Be sure to download the podcast from author Jim Macnamara’s recent lecture The Lost Art of Listening: the missing key to democratic and civil society participation which took place at the London School of Economics.

Dr. Macnamara’s most recent book with Peter Lang is Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication.

Peter Lang will integrate an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) as part of its publication process. Beginning in 2018, all existing author records will be matched with the ORCID database and new Peter Lang authors will be encouraged to provide an ORCID identifier when submitting a manuscript. Once included, ORCID IDs are automatically embedded into a publication’s metadata. The unique 16-digit identifier allows scholars to distinguish their publications, awards, and affiliations from those of others with similar names, ensuring they receive proper credit for their work.

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Join Jim Macnamara, author of Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication for his lecture on Wednesday, November 23 at 6:30pm at the London School of Economics.

Read more about Dr. Macnamara’s research on organizational listening via the blog Everybody’s talking at me…is anyone listening?

Congratulations to Peter Lang authors in the Critical Qualitative Research series for winning the following National Association for Multicultural Education Award!

Whiteness Is the New South Africa: Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism by Christopher B. Knaus and M. Christopher Brown II has won the 2016 National Association for Multicultural Education’s 2016 Philip A. Chinn Multicultural Book Award

To learn more about the National Association for Multicultural Education and their work in social justice, view their website.

Congratulations to our Peter Lang authors in Communication for winning the following National Communication Association Awards!:

Pamela Lannutti’s Experiencing Same Sex Marriage: Individuals, Couples and Social Networks, winner of the 2016 Gerald R. Miller Book Award in Interpersonal Communication – NCA’s Interpersonal Communication Division

Todd Sandel’s Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Cross-Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia, winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book of the Year by the International & Intercultural Communication Division of NCA

The NCA 2016 conference is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this November 10-13. Read more about this organization on the NCA website.

New book series: Global Literary Modernisms

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new book series Global Literary Modernisms, edited by Professor Alex Davis and Professor Lee Jenkins of University College Cork and Professor Gregory Castle of Arizona State University.

Global Literary Modernisms provides a platform for literary scholarship on modernism across genres and geographies. We invite studies that link national literary traditions with extensive global and transnational contexts. The series engages with transnational, postcolonial, canonical and marginal modernisms as well as the legacies of modernism itself. If you’d like to read a more detailed synopsis, please click here.

Congratulations to our Peter Lang authors in Education for winning the 2016 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Awards! Take a look at our award winning titles:

Joseph L. Devitis’s Popular Educational Classics: A Reader

Erin Cameron and Constance Russell’s The Fat Pedagogy Reader: Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education

The AESA 2016 conference is in Seattle, Washington this November. Read more about this organization on the AESA website.

https://www.teachingforchange.org/2016-summer-reading#educators

T. Jameson Brewer’s Teach For America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out has been chosen for Teaching for Change’s Summer Reading List.

This book – the first of its kind – provides alumni of TFA with the opportunity to share their insight on the organization. And perhaps more importantly, this collection of counter-narratives serves as a testament that many of the claims made by TFA are, in fact, myths that ultimately hurt teachers and students. No longer will alumni voices be silenced in the name of corporate and neoliberal education reform.

http://baftss.org/awards/awards-2016/

Gregory Frame’s The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation, was selected as the Runner-up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Award in 2016. The award ceremony took place at the BAFTSS annual conference in April 2016.

The award panel had this to say:

‘An assuredly deft and engaging exploration of how presidential figures function in American film and television, Gregory’s book is anchored in textual readings and it hits the right note …’

Read more on the BAFTSS website. For more information about the book have a look here.