Arts in Healthcare calls for papers / publications

Brain Awareness Video Contest

Convey a neuroscience concept on video

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) challenges you to produce an original video demonstrating a concept about the brain that could be used as a teaching tool or resource. Whether it's an animation, song, or hands-on classroom activity, share the wonders of science through the Brain Awareness Video Contest.

Questions? Contact BAW@SfN.org.

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is an inspirational global campaign that unites those who share an interest in elevating public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain and nervous system research.

Prizes

Win up to $1,000 and a trip to SfN's annual meeting, Neuroscience 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Top videos will be showcased at the meeting and will be featured online.

First Place — $1,000 Cash Prize, complimentary registration to Neuroscience 2012, two nights hotel, and economy air travel
Second Place — $500 Cash Prize
Third Place — $250 Cash Prize
People's Choice Award — $500 Cash Prize
Honorable Mention — Classroom Activity

Submit by June 11, 2012

How to Enter

Step 1: Make Your Video
Create a video up to five (5) minutes long.

Step 2: Upload Your Video to YouTube
If you don't already have one, create an account on YouTube.

Upload your video.

Tag your video as "Brain Awareness Video Contest"

Set your video's privacy settings to "Unlisted".

Disable comments on your video.
Copy the video URL and save it for Step 3.

Step 3: Submit Your Entry to SfN
After uploading your video to YouTube, you're ready to submit your entry to the Brain Awareness submission site. Click "Submit Your Video" and follow the instructions on the form.
Entries must be submitted by an SfN member.

Submissions must include:

The YouTube video URL
A digital copy of your video
Entrants are encourage to include a full transcript
Incomplete entries will not be eligible to win prizes in the Video Contest.

Eligibility

Anyone can participate, whether you are an educator, a student, or someone interested in the brain; however, videos must be submitted by a member of SfN. Don't know an SfN member? Use the Neuroscientist-Teacher Partner Program to connect with a neuroscientist near you. http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=neuroscientistTeacherPartners

All content must be less than five minutes, original, non-published, and non-grant-funded. Videos will be judged by neuroscience experts on scientific accuracy, creativity, and usefulness in an educational setting.

Call for Graphic Memoirs on Mental Health Problems and the Psychiatric System

Editors: John Stuart Clark & Theodore Stickley

An undervalued feature of the recovery movement is the powerful narratives of those who have survived mental health problems and the psychiatric system.

Increasingly people in distress or recovery have turned to the graphic medium of comics to tell their sensitive stories, sometimes collaborating with friends or therapists, more commonly working alone to produce a personal diary or recollection. While a few have emerged as published ‘graphic memoirs’, most never see the light of day, or at best, are only accessible as web-comics.

Going some way to correct this, we invite submissions for a compendium book of graphic short stories of personal journeys (or part of) to be published early next year. The invitation goes out to everybody, past or present ‘sufferer’, regardless of artistic or literary expertise.

The editors appreciate that the form and dimensions of any proposed book are critical to those who create comics, so before committing, we ask for expressions of interest. This should be no more than a title and paragraph outlining your proposed story, plus a sample page of artwork submitted as a jpeg no bigger than 2MB. Deadline for Expressions: 31st July 2012

As a rough guide, imagine the finished book is A4 format and in black & white. Your finished story or episode should be no more than ten pages long, but can be as short as a single page.

Provided it is indicative of your style or that of the person you will collaborate with, the sample artwork can be of anything and any dimension. It is not necessary to work up a sample of your proposed story. Postal submissions will be accepted, but your outline must be typed, the artwork must be a photocopy, and a stamped self-addressed envelope must be included. Foreign language contributors will need to provide their own translations into English, and the page must read left to right.

The editors will respect full confidentiality should you wish your work to be included anonymously, but we need full contact details, even if you prefer to use a pseudonym. The editors cannot team up writers with artists, or visa versa.

COPYRIGHT: Standard copyright practice is adhered to.

DATA PROTECTION: The editors will retain entrants’ personal data for use solely in conjunction with work on this project and will not make this available to other organisations.

Digital submissions: Theo.Stickley@nottingham.ac.uk

Postal submissions: Theo Stickley, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Mental Health Building, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, U.K.

Call for Submissions: Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival

November 9-17, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rendezvous with Madness Program Deadline: August 17th, 2012

Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. The festival provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers to screen their work and has grown into a filmmaker favourite over the past eighteen years.

The objectives of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival are:

− To explore the facts and mythologies of mental illness and/or addiction, as presented by Canadian and international filmmakers.
− To facilitate discussions amongst filmmakers and audiences with respect to these cinematic representations.
− To provide filmmakers an opportunity to screen their films that may otherwise not be seen.
− To increase awareness, and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues and concerns.

RWM brings independent Canadian and International film and video to the public. RWM features strong programs that address the facts and mythologies of mental illness and addiction.

Each of the various programs focuses on different themes and includes panel discussions involving the filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction.

Rendezvous in the ClassroomSince 2001, Rendezvous with Madness has programmed films specifically for high school students through Rendezvous in the Classroom program. All films submitted to the festival by the deadline will automatically be considered for the Rendezvous in the Classroom program.

Rendezvous with Madness accepts short and feature length films of any genre, that touch on issues of mental health and addiction, from anywhere in the world. Special consideration will be given to films that:

−Present issues of mental health and addiction from local, multicultural or youth perspectives.
−Premiere at Rendezvous with Madness

Entry Rules and Regulations− All festival entries must be submitted by August 17th, 2012.

Call for Reflections: Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care

Journal Editor: Ellen L. Csikai, Ph.D
Section Editor: Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD

We are pleased to be able to offer this opportunity to publish personal accounts of various aspects of social work in end-of-life and palliative care. We hope these entries in the journal will provide an insider’s look into everyday practice or give some inspiration as we assist individuals and families at this crucial time in life.

Description of Section:
Our work in providing end-of-life and palliative care affects us both personally and professionally. This new section of the journal is dedicated to using creative writing to give voice to the personal impact of end-of-life and palliative care social work in clinical practice, community organizing, policy practice, research, and education. Content, reflecting both the art and science of social work, is accepted in three forms: poetry, essays, and case studies.

Authors should submit only material that is original and that has not been previously published. In addition, please do not submit any material that is currently under consideration by another publication source. Do not disclose the identity of living persons without their written permission. If the content of your material can lead to the identification of a colleague, client, family member, or any person other than yourself, please follow your organization’s rules for the protection of human subjects, and indicate in your cover letter that your material conforms to your organization’s guidelines.

Poem
Poems from 7-15 lines in length are preferable, although longer poems will be considered.

Essay
Essays should be no longer than 1,400 words (about 5 pages double-spaced), although longer lengths may be considered. Essays can reflect the personal meaning-making experience of the author and tap into insights about, for example, ethical dilemmas, the importance of relationships, satisfaction or strain related to work in end-of-life and/or palliative care, gratitude, grief, humility, humor, and hope. The range of potential topics is deliberately broad. They may be written in the first person. Authors are encouraged to seek editorial feedback from a colleague or writing specialist before submitting material for consideration. No references or citations are expected.

Case Study
Case studies that do not exceed 1,400 words (about 5 pages double-spaced) are preferred although longer submissions will be considered. Case studies describe circumstances that are unusual or could be considered outside the experience of many readers by virtue of the characteristics of the client, his or her family system, the community, the social worker, local laws or regulations, or historical events (for example, a natural disaster like a flood, a hurricane, a traffic accident, or an organizational budget cut that affected care). Case studies present an issue that challenges the social worker, describes consideration and weighing of options, and presents the conclusion or clarifies that there was no conclusion. Authors are strongly encouraged to seek editorial feedback from a colleague or writing specialist before submitting material for consideration. References or citations should be included where appropriate, but are not required.

Submissions are online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wswe

With your submission please include a cover letter with full author(s) contact information and a statement that the author(s) has followed his/her organization’s IRB procedures as appropriate.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: Theorizing Breast Cancer: Narrative, Politics, Memory

We invite proposals for a special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature that will focus on feminist theories of embodiment in breast cancer narratives, with particular emphasis on transnational, queer, environmental, genetic, biomedical/bioethical, and activist discourses. We seek traditional scholarly or mixed-genre essays that analyze literary and cultural representations of breast cancer in fiction, autobiography/memoir, and/or visual culture and that explore topics such as the following:

1) Women¹s representations of medicalization, e.g. breast cancer diagnosis, lumpectomy, mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, other pharmaceutical or technological interventions, and decline or recovery;

2) The shifting politics of prosthesis, reconstruction, breast cancer culture, and/or survivor discourses;

3) Historiographies of breast cancer, including pre-history of cancer narrative as a defined topic;

4) Theories of breast cancer in relation to social determinants of literary and cultural representations;

5) Current and historicized breast cancer narratives as sites of public memory and individual/communal mourning;

6) The politics of location and/or theories of intersectionality in breast cancer narratives as regards racial-ethnic, class, queer, and/or disabled identities;

7) The aesthetic and representational strategies of writers, photographers, and artists who document breast cancer's physical and/or psychological terrain;

8) Possible links among breast cancer, environmental carcinogens, and corporate cultures;

9) The ethics and efficacy of genetic testing, prophylactic mastectomy, and previvor discourses;

10) Breast cancer narratives in popular culture, including film narrative, television, blogs, and websites.

All essays should be informed by recent feminist scholarship on illness, medicalization, and cancer in medical humanities or narrative medicine and in literary, gender, cultural, visual, disability, and/or trauma studies. In the U.S. alone more than 178,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and 40,000 die of this disease. Worldwide breast cancer rates are rising, and current projections suggest that within ten years, 70% of all breast cancer will affect women from the Global South. This issue of TSWL will examine a wide range of visual and verbal narratives that explore the contours of illness, survival, and memorialization.

Essays should be 6000-9000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography), should conform to the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and should be submitted in Microsoft Word. Please send detailed abstracts by August 1, 2012 to both of us and to TSWL editor Laura Stevens (laura-stevens@utulsa.edu). Final essays, subsequent to acceptance of abstracts, will be due by January 4, 2013.

Mary K. DeShazer  Wake Forest University (deshazer@wfu.edu)

Anita Helle Oregon State University (ahelle@oregonstate.edu) 

Call for Submissions: Annals of Internal Medicine Personae (Cover Photos) Photography Prize

Annals of Internal Medicine is offering a $500 prize for the best photograph submitted to Annals in 2012. In an effort to bring people to the pages of the Annals, the editors began publishing a section called Personae in 1999. Personae photographs are black and white photographs of people that appeared in the body of the journal from 1999 to 2000 and have appeared on the cover since 2000. Photographs submitted between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2012 will be eligible for the prize. Employees of the American College of Physicians and their family members are not eligible for the prize but are welcome to submit photographs to be considered for publication.

We are looking for photographs that catch people in the context of their lives and that capture personality. Annals will publish photographs in black and white, and black-and-white submissions are preferred. The quality of photos and their suitability for the vertical space on the cover weigh heavily in publication decisions. We will also accept color submissions, but any publication decision will depend on the quality of the photograph after conversion to black and white. We prefer digital files in JPEG or TIF format (300 dpi). Photographs must have a vertical or portrait orientation. We will not be able to return photographs, regardless of publication decision. Photographers should not submit their only copies of photographs.

We must receive written permission to publish the photograph from the subject (or subjects) of the photograph or the subject’s guardian or next of kin. Occasionally, we can publish a photograph without the subject’s permission under the following circumstances: 1) the subject is unidentifiable in the photograph, or 2) the photograph was taken in a public venue, is not potentially damaging to the subject, and is accompanied by a written statement from the photographer assuring that the photograph was taken in a public venue with the subject’s consent. A cover letter assuring no prior publication of the photograph and providing permission from the photographer for Annals to publish the image should accompany all submissions. The letter should also contain the photographer's name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and telephone and fax numbers. Photographers must sign over copyright permission to the American College of Physicians before publication. Photographers who do not find copyright assignment acceptable should refrain from submitting photographs for consideration.

Please submit photographs or questions to Renee Wise, Annals of Internal Medicine, 190 N. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106-1572, rwise@acponline.org. We look forward to receiving your photographs.

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Cover Art Contest

Calling all talented young artists!

JPIDS is soliciting submissions of drawings that will illustrate the covers of our journal, JPIDS.We are looking for submissions that demonstrate unique artistic vision and creativity with a theme that relates to pediatric infectious disease.

Eligibility:

Artwork completed by individuals less than 18 years at the time of composition may submit artwork. Please submit a high quality color photograph or scan of the artwork. Please do not submit original artwork.

Deadline:

Accepted on a rolling basis.

Selection Process:

Submissions with identifiers removed will be reviewed by the JPIDS editorial board. Parents/guardians of the child with the selected artwork will be asked to sign a copyright release form. The artwork selected will be printed on the front cover of the journal and a summary of the subject of the artwork and pediatric infectious disease relevance as well as the artist’s name and hospital affiliation will be printed in the corresponding JPIDS issue. Winners will also receive a print copy of the issue where their artwork is featured.Multiple Submissions: An artist may submit more than one piece at a time. However, only one piece will be selected for any one artist. Previously published work cannot be accepted.

Format:

Please submit an electronic version of the artwork in high resolution as a .gif, .tiff, or .jpeg file.

Instructions:

Please send submissions electronically as file attachments to the JPIDS Editorial Office ( jpids.editorialoffice@oup.com). Please contact Andi Shane ashane@emory.edu with questions.

Please include:

The title of the artwork
The artist’s name, a parent/ guardian’s name, a parent/ guardian’s email address, telephone number, age at the time the artwork was created, the name of the local academic medical center, a less than 25 word description of the artwork, and the artist’s inspiration for creating the artwork.
 

E. Thayer Gaston Writing Competition

(*This scholarship is not open to Graduate students)

Sponsored by the American Music Therapy Association in cooperation with the Student Affairs Advisory Board. Papers on any topic relevant to the music therapy profession using the philosophical, historical, descriptive, or experimental mode of research are invited.

Award: A cash award of $500 to the winner(s) and an opportunity to have the paper reviewed for possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy.

Requirements: Papers may be individually or jointly authored. Only one paper per entrant. Papers may be any length up to 3,000 words and shall have a title page indicating the author's name, academic institution, and academic advisor's name. No identifying information found on the title page is to be found on any page of the text. Papers are to be submitted in the format approved by the American Psychological Association. Papers must be previously unpublished.

Selection Procedure: Judging will be done on the basis of originality, organization, clarity of writing, relevance of content to the music therapy profession, literature documentation and adherence to the APA style. In the event that the criteria is not met or the judges feel that no paper is worthy, the award will not be presented. Judging will be done by a clinician, an academician, and a non-music therapist in a related field.

Application Deadline: All entries must be received by 6:00 pm EST June 29, 2012 without exception.

Student Scholarship Eligibility
All undergraduate, undergraduate equivalency students and graduate students enrolled in a college or university program in music therapy approved by the American Music Therapy Association. All interns in clinical training are considered eligible through their parent academic institution. Student status will be verified through that institution prior to awarding the prize. Applicants must be current Student Members of AMTA in the year in which they apply AND the year in which it is granted.

Complete the Scholarship Application form (and Nomination form if required). This must be submitted with your application. Only complete applications that follow the application guidelines and format will be considered.

Any submitted narrative must be double-spaced, 1-inch margins, in 12-point font. Your narrative must be written for blind review, without specific reference to your name or place of employment.

All applications must be submitted electronically to the AMTA National Office at: scholarships@musictherapy.org

Application must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. Additional materials – if required – must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. (Fultz Award applicants may submit .pdf attachments as specified within the applicaiton.)

In your email, please include the name of the scholarship for which you are applying and the application year in the subject line.

Applicants will receive an email confirming the receipt of their application.