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...

📕 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.

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

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?...

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.

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...

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

📚🍃🇦🇴🇧🇷🇵🇹 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!

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...

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/...

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.

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...

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.

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

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:

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:

A gastronomia angolana passa por um efervescente momento de valorização dos ingredientes locais e de resgate de sua história. Há uma geração de chefs pronta para a dar a conhecer ao mundo.

On 27th May, I will be in Aveiro talking about Aquilino Ribeiro’s rebeldia barata (cheap rebellion)! Come along if you’re around / venham ver!

A very exciting afternoon! I’m so grateful to the Faculty and all my wonderful collaborators - all the tackling accent bias in HE work has been (and continues to be) a huge collaborative effort! Congratulations to Henry, Karen, and all colleagues in @lcsleeds.bsky.social and the Language Centre! 🥳

Celebration time 🎉🎈💐 We have been awarded AHC School of the Year 2025 in the partnership awards! Many congratulations to our winners @gisetomelourido.bsky.social for Equality and Inclusion @henryhbclarke.bsky.social for Feedback & Assesment and our Language Centre for Global Impact! 🥳 🎉 🎈

El cáncer es una experiencia “abrumadora y a veces aterradora” tanto para quien lo sufre como para su círculo cercano, ha señalado el rey Carlos III. Unas palabras que aborda “como alguien que forma parte de las estadísticas”

whooop whoop! this is such a great result for @livunipress.bsky.social and OtF: publishing books OA at no cost to reader or author through the combined power of library member investment (who also get some books for their own library in return win/win/win really)

UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

A large number of Otto Sinding's pictures were painted on Norway’s islands. In this work (c1900), the view is from the Lofoten archipelago where he camped most summers; his paintings capture the changing seasons and the unique light of the Norwegian coastline.

Another one for @drpetewatson.bsky.social! In this blog he discusses why to publish a book Open Access and how this means his readership has increased and his book has been included on a number of university reading lists across the globe. Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018) 👇

'The Hill above Harlech.' (1917) In many of William Nicholson's landscapes of this period, the sky occupies more than half the picture space and evokes his very best work. As clouds gently roll into the scene, the moonlight is reflecting off the water and the roofs of the houses.

Had a fab time at AHGBI, presenting my work on representations of cancer in recent Brazilian cinema! Thanks to my stunning colleagues, including Stuart Davis for the photos and the kind words!

Looking forward to presenting alongside @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @petehr.bsky.social and Álvaro Gonzalez Montero for our panel 'Cultural Portrayals of Illnesses and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺

The final SPLAS Film Club of the Academic year will take place on Wednesday at 5.30pm in Parkinson 1.08. We will be watching “Te estoy amando locamente” at Parkinson 1.08. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes

This International Women's Day, read how women from the global Leeds community are inspiring others. From trailblazing record breakers to pioneering scientists, we share six stories from over the last year - as well as your tributes to inspirational Leeds women: spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/internationa...

Extremely busy Visit day today in Leeds! Our prospective students brought the sunshine with them 🌞 Have a wonderful day and we hope to see you again soon @universityofleeds.bsky.social

'Just Countryside' Barbara Burns talks to Peter Haysom-Rodríguez from @lcsleeds.bsky.social, whose book 'Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies' recently appeared in Legenda. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Had a lovely chat with MHRA about my recent book, Regionalisms and Resistance! www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/02... #Portuguese #Lusophone