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    Call for Papers for the edited collection Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture

    This interdisciplinary collection seeks to draw connections across contemporary culture, neoliberalism and affect. Specifically, it will address representations of the self-management of emotions in the workplace, in the personal sphere, and in relation to aesthetic experiences such as sports and the arts. We are keen to encourage chapters from a broad range of fields including digital humanities, social sciences, politics, visual arts, performance arts, popular culture, psychology, philosophy, and economics.

    The U.S. Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses

    "The U.S. Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses" - being held on Wednesday 13 November at 2.30 p.m. (UK time), co-organised and co-hosted by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow and the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas at Keele University.

    All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession by Monisha Das Gupta

    “All of Us or None brilliantly moves us through several impasses that have long prevented useful dialogue between migration and Indigenous studies and activisms. Offering an important record of activist labor and thought that is too often marginalized, this truly outstanding book provides a very timely and urgently needed intervention that will advance scholarship across several key fields.” ~Eithne Luibhéid, author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant

    Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories edited by Connie Y. Chiang

    Expansive and groundbreaking, Nature Unfurled examines the links between Asian American and environmental history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

    Korean Pop Culture Beyond Asia: Race and Reception edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin Min Han

    Exploring how fans from different cultural and racial backgrounds engage with Korean media in local and individual contexts, this edited collection reveals complex transcultural affinities, conflicts, and negotiations.

    Sign up for YSoTAL (Young Scholars of Transnational Anglophone Literature) Network

    YSoTAL Network is a new and growing network of young scholars who share an interest in transnational anglophone literature. Thematically, this kind of literature overlaps with what has been termed postcolonial, migration, and ethnic literature(s), but it is usually written by authors who themselves have a transnational background, and is concerned with the many ways in which the national is transcended even as the characters remain in bound motion between places and cultures.

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