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The first episode of the new BAAS How To series has been released on YouTube. This episode features Dr Michael J. Collins speaking about how to write a cover letter for academic jobs. The monthly series, hosted by BAAS Early Career Representative Dr Siân Round, will cover a range of topics aimed at helping postgraduates and early career researchers develop a range of academic skills. Upcoming videos include how to turn your thesis into a book, how to prepare for an academic job interview, and how to engage the public with your research.

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" - 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 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

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

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.