2017 Symonds Prize

Studies in Gender and Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary JournalSubmissions Deadline: September 1, 2016Studies in Gender and Sexuality, thanks to the Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation, invites submissions to its annual competition for the best previously unpublished essay on gender and/or sexuality.Studies in Gender and Sexuality is one of the leading journals in the transdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. Situated at the interface of psychoanalysis and social/cultural theory, it aims to further our understanding of how we live, theorize and transform genders and sexualities.The essay may engage clinical, critical, empirical or theoretical questions that relate to gender and/or sexuality. The writer may be new or seasoned. The topic may be cutting-edge or venerable. We welcome essays that vary in form and content, including transdisciplinary work.Submissions will be judged by members of the Editorial Board. The winner will receive $500, and the essay will be published in SGS.Now in its 17th year, SGS has continued to publish a wide range of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. It has a particular (though not exclusive) interest in approaches that use psychoanalysis to complicate and deepen our conceptualizations of gender and sexualities, whilst using theories of gender and sexuality to complicate psychoanalytic theory and practice. In doing so, SGS opens debates about the tensions between subjective and affective life and social and political formations.Submissions, with the subject line “Symonds Competition,” to: SGandS@earthlink.net  The journal "Language and Psychoanalysis" is currently accepting manuscripts for the next issue in Autumn-Winter 2016Manuscript submission due date: 30th September 2016"Language and Psychoanalysis" is a fully peer reviewed online journal that publishes twice a year. It is the only interdisciplinary journal with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and psychoanalysis. The journal is also inclusive and not narrowly confined to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory.We welcome a wide range of original contributions that further the understanding of the interaction between Linguistic Analysis and Theory & Psychoanalytic Theories and Techniques. Any relevant manuscripts with an emphasis on language and psychoanalysis will be considered, including papers on linguistics, methodology, theory, philosophy, child development, psychopathology, psychotherapy, embodied cognition, cognitive science, applied dynamical system theory, consciousness studies, cross-cultural research, and case studies. The journal also publishes short research reports, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, and readers' comments.Manuscripts should be send to the managing editor Laura A. Cariola <laura.cariola@ed.ac.uk>On this note, I would also like to make some announcements:Prof. Matthias Schwannauer will join our editorial team. Matthias is Professor of Clinical Psychology and the Head of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.From June 2016, “Language and Psychoanalysis” will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh Library Open Journals.And, there is another exciting surprise in store, which will be announced in due course.Please distribute widely among your friends, colleagues and students!Many thanks.With best wishes,Laura, Matthias and AndrewDr. Laura A. CariolaResearch Assistant in Clinical Psychology