Dr Rachel Franklin

Academic | Doctor of Dalí | Salvador Dalí's writings, Surrealism, Baseball Fictions.
Currently doing an MA American Studies.

[London Arts-Based Research Centre 🪶Indelible @IndelibleLit]

⚽️📽️🧠An exciting new conference!!
"Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso"
A Transdisciplinary conference (November 15-16, 2025)

November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2025
Conference webpage: https://t.co/O62oKTSTV9

Call for Papers:

“I believe in hope. I believe in Believe.” — Ted Lasso

Few recent television series have inspired such widespread conversation about coaching, leadership, kindness, mental health, and the power of optimism as Ted Lasso. Set in Richmond, London, this Emmy-winning show has touched audiences around the world through its blend of humour, emotional depth, and fresh portrayals of mentorship, masculinity, teamwork, and vulnerability.

This conference invites scholars, practitioners, coaches, creatives, psychologists, cultural critics, and sports researchers to explore Ted Lasso as a springboard for wider questions about how we lead, learn, care, and create connection — both on screen and beyond it.

This conference welcomes 15-minute academic and/or creative presentations, performance, and multimedia work. We invite perspectives from media studies, psychology, sports studies, arts-based research, cultural theory, performance, pedagogy, and beyond.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

- Coaching: as a metaphor for leadership, teaching, and community care

- Empathic leadership: and the “lovable fool” #archetype in modern narratives

- The Ted Lasso effect: #optimism, sincerity, and the psychology of teams

- Comparative readings: Ted Lasso alongside other sports #films, series, or real-world coaching practices

- #Sports stories: Narrative myth, #individuation, and psychological growth through sport stories

- Masculinity, vulnerability, and #mentalhealth in contemporary media and beyond

- The power of humour and storytelling to break cynicism and build connection

- Arts-based research inspired by Ted Lasso: performance, #creativewriting, #filmmaking

- #Fandom and #media: #Fanculture, memes, #digitalstorytelling, and participatory media

- Sports: the role of sport in place #identity, belonging, and local culture

- #Gender, diversity, and intersectionality in sports narratives

- Kindness, #mentorship, and moral leadership in an age of polarisation

If you’d like to present, please submit your proposal using our online form by September 15, 2025:
https://t.co/LuOfDGoZot

Whether you have watched the show or not, we welcome you to join us as we explore the themes that inspire us to think deeply about #coaching, #storytelling, #kindness, #leadership, #humour, and human connection. Whether you are a devoted fan of the show, a researcher of #sportsculture and #psychology, or a creative interested in the wider questions Ted Lasso touches — this conference welcomes you.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

The London Arts-Based Research Centre is dedicated to fostering transdisciplinary dialogue through creative practice, research, and performance. This conference continues our mission to explore how arts-based inquiry, storytelling, and #culturalstudies can open new ways of thinking, healing, and imagining collective futures.

For more information, visit https://t.co/0dmIMN7Jcu or email [email protected].

#transdisciplinary #interdisciplinary #TedLAsso #archetypes #depthpsychology #characterization

[William Irwin @williamirwin38]

Severance and Philosophy https://t.co/iTJSG0pjK5 via @PhilosophersEye

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

The high-concept streaming hit Severance is really asking one question: who would we be without our trauma? https://t.co/CaAxz48Cz0

[Harmony Cobel @Harmony_Cobel]

The driving is mysterious and important

[Sports Book Reviews @SprtBookReviews]

⚾Four baseball books to get you in the mood for Opening Day⚾

Including books by @byAaronFisch and @WBardenwerper

https://t.co/AHg1LuNWSI

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Fine Art of Persuasion" by Gennifer Weisenfeld, which examines the evolution of Japanese advertising from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage. #ArtHistory
https://t.co/N3iYBDF6EM

[BAAS (British Association for American Studies) @OfficialBAAS]

📍 #CFP - 'Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century'

Proposals are invited on the topic of cartography in US lit, 15th-21st C, for an upcoming symposium hosted at ENS de Lyon. 🗺️

Deadline: 15 June 2025
Event: 1-3 April 2026

https://t.co/drYwWDseas

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

Some Valentines are doomed 🫀

Make this one an extra special Valentines Day with some of our glorious gothic fiction!

Phantom Lovers, Tell-Tale Hearts, Doomed Romances and much much more available from the @BL_Shop:

https://t.co/z7WX5726V3

[Haunted Shores @ShoresHaunted]

We are thrilled to release the CFP for ‘Unquiet Shores’, a hybrid conference at Edinburgh Napier and online, which we will be hosting in collaboration with the wonderful team at @dansegothic — send us your abstracts on apply coastal acoustics!

https://t.co/DVjfidikYB

[The Sport Literature Association @SportLitAssoc]

📝 Call for Papers 📝

The CFP for the 42nd annual conference of the Sport Literature Association is open!

#SportLit2025 will be held at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, from June 18-21, 2025. We look forward to seeing you there!
https://t.co/PQoDm9trfR

[Xavier Aldana Reyes @XAldanaReyes]

🚨 Conference call for papers alert! #Gothic Crossroads, 25-27 June 2025. Info also here: https://t.co/xZ6ivybiFi @gothicmmu @IGA_Goths @MMUEnglishDept @rosarioariasUMA @maishawester

[International Society for the Study of Surrealism @ISSS_Surrealism]

Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
23 Nov 2024 - 21 April 2025
The Hepworth Wakefield
https://t.co/UNA6f1ZnOf

[Michael J. Blouin @MichaelJBlouin5]

50% off (!!!) the forthcoming King Noir, featuring a piece penned by none other than Stephen King himself. Check it out! https://t.co/SsL9tCxJG2

[British Association for Modernist Studies @modernistudies]

We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a ‘Modernism and Data’ special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP:
https://t.co/tcHgsZu9e9

[NINE: A Celebration of Baseball History & Culture @NINE_on_NINE]

Let's talk baseball! The 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference will be held March 5-8, 2025. We are currently accepting presentation proposals that study all aspects of baseball. Deadline is November 11. https://t.co/rPm2cRgGR2

[SASA @ScotAmStudies]

Our annual conference CfP is open for submissions!
This year we offer BOTH a postgrad workshop (Feb 28) & conference the next day (March 1) hosted @EdinburghUni.
See details at https://t.co/KzRTa6rKEI & attached!
Submit by January 10!
#AmericanStudies #Conference #Callforpapers

[NINE: A Celebration of Baseball History & Culture @NINE_on_NINE]

We're two days away from the 3rd Annual 9-Online Virtual Baseball Conference. Register today and join us for illuminating sessions on baseball culture and history! https://t.co/BIJcpG0U9p

[International Society for the Study of Surrealism @ISSS_Surrealism]

One week to go until Surrealismes Paris 2024!

Check out the programme here: https://t.co/16pv1g6Vzp

[Dr Rachel Franklin @Academic_Rachel]

After Sunday's thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking @ISSS_Surrealism virtual event on Joyce Mansour and Meret Oppenheim, I ordered both featured books. Mansour's poems, translated by C. Francis Fisher, arrived today.