Interesting-sounding exhibition in São Paulo, on popular visual culture in Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries
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Interesting-sounding exhibition in São Paulo, on popular visual culture in Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries
www.sescsp.org.br/editorial/le...
An interesting conference being organised by colleagues in the Centre for Documentary Research here at Queen's University Belfast in June 2026.
Home Frames: Documentary and the Domestic Space
www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
Cover of Media Rurality edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney. The cover photograph depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground. The title appears in mixed serif and sanserif fonts in large type on the top left of the cover. The editors' names are in small caps immediately below.
In "Media Rurality," edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, contributors show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/M8lC4sJ
"When the Fantastic Meets Reality: An Interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho", by Gerd Gemünden
Film Quarterly (2026) 79 (3): 47–53. Open access.
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
This excellent Brazilian film is showing in Belfast for another week. Til 5 March at the QFT. queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/The...
Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester:
March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures
April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage
April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep
See eventbrites below
Write-up of REBRAC 10th Anniversary Conference, King’s College London, 15-17 January 2026
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Note to self:
‘it was not designed by a big-name architect but by a local council designer, Norman Engleback of the London County Council’
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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
Two individuals crouch in front of a monument and write on pieces of paper.
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
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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.
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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
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'