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Gaby Wood · At the Movies: ‘The Secret Agent’ Like Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, which had a similarly successful run last year, The Secret Agent is set during...

‘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’.

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John Gallagher · Quickly Quickly Quickly: Early Modern News In early modern Europe, couriers represented the increased connectivity of the Continent. They travelled faster and...

‘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.

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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."
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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.

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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. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
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Two pieces relating to REBRAC published in Portuguese Studies Fortieth Anniversary Issue At the recent REBRAC 10th anniversary conference held at King’s College London, an informal celebration was held to mark the publication of a Special Issue of Portuguese Studies to mark forty…

Two pieces relating to REBRAC published in Portuguese Studies Fortieth Anniversary Issue @portuguesemhra.bsky.social
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Fortieth Anniversary Issue of Portuguese Studies Our journal Portuguese Studies celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a special issue.

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.
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The Secret Agent showing at Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast. Kleber Mendonça Filho navigates Brazil’s painful past to paint a loving portrayal of a place and its people in this slow-burning and ridiculously entertaining political thriller.

Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent' showing 20 February 2026 until 26 February 2026 at Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast
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📣 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.

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

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

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
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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'.

Programa / Programme Programme (last updated 12 January 2026) REBRAC 10th Anniversary Conference Booklet_FINAL_WEBDownload For any enquiries please contact rebrac.network@gmail.com

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....

Programa / Programme Programme (last updated 12 January 2026) REBRAC 10th Anniversary Conference Booklet_FINAL_WEBDownload For any enquiries please contact rebrac.network@gmail.com

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
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Wagner Moura poses with a Golden Globe. Text: Golden Globes: Best male actor in a drama film, Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent"

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 ⬇️
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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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International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

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.

MUBI UK & Ireland on Instagram: "New artwork for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mischievous political thriller THE SECRET AGENT. Nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards – including Best Actor (Drama) for... 155 likes, 2 comments - mubiuk on December 18, 2025: "New artwork for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mischievous political thriller THE SECRET AGENT. Nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards – including B...

20 February can't come soon enough!
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