‘The Non-Agreed Memory of Lucia Murat: Women During Dictatorship from a Filmic Perspective‘ by Rosane Carneiro Ramos analyses memory in women’s political resistance to dictatorship in the work of Lucia Murat. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Ramos @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social
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‘The Revolutions in Hugo Gonçalves’s Revolução‘ by Gustavo Infante considers the title of Gonçalves’s novel in a polysemic manner. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Infante @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social
‘Brazil and the Events of 25 April 1974: Monitoring, Following and Repressing‘ by @enioviterbo.bsky.social outlines the Brazilian military regime’s perception of the Portuguese Revolution. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Viterbo @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social
‘Traces of Repression in History & Literature: Indigenous Voices Represented by Márcia Kambeba & Sandra Godinho‘ by Cimara Valim de Melo examines Brazilian military dictatorship through an ecocriticical lens. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Melo @rebracweb.bsky.social @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social
'The Shadow of the Absent: The Impact of Disappearances on Contemporary Brazilian Culture‘ by Christian Dutilleux discusses the disappearance of citizens during the dictatorship (1964 to 1985), and beyond. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Dutilleux @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social
'The Long Twentieth Century in Portuguese: An Age Tending to One Extreme' by César Zanin @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social 🔗
Read the introduction to 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' by Rosane Carneiro Ramos (@bristoluni.bsky.social) which reflects on the experiences of dictatorships in Brazil and Portugal in the 20th Century. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-DIP1 @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social
NEW | 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' ed. Rosane Carneiro Ramos is a new Special Collection offering interdisciplinary analysis of 20th century dictatorships in Brazil & Portugal. @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Ramos-blog
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'Moving Texts, Moving Communities: Emotions, E. Marlitt’s Fiction and the Circulation of Controversial Texts in Periodicals across Linguistic & Cultural Borders in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe' by @hpartzsch.bsky.social. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-RRIT-Partzsch @saraharens.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE: '“I’m a Bitch”: Eurovision and the Anti-Gender Backlash – a Spanish Case Study' by Marcel Obst & Anja Louis examines the controversy of Spain’s 2024 Eurovision entry, “Zorra”. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-Obst-Louis @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @eurovision.tv @thateurosite.bsky.social
'Navigating Platform Economies in Afrofuturist Publishing in Brazil: Editora Kitembo, Hip-Hop & Literatura Marginal' by Victoria Adams looks at how São Paulo’s hip-hop inspired Brazil’s first Afrofuturist publisher. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Adams @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE | MLO 'The Sublime and the Sewer: Gothic Dualism and Symbolic Space in Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera' by Giulio Luciano Giusti (of @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social @europeinthepub.bsky.social) Read it for free, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-LucGiusti #Gothic #OA
⁉️ DID YOU KNOW? MLO offers Early Career Researchers the opportunity to apply for an APC waiver provided by the @livunipress.bsky.social #OpenAccess Author Fund. Find out more and how to apply via bit.ly/MLO-APCs 🔐 #APCwaiver #ECR #AcademicSky
Most read | 'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, @saramarzagora.bsky.social & Francesca Orsini @soasuni.bsky.social interrogates theoretical approaches to world literature. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Multilingual-Locals
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‘World literature’ has been much theorized and re-theorized in recent years as comparative literature for the globalized age. As it moves out of the Euro-American ‘core’ of earlier comparative…
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MLO | Most Read 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social ➡️ Read it freely #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Hartley @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social
NEW | 'Language and the Next Billion Users' is an interview with Payal Arora & @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social on language diversity in the digital sphere and cultivating the vitality of minoritized languages. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Arora-Zaugg @mcmasterhum.bsky.social @reshapingwork.bsky.social
NEW | 'Typography Beyond Latin: Cultivating Visual Culture at the Crossroads of Digital Access and Technical Policy': An interview with Kamal Mansour @artgriot.bsky.social & @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Mansour-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @typographica.org @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social
NEW | 'Unsettled Scripts: Script Invention and the Bind of Digital Recognition' by Anushah Hossain investigates “neographies" in a digital age. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Hossain @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social @stanfordpacs.bsky.social @viewsproject.bsky.social
NEW | 'Language Justice and Machine Translation on Social Media' by Amandalynne Paullada & Levon Haroutunian advocates for a language justice orientation in MT system development and design. 🔓️ Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Paullada-Haroutunian @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social
NEW | '“No Language Left Behind?” Predictive Text, Generative AI and Dilemmas of Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Languages' by @petechonka.bsky.social, Stephanie Diepeveen & Yidnekachew Haile. ➡️ Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Chonka @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @aiatkings.bsky.social
NEW | In 'Language 4R: Discussing the Roots of Language Identity in the African American Community' Kyra Ann Dawkins presents language reparation, reappropriation, reclamation & restoration in African American identity. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Dawkins @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social
NEW | 'Harnessing AI to Build the Ecology of Indigenous Thoughts': An Interview with @runningwolf.bsky.social by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social on accountability among AI researchers working on Indigenous languages. Read it #OA: 🔗bit.ly/MLO-Wolf-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social
NEW | 'Reconquering our Capacity to Dream in Revitalizing our Languages': A Conversation between HE Manssour Bin Mussallam and @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Mussallam-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social #mflbluesky
NEW | 'Technology Rewriting: Testimonio as a Methodology to Learn from People’s Stories' by Alvarez Malvido examines the dialectical tensions between people and digital tools. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Malvido @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social
NEW | 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' Edited by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social, this collection considers how digital tools shape and are shaped by Greater South language communities. @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/Digital-Lives-Blog
MOST READ | 'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, @saramarzagora.bsky.social & Francesca Orsini. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-LMO @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social
MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social @hpartzsch.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE: 📣 'Linguistic Blind Spots in Platform Content Moderation in Ethiopia: The Case of Facebook' by @yohannes-ayalew.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social Read it freely, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Ayalew