NEW CALL FOR PAPERS | Oral Archives Journal | 4 - 2028

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2027

The Call for Papers for Volume 4 (2028) of Oral Archives Journal is now open.

The open access, peer-reviewed Oral Archives Journal (OAr), published by Firenze University Press and USiena Press, is dedicated to all aspects of oral archives – from their creation to their dissemination and reuse– and aims to foster collaboration and exchange among scholars, researchers, and cultural institutions dealing with oral sources. 
The journal collaborates with CLARIN-IT and is connected to the K-OAr Centre. The call for papers for the next issue is currently open - link.

OAr invites submissions on oral archives as cultural, scientific, documentary, and technological objects. Contributions may examine how spoken sources are collected, described, preserved, interpreted, made accessible, and reused across different institutional, disciplinary, and community contexts.

The journal welcomes contributions in three main areas: the life cycle of oral archives, including production, curation, conservation, digitisation, metadata description, and reuse; cross-cutting issues such as transcription, speech technologies, legal frameworks, research ethics, copyright, data protection, informed consent, access, licensing, and sensitive data; and broader reflections on infrastructures, policies, networks, educational initiatives, conferences, and emerging trends in the field of oral archives.
Manuscripts should be between 30,000 and 50,000 characters, including references, and may be submitted in English, Italian, or French. Each submission must include an abstract in English of no more than 150 words and five keywords in English. For Volume 4, manuscripts should follow the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics and must be prepared for blind peer review.

The journal website is available here: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index

The archive of published issues is available here: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/issue/archive

The full Call for Papers is available here: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/70



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Dario Del Fante, PhD
Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A)
English Language and Linguistics
Humanities Department - University of Ferrara
Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara
E-mail: dario.delfante@unife.it
Recent Publications
Del Fante, D. (2024). Migrating across times and cultures. Metaphorical images of migration in the U.S. and Italian newspaper discourse between the 20th and 21st century. Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b21857
Del Fante, D. (2025a). Positive perspectives on migration discourse in Italy between 1900 and 1915. In C. Taylor (Ed.), The Discursive constructions of Migrant Identities (pp. 85–112). Bloomsbury Academic. 10.5040/9781350442900.0010
Del Fante, D. (2025b). The Self-representation of Refugees through Pronominal Choice. A Case-study on Migration Counter-discourse in a Collection of Narratives on Refugees by Refugees. The Cerlis Journal: Studies on Specialised Languages and Discourse Analysis, 1(1), 41–82.
Del Fante, D., & Federici, E. (2025). Open to Meraviglia? Can Automated Translation Change Tourism Promotional Campaigns? International Journal of English Linguistics, 15(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v15n4p89
Del Fante, D., & Iori, I. (2025). Translating Metaphors at Table: Figurative Language and Food in Emilia-Romagna Tourism Discourse. International Journal of Linguistics, 17(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v17i5.22887
Parnell, T., Van Hout, T., & Del Fante, D. (2025). Critical Approaches to Polycrisis: Discourses of conflict, migration, risk. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN.