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• Call for Papers – Dossier: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in History Education

  2025-11-24

  Call for Papers – Dossier: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in History Education
  Coordinators:
  Lucía Valencia Castañeda — Universidad de Santiago de Chile
  María Celeste Cerdá — Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

  Alongside the emergence and consolidation of nation-states in Latin America, history as a school subject was born and developed. In that context, its purposes aimed to strengthen a national identity in territories still in the process of defining themselves, grounded in a patriotic ideal strongly rooted in the deeds of Independence and its protagonists—military and political heroes.

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• Dossier “Indigenous Languages for an Intercultural History of the Americas”

  2025-10-20

  The Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades invites submissions for the dossier titled “Indigenous Languages for an Intercultural History of the Americas”, to be published during the first semester of 2026.

  Submitted articles must address the role of indigenous languages in history and may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS — ARTICLES IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS

  2025-08-13

  Linguistic rights have been a central part of the history of Indigenous peoples since the beginning of colonial processes worldwide. For several decades, the current of epistemologies of the South has emphasized the need for epistemic justice, which entails the recognition and appreciation of Indigenous languages in the construction of knowledge beyond Eurocentric paradigms. At the same time, Indigenous peoples have demanded that states protect and value their languages, leading to the establishment of international treaties aimed not only at protecting them, but above all at promoting their revitalization.

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• Progress in the Proposal Evaluation Process

  2024-11-18

  To Our Community,

  We are truly pleased with the interest you have shown in our call for submissions. We have received a total of 22 proposals, which will be anonymously evaluated by our international area committees, based on the rubric published on our website. We deeply appreciate your participation and wish you great success in this process.

  Sincerely,
  Editorial Team
  RHSM

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• Dossier submission closure

  2024-06-17

  To all our community of readers,

  The Social History and Mentalities Journal has concluded the article submission process for the dossier "Invented Traditions and Cultural Stereotypes in Latin America, 19th and 20th Centuries," coordinated by Matías Casas and Karen Donoso. We appreciate your participation.

  Best regards,
  Editorial Team of SHMJ

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• CALL FOR PAPERS – INVENTED TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL STEREOTYPES IN LATIN AMERICA, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

  2023-12-05

  CALL FOR PAPERS – DOSSIER

  INVENTED TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL STEREOTYPES IN LATIN AMERICA, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

   

  

  Coordinators:

  Matías Emiliano Casas, Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero/CONICET

  Karen Esther Donoso Fritz, Universidad de Santiago de Chile/Universidad Alberto Hurtado

  Invented traditions are a set of regulated practices intended to instill values and standards of conduct. Its creation has also been linked to the interests of the ruling class that strives to govern the selection process. In Latin America, studies on the invention of traditions also reflected on the creation of cultural stereotypes. Every stereotype is a simplification aimed at homogenizing and fixing in time. Throughout history, both constructions, invented traditions and cultural stereotypes, have modeled behavioral patterns, promoted a common identification and established bonds of solidarity. Cultural stereotypes promote mechanisms of differentiation between "us" and "others". The consecration of stereotypes causes tensions, negotiations, disputes and impositions that are processed in different ways.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS – DOSSIER Fascism, Fascisms: 100 Years

  2023-07-17

  CALL FOR PAPERS – DOSSIER Fascism, Fascisms: 100 Years

   

  The dossier "Fascism, Fascisms: 100 Years" seeks to analyse the specific aspects of fascism in its context, weaving connections with other political and geographical structures with which it is in dialogue and the reasons for its current relevance.

   

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• WARS, MEMORY AND NATIONHOOD IN SPANISH AMERICA: THE PARAGUAYAN WAR (1864-1870) AND THE WAR OF THE PACIFIC (1879-1883)

  2022-12-15

  

  WARS, MEMORY AND NATIONHOOD IN SPANISH AMERICA: THE PARAGUAYAN WAR (1864-1870) AND THE WAR OF THE PACIFIC (1879-1883)

   

  This dossier seeks to bring together research on the impact of wars on the formation of nations in the second half of the nineteenth century, based on the two most important conflicts in South America: The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) and the War of the Pacific (1879-1883).

   

  Thematic lines:

  - The war and its social consequences: veterans, widows and orphans.

  - The articulation between war and civil society

  - War and visual culture: caricatures, cinema, photography, historical paintings

  - War and public opinion: representations of the enemy, self-perception of the nation, journalism and war propaganda

  - War and the politics of memory: civic rites, commemorations, wars in schools, monuments, museums, etc.

  - War and literary representations: novels, testimonial literature, theatre, historiography.

  - War and politics of heroification: collective heroes, popular heroes, female heroism, official heroes, civic relics, etc.

   

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• Cierre de Dossier

  2022-12-05

  The Journal Historia Social y de las Mentalidades has closed the call for papers for the dossier "Relations between History and Memory in the Latin American Audiovisual". We are grateful for the massive participation.

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• Results of the selection of dossiers for 2023 and 2024

  2022-02-12

  After a long and thorough review of the blind reports and projects submitted to the dossier section, the editorial team decided to select four based on the previously-established and socialized criteria. We thank all the researchers from different latitudes who considered our journal. We invite the Humanities and Social Sciences academic communities to submit their contributions.

  

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