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asianstudies.org
The #AAS2026 preliminary conference program is online ... start browsing the nearly *600 sessions*, planning your schedule, and seeing all that our gathering in Vancouver has to offer!

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Computer screen showing the AAS 2026 conference digital program with options to explore the schedule, register, and reserve a hotel.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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areum.bsky.social
Our panel K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity will take place Saturday, March 14, 2026, 2 pm-3:30 pm at the 2026 Association for Asian Studies annual conference! I will present on 1st gen K-pop fanfic that represents the Gwangju Uprising! See you in Vancouver! #AAS2026
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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asianstudies.org
🚨 AAS and LUMS want to ensure that everyone who wants to apply for #AASInAsia2026 has the opportunity to do so—so we are *extending* the proposal submission deadline to December 10. Virtual and hybrid presentation options are available!

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Colorful poster for AAS-in-Asia Lahore 2026 conference with call for proposals deadline extended to December 10, 2025, featuring floral and architectural motifs.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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melstanfill.bsky.social
my 2020 book with @anasalter.bsky.social, "A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises," is 50% OFF for December 1 and 2. makes a great gift for all the nerds in your life. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like Joss ...
www.upress.state.ms.us
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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comicsplus.bsky.social
Comics and manga are for everyone!

This month, for older teens and adult readers, we’re spotlighting “A Smart and Courageous Child” by Miki Yamamoto, published by @tokyopop.bsky.social and “Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw” by Ajuan Mance, published by #RosariumPublishing.
Comics Plus Book Club: December 2025 - LibraryPass™
This month, we're spotlighting A Smart and Courageous Child (Tokyopop) and Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw (Rosarium) for older teens and adult readers.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
#CFP: seminar "Humour in Children's Literature and Media" as part of the ESSE 2026 Conference
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
31st August - 4th September 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Website: www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par...
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
Dorotea is a short narrative adventure game about an archivist who enters a strange door at the back of a museum storage area. Transported to the 1600s, she finds that the local aristocracy aren't the only monsters threatening the town. My #indiehorror review: digitalfantasydiary.com/2025/11/22/d...
A screencap of the opening section of Dorotea. An archivist examines objects on the table of a neglected storage room in a museum in Conversano, a medieval castle town in southeast Italy. The onscreen text reads: Two ancient books are written in a strong dialect.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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suzannerblack.bsky.social
My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!

It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.

See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
Cover of book 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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areum.bsky.social
My forthcoming book on K-pop fandom looks at how parasocial relationships in K-pop today can be viewed as asymmetrical relationships -- never entirely one-way, but in many cases, two-way, asymmetric-yet-mutual attachments 💞
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · Nov 19
The Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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pinknews.bsky.social
In this adorable clip from sapphicandsunnah on TikTok, Aisha and Bre surprise each other with a double proposal in the smoky mountains 🌈

Congratulations!!!
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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fanstudies.bsky.social
Some chapters on fandom in this new edited collection

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/From-Koreann...
From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society
From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society aims to conceptualise ‘K-ness’ as a new way of understanding the underlying characteristics that shape the semiotic, cultural, and so...
www.routledge.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
The registration for "Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (12-14 November) is now open.
This online conference is hosted by the University of Münster. Registration is free.
To register and read the program: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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fandompost.com
‘The Strange Legend of Eastern Spirituality: Foul Detective Satori, Samsara Edition’ #Manga Adaptation By Yuu Akimaki Launches
‘The Strange Legend of Eastern Spirituality: Foul Detective Satori, Samsara Edition’ #Manga Adaptation By Yuu Akimaki Launches
A new #manga series has launched through the Touhou Gairai imprint that’s available via ComicWalker...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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horbinski.bsky.social
MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY comes out October 28 in North America, so this is your last chance to save on your preorders at Barnes & Noble!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mangas-fir...
"...“...a vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form” – Publishers Weekly. Middle of the image shows a book cover with three comics images horizontal, a boy and Betty Boop, a girl and boy looking scared, and an adult man being harassed by an old-fashioned telephone. "Barnes & Noble members use code PREORDER25 for 25% off through Friday, September 5!"
September 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
I'd like to share the #callforsubmissions for Bloodletter, a literary horror magazine that welcomes female, nonbinary, and transgender writers. The theme of their upcoming issue is "Play," and they're actively seeking pitches for nonfiction essays. Shoutout to #FanStudies and video game writers!
A screencap from the call for submissions posted on Bloodletter Magazine's website. The text reads: Issue Six Theme: Play Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges
October 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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aurelievpetit.bsky.social
My thesis abstract 🔥 "Over the last ten years, Japanese animation series–or anime–fans have often been associated with digital right-wing communities of the alternative web. This is better observed in anime been called an aesthetic of the “alt-right” by its most powerful actors ...
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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aurelievpetit.bsky.social
Finished.
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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journal.transformativeworks.org
In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Teaching with fandom: Promoting student subject engagement and critical reflection through fan fiction writing | Transformative Works and Cultures
journal.transformativeworks.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
#CFP: "Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature"
IRCL Special Congress Issue 20.2 (2027)
Deadline for full articles: November 1, 2025
Email: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected])
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
#CFP: (Re)thinking the Borders in Children’s Nonfiction
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
17–19 September 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Website: websites.auth.gr/nonfictionco...
Email: [email protected]
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: [email protected]
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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augustaquarius.bsky.social
Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) 5 December 2025, 10:30 - 16:15

www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain...
Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) - ARU
Join us online on 5 December for a symposium investigating the recent phenomena of Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the so-called 'great Internet let down'.
www.aru.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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irscl.bsky.social
#CFP: "Youth Writers and Their Worlds"
Ninth International Society of Literary Juvenilia Conference (ISLJ)
Valparaiso University, USA
April 16 - 18, 2026
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Email: [email protected]
Website: juveniliastudies.com/conferences/
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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irscl.bsky.social
Online webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Seminar series on translation for children
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
Thursday 23 October 5pm UK
Website: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM