Call for papers

The first edition of Ex Plus Ultra will be published April 2009. You are invited to submit a paper for this exciting event.

To launch this interdisciplinary journal, the first edition will cast a wide net, inviting creative, scholarly papers that are generally concerned with colonial and imperial history and postcolonial theory.

Papers may be up to 6000 words.

All submissions must conform to Ex Plus Ultra submission guidelines
Please attach any images or photos to be published along with your paper.

For further information or to submit your contribution please contact the editorial team at

The deadline for submissions is October 31 2008

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Imperial intimacies
  Exploring the role of emotions, sex and desire in colonial and imperial power
• Law's empire
  Exploring the role of law and regulation, both informal and formal, in the imperial project
• Sensing the Other
  exploring the imperial reconfiguration of social sensory orders - how was smell, sight, touch, sound etc implicated in and reordered by imperialism?
• Beyond transnationalism
  What are the problems with transnational histories? Is there an implicit masculinisation of the global and feminisation of the local? Does a transnational approach simply reinstate the national? Does it forget about the minutiae or the nationless? Is it really new? Are the terms global, supranational or cosmopolitan more useful?