Winners announced in the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America @TheGSA #GermanStudies

Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the results of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America: Joint Winners Andrew Kless Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at War in German-Occupied Russian Poland, 1914–1915 Claire E. Scott Murderous Mothers: Postmodern Medea-Figures and Feminist Politics Runner-up Alexander Lambrow Carl Schmitt’s…

Proposals invited! 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies @IAFA_TW @sfranews @GerryCanavan @tpmoylan @sfritzsc #sf #sciencefiction

Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies. Proposals are invited from early career scholars ­in Science Fiction Studies for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. At least two winners will be selected, one for the Ralahine Utopian Studies series and…

Documentary film cultures in the age of #COVID-19 #cfp #filmstudies

CFP: Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 Edited by Dafydd Sills-Jones and Pietari Kaapa Documentary Film Cultures The cultural practices that sustain the documentary form in all its varieties have been in a rapid state of evolution during the era of digital production. During that era, documentary filmmakers have dealt with the difficulties…

Irish Studies at Peter Lang @BAIrishStudies #BAISConf2020 #IrishStudies

We at Peter Lang were looking forward immensely to being in Liverpool this year for the BAIS conference. 2020 marks the publication of the 100th volume in our highly regarded Reimagining Ireland series under the editorship of Eamon Maher, no mean feat in just over ten years, and we would have relished the opportunity to…

Book launch for #Cli-Fi #climatechange fiction #academicbookweek @acbookweek

                            Please join us for a wine reception and discussion of climate change! Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, will be launched at the Oxfam Bookshop (56 St Giles, Oxford) at 6 pm on Wednesday 11 March. Volume…

New Book Series! #Disability, #Media, #Culture #proposals welcome @BAFTSS @SCMStudies @MeCCSA2020

Peter Lang Oxford is pleased to announce the launch of the new book series Disability, Media, Culture  Series Editors: Dr Alison Wilde and Dr Murray Simpson (University of Dundee) Globally today, television, film and the internet comprise the principal sources of cultural consumption and engagement. Despite this, these areas have not featured strongly in the…

Submissions are invited! 2020 Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies @WIGSblog @AGS_tweets

The Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and Peter Lang Oxford invite submissions for their 2020 Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies. Submissions are invited from early career scholars in German Studies for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. The winner of the prize will receive a…

Winners of the 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies

Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies in the following categories: Joint Winners in Nineteenth Century Giada Alessandroni Amongst Women: Literary Representations of Female Homosociality in Belle Epoque France, 1880–1914 to be published in French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in 2020…

June Boyce-Tillman Celebration Concert

‘WE SHALL GO OUT WITH GRATITUDE WITHIN US’, a concert in celebration of the life and work of Rev. Prof. June Boyce-Tillman MBE, was held on 4 November 2019. Many friends, family, musicians, colleagues and alumni came together for the event.           A video of the concert is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbSzzdOzvU&feature=youtu.be…

Book launch for Rey Conquer’s Reading Colour

Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler by Rey Conquer will be launched on Thursday 5 December from 4 to 6 pm at the Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Joining Rey to discuss the book will be Dr Nick Gaskill (Oriel College) and Prof Tony Phelan, Keble College. Please RSVP georgina.paul@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk by Monday 2…