Professor Henry A. Giroux received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) on Tuesday 4 July 2017. Professor Giroux, who was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period, has published several books with Peter Lang, including the bestselling title “Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism”. You can read his commencement speech here.

Congratulations to Ty-Ron Douglas, Erin Cameron & Constance Russell, Patricia H. Hinchey and Jennifer Shiller for winning the Society of Professors of Education book award for their most recent publications with Peter Lang Publishing!

Ty-Ron Douglas is author of Border Crossing Brothas .

Erin Cameron and Constance Russell are the editors of The Fat Pedagogy Reader.Patricia H. Hinchey is author of A Critical Action Research Reader.

Jennifer T. Shiller is author of The New Reality for Suburban Schools.

Click here to read more about the Society of Professors of Education.

Congratulations to Dr. Isabel Dwornik, author of Dreams and Deceptions: Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males’ Struggles in Sports and Education. This 2017 Peter Lang publication was included in the The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars.

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

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.

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)