Call for papers CLARA—Classical Art and Archaeology (special issue no. 3)

2022-09-18

Call for papers CLARA—Classical Art and Archaeology (special issue no. 3)

Pompeii: from the Real to the Ideal

Theme editors: Bente Kiilerich and Astri K. Lundgren

CLARA (Classical Art and Archaeology) is an online, open access and peer-reviewed journal which covers a wide range of topics that can be termed antiquity studies. Hosted by the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, CLARA aims to publish articles, essays, reviews and special issues of a high academic quality within the field of classical art and archaeology and make them accessible to a wide scholarly public.

Special issue no. 3 invites contributors from within archaeology, philosophy, ancient history, art history and cultural studies to submit manuscripts with underlying theoretical, quantitative or methodological research on any aspect of Pompeii and the surrounding region (Boscoreale, Stabiae, Oplontis) from antiquity to the present.

  • Topic for this issue: 2023—Pompeii: from the Real to the Ideal
  • Language: English
  • Deadline for submission of a short abstract of up to 200 words: 1 December
  • Papers for the special issue should be submitted by 1 March 2023, but may be published on an ongoing basis
  • Publication fee: FREE
  • Paper of between 5000-8000 words should be sent to Bente Kiilerich (Kiilerich@uib.no) and Astri K. Lundgren (astriklu@extern.uio.no)

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

- Excavations, exhibitions and new finds

- Realia; objects, materiality and agency

- Well-known (and less well-known) artworks, paintings and sculpture

- The colours of Pompeii: painting techniques, aesthetics

- Gender, sexuality and eroticism

- Tourism, dark tourism, cultural heritage

- Virtual Pompeii

- Pompeii after Pompeii (art)

- Pompeii in contemporary imagination: art, film, fashion

More information about CLARA including back issues and author guidelines may be found online at https://journals.uio.no/CLARA/index