Greetings contributors,
The JRC is hosting a meet and greet at Cafe Kafein (1429 Rue Bishop, Montréal, QC H3G 2E4) in Montreal, Friday September 2nd from 5 -10 PM. All contributors, readers and graduate students associated with the JRC and its projects are cordially invited to attend.
Light catered snacks will be served and a (limited) amount of drink tickets will be available throughout the evening – on us!
See you there!
The JRC Executive Staff
Hello readers, this is just a quick announcement informing everyone that our CFP for our Religion, Ideology and Violence edition 27 volume 1 has been extended to the 1st of September 2016. If you have not submitted yet, but were on the fence now is the perfect opportunity to send your work to us.
Therefore, September 2nd we will be closing the submission form in order to focus on reviewing your work.
We’ve just received our copies of Volume 26 – Sexed Religion from the printers! Everyone has been a little swamped with the end of the Winter Semester and start of the Summer Semester, but stay tuned for our “much anticipated” launch event.
To all authors, reviewers and contributors: If you are based outside of Montreal, or will not be in Montreal this summer, and would like to have your copy mailed to you, please get in contact with us when you have a chance. We will also be getting in contact with everyone in the coming week.
Quick update: we’ve just sent all the final files for volume 26 to our printer. A bit later than anticipated, but good things come to those who wait. The volume should be ready to launch in two weeks time – so stay tuned for some late April / early May launch party and reception news.
We are in the final stages of editing our upcoming manuscript Sexed Religion. We are currently slated to launch by the end of this month, April 2016 – pending of course, on our printer.
We will be contacting all authors, reviewers and contributors the moment we have the publication back from the press.
In other news, we have also released our upcoming Call for Papers, focusing on Religion, Ideology and Violence. We are now open for submissions, and will begin the editorial process in August 2016.
2015 is coming to a close and here’s where the JRC currently stands:
Our Office
Our office has recovered from the robbery. It’s been cleaned up and looking better than ever before. Sometimes good things can come from tragedy, even if those good things simply mean that we now have more shelf space and didn’t have to feel guilty about tossing old files.
On a related note, most of the editors will be away from the office and unlikely to answer emails very frequently until January 2016.
Book Donations
The JRC has also donated close to a dozen books to Concordia’s Webster Library. Any books which were already found in their collection will be given to the local student-run Book Coop and sold for very little (with the proceeds going to the Coop). Many of these monographs were older review copies which had never been claimed by their reviewers, or were simply lost in the shuffle from a previous editorial team. We hope they find more use in the hands of students.
JRC Volume 26 – Sexed Gender
We are in the process of finalizing our publication slate for No.1 of Vol. 26 of the JRC. A number of factors have delayed our affairs around the office and caused us to miss our initial launch date of first week of December 2015.
We will be launching the first half of the volume online first. We are aiming to have this done over the Holidays, but may still have to push the launch to January.
No. 2 will continue the process in January and into February with the aim of publishing online by end of March 2016.
We still anticipate releasing a print volume this year and have decided, in order to reduce printing costs, to print both parts of the volume together. The print edition is currently slated to be available April 2016.
AGIC 2016
The JRC will once again be on site for this year’s Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by Concordia’s Graduate Students of Religion Association. The conference topic will coincide with our most recent CFP for Sexed Religion, and we hope to see many of you there.
We should note that the AGIC is still accepting paper abstracts.