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Subject:        "Terrae Incognitae" - Special Issue Fall 2012 - Exploration of
Africa - CALL FOR ARTICLE PROPOSALS
Date:   Thu, 9 Dec 2010 20:53:42 -0500
From:   Thomas Sander <[log in to unmask]>




*Call for Article Proposals*

/Terrae Incognitae/

/The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries/

Special Issue:

*Exploration of Africa*

Volume 44 (September 2012)

With the recent change of /Terrae Incognitae/ from one issue per year to
two annual issues (Spring and Fall) the Editor and the Editorial
Advisory Board decided to occasionally embrace with a special issue a
specific topic or region. For the first special issue the exploration of
Africa has been selected for the issue due in September 2012.

The Society for the History of Discoveries invites _members and all
interested researchers_ to submit an _abstract proposing an article_ to
the guest editor of this special issue at their earliest convenience:

Dr. Imre Josef Demhardt

Professor & Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography

University of Texas at Arlington, Department of History, Box 19529

Arlington, Texas 76019

United States of America

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Proposals are welcome on _all aspects of geographical discovery and
exploration of the African continent_ , for example, *the discovery,
exploration, mapping from earliest times to the present, the explorers
and the explored*. Proposal submission should include

- the suggested title of the article;
- the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s), including email address,
and affiliation;
- an abstract summarizing the article’s scope and conclusions (_max. 500
words_);
- a statement about the originality of the contents of the article: how
much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources,
etc.

*The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 March 2011.*

**

On reaching the deadline up to four proposed topics will be selected for
the special issue of /Terrae Incognitae/ and all submitters informed
accordingly. The authors of accepted proposals will be given a
reasonable period (about nine months) to prepare their articles.

Posted by:

Thomas Sander

SHD Web Content Manager**