CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas that suggest possibilities for a different future. CR: The New Centennial Review is published three times a year under the editorship of Scott Michaelsen (Department of English, Michigan State University) and David E. Johnson (Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo).

The journal recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas. Journal articles address philosophically inflected interventions, provocations, and insurgencies that question the existing configuration of the Americas, as well as global and theoretical work with implications for the hemisphere.

Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture is the journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R), an international association of scholars founded in 1990 and dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René Girard's mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the genesis and maintenance of culture. COV&R is concerned with questions of research and application. Scholars from diverse fields and theoretical orientations are invited to participate in its conferences and publications. Membership includes subscriptions to Contagionand to the organization's biannual Bulletin which contains recent bibliography, book reviews, and information on the annual conference as well as on relevant satellite sessions in conferences of diverse disciplines.

Given the genre's flexibility and expansiveness, we welcome a variety of works—ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism. The editors invite works that are lyrical, self-interrogative, meditative, and reflective, as well as expository, analytical, exploratory, or whimsical. In short, we encourage submissions across the full spectrum of the fourth genre. The journal encourages a writer-to-reader conversation, one that explores the markers and boundaries of literary/creative nonfiction.

In addition to contemporary nonfiction, Fourth Genre features interviews with prominent nonfiction writers, roundtable discussions of topical genre issues, mini-essays by selected photographers and visual artists, letters from readers, and reviews and capsule summaries of current books.

Sponsored by the French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS), French Colonial History is an annual volume of refereed, scholarly articles selected from the Society's annual meetings. The journal covers all aspects of French colonization and the history of all French colonies, reflecting the temporal span, geographical breadth, and diversity of subject matter that characterize the scholarly interests of the Society's members.

French Colonial History is an outgrowth of the Society's ongoing relationship with Michigan State University Press, which began with the Press's publication of the 1995 FCHS Proceedings.

For more information about the French Colonial Historical Society, see the FCHS website at www.frenchcolonial.org.

Future issues will include themes like the re-conceptualization of "left" and "right," radical groups typically ignored in academic scholarship, such as deep ecologists, primitivists, and anarchists, the role of science and technology in radical visions, transnational and regional understandings of radicalism, and the relationships of radical movements to land and environment.

From the Editor:

As incoming editor of Northeast African Studies, I am delighted to announce that the journal will resume publication in 2010. This distinguished journal was founded and edited for more than 20 years by the late Harold Marcus, whose energy and dedication to the scholarly study of Ethiopia and its neighbors in the Horn of Africa inspired several generations of students and scholars throughout the world.

While Northeast African Studies will bring some changes in focus and format, the editors remain committed to the high standards of research, writing, and production that the original journal championed. I welcome this opportunity to serve for the next several years as General Editor and invite all those interested in advancing knowledge of the region to join me and the editorial board as we build upon the tradition that Harold began.

The journal will publish twice a year; all submissions will be peer-reviewed. Most issues will have a thematic focus, announced with a call for papers a year or more in advance. In addition, the journal will feature occasional reflective essays by distinguished senior scholars and reviews of books that break new ground. Individual contributions are also welcome.

Lee V. Cassanelli
University of Pennsylvania

Upcoming Issue Themes:

• “Genealogies of Knowledge” Exploring source materials, academic traditions, and institutions of learning that have shaped our understanding of Northeast Africa
• "Legacies: of Slavery and Subordination" Studying historical and contemporary forms of inequality and their consequences
• "Rethinking the Region" Situating Northeast Africa in the Red Sea/Indian Ocean world, in the Nile Valley context, and/or in its relations with Sudanic Africa
• "Muslims and Christians in Northeast Africa" Examining images, interactions, and institutional and intellectual patterns and paradigms, including links between the region and the wider world

This biannual refereed mathematics journal covers real analysis and related subjects, such as geometric measure theory, analytic set theory, onedimensional dynamics, the topology of real functions, and the real variable aspects of Fourier analysis and complex analysis. The first issue of each volume year features conference reports; the second issue includes survey articles.

To contact the Red Cedar Review editor, email rcreview@msu.edu.

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