Pete Haysom-Rodríguez
petehr.bsky.social
Pete Haysom-Rodríguez
@petehr.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern Languages @University of Leeds; Portuguese and Brazilian Culture Specialist.
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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
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
‘Cânceres, tumores, viados que proliferam’ | Revista 2i: Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade
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December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Languages open many doors! Free webinar with @petehr.bsky.social.
How can the study of languages & global cultures help you to stand out in the job market? Thursday 13th November @ 4pm. Free Webinar. Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...
This talk will reflect on why employers value foreign language skills and inter-cultural awareness.
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Languages can take you everywhere! Join @petehr.bsky.social for this talk about #Languages and #employability. Ideal for #schools, #youngpeople #teachers and #families.
Join us for the webinar: What languages can do for you: Opportunities across the globe. Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez will discuss how the study of #languahes and global cultures can help you stand out in the job market! Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...

#employability
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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.
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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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.
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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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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Pink Floyd - 26th April 1975 (Live in LA) - 2021 Remastered Edition
YouTube video by OaksMA
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September 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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.
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
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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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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MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação
Exposição MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação 27/08/25 a 03/11/25 Compartilhe São Pau
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August 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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
Had the best day at Tongobriga! Fascinating and funny stories about excavations there in the 80s, a brilliant Roman themed lunch, my paper on Tongobriga in context in the Durius Valley was well received, some musical interpretations and stimulating conversations
August 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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📚🍃🇦🇴🇧🇷🇵🇹 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!
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.
August 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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!

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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...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt
August 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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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/...
Matt Frei on LBC UK - Catch Up | Global Player
Catch up on the last 7 days of shows from Matt Frei on LBC UK
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August 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
Project MUSE - Portuguese Studies-Volume 41, Number 1, 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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.
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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
Project MUSE - Portuguese Studies-Volume 41, Number 1, 2025
muse.jhu.edu
July 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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'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...
June 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
…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.
Num país onde as queixas por violência no namoro não param de crescer e 3 em 4 alunos LGBT são vitimas de bullying em contexto escolar, o governo avença com a retirada da Sexualidade e Saúde Sexual da disciplina de Cidadania.

Isto é radicalismo, é um projeto de ódio.
July 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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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...
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...
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July 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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.
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.
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July 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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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July 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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@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
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: …
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June 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM