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  • Call for Papers – Cepeda Samudio Centennial Dossier

    2025-06-28

    Call for Papers – Cepeda Samudio Centennial Dossier

    In 2026, one hundred years will have passed since the birth of the writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio (Barranquilla, 1926 – New York, 1972). To commemorate the birth of this legendary figure of Caribbean Colombian literature, the Editorial Committee of Eidos: Journal of Philosophy and Literary Studies of Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia), invites the national and international academic community to submit research articles for the Cepeda Samudio Centennial dossier. The submissions must be original and unpublished, and should address topics related to the work of this avant-garde, experimental writer who significantly contributed to transforming the course of Colombian literature.

    His works —alongside those of other Caribbean authors— led to a geographical shift in the center of literary modernization in the country and the consequent transformation of the Colombian literary field. Cepeda Samudio remains an author whose work Colombia has yet to fully discover.

    Eidos is a peer-reviewed scientific journal indexed in SCOPUS, ranked Q3 in SJR. For submission guidelines and author instructions, please consult:

    https://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/eidos/index

    The Cepeda Samudio Centennial dossier will accept contributions related to his literary works All of Us Were Waiting (1954), The Big House (1962), and Juana’s Stories (1972). Contributions may also address Cepeda Samudio’s ties to cinema, journalism, and other areas of cultural production. The dossier is under the editorial coordination of Dr. Orlando Araújo Fontalvo, research professor in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, member of the Scientific Committee of Eidos, and professor of the Master’s Program in Literature and Creative Writing at Universidad del Norte.

    Article submission email:
    eidos@uninorte.edu.co

    Deadline for submissions:
    Friday, November 7, 2025

    For more information:
    Prof. Dr. Orlando Araújo Fontalvo
    oaraujo@uninorte.edu.co

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  • Call for papers "Letters from the Afro-Caribbean Sea"

    2023-11-01

    Letters from the Afro-Caribbean Sea

    Eidos invites the international academic community to submit research articles for the monograph "Afro-Caribbean Sea Letters".

    The original and unpublished papers must explore a subject related to the literature of African descendants in the cultural space of the Greater Caribbean, which, due to its position and history, is one of the most diverse regions in the world. With a vocation that has allowed those who write here to link with multiple and distant sources, with the freedom of those who do not recognize topics, spaces or times that are forbidden to them as a result of the different cultures that have gathered in its basin and the influence of the multiple and complex processes of syncretism and hybridization that have operated in its space. By their nature, the lyrics of the Afro-Caribbean sea direct their gaze towards numerous traditions that are assumed as their own. Its essence can be appreciated not so much in space, details or language, but in the free and transgressive attitude with which the world is examined and history is evaluated, in the way multiple territories, times and visions are welcomed and incorporated in the same literary project.

    Suggested lines of research: literary history, Afro-Caribbean literature, multiculturalism, slavery and racism in literature, construction of identities, circulation of ideas and images, among others.

    Editorial coordination: Dr. Orlando Araújo Fontalvo, member of the Scientific Committee of the journal and researcher of the project "Connected World: the Caribbean, origin of the modern world", a research project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program, Marie Curie, agreement no. 823846.

    E-mail: oaraujo@uninorte.edu.co

    Deadline for submissions: Friday, February 23, 2024.

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