Be sure to download the podcast from author Jatinder Mann’s recent lecture at The Sydney Institute on February 13.

Dr. Mann’s lecture analyzes his recent book with Peter Lang is The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise in Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s.

Peter Lang Publishing is pleased to announce the Transamerican Film and Literature book series, edited by James Ramey, Mariacruz Castro Ricalde, and Laura Zavala. This series publishes scholarly contributions to the growing and ever-changing fields of film and literary studies across the Americas. Written in English or Spanish, the titles in this series include edited volumes, books by single authors, translations of academic studies, and scholarly editions or translations of literary texts. They typically investigate film and literature of the Americas, examining works and trends in relation to form, genre, culture, politics, historiography, and diverse areas of theory.

Forthcoming this summer is the first book in the series, Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature by Mariacruz Castro Ricalde, Mauricio Díaz Calderón, and James Ramey.

New proposals for the series are welcome. For more information, or to submit a book proposal, please contact Farideh Koohi-Kamali via email Farideh.Koohi@plang.com

Peter Lang was present at the «Conférence Internationale permanente d’Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes», which took place on January 12^th and 13^th at the United Nations Conference Center in Geneva, Switzerland. The topic of this year’s CIUTI Forum was «Short- and long-term impact of artificial intelligence on language professions». The recently published Peter Lang title CIUTI Forum 2015 was presented to the conference participants.

View the new documentary by Peter Lang author Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas Border Crossing Brothas: The Documentary and Book Launch which discusses his life, community-based education and Black male identity.

For further information on Dr. Douglas’s work and research, see his new book Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space.

Congratulations to Dr. Carol Allen, author of Journeys and Journals: Women’s Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora. This 2017 Peter Lang publication was chosen as a Recent Book of Interest to Women Scholars from the Women in Academia Report.

Congratulations to Albrecht Dümling Peter Lang author of The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia. This book was selected as a 2016 Book of the Year by the Australian Book Review!

View the new video by Peter Lang author Andreas Kramarz The Power and Value of Music which discusses the effect of music on human emotions.

For further information on Fr. Kramarz’s research, see his new book The Power and Value of Music: Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory.

The winners of our Linguistics and Education Studies competitions have now been announced!

Winner in Linguistics:

Dr Prafulla Basumatary
The Bodo Verb: A Descriptive–Pedagogic Study

We are also pleased to have a runner-up in the Linguistics competition: Dr Sender Dovchin, Language, Sociolinguistic Authenticity and Social Media. Both books will be published in the Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics book series, edited by Karl Bernhardt and Graeme Davis.

Winner in Education Studies:

Marina Avelar
Giving with an Agenda: How New Philanthropy Advocates for the Corporate Reform of Education

Her book will be published in the New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education book series, edited by Dr Stephen Cowden and Dr Jones Irwin.

Congratulations to our winners! Thank you to our distinguished editorial boards and to all those who took part in the competition.

The Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Proposals are invited from early career scholars from selected regions. The winner of the competition in each field is offered a contract for a non-subsidized book to be published by Peter Lang.

For general information, please contact:
Peter Lang Ltd
52 St Giles
Oxford OX1 3LU, UK
E-mail: oxford@peterlang.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 514160

Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word-formation (ZWJW) is an open access and double blind peer reviewed international journal published by Peter Lang. ZWJW publishes papers with respect to any language and linguistic field, e.g. morphology, syntax, lexicology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language history, typology, dialectology, language acquisition, language contact.

The journal is published online, two volumes are released each year. It contains original papers, reviews and general information such as announcements of conferences, meetings, workshops, etc. Special issues devoted to important topics in word-formation will occasionally be published. Manuscripts are accepted in English, German, French and Spanish; every manuscript must have an English abstract of max. 350 characters (including spaces).

Please send your manuscript to the editor-in-chief:

Prof. Dr. Petra M. Vogel
E-mail: petra.vogel@uni-siegen.de
Website: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/germanistik/mitarbeiter/vogel_petra_m/

Editorship:
Petra M. Vogel (University of Siegen)
Elke Donalies (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
Ludwig Eichinger (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
Mechthild Habermann (Erlangen-Nürnberg University)
Jörg Meibauer (Mainz University)
Barbara Schlücker (University of Bonn)
Hans-Joachim Solms (Halle-Wittenberg University)
Pavol Štekauer (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice)
Salvador Valera Hernández (University of Granada)

Advisory Board:
Werner Abraham (University of Vienna & Munich University)
Aleksandra Bagasheva (Sofia University)
Irmhild Barz (University of Leipzig)
Geert Booij (University of Leiden)
Jan Čermák (Charles University Prague)
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)
Jan Don (University of Amsterdam)
Nanna Fuhrhop (University of Oldenburg)
Livio Gaeta (University of Turin)
Luise Kempf (Mainz University)
Lívia Körtvélyessy (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice)
Elisabeth Leiss (Munich University)
Hans Christian Luschützky (University of Vienna)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Franz Rainer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Anna Thornton (University of L’Aquila)
Carola Trips (University of Mannheim)
Kristel Van Goethem (Catholic University of Louvain)
Martina Werner (University of Vienna)

We are happy to announce that the first volume of our new journal Philology. An International Journal on the Evolution of Languages, Cultures and Texts is now available on Ingenta Connect. Philology is devoted to the study of human traditions as they emerge from oral, written, digital, performed, ancient and modern texts and ethnotexts. Its purpose is to go beyond the boundaries of habitual fields of inquiry and to study the wide-reaching webs of relationships among humans and their artefacts, including texts. The journal advocates an unconventional, multicultural look on the origins and evolution of languages, texts and signs, challenging the traditional trails of philology, the former ‘queen of sciences’.

The journal is open to a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from the study of linguistic evolution to literary interpretation, from textual criticism to the investigation of texts and ethnotexts, from etymological reconstructions to the cognitive analyses of archaeological facies. The Journal is edited by Francesco Benozzo, Università di Bologna.