Call for submissions: TRANSIT (UC Berkeley)

University of California, Berkeley, German Dept.; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly

UC Berkeley's TRANSIT (A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World) is currently accepting submissions for Volume 14, Issue 1 on Automated Precarity. Please view the CfP HERE. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2022. TRANSIT accepts translation and book review submissions year-round. Please submit to transitjournal@berkeley.edu.

Some potential topics might include:

1. Automated surveillance, border policing and criminal justice in refugee/migration experiences
2. Ecocritical migration studies projects that reconsider the relationship between the human, natural and technological
3. The connection between technology and (im)mobility, e.g. the 9 Euro Ticket, multimillion dollar infrastructure investments
4. Automated storytelling techniques, e.g., recursive storytelling in video games, AI-generated texts, social media
5. Feminist practices in (studies of) digital literature
6. Glitch, malfunction, Störungen and other forms of (culture) shock in literary texts
7. Topics that engage with any of these issues in the context of TRANSIT’s ongoing focus on travel, migration, and multilingualism. More