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...

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!

The University of Nottingham is suspending all Modern Languages degrees. A short-sighted and terrifying decision from a 'global' university. Please sign the petition started by its wonderful students.

Job: Project Curator, Latin American Collections, British Library (apply by 23 November) Fixed term, full time. Need demonstrable interest in Latin American Studies, experience of working w/collections in a library/ museum/cultural institution, fluent Spanish ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

"News creators and influencers play a much bigger role in Brazil overall than most other countries in this study, even as large brands like Globo are also widely accessed via social platforms." (useful for my module on Brazilian digital culture!) reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

Very saddened to hear the news of Debra Castillo's death. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Modern Languages at QUB invites expressions of interest (EOIs) for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme. First step is to identify and contact a proposed mentor in the department. 🌟Brazilian Studies projects welcome!🌟 EOIs due 5pm, 5 November. Template: www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢 CALL FOR IDEAS: IMAGINE! BELFAST FESTIVAL 2026 Find out more and submit your idea here: ➡️ imaginebelfast.com/2026-call-fo... Imagine returns 23-29 March 2026. Submit your engaging and creative proposals by 7 November 2025 to shape the programme. 🗓️ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7 November 2025

Literary Translation Residency in Cork - Portuguese Language "A bursary of twelve weeks' duration will be awarded to a literary translator from the Portuguese-speaking world working on the translation of a contemporary Irish writer." Apply by 21 November. www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...

Waving to @stephdennison.bsky.social and @sarabrandellero.bsky.social!

Job: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Film Studies, University College Dublin. Apply by 20 October. Interest in "candidates who can expand the geographical and historical range of our subjects"; examples in JD incl. expertise in Latin America/indigenous media cultures www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU194/l...

"Brazilians protest against bill that could lead to a pardon for Bolsonaro and allies" apnews.com/article/braz...

✨ Are you our next New Media & Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow? You might be if you’re: ✔️ A recent PhD in the humanities ✔️ Working in new media / journalism ✔️ Bringing research to the public Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers 📅 Deadline: Nov 25, 2025 🔗 uoft.me/nmph26-27

📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD. Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers 📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST 🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27

**Reminder/Lembrete** Deadline to send abstracts for REBRAC 10th anniversary conference: 15 September! Prazo para envio de resumos para congresso de dez anos da REBRAC: 15 de setembro!

Hoping and trusting that this critically acclaimed and prize-winning Brazilian film is going to make it to an independent cinema near me in Belfast (hint hint)...

Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico mexicanists.org/2025/08/22/d...

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...

👀 ICYMI: "These channels lack the visibility of social media, but offer a sense of control, community and relevance that many now prefer." #AcademicSky #AcademicSocialMedia

Research fellowships "A region on the move: Accelerated human mobilities and multiple circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean" CALAS Maria Sibylla Merian Center. calas.lat/en/convocato... If you are interested in migration and/or mobilities, check this fellowship.

At QFT on Saturday 23 August "The Principal Enemy is an influential yet rarely-screened example of Latin America’s socially engaged Third Cinema movement." queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/The...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

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

Chamada para trabalhos Congresso de 10 anos da REBRAC – Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural "Remapeando os estudos culturais brasileiros +10" 15 a 17 de janeiro de 2026, King’s College London Prazo para envio de resumos: 15 de setembro de 2025 rebracweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/c...

Call for papers 10th Anniversary Conference of REBRAC – European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis "Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies +10" 15-17 January 2026, King’s College London Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2025 rebracweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/c...

Want to win a 2025 print subscription to our journal 'Portuguese Studies'!? Follow @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and repost their message to enter!!

Save the date / marquem na agenda! Next REBRAC conference – Próximo congresso da REBRAC rebracweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/s...

'Watch the Policy Dimensions of Research' Olivia Glaze (@oliviaglaze.bsky.social), the current MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, gave an inspiring webinar under the auspices of the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) in May, and the video is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdg...

Follow @portuguesemhra.bsky.social and repost the post below for a chance to win a print subscription to the journal for 2025 (including the anniversary issue coming out later this year).

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

Did you know that Portuguese Studies, published by @themhra.bsky.social, will mark 40 years of publication later this year? Check out this archive of past issues of the journal, including cover images going back to 2003: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Reel Brazil: Mutinies in video art, 27 June – 30 November 2025 (Folkestone/online) "Creatively directed by Nina Shen, and co-curated by Nina Shen & Solange Oliveira Farkas, ‘REEL BRAZIL- Mutinies in Video Art’ is a time-based media festival on Art and Resistance from Brazil & the UK." www.ct-20.org

All Souls College, Oxford invites applications for Senior Research Fellowship in Modern Languages Closing date: Friday 19 September 2025, 12 noon (UK time) www.asc.ox.ac.uk/senior-resea...

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to our work on how we can evaluate whether digital technologies have good societal outcomes - the Digital Good Index. We set out some ideas about how the DGI might take shape on our website: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

'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...

💫 Register for our upcoming training session: Promoting Public Engagement Events on 2 July. Led by arts and heritage marketing consultant Beckie Smith, this training will explore practical tips for promotion, covering examples from Being Human Festival and beyond. Sign up here: buff.ly/QOb8dwk 💫

Don't miss Voices from the Amazon: Our Stories, Our Solutions – a day of talks, art, film, and networking to hear directly from the Amazon ahead of COP30. 27 June at Rich Mix, London (Bethnal Green Road/Shoreditch) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-fro...

Another post from our QUB Modern Languages Research Initiation series, which aims to integrate final-year undergradutes into research culture, is live. Read Josh's write-up of the inaugural Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture given by Dr Radvan Markus blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangs...