that this vital and influential process should not be taken as a given,
as currently practiced. This session will present a series of practical
proposals for renovation or replacement, rather than providing a forum
for documenting the problems with peer review. We invite participants in
all parts of the process, including editors from academic presses and
journals, academic grant officers, digital humanities publishers,
authors, and administrators who oversee the tenure and promotion
processes that often depend on publications. We welcome presentations on
recently adopted variants, as well as pledges for new approaches. Topics
for discussion might include: anonymity; reward for reviewers;
accountability; effects on innovation; basic goals of the process; and
whether, in fact, peer review ought to remain the standard model.
Please send abstracts of 300 words, a brief bio, and the ICMS PIF
(http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
<http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF>) to Myra
Seaman ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) by Sept. 15, 2015.
- Cfp: Music & Liturgy: In Memory Of Clyde Brockett; Music Analysis; Music, Text, And Image; Musical Sources And Materiality; Music And The Medieval Soundscape
The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Anna Kathryn Grau, Cathy Ann Elias, Daniel DiCenso) invites abstracts for the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016. The topics include: Music & Liturgy: In Memory of Clyde...
- 51st International Congress On Medieval Studies May 12-15, 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016 CALL FOR PAPERS51st International Congress on Medieval StudiesMay 12-15, 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States Sessions Sponsored by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS) 1) Koineization and Standardization...
- Call For Submissions Journal Of Folklore Research Submit By June 1, 2015
The Journal of Folklore Research invites submissions for a special issue devoted to medieval and early modern folklore and culture, tentatively scheduled for publication in 2016. We welcome submission of papers that deal with any aspect of this period,...
- Marginalia
Dear Colleagues,I am writing to proudly announce the launch of Marginalia: A Review of Books in History, Theology and Religion. As publicity assistant to the Editorial Board at Marginalia, I would be grateful if you could pass along this notification...
- Puscula: Short Texts Of The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Call for Submissions to Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance About the Journal Opuscula is a new high-quality peer-reviewed, on-line journal/text series published by Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University...