Out in the summer, the book is about the fiction anti-fascists have written, menippean satires, feminist dystopia, Communist-modernist-activism, Judas allegories, love letters to David Bowie, detectives under Hitler, queer fantasia, and much else besides.
www.routledge.com/The-Anti-Fas...
and social networking sites need to have more original contents, or at least a distinctive feature for users to stay
A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.
Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news:
#AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut
Cherry blossoms
Aerial photo of the Cherry blossoms at the Quad, University of Washington
📸Timothy Anderson
You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong
Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!
Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our
Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...
Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Venezuela’s promise last week to release “a significant number” of political prisoners is progressing far slower than many had hoped, as hundreds of families continue to wait in agony for their loved ones to be freed.
Christmas miracle, anyone?
another year of doing phd🫥
An aerial photo of Cambridge University Library in the snow by Lloyd Mann
Our 2026 Christmas card is already sorted 🤝
This wonderful photo of Cambridge University Library in the snow was taken by Lloyd Mann.
Submissions close next week! Have you submitted your #APSA2026 proposals?
Join political scientists and scholars in #Boston, for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, to address the latest scholarship in political science.
📄 Submit proposals by January 14th! buff.ly/ssE37eh
Aww, I won an “I Like It, Picasso” award at my library for the Infinity Castle display I created 😁
#librarysky #demonslayer #booksky
How to respond to reviewers
And here it is!!!
Hard-right and far-right politicians now lead the polls in France, the U.K. and even Germany.
Here’s how the power of populist hardliners differs across European countries 👇
🔗 politi.co/3MyT6Tp
the last 7 editorial decisions for submissions; only one wasn't rejected for AI content.
we've received our 501st submission for 2025 (10 more already than the total received in 2024).
Is the increase in submissions driven by GenAI?? It just might be, dear reader...
This is how we do Christmas Caroling in San Diego 🌴🎄🌲
Don’t forget to spread some love.
Academic apps
genAI has been so omnipresent rn
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Submission guidelines: Thematic panels
- We welcome proposals for thematic panels (6 individual presentations each).
- Please contact the organizing committee chair (laura.filardo@uva.es) if you are interested in organising one.
- Deadline: 7 November 2025.
Submission guidelines: Presentations (in-person; individually or co-presented)
- Abstract: up to 300 words (including references).
- Presentation: 20 minutes.
- Languages: English (main conference language) or Spanish (limited number of papers)
- Abstract deadline: 21 November 2025.
* Environment and environmentalism.
* Mental or physical health.
* Gender and sexuality.
* News and (social) media analysis.
* Protest and social movements.
We are happy to see abstracts of discourse analytical work from any field that looks at, among others:
* Post-/de-/anti-colonialism.
* Corporate and organisational communication.
* Culture, cultural studies, and cultural promotion.
* Education.
The conference theme also encompasses issues such as the construction of identity, space, time, politics or society. It seeks to move beyond traditional academic spaces by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and acknowledging the role of multilingualism.
In times of escalating of physical and symbolic conflicts, the increasing influence of social media, the rise of fake news and polarizing attitudes, it is also necessary to reflect on how Critical Discourse Scholars can address those challenges.
