Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

📢ABIL Call for Papers EXTENDED until 2 June 2025📢
📢Chamada da ABIL PRORROGADA até 2 de junho de 2025📢

Venha participar do congresso com a gente!

Link: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...

Excited to speak at Uses and Abuses of the Decolonial (Uni of Warwick, Sat 17 May), organised by Julián Harruch.

I'll present the paper 'Beyond the Buzzword: The Transformative Potential of a Decolonial Praxis in Literary Studies'.

The programme is AWESOME 🤩: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc...

CALL FOR PAPERS
CHAMADA PARA TRABALHOS (versão em português no link)

Send your abstract and join us in September (11 and 12) for
the XI Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)!

CFP open until 15 May 2025.

Pls share widely!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcah...

SAVE THE DATE!
This year's XI Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL) will take place at the University of Birmingham (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)on 11th and 12th September 2025 (Thursday and Friday).

Call for papers will be released in early March!

Pls share widely!

Fabulous week full of activities for everyone who can attend them at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Come and join the UBBI's 2025 Brazil Week! Check out the programme below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/.../celebrat....
Pls share widely!🤩

Languages in the UKHE continue to be targeted in times of financial struggle. This short-sighted move neglects UKHE's societal responsibility to safeguard knowledge and is a paradigm ready to deploy in the area of knowledge, at any time.
This petition is from a Cardiff colleague.
chng.it/sxKjBVZWkq

Very excited to share the @sfps.bsky.social CFP for our 2025 conference (Dec 5-6th at @ilcs.bsky.social, Senate House London), on the revolutionary afterlives of Fanon. We look forward to reading your abstracts!

Starting in less than one hour at 3.30pm (London time)!

To get the Zoom link, visit the site:https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfiz0VNgg7glv.../viewform
See you there!!

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Very happy to announce that the Reading Bodies x Riptide Anthology is now available! Made up of creative writing contributions from the public (and a few familiar faces! 👀) exploring the theme of burnout, overload and resilience 💙 Flipbook: tinyurl.com/4xjbrz8t / Download: tinyurl.com/readingbodies

📣My book is out!📣

I truly thank everyone who contributed to making it a reality! 🙏🏾💛

I hope it contributes to the debates on the postcolonial condition as we experience it in this century.

Link to the publisher below. Pls, share widely!
peterlang.com/document/139...

Hello!

Dr Elena Brugioni (UNICAMP/Brazil) will deliver our 5th Public Annual Lecture this year.

Wed. 11 Dec 24, 3.30pm (London time)

For Zoom link visit docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
The session will be held in Portuguese with interpretation into English provided.

Pls join us and share widely!