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Volume 7 Issue 4 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press

The new October 2025 issue of "Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture," including a return of the 'Dialogues' section, is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/issue/...

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Volume 37 Issue 2-3 | Journal of Religion and Popular Culture | University of California Press

Read about JRPC's shift in editorial direction in the new issue of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture" available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/issue/3...

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Volume 14 Issue 3 | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research | University of California Press

The essays in this new issue show us how qualitative inquiry can become a practice of creating spaces that move beyond binary thinking to cultivate solidarity across difference. online.ucpress.edu/dcqr/issue/1...

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

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Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press

Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…

Trump 2.0 and Asia: An Asian Survey Special Issue This timely collection of articles brings together leading scholars to analyze the potential impact of Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency on Asian countries.

New from Asian Survey: "Trump 2.0 and Asia," a special issue bringing together leading scholars to analyze the impact of Donald Trump’s return on Asian countries and US-Asian relations. Articles free to read through September. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

SAH is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheila Crane as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) for the next three years. Read more: www.sah.org/about-sah/ne...

Another Pandemic Is Inevitable. Trump Is Making It More Dangerous. Cuts to global health could trigger a pandemic worse than COVID-19.

Thanks to TIME for featuring @drsethberkley.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming book FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity (Oct), on the front cover today for his Ideas piece: time.com/7320256/vacc...

Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis” Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded at...

@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts.

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Studying the Only Known Native Hawaiian Whaling Captain: A Q&A with Travis Hancock Uncovering the history of Kāpena (Captain) George Gilley, the first Native Hawaiian known to lead whaling expeditions.

George Gilley, the first Native Hawaiian known to lead whaling expeditions, was both a product of and participant in colonialism, as well as a decolonizing actor. PHR's biographical account is a @pcb-aha.bsky.social prize-winner. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/s...

FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era.

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Check out new advance articles posted by "Music Perception." online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...

“The new Film Quarterly features a freely accessible interview with Errol Morris as well as articles on Pauline Kael and the ‘rebranding’ of Pamela Anderson,” writes David Hudson at Criterion Current!

Pauline Kael, Steven Spielberg, and a Romantic Film Criticism - 3 Quarks Daily Adrian Schober at Film Quarterly:

FQ featured at 3Quarksdaily! “When Pauline Kael started writing on film in the 1950s, the study of cinema had not yet been enshrined in academia. She educated herself.” Adrian Schober on Kael in FQ's new issue (link to full article):
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Opinion | Jon Stewart is sticking to the script "The Daily Show" host addressed the chilling fallout from ABC indefinitely suspending fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late night show.

UC Press forthcoming author, Jacques Berlinerblau, weighs in @msnbc.com on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, and Jon Stewart's reaction. Stay tuned for more from Berlinerblau in his forthcoming book CAN WE LAUGH AT THAT?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age (March 2026): www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Volume 6 Issue 3 | Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press

The new special issue 'Approaches from Latin America: Video Game Music and Sound' from the "Journal of Sound and Music in Games" (which we publish in partnership with @sssmg.bsky.social) is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/6/3

Reverse Weather Vane: Pauline Kael and "Film Quarterly" Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.

At the UC Press Blog, FQ editor J. M. Tyree introduces Adrian Schober’s retrospective on Pauline Kael in FQ’s latest issue!

UC Press unlocked Kael’s greatest hits for FQ, including her takedown of auteur theory.

Read “Reverse Weather Vane”:
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Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES ­ SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.

FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson’s Deobjectification
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael’s Romantic Criticism
Matthew Sorrento interviews Errol Morris
Editor J. M. Tyree on the films of the quarter
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We've just added new advance articles to the journal Music Perception's site. online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...

In celebration of the @sah1365.bsky.social's fifth annual virtual conference, we've removed the paywall from the current issue of the "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians." Access it here: online.ucpress.edu/jsah/issue/8...
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"Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" Offers Free Content for SAH Virtual 2025 Timed to coincide with the Society of Architectural Historian's 2025 virtual conference, we invite you to read JSAH 's current issue for free online.

We invite you to read the current issue of JSAH for free online for a limited time. We've removed the paywall to coinicide with @sah1365.bsky.social's virtual conference. #SAHVirtual2025
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“Labor Freezing” and the Quiet Skills Behind the West’s Sheep Industry: A Q&A with Iker Saitua Who counts as a "skilled" worker for immigration purposes, and who doesn't and why?

Winner of the @pcb-aha.bsky.social's Robert W. Cherny Prize, Iker Saitua explores the history of which immigrants have counted as "skilled" and which have not and why. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/l...

Now available: #JSAH September issue 2025. View it online at ow.ly/u6Z450WPV5h

On the cover: 12-sided rotunda of the Payne Family Native American Center represents the twelve Tribes in Montana (photo by Daniel J. Glenn, courtesy of 7 Directions Architects/Planners).

Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES ­ SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.

Cover reveal! FQ’s fall issue arrives soon with amazing stuff…

New free article!

“Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft” explores the legacy of her star turn in Simon West’s 2001 blockbuster (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), connecting it to fascinating shifts in women as top-billed, blockbuster action stars around the turn of the century.

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166. The World’s Most Effective Public Health Intervention Is Under Attack Podcast Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 09/13/2025 · 1h 2m

Delighted to sit down w/ Steven Levitt Freakonomics co-author & discuss vaccines & talk about my upcoming book Fair Doses on his podcast People I (mostly) Admire. He is a super host & was shocked to learn his own very personal vaccine story on the pod.
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