From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society aims to conceptualise ‘K-ness’ as a new way of understanding the underlying characteristics that shape the semiotic, cultural, and so...

Some chapters on fandom in this new edited collection

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/From-Koreann...

The registration for "Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (12-14 November) is now open.
This online conference is hosted by the University of Münster. Registration is free.
To register and read the program: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/

‘The Strange Legend of Eastern Spirituality: Foul Detective Satori, Samsara Edition’ #Manga Adaptation By Yuu Akimaki Launches A new #manga series has launched through the Touhou Gairai imprint that’s available via ComicWalker...

‘The Strange Legend of Eastern Spirituality: Foul Detective Satori, Samsara Edition’ #Manga Adaptation By Yuu Akimaki Launches

"...“...a vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form” – Publishers Weekly. Middle of the image shows a book cover with three comics images horizontal, a boy and Betty Boop, a girl and boy looking scared, and an adult man being harassed by an old-fashioned telephone. "Barnes & Noble members use code PREORDER25 for 25% off through Friday, September 5!"

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY comes out October 28 in North America, so this is your last chance to save on your preorders at Barnes & Noble!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mangas-fir...

A screencap from the call for submissions posted on Bloodletter Magazine's website. The text reads: Issue Six Theme: Play Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025

I'd like to share the #callforsubmissions for Bloodletter, a literary horror magazine that welcomes female, nonbinary, and transgender writers. The theme of their upcoming issue is "Play," and they're actively seeking pitches for nonfiction essays. Shoutout to #FanStudies and video game writers!

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges

✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

My thesis abstract 🔥 "Over the last ten years, Japanese animation series–or anime–fans have often been associated with digital right-wing communities of the alternative web. This is better observed in anime been called an aesthetic of the “alt-right” by its most powerful actors ...

Finished.

In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

#CFP: "Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature"
IRCL Special Congress Issue 20.2 (2027)
Deadline for full articles: November 1, 2025
Email: jnals.cc@gmail.com, iea@usal.es, and rharde@ualberta.ca)

#CFP: (Re)thinking the Borders in Children’s Nonfiction
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
17–19 September 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Website: websites.auth.gr/nonfictionco...
Email: nonfictioncongress-2026@nured.auth.gr

#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...

Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) - ARU Join us online on 5 December for a symposium investigating the recent phenomena of Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the so-called 'great Internet let down'.

Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) 5 December 2025, 10:30 - 16:15

www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain...

#CFP: "Youth Writers and Their Worlds"
Ninth International Society of Literary Juvenilia Conference (ISLJ)
Valparaiso University, USA
April 16 - 18, 2026
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Email: ISLJConference2026@valpo.edu
Website: juveniliastudies.com/conferences/

Online webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Seminar series on translation for children
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
Thursday 23 October 5pm UK
Website: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

New edited collection ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Nicholas E. Miller (Anthology Editor)

www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

SRI Inaugural Lectures Inaugural lectures hosted by the UCL Social Research Institute.

As part of the celebrations of our 10th anniversary as a UCL Department, we have launched an inaugural lecture series. You can watch the first here and there will be more to come this academic year! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

During this #IndigenousPeoplesDay we encourage everyone to unpack the myths about that infamous expedition of 1492. Indigenous peoples weren’t waiting to be discovered, and are still alive and thriving today, so we want to honor and acknowledge the histories of those from the Western Hemisphere.

We’re pleased to announce our newly launched series, "Digital and Environmental Asia: New Directions in Historical Humanities," which examines Asia’s history, archaeology, art history, and anthropology through digital and environmental perspectives.

More info: brill.com/page/forthco...

Making Repulsive Monuments – Making Sense of Digital Humanities A socially engaged remix of DH theory and practice

#TBT to T&T faculty member Barry Mauer's 2022 chapter, "Making Repulsive Monuments." Check it out! openbooks.lib.msu.edu/makingsensed...

Designing Effective Digital Badges | Applications for Learning | Joey Designing Effective Digital Badges is a hands-on guide to the principles, implementation, and assessment of digital badging systems. Informed by the fundamental

#TBT to T&T faculty member @rudymcdaniel.bsky.social's 2019 book, Designing Effective Digital Badges: Applications for Learning. Check it out! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Soobin from TXT standing in front of greenery and a burst of sunlight wears a black cardigan with a white and black striped sleeve, a while collared shirt, and a black tie. He's wearing black glasses and smiling softly.

Remember this devastating Soobin photoshoot?

‘A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace’ TV #Anime Streams Clean Theme Songs The manga series #EgaonoTaenaiShokubaDesu, which translates as A Smile in an Unbearable Workplace,...

‘A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace’ TV #Anime Streams Clean Theme Songs

Image text: Book now for ‘Feeling and Living Nature: A Relational Ontology’, a free online event run by the BSA New Materialisms Study Group, 3 November https://tinyurl.com/yhrerhb6 #sociology

Book now for ‘Feeling and Living Nature: A Relational Ontology’, a free online event run by the BSA New Materialisms Study Group, 3 November tinyurl.com/yhrerhb6 #sociology

9 Dec 10:30am KOREA
Dr. #MichelleHo
#Japan #booktalk
"Emergent #Genders: Living Otherwise in #Tokyo's Pink Economies"

To register email thekpopprof@ gmail. com for the zoom link

Individual Development, Identity, and Comics | Classroom Connections - LibraryPass™ This month, we’ve selected titles from our Read Your World list that can help broaden students’ awareness of the world — and themselves. #ReadAllTheComics #ReadersAdvisory

Each of us has experienced what it’s like to develop our identity and process what that means. In our latest “Classroom Connections” blog, Stella Bromley and Vickie Blankenship focus on “Identity in Comics” to help young readers explore the world around them.

#ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicSky

Flier for talk. Here are the full details. I'll be giving an online lecture next week about my monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (2024), hosted by Rutgers University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global Asias. Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm New York/Toronto time (or Friday, October 17 at 8 am Tokyo time) The lecture is open to the public. Please join if you missed one of my in-person talks over the past year. (It will not be recorded.) Zoom Meeting ID: 9181599714 Password: 446539 (Or DM me for the link.) ---- Abstract: In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman ribu) movement, the lesbian community, and a sphere comprised of artists and fans of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). In this talk, James Welker will discuss Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls’ Comics Artists and Fans, which examines these communities and their cultural import. As he shows, individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining primarily focused on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.

Online lecture (book talk):

James Welker
Reimaginging “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans

Thurs, Oct 16, 7 pm New York/Toronto (8 am Friday in Tokyo)

Open to the public. (It will not be recorded.)
Zoom info is in the attached flier.

For what it’s worth, the contemporary story of Dua Lipa getting control of her masters and building a media empire is both more interesting and more structurally impactful than Taylor just buying back her catalog, notwithstanding Taylor’s higher profile. That’s another thing context makes clear.

Yes, Olivia Rodrigo was inspired by Taylor to get control of her masters, and that’s great! But Prince helped Hendrix’s estate get back control of his recordings. And pushed everyone from Madonna to Nas to DMX to Mariah Carey to Jay Z on owning their masters *decades* earlier. That opened the door.

This isn’t just “hey, I like this other old artist from the 20th century”. It’s about erasure of Black artists — again — and the difference between a billionaire buying off _and rewarding_ those who owned her masters, and someone *actually fighting* those who controlled their master recordings.