Pete Haysom-Rodríguez

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…

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.
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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]

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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.

YouTube video by OaksMA Pink Floyd - 26th April 1975 (Live in LA) - 2021 Remastered Edition

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

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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.

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

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"
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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

📚🍃🇦🇴🇧🇷🇵🇹 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!

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...

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...

#booksky

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

Matt Frei on LBC UK - Catch Up | Global Player Catch up on the last 7 days of shows from Matt Frei on LBC UK

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.

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...

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...

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.

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!
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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: …

@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

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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:

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: