Call for Submissions

SPECTRA invites submissions by STUDENTS for a special issue on “Hannah Arendt: Fifty Years after Eichmann in Jerusalem.”

Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem stirred controversy when originally published in 1963.  The recent biographical film Hannah Arendt (2013) attempts to portray her efforts to chronicle the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, and to theorize the legal prosecution of crimes never before tried in a court of law.  Now, fifty years after the trial in Jerusalem and the publication of Arendt’s analysis we aim to further the conversation in a special issue. Potential topics may include, but are by no means limited to the following:

• Have contemporary societies come to terms with the concerns Arendt originally raised?

• What challenges, if anything, does Arendt’s analysis of “the banality of evil” pose for discourse on present-day global issues?

• What do the peripheral production details of the film (e.g. timing, funding, cast, distribution, etc.) tell us about the desires of those involved in its development?

• Does the film faithfully portray the role of personal experiences and motivations in guiding the scholar’s work?

• How does Arendt’s work engage with contemporary feminist scholarship and activism?

• What can we make of both the omissions and emphases in the film?

We invite submissions on the topic and, in particular, encourage the following:

• Essays-in-brief: critical essays and reflections at approximately 2,000 — 2,500 words,

• Film reviews and commentaries: responses to specific aspects of the film and/or the overall film (2,000 — 2,500 words)

• Critical provocations: poetry, art, multimedia, and/or unconventional text projects intended to provoke discourse on the theme (we recommend contacting the issue editor to discuss these ideas in advance of submitting your work)

• Full-length research essays (4,000 – 5,000 words) are also welcome.

Submissions undergo a double-anonymous review process, and all work must include appropriate citations formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition.

Please review the complete submission guidelines available at: http://spectrajournal.org/submission-guidelines/