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EUP and BAAS are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Jo Metcalf as the new co-editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies series. Jo is a senior lecturer and co-founder and co-director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre at the University of Hull.Jo replaces the outgoing series editor Martin Halliwell, who has worked wonders in transforming CIAS from its previous guise as BAAS Paperbacks, offering a brilliantly perceptive, supportive, and thoughtful editorial hand to over a dozen books, not to mention being a joy to work with, both at professional and personal levels.

Comics and graphic narratives have become a powerful medium for representing embodied disability experience. This special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly seeks to expand the field by foregrounding transnational, multilingual, and Global South perspectives. We invite essays that examine how contemporary comics and graphic narratives engage core concepts from disability studies鈥攕uch as crip time, interdependence and collective access, disability justice, debility and slow death, crip ecologies, and speculative crip futurities鈥攁cross diverse cultural and geopolitical contexts.

A two-day symposium, Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western, will take place at University of Essex on 10鈥�11 September 2026. Organised by Richard Parker and Jordan Savage, the event explores temporality and memory and in Westerns. Keynotes include Erin Murrah-Mandril, Neil Campbell and Jonathan Skinner. A special 鈥淒orn in Essex鈥� strand examines poet Edward Dorn and his connections to Essex in the 1960s and 70s. Abstract deadline: 29 May 2026.

"The United States of America at 250" - May 29, 2026, 12.30 - 7pm, at the Ray Dolby Centre, University of Cambridge. Three distinguished panels of journalists, artists, politicians and academic experts will debate the meaning of the Declaration of Independence in its own historical moment; the effects of the Declaration and the American Revolution on the rest of the world; and the enduring significance of 1776 for the United States in the twenty-first century. https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-united-states-of-america-at-250

"Jinwon Kim draws a deeply researched - and deeply felt - portrait of Manhattan's famous restaurant and nightlife hotspot Koreatown, placing it at the symbolic intersection of global ambitions and local identities. This 'transclave,' as Kim ingeniously calls it, both depends on and transcends contemporary Korean views of Korean culture, opening the door to intraethnic struggles as well as interethnic understanding." - Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era.