The next issue of Platform, entitled Transformations, will complement the trans.form@work symposium to be held this March at University of Surrey. The symposium and the upcoming edition of Platform set out to explore experimental methodologies and interdisciplinary challenges in arts research. Platform remains primarily an e-journal of theatre and the performing arts; however, in a move towards the interdisciplinary, this edition would also like to encourage submissions from postgraduate students and early career academics working on dance, performance, visual and media arts, anthropology, literature, and corporeal histories. For tran.form@work and Platform, dialogue as a critical structure will be a central theme.

While the themes of trans.form@work and Platform are complementary, submission to the forthcoming edition of the journal is not limited to those who plan to participate in the conference.

Submissions might engage with, but are by no means limited to:

• Translation and Transformation
• The costs and/or effects of labour on artistic practice and research
• New issues of formalism in aesthetics
• Disputing performance between disciplines, identities and countries: transitional zones, the transnational, transgender, transliteration.
• The ethics of appropriation or eclecticism
• The negotiation of conflicting methodologies
• The construction and reception of performance text

Platform welcomes 4000 word papers, 1000 word performance responses, academic interviews, book reviews, photo essays, and dramatic writing. If you have other material that you think Platform might be interested in publishing, please contact us to see if we can consider it.

The deadline for submissions is February 14 2010. E-mail platform-submissions@rhul.ac.uk with your submission and a 200 word abstract.

Details of our submission guidelines can be found on using the link on the left, and we recommend that potential contributors familiarize themselves with these before sending in their papers. All papers are reviewed by one academic and one peer reviewer, provided they meet our submission guidelines.