‘it was not designed by a big-name architect but by a local council designer, Norman Engleback of the London County Council’ www.ft.com/content/93a0...

To find out more, join our application webinar on Monday 9 March 2026, from 2-3pm. This webinar will include conversations with researchers who recently took part in the Collaboration and Innovation Grant pilot, including their reflections and tips for grant applicants. Register: bit.ly/4qAwYGr

The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting applications for the new Collaboration and Innovation Grant, which supports new cross-sector collaborations of researchers, engagement professionals and partners from cultural, creative, charity and community organisations.

‘Rather than recreating a replica of the past Mendonça wanted to evoke the period’s “fumes”. That goes some way towards explaining what it feels like to watch the result: you’re inhaling an atmosphere, smelling a memory.’ Gaby Wood watches ‘The Secret Agent’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Couriers communicated gossip, rumour and political intelligence between cities and states, labourers in a vast information infrastructure that worked across languages and borders.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Showing in Belfast, 6 March "Searching Heleny [..] follows Heleny Guariba, who disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship. Using textile art, Esther Vital stitches together memories of her loved ones to show what words couldn't hold." belfastfilmfestivalevents.eventive.org/schedule/698...

Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies In 2025, the journal Portuguese Studies marked forty years of publication and this milestone is being commemorated with a Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02... Follow them here 👉 @portuguesemhra.bsky.social

This book sounds very interesting! "Boutros shows the different ways activists produced evidence about policing and racial inequalities: collecting quantitative data, documenting lived experiences of police targets, or victims coming together to analyze patterns of oppression."

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Two pieces relating to REBRAC published in Portuguese Studies Fortieth Anniversary Issue @portuguesemhra.bsky.social rebracweb.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/t...

New blog post published on the @themhra.bsky.social website about the Fortieth Anniversary Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and a recent celebration of this milestone at the @rebracweb.bsky.social conference held at King's College London. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/02...

Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent' showing 20 February 2026 until 26 February 2026 at Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/The...

📣 Exciting NEW funding opportunity! 📣 The recently created SLAS Research Development Award offers up to £10,000 to support groundbreaking Latin American Studies research. More information about the scheme and the application below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

(3/3) The second reflection piece in the issue with a REBRAC connection is Sara Brandellero, Stephanie Dennison and Tori Holmes's 'Building a Brazilian Cultural Analysis Network in Europe and Beyond: Reflections on a Ten-year Milestone and Future Plans for REBRAC' muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...

(2/3) The first reflection piece in the issue with a REBRAC connection is David Treece's 'A Special Case? Exceptionalism and Interdisciplinarity in Brazilian Cultural Studies' (originally prepared as the keynote for REBRAC's inaugural conference held in London in 2015): muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...

🧵(1/3) We're delighted that the Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social includes two texts with a REBRAC connection. And also that we were able to help celebrate this milestone in the journal's history at the recent #rebrac10anos conference in London (on which more soon).

41.2 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out: our Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue 🎉🥳. It combines reflection pieces on the history of the journal & the field of Portuguese and Brazilian studies + seven research articles chosen via call for papers. ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55394 @themhra.bsky.social

And that's a wrap on an excellent #rebrac10anos conference. Thanks to panellists, participants, session chairs, organisers, partner organisations, and funders. 🥳🥳

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Opening panel at #rebrac10anos conference is Brazilian Culture and Society in Historical Perspective. First paper by Jane-Marie Collins (University of Nottingham) speaking on "Racialisation in Brazilian historiography: A revisionist approach to race miscegenation and manumission, Bahia 1830-1888".

The second paper in panel 1 at the #rebrac10anos conference is from Beatriz Virginia Gomes Belmiro (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ), speaking on '“Cuja escrava fica aqui em tratamento”: maternidade, escravidão e desigualdades na Santa Casa do Rio de Janeiro (1873–1884) e os ecos na contemporaneidade'

Panel 2 @ #rebrac10anos: Literary Perspectives on Brazilian Culture. First paper: Jade Nogueira (Universidade do Porto)/Cimara Valim de Melo (Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): 'The Japanese in the Amazon: Rediscovering the Kōtakusseis and new paths for Brazilian literary and cultural studies'

Second paper in panel 2 on Literary Perspectives on Brazilian Culture @ #rebrac10anos conference is Olga Baginska-Shinzato (University of Warsaw) presenting on 'Tradução literária e os estudos culturais brasileiros na Polônia: desafios, oportunidades, perspectivas'.

The third paper in panel 2 on "Literary Perspectives on Brazilian Culture" is from Frans Weiser (University of Georgia) on 'The Carandiru effect: Literary adaptation, entertainment, and the ethics of social memory'. #rebrac10anos

Final paper in panel 2 on 'Literary Perspectives on Brazilian Culture' at #rebrac10anos conference is by Claire Williams (University of Oxford). She will speak on 'Writing women’s lives into Brazilian history: The Coleção Brasileiras'.

If you're interested in seeing the programme for the #rebrac10anos conference (the 7th international conference of the European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis which also celebrates 10 years of the network), you can find it here: rebracweb.wordpress.com/congressos/2....

Our 10th anniversary conference got off to a great start tonight with an online Q&A: Nuno Ramos in conversation with Peter Schulze moderated by @stephdennison.bsky.social. In collaboration with @mecila.bsky.social. Full conference programme at rebracweb.wordpress.com/congressos/2... #rebrac10anos

Wagner Moura won the Golden Globe for best male actor in a drama film for his role in "The Secret Agent." Catch up on more highlights from the Golden Globes: bit.ly/4jCkNaq

💡 Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz analyses the social and cultural phenomenon of whiteness through its symbolic and iconographic expressions at the 7th International Conference of @rebracweb.bsky.social. 📆 16 January ⏰ 18:00-20:00 📍 King's Strand campus 🔗 Registration required ⬇️ buff.ly/5R94OZv

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...

We’re hiring two postdocs at CARGC this year! We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in Latin American or South Asian media cultures whose research engages media and creative industries, popular culture, and emerging forms of belonging and citizenship. Deadline in two weeks:

Oh to be in Lisbon.

20 February can't come soon enough! www.instagram.com/p/DSZwDuuDVl3/

Global South Cinephilias: What, Where, and When is Cinephilia? modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...

The project will investigate the experiences of people earning incomes within the platform economy in the Irish context. Desirable section criteria include fluency in Portuguese.

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...

Looking forward to this, tomorrow! Dr Victoria Adams (University of Leeds) will give the QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture 2025 on 'Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990'. Wednesday 3 December at 4.30pm.

Job: Research Associate, Wellcome Trust-funded project “Participatory Analytics for Climate-Health Adaptation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Brazil", University of Glasgow. Closes 5 January 2026. "Professional language proficiency in Portuguese [..] a plus." www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

"At COP30, Brazilian outlets teamed up to elevate community voices and climate justice" latamjournalismreview.org/articles/at-...

In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Isabel Torres examines the challenging presence of lyric in Miguel de Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ and considers how the root of ancient poetry, ‘poiesis’, reshapes reality from within the prose. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/4rphBSQ

A reminder of this event taking place tomorrow at QUB!

'Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ continues to shape how we think about idealism and the blurred line between illusion and reality. In this talk, Isabel Torres FBA explores how ‘poiesis' in this novel helps us to understand lyric as a provocative presence in early modern Spain. https://youtu.be/VPBkaO5zYe4

JOB: Lecturer in Journalism and Media (Global Media Studies), University of Galway. Strategic priorities include Media, culture & society; Media & the Global South; Media & sustainability; Media, democracy & governance. Apply by 5pm Irish time, 5 January 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN476/l...

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Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

Talk coming up at QUB next Friday 28 November at 1pm: "Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh

"From Brazil to Belfast - pupils hold their own COP30 event" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"A COP do cocar" "Os povos indígenas querem ter suas terras demarcadas e participar das decisões na Conferência do Clima" piaui.folha.uol.com.br/a-cop-do-coc...

This looks rather wonderful! Invitation to Contribute, "The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories". Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series. Full details in link. Initial deadline January 15 2026. bit.ly/3LAq6Ku

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking. Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...