Original Date: November 15, 2024
This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in learning more about the process of editing a special issue of a journal. We will consider the steps involved from conceptualization of a special issue through to publication. We will focus on the process involved in identifying suitable journals; creating and circulating a call for papers; the role of guest editors; the review process; navigating editorial management systems; and ideas for making the special issue visible once it is published.
About Kylie Thomas
Kylie Thomas is a senior lecturer in History of Art and at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and a Guest Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands, where she co-directs the NIOD ImageLab, a project on war and visual culture. She is the author of Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid (Wits University Press & Bucknell University Press, 2014) and co-editor of Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with Difference (Routledge, 2016) and Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges (Routledge, 2020). She formed part of the editorial collective of Feminist Africa (2012-2014) and served as the co-editor of Social Dynamics (2012-2024). She is currently the visual essays editor of the interdisciplinary African studies journal, Safundi.
Fiona Wachera is a media strategist, photo editor and the Storytelling and Content Specialist at the Aga Khan University. Their areas of research include documentary photography and art direction with copywriting, utilizing varied communication mediums, design disciplines, and research techniques. Wachera has collaborated with storytelling teams at Everyday Africa, the World Press Photo Foundation, Black Women Photographers, the Hamburg Portfolio Review, amongst others. They write a photography column for the VII Foundation’s blog called Postcolonial Perspectives, which showcases new photography from Africa and visual stories that foreground embodied experiences and challenge colonial histories.