Dear Colleagues
I hope that this letter finds you well. Here let me send you, please, some information:
1) A new Journal
Nuovi Quaderni Europei (New European Papers) Webpage
is almost ready at the link
NUOVI QUADERNI EUROPEI – Nuovi Quaderni del Welfare – International Journal– Website
in order to facilitate communication. That will offer publicly accessible content and a private portal for researchers to share and comment on work in progress.
2) At the same time we have made the decision to start and launch a journal of
Nuovi Quaderni Europei. An International Journal.
The format is going to be online, a non-profit and electronic publishing venture, Open Access.
It does not charge readers or their institutions for access, it does not charge authors for the submission and publications of their contributions, and the reviewers co-operate on a voluntary basis. All users have the right to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles” but the acknowledgment and quotation of authors and papers are mandatory: Nuovi Quaderni Europei. An International Journal allows third parties to download its works as long as it is credited as the source, but these articles cannot be changed in any way or used commercially (CC BY-NC-ND).
Our Ethic Statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
The contributions are submitted to double-blind peer review quality control.
We will publish bi-annually.
The journal welcomes scholarly articles in the following areas: Philosophy,Social sciences,Humanities,Theology.
Apart from articles, the journal publishes a Book Review section.
The journal accepts contributions in English and Italian.
3) The administrative structure of the journal should be as follows:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Antonio Russo (University of Trieste)
CO-EDITORS
Mauro Ceruti (University IULM, Milano)
Aldo Dobrina (University of Trieste)
Antonio Marturano (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
EDITORIAL BOARD
Corrado Barbacini (Trieste)
Joshua Furnal (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Antonio Palmisano (University of Lecce- Salento)
Carmelo Pandolfi (Pontifical University Angelicum, Rome)
Marcello Zanatta (University of Cosenza)
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Daniela De Cecco (University of Trieste)
Giuseppe Di Chiara (University of Trieste)
Vito Paoletić (University of Trieste)
Raffaella S. Palmisano (University of Insubria)
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Evandro Agazzi (University of Genova)
Marco Buzzoni (University of Macerata)
Paolo Comanducci (University of Genova)
Volker Leppin (Yale University, USA)
Kasper Card. Walter (Vatican City and University of Tübingen)
Gregor Nickel (University of Siegen, Germany)
Ivanka B.Raynova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Institut für Axiologische Forschungen, Wien)
Liliana Rogozea (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)
Max Seckler (University of Tübingen)
Ion Tănăsescu (Romanian Academy’s Institute of Philosophy and Psychology)
Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (University of München)
Stefano Zamagni(University of Bologna)
The journal is addressed to scholars, students, teachers, cultural centers, universities, and libraries.
4) Main purposes:
Today, the prospect of a European confederation that safeguards both unity and multiplicity has receded dramatically. It has become much more improbable. But, just as it has become much more unlikely, it has also become much more necessary. Not only that, every day more and more, all the most acute problems appear literally insoluble at the simple level of the nation-states: from the environmental crisis to technological innovation, from the economic reconversion of the states of Central and Eastern Europe to cooperate with the global South. In particular, all forms of coexistence on European soil are threatening to implode. And the only answer to this implosion is the construction of an enlarged community with 'enlarged' values.
In the space of a few years, what has changed is not so much the extent to which and the forms which the future coexistence of the European peoples can take. Certainly, projects and strategies for economic, institutional,and military integration have been set in motion: a multi-speed Europe, the multiplication of institutions, regional associations, Euroregions, peace partners… But the main front is another. It is the defusing of rhetoric (successful in our century, and in which we are still deeply immersed) that has placed the emphasis on the values of purification and separation of individual and collective diversity. It is the constitution of a common European imaginary, of common memory, of a common tradition, of myths and rituals in which to embody the values of encounter, confrontation, interaction, hybridization between different individual and collective experiences.
An important step to this end is to unearth, to enhance, to narrate, to look from many points of view, to listen, to interweave all the stories and all the memories, all the times and all the spaces that have generated and continue to generate our province Europe, a small community of destiny within the great planetary community of destiny (Mauro Ceruti Ceruti Mauro (iulm.it)
Looking forward to receiving your feedback and suggestions, let me offer my regards and the best wishes
Antonio Russo
russoan@units.it
