August 8, 2009 – 11:57 pm
To GEIST readers,
The new website is now pretty much complete. (It actually has been for a couple days now.) Pretty much everything on the user-end is finished, and most of the back-end website stuff is nearly done. You’ll find our inaugural issue available again for download in the issues archive, as well as Vanderbilt’s digital repository.
Please check the website in the fall for our upcoming Call for Papers, or your department bulletin if they have received/displayed our CFP. Alternatively, subscribe to our RSS feed (on your right) so that you’ll be immediately notified when our CFP is released. If you are an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University and are interested in getting involved with the GEIST, e-mail editor-in-chief Daniel Cunningham. Finally, if you are a person of good financial disposition and wish to contribute a gift to GEIST to help keep us running tip-top, please contact Spencer Montalvo.
cheers,
geist editorial board
To visitors of Vanderbilt University’s GEIST website;
The website is undergoing a major reconstruction over the summer of 2009. Please bear with us as we rebuild the website and re-archive our publication issues.
If you are here to download the inaugural issue of the GEIST for Spring 2009, it is available for download in the following digital repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/2978
Again, apologies for the inconvenience. Expect the new and better website completed by late Fall 2009, before the release of the next Call for Papers.
cheers,
kevin duong, editor-in-chief emeritus
The inaugural issue of the Vanderbilt Geist is now available for download. Congratulations to the students whose articles were selected for publication; those who have been selected for publication will receive a copy of the issue in the mail in the coming weeks. Hardcopies will also be made available at Vanderbilt University’s campus (please go to the Philosophy Department’s office to grab one, if they are still in stock).
Otherwise, please feel free to download the issue as a .pdf file from our archives on the right.
Our editorial board is already preparing for the upcoming year. A Call for Papers for the 2010 edition will be released in the early Fall later this year. We invite all previous submitters to participate again. Please look for it in either August or September.
What’s in this issue:
- an article with the editors in conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- artwork contributions by Vanderbilt Studio Art students
- the four selected articles for publication
…is complete! We recieved many great submissions, and we have offered close and attentive readings and critiques to each of the submissions. Accepted papers are being finalized this weekend, and early next week, contributors should expect to received e-mails notifying them whether their paper has been accepted or not. In addition, there will be additional notes as to whether any edits are desired by the editors.
Please continue checking this website for further updates on the review and publication process, and expect e-mails soon.
EDIT: March 24, 2009. The review finalization process has encountered a small hitch. Authors of accepted submissions will not be notified until a week or two from now. We apologize for the delay.
February 16, 2009 – 5:12 pm
To all of our very talented essay submitters, the deadline for the first edition of the Vanderbilt Geist has passed!
Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry, we got a good number of them — certainly enough to keep us editors busy for a little while. A few notes about the review process, now that the deadline has passed:
1) We hope to have all of the articles reviewed by March 1st. This means that sometime in the first half of March, each person who submitted an entry should expect an e-mail notifying them whether they have been selected for publication or not.
2) We are still negotiating a hard-copy publication, versus an online-only first edition. Check the website in the coming weeks to see how that is developing. (The economy’s effect on our university budget isn’t too kind.)
3) If you have been selected for publication, we may return your essay with the editorial comments and feedback. The goal is simply to ask you to nominally clarify or expand a certain part of your essay before we publish it. Specifics on how this works will be included in your acceptance e-mail.
Again, thanks to everyone who submitted! Please look forward to the first issue, and continue to spread the word about the journal!
January 9, 2009 – 5:10 pm
To all readers and submitters to GEIST:
Due to the financial state of our university, funding has been downsized for the Geist. Unfortunately, this means that the possibility of distributing hard-copies has become more tenuous. Although your editorial board is working hard to secure outside funding to pay for the distribution of hard copies, there is no guarantee that we will be able to raise that money in time for the first issue. Thus, a few things:
1) The publication still has the funding to produce the journal, although for most people, access to the actual publication will come as an online version.
2) We will upload the actual physical journal, cover/table of contents/submissions/interviews and forewords as a large, formatted PDF file upon publication as well. Download the .pdf version of the journal publication will be available on this website.
3) We are still accepting submission! We’ve already recieved many submissions, but we’re still looking for more! Send us your best work, and remember that we are a pluralistic and cross-disciplinary journal, so long as the work has strong philosophical merit, broadly construed. You can find submission information on our Call for Papers page. Please follow the guidelines listed there.
cheers,
kevin duong
December 9, 2008 – 5:08 pm
Today, the official website for Vanderbilt’s undergraduate journal of philosophy GEIST is launched! Our website’s domain registration and hostname/alias construction is still being finalized, so until then, the easiest way to access this website is by the url: vanderbiltgeist.com with no “www” at the moment.
The website is still largely under construction, but the CALL for PAPERS, as well as the ABOUT page are completed. In addition, the CFP can be downloaded on the Call for Papers page, so please print copies of the CFP and distribute them.
Best wishes,
kevin duong