DEADLINE: August 1, 2024 | SUBMISSION FORM
Undertheorized in the Literature, the University of Chicago’s interdisciplinary social science fanzine, announces the open call for our second issue:
Undertheorized seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary community of researchers who want to explore modes of accessible scholarly communication beyond the academic-prose publication or art installation. In doing so, we have two goals: 2. establish a low-stakes space for research as it unfolds in all its messiness; and, 3. foster interdisciplinary and public dialogue on common topics of study, without having to be full initiates to each other’s analytical registers and methodologies. As such, we are collecting two types of submissions for our second open call:
1. Research findings, proposals, collections, or musings in the form of photo essays, comic strips, collages, sketches, playlists, recipes, etc. Please limit text submissions to around 500 words.
2. Materials, thoughts, and detritus from research’s messy side: What do you produce (or collect, or rearrange) alongside data and analysis? What do you do to (dis)connect to your (field)work? This is a place to share your distractions as well as your reflections.
TIMELINE
Please send us your submission by the end of the day on July the 24th, Wherever-You-Are Time. Once we have collected all submissions, contributors will be invited to meet virtually to discuss each other’s contributions and collaborate on designing the fanzine (page order, layout, front matter, cover, etc.). We will aim to have the zine printed by mid-August.
If you do not have time to be a part of the collaboration process at the end of July, that is okay!
GUIDELINES
The second issue will be printed in half letter-size using light teal [hex 009DA5] and tomato [hex D2515E] riso inks with a grain touch texture. If you would like to workshop your submission with other contributors, you are welcome to submit several layout options. Please avoid white text on multi-colored backgrounds, very fine lines and writing in pencil. Submissions can be sent in our duotone scheme (ie. photoshop file with layers), or in full RGB/CMYK, but please propose some ideas for how you would like us to approach the color separations. All text will be printed in teal unless otherwise specified by your design.
There are three options for formatting submissions, depending on your familiarity/access to adobe software:
1. Submit your work as a photoshop or indesign file, using the templates (below). The templates have bleed and other dimensions marked to streamline the collaborative design process.
2. You are also welcome to submit a word doc and/or .png image files, which we can import into adobe for you, however, all images must be 300dpi and we ask that you include a narrative or sketch of how you want us to compose the layout.
3. If you have knowledge of the riso printing process and wish to submit an illustration or photo incorporating specific opacity values using our duotone profile of light teal and tomato, you are welcome to do color separations yourself. It’s easier if you send us your photoshop file instead of black and white color separated files, however, because we will need to determine the order of the submissions in a master document before printing.
We welcome submissions in all languages, in all fonts, we just ask that text is no smaller than 11pt font unless it is in service of the design. We will accept submissions of all media, regardless of their compatibility with printed matter; if you submit something that’s longer than the requirement or not compatible with the print media, we can upload it to the website or play around with QR codes. If you wish to send a text-only submission, please include thoughts on layout and/or illustration.
TEMPLATES
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