Check out this open call to submit manuscripts for the special issue “The Shapeshifters; Plasticity from Cells to Society”, for Interdisciplinary Science Reviews!

Special Issue Information

This special issue, on the theme of “plasticity” explores the concept of plasticity across academic domains and beyond. The guest editors for this issue are group of scholars from different fields, from neuroscience, to cell biology, earth sciences, social sciences, media studies, environmental humanities and arts, united by a fascination for what the concept of plasticity means within, between and beyond our field of research.

We invite researchers from all disciplines, societal stakeholders, and the arts to come to question what it means to be a shape within a shapeshifting process, a form within a form – changing, adapting, evolving, or mutating, along with its environment, and to submit these thoughts, formulated within manuscripts, to this special issue; The Shapeshifters; plasticity from cells to society.

Specifically, we invite scholars as individual or as collectives from all disciplines to submit manuscripts that connect, bridge and define plasticity within and between various fields; we are especially keen on ideas exploring how plasticity may be of use in fields that currently do not use the term.

Scholars are invited (but not restricted) to think along four interdisciplinary themes, that has been discussed in four dedicated panel discussions during a symposium organized in Amsterdam, May 30th /31st, 2024. These are: (I) Complexity and Circular Causation, (ii) Environment, (iii)Time, and (iv) Epistemic Cultures. For a full description of the symposium, see The Shapeshifters Symposium Footage may be found here: Shapeshifters Symposium Recording. 

Deadline: April 1st, 2025.

Find more information about the call here.