Mythmaking and Storytelling Among Matricultures
After a lengthy Covid-related delay, we are very pleased to release our new issue of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies.
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Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Autumn 2024 / Winter 2025)
THEME: Women and Water: the Flow of Matriculture
Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT
The proliferation of AI tools and capabilities has forced academic publishers to take a stance on how these researchers can use these tools in the research writing context. Avi Staiman, founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts, explores the use of AI tools by authors and pushes publishers to further clarify how and when these tools can be used.
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Oral History Summer School Intensive in Residence: Portland, ME and Hillsdale, NY
Oral History Summer School is back in session with 2 upcoming summer workshops! Applications are now open for our summer intensives. Come all ye documentarians, journalists, artists, media-makers, educators and those looking to learn new things in good company.
Sojourning
Sojourning (Summer 2024)
Guest Editor: Michelle Lanier, Johnica Rivers, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Disturbed Traditions: Memory, Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the Anthropocene
Renowned folklorist Barre Toelken once described how, while growing up in one of the small Massachusetts towns that was destroyed in 1938 in order to build the Quabbin Reservoir, members of his local community “and their descendants [continued] to gather near the shore for picnics and nostalgic conversation, and photos from early times there were saved like holy relics” (Toelken 1996, 411). This maintenance of a shared sense of place and local identity in the face of human-induced destruction is not unlike many others that folklorists have documented.
Values, threats and promises. Environmental perspective on (in)tangible cultural heritage
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Fulbright US Scholar Program: Postdoctoral Opportunities Abroad
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Curate a Targeted List of Publishers for Your Book Manuscript
Dr. Maurits van den Boogert, Acquisitions Editor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Brill, Elena Müller, Program Director for Biblical, Jewish, and Theological Studies at Mohr Siebeck, and Dr. Sophie Wagenhofer, Program Director of History & Library and Information Science at De Gruyter, join Avi Staiman for an insightful and practical discussion on strategic steps you can take to identify the best publisher or press for your research.
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