About the Journal

Introduction

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) derives its name from ‘rup’ (form) and ‘katha’ (words), which, when combined, mean ‘myth’ in Bengali. The journal gets its inspiration from the etymology and follows the principle that anything which has a form, visual, aural or mental could be studied from interdisciplinary perspectives. The journal seeks to promote criticism of emerging literature, innovation and art. One of its basic objectives is to promote interdisciplinary research for the study of the human condition, culture and the elimination of discrimination in a globally connected world.

Open Access Statement

The journal continues to support and spread awareness about OA in India and abroad. We have a firm conviction in Open Access philosophy and strongly support Open Access Initiatives. Rupkatha signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative. In conformity to this, the content of publications is primarily guided by possibilities of the open nature of knowledge, and freedom of access for all.

Content Licensing

The journal allows readers to freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link full texts of articles and use them for other lawful purposes. Articles, book reviews and other published items are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Scope

Why Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities?
The fundamental idea for interdisciplinarity derives from an evolutionary necessity; namely the need to confront and interpret complex systems. An entity that is studied can no longer be analyzed in terms of its singular objectivity but as a contending hierarchy of discourses emerging from multiple or variable branches of knowledge. We encourage authors to engage in inter political and intercultural discussion involving interdisciplinary perspectives from areas within and beyond humanities and the humanist sciences, wherever applicable. Authors must be first sure of the high value of their papers in their comparison to international standards and then submit their papers.
Submission areas include but are not limited to the following

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to language, literature and arts
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in human culture, language, literature, and arts.
  • Health & medical humanities
  • Gender Studies
  • Fine arts, film & communication & media Studies
  • Performing arts, performance studies
  • History of arts
  • Historiography, memory, history of emotions
  • Music: ethnomusicology, systematic musicology
  • Archaeology: material culture, human behaviour, cultural resources management
  • Tourism and heritage
  • Cultural Studies: cultural anthropology, ethnography, area studies
  • Scientific philosophy: artificial intelligence, biology, economics, neuroscience, and psychology
  • Animal Studies: ethics, law and rights
  • Law: human rights, intellectual property rights, digital rights management
  • Library and information studies: knowledge production, information literacy, open access
  • Psychology: educational psychology, applied psychology
    Ecological humanities
  • Transhumanities
  • The humanities debate: critical university studies and higher education

Frequency

  • Quarterly 

Peer Review

All materials submitted to Rupkatha go through Editorial screening and a Double-Blind Peer Review Process.
Submission Schedule
Authors are asked to look for appropriate CFPs and submit accordingly.

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