Lilia Moritz Schwarcz will deliver a keynote lecture as part of the 7th International Conference of REBRAC at King’s Brazil Institute, London, on Friday 16 January 2026 at 6:00pm. Registration: free, but required - see link. rebracweb.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/r...

REBRAC 10th anniversary conference at King’s College London – registration for keynote lecture by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz on Friday 16 January 2026

Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz will deliver a keynote lecture as part of the 7th International Conference of REBRAC (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis) at King’s Brazi…

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📕 An early Christmas present: my next monograph, Aesthetics of Malignancy: Portraits of Cancer in Contemporary Portuguese Literature, is now under contract with Liverpool University Press! Stay tuned for publication details, in 2028! 📕

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

New article out now: “Cânceres, tumores, viados que proliferam: A doença oncológica virada 'queer', no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo” [Cancers, tumours, f*ggots who thrive: oncological illness rendered queer, in contemporary Brazilian cinema] revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/2i... Enjoy!

Languages open many doors! Free webinar with @petehr.bsky.social.

Leeds City of Languages@leedscitylanguages.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How can the study of languages & global cultures help you to stand out in the job market? Thursday 13th November @ 4pm. Free Webinar. Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-... This talk will reflect on why employers value foreign language skills and inter-cultural awareness.

Languages can take you everywhere! Join @petehr.bsky.social for this talk about #Languages and #employability. Ideal for #schools, #youngpeople #teachers and #families.

Leeds City of Languages@leedscitylanguages.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us for the webinar: What languages can do for you: Opportunities across the globe. Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez will discuss how the study of #languahes and global cultures can help you stand out in the job market! Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-... #employability

Part of me wants to start learning stick-fighting now so in like 30 years I can do the "you would not part an old man from his walking stick" thing.

Some members of the Portuguese Studies Editorial Board, pictured with the journal's lovely new banner, at the recent Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL) conference held at the University of Birmingham in September 2025.

If you’re not familiar with it, the Millard tape included in the new Wish You Were Here box is a killer. You get embryonic, synth-heavy Animals jams, a complete WYWE months before anyone heard it, Dark Side of the Moon in full, plus an Echoes encore. LORD! #thankataper youtu.be/4clpGEnZz0o?...

Pink Floyd - 26th April 1975 (Live in LA) - 2021 Remastered Edition

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In case you missed news of our most recent (special) issue! Contents: "Introduction: Decentring the Human in Lusophone Studies" + articles by Patricia A. Bonchristiano, Carlos Garrido Castellano, Łukasz Kraj, @petehr.bsky.social, Patrícia Vieira, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, @doboulanger.bsky.social.

Portuguese Studies@portuguesemhra.bsky.social · last yr.

41.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! 'Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures", special issue edited by @doboulanger.bsky.social & Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275 @themhra.bsky.social

Oh to be in São Paulo to see the exhibition “MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação” (27/8 - 3/11 @ CCBB SP, then touring to Brasília, BH, and Rio): "convida o público a explorar a memeficação como um dos modos mais potentes — e irônicos — de narrar o Brasil contemporâneo" ccbb.com.br/sao-paulo/pr...

MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação

Exposição MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação 27/08/25 a 03/11/25 Compartilhe São Pau

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Dr Henry Clarke is in Portugal this week revisiting the site of Tongobriga. Today he was invited to give a paper on local identity, connectivity and culture change at Tongobriga in the context of the Durius Valley at an event celebrating 45 years since excavations began there

Dr Henry Clarke@henryhbclarke.bsky.social · last yr.

Had the best day at Tongobriga! Fascinating and funny stories about excavations there in the 80s, a brilliant Roman themed lunch, my paper on Tongobriga in context in the Durius Valley was well received, some musical interpretations and stimulating conversations

📚🍃🇦🇴🇧🇷🇵🇹 So happy this is out, and what a privilege to work on Lusophone ecocritical perspectives alongside Andrzej Stuart-Thompson and so many talented scholars, most of them early-career!

Portuguese Studies@portuguesemhra.bsky.social · last yr.

Contents: "Introduction: Decentring the Human in Lusophone Studies" + articles by Patricia A. Bonchristiano, Carlos Garrido Castellano, Łukasz Kraj, @petehr.bsky.social, Patrícia Vieira, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, @doboulanger.bsky.social + book reviews. Cover: Amazonia Dreamers by Juli Manara.

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing

The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) was one of the most destructive wars in Chinese history, with the death toll estimated between twenty and thirty million. What visions did survivors have for restorin...

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Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

Was pleased to represent @ucflangs.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today in conversation with Matt Frei about the crisis for languages & their importance for global Britain, following the @hepi-news.bsky.social report by Megan Bowler. Listen at c.10.50am: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

Matt Frei on LBC UK - Catch Up | Global Player

Catch up on the last 7 days of shows from Matt Frei on LBC UK

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41.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! 'Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures", special issue edited by @doboulanger.bsky.social & Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275 @themhra.bsky.social

I hereby present Portuguese Studies, 41(1), "Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literature”! Check out my article, "Eco-Consciousness with a Queerful Face: Ana Luísa Amaral’s World(s)": muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti... Or read the whole issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275

Contents: "Introduction: Decentring the Human in Lusophone Studies" + articles by Patricia A. Bonchristiano, Carlos Garrido Castellano, Łukasz Kraj, @petehr.bsky.social, Patrícia Vieira, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, @doboulanger.bsky.social + book reviews. Cover: Amazonia Dreamers by Juli Manara.

I hereby present Portuguese Studies, 41(1), "Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literature”! Check out my article, "Eco-Consciousness with a Queerful Face: Ana Luísa Amaral’s World(s)": muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti... Or read the whole issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275

'Welcome to the Social Media Capital of the Universe' Barbara Burns talks to Victoria Adams‬, whose book 'Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro: Reproducing the Past for the Present' has recently been published by Legenda. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/06...

…e Portugal aproxima-se cada mais à Hungria. Só falta proibir as marchas de Orgulho. Já passámos por isto no Reino Unido…os danos e as traumas de Section 28 ainda se sentem. Que pouca vergonha.

Tomás Pereira@tomashpereira.bsky.social · last yr.

Num país onde as queixas por violência no namoro não param de crescer e 3 em 4 alunos LGBT são vitimas de bullying em contexto escolar, o governo avença com a retirada da Sexualidade e Saúde Sexual da disciplina de Cidadania. Isto é radicalismo, é um projeto de ódio.

Congratulations to all the @universityofleeds.bsky.social teaching awards winners! Delighted that I have won two collaborative awards with my teams! Both #AssessmentMatters and my Psychology pedagogical research group have been recognised studenteddev.leeds.ac.uk/news/celebra...

Celebrating innovation and excellence in teaching at Leeds - OD&PL Student Education Development

Winners of the 2025 University of Leeds Teaching Awards have been announced. Now in their fifth year, these prestigious accolades have been awarded in recognition of the outstanding contributions of c...

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News of Osbourne's death comes weeks after the he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, for a triumphant final show.

Ozzy Osbourne's last stand

With tears in his makeup-shadowed eyes, Osbourne, the ailing and retiring frontman for Black Sabbath, raged against the twilight of the metal gods.

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Portuguese Studies has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky, alongside Facebook (www.facebook.com/PortugueseSt...), to share news relating to the journal. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a prize giveaway here on Bluesky! @themhra.bsky.social

@themhra.bsky.social is hiring another Policy Postdoctoral Researcher 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity for ECAs to gain policy experience, and I couldn’t recommend working with @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social more highly! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mvzce4nt

Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity: Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages

Thanks to the very generous award of a Special Research Grant by the MHRA, UCFL is in a position to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to take forward recommendations from the Languages and Policy: …

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THE RAYMOND WILLIAMS FOUNDATION TARGETED GRANTS SCHEME 2025 The RWF invites applications for up to eight grants of max £1,500 to support self-organised adult learning activities to help realise social justice aims. Deadline: 29 June 2025. More info at:

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Sofia Martinho, Director at SPLAS and President of TROPO UK, is currently at São Tomé e Príncipe where she will be talking about Portuguese as a Pluricentric Language #portuguese #languages #mfl @sofiamartinho.bsky.social

Dr Peter Haysom-Rodriguez @petehr.bsky.social will be at the University of Porto next week presenting his latest research project: