Humanitas is an essay collection that aims to disseminate the results of research carried out at CIAC. The publications are produced in a partnership between the Research Center for Arts and Communication and Grácio Editor. Through its published works, Humanitas intends to offer a contribution to the scientific field of the Humanities.
The transversality that characterizes CIAC’s research – encompassing the Arts, Communication and Culture, Literature, and Digital Humanities – is what endorses the publication of a collection that follows this plural spirit of reflection. At the core of this transversality lies the capacity to embrace Individuals as beings who express themselves in the most multifaceted ways. Humanitas’ goal is, therefore, to celebrate a return to humanistic studies, to the Humanities – in the primordial and broad sense that the Greeks and Latins attributed to it – as a response to the constant challenges that contemporaneity brings.
Thus, this collection reflects the desired harmony between the study of new languages, new processes and methods, and the solidity of knowledge that extends theoretical and critical traditions. Revisiting artistic and cultural products of the past – either to (re)question them in the light of the current paradigm, or to (re)cognize them as humanistic objects without time – will stimulate, in turn, the reflection on contemporary manners of artistic and cultural expression.
Collection regulation
Scientific Fields
Arts, Communication and Culture, Letters, Digital Humanities
Coordination
Susana Costa and Mirian Tavares
Scientific Committee
- Arts: Eugénia Vasques, Pedro Cabral Santo, Adérito Marcos
- Communication and Culture: Bruno Silva, Mirian Tavares, Nelson Zagalo
- Letters: Armando Nascimento Rosa, Pere Ferré, João Minhoto Marques
- Digital Humanities: José Bidarra, Sandra Boto, Mauro Figueiredo
Collection Regulation
- The Humanitas collection is permanently open and welcomes original essays (of individual or collective authorship) for publication, with the approval of Grácio Editor, in the following fields: Arts, Communication and Culture, Letters and Digital Humanities, with ISBN attribution.
- It plans to publish 2 works per year, to be determined in two evaluation moments that will take place in the first and last quarters of each calendar year.
- Humanitas accepts for appraisal submissions of original works of an essayistic nature resulting from the practice of scientific and/or artistic research, excluding reports.
- Works that have been previously proposed for publication in any other collection will not be admitted for consideration.
- Works should be submitted in one of the following languages: Portuguese, English, or Spanish.
- The submitted works may be proposed by the authors themselves or result from invitations addressed by the Scientific Committee of the collection to prominent figures of recognized merit in the scientific area, not being applicable, in these instances, to the peer review procedure.
- Submissions must be made via email at humanitas@ciac.pt – only original works in Word files are accepted.
- The submission of originals must be accompanied, in a separate file in Word format, by the name, affiliation, and summary curriculum vitae of the author(s) (Max. 200 words) and a summary of the work (max. 300 words) in the original language and Portuguese, as well as five keywords that characterize it, also in the original language and in Portuguese (whenever the language of writing is not Portuguese-see point 5 of this regulation).
- In the submission, authors must also fill in and sign the term of originality regarding the work they submit, and attach a digitized copy. Authors must also attach a declaration, signed and digitized, through which they authorize Grácio Editor to publish their work.
- Authors will be notified of the receipt of their originals by e-mail, as well as of the evaluation procedure to which they will be subjected.
- After reception, works will be contemplated by the scientific committee of the collection designated for the scientific field concerned, being evaluated qualitatively by the scientific panel of the field in question.
- Materials submitted for analysis must follow the editing standards, which contain detailed instructions on formatting and style to be adopted.
- In the event the work does not fit the editorial line of the collection, does not present sufficient quality to integrate it, in accordance to instructions from the Scientific Committee, or in case it does not respect the instructions provided in these regulations, the Coordination withholds the right not to publish it. The Scientific Committee may suggest amendments to the originals.
- At the end of the assessment and evaluation process, the authors will be notified by email of the editorial decision.
- Works to be published are subject to revision.
- The cases omitted in this regulation will be duly analyzed and resolved by the coordination of the Humanitas Collection and of CIAC – Research Center for Arts and Communication
- These regulations are subject to revision whenever the collection coordination and the CIAC deem it necessary.
- The coordination of the Collection or of CIAC reserves the right to revoke this regulation if the necessary conditions for its validity are no longer met.
Faro, 20 December 2016
(Coordination of the Collection)
Documents
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