How well do you take care of your emotional well-being? Most people don't even pay attention to their mental health until they're suffering from chronic stress, anxiety, depression, or worse. It is important to try and keep your psychological health from getting to that point. When you're unable to think positively of yourself and others, or have lost the ability to control your emotions despite the circumstances, it can have a number of negative effects on your life. In fact, it decreases your quality of life.
Positive Self-Talk – That little voice in the back of your mind that's telling you that you're a failure, you can't achieve your goals, you're not attractive, etc. can start to give you a pessimistic view not only on yourself but at life in general. You begin to believe the little voice that you can't make it or you can't be good at something, and somehow it comes to fruition. To counteract this, you must try positive self-talk. Speak highly of yourself, your strengths, and all that you've accomplished thus far. Eventually, this positive speaking will drown out that nagging voice in the back of your head and help reinforce a "can do" attitude.
Gratitude Journals – Journals aren't just good for venting when you're going through a difficult time. They can also be instrumental in helping you to be more thankful for all that life has given you. Every day, write down a list of things you're appreciative of. When you realize how much good has happened in your life it can improve your mood.
Talk to Someone – Keeping your emotions all bottled up is a surefire way to end up dealing with a major mental health issue. It is best that you talk to someone you can trust about the things that may be going on in your life. Just knowing you have a listening ear can help to relieve stress and calm your nerves. If you're experiencing serious emotional problems you might speak with your primary care physician about mental health treatment which may also include speaking with a therapist and cognitive therapy techniques.
Practice Mindfulness – Many mental health problems come from trying to focus on too much at once. Mindfulness can help clear your mind. It teaches you to be mindful of what's going on in the present. As you're taking a shower, for example, don't think about how busy you're going to be. Instead, think about the shower. Feel the water on your skin, experience the soothing temperature, be grateful for having clean water and a means to get showered. This takes your mind off whatever may have been stressing you and places it in the present in a positive way.
Boost Physical Activity – Did you know that moving around helps the body to produce natural stress-relieving and mood improving hormones known as endorphins? You don't have to go to the gym to experience these benefits either. You can increase activity throughout your day in small doses. Walk around the entire office building during lunch, park your car further from the store and walk the parking lot, or take the stairs instead of the elevator. Getting in a good 30 minutes per day should do the trick. Try to get in as much activity outdoors as you can. Vitamin D, which is best derived from the sun can also be instrumental in improving emotional health.
Eat a Good Meal – What you eat can impact how you feel. If you're looking to improve your mental health, you should eat at least three meals a day with snacks in between. Each meal should be a combination of lean proteins, vegetables, and fruit. You should also make sure that you're getting at least 8 glasses of water in each day.
Do Something Nice for Someone Else – Whether you help a coworker struggling to meet a deadline with their project or you volunteer your time reading to children in an afterschool program; when you do things for others you feel better about yourself. Helping others in their time of need is known to boost self-esteem and help you to realize your strengths. The expressions of gratitude help you to feel value that you may not have felt on your own.
Your emotional well-being is just as important as your physical health. You shouldn't wait until you're maxed out, depressed, or overwhelmed with anxiety to act. By making your mental health a priority you can save yourself and those who care about you a lot of heartache and pain. Take daily actions towards your happiness and managing your emotions. When you feel that things are closing in on you, remember it is better to get help right away than to try and hold it all in.


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The nurse with 100,000 signatures against forced transfers to Zendal: 23 days without rest and a torn meniscus
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100,000 signatures and that at the close of this edition. Because the number keeps going up. Inmaculada Pardo, a nurse at the Puerta de Hierro hospital, began her campaign when she learned that the telephone order she received on March 8 summoning her – on pain of not going back to work in the Madrid public health system for a year – to go up to date Following the new Isabel Zendal Hospital, that center without operating rooms and without sufficient personnel, came from above, from the Ministry of Health, and was generalized. After spending 2020 dedicated body and soul to fighting COVID, first in Barcelona, since autumn in Madrid, Pardo said enough: "When I saw how people who quit were treated, I was outraged."
As is customary for Spanish public health professionals, the 29-year-old nurse Pardo took her first work steps chaining one-day contracts, after graduating in 2015 from the University of Salamanca. The first summer was passed from town to town, at the rate of a contract for the day. "Absolute precariousness", he remembers today. Then he made another common decision in the guild, to go to the big city. In Barcelona she worked for the public and private sectors, making home visits in her own car, as a "covert self-employed."
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His circumstances were improving little by little and when the coronavirus admissions exploded, he had already been in the Viladecans hospital for two years. During the time of greatest pressure, he went to work 23 days in a row. Then alternate 12-hour days. "Nobody complained, we made the grade," he says now. In September he moved to Madrid, at a time when health workers were fleeing the community due to work overload and stress. The need for personnel was dire. "I went to sign up for the Puerta de Hierro hospital list and the next day I was working; my request was not even registered electronically," he says.
It cannot be said, therefore, that Inma Pardo, with two master's degrees on her file, is not willing to give the callus, but everything has a limit. Knowing the shortcomings of the new Isabel Zendal pandemic hospital, which does not have operating rooms and is looking for doctors even among resident doctors, when on January 8 she was called so that the next day she would appear not at her hospital, but at the new center, she planted. He has been undergoing meniscus surgery for a year and he did not do it before precisely to be available during the worst of the pandemic, so he has made an appointment and will go under the knife. In between, after being confirmed in writing, according to El País
, the guideline not to rehire health workers who refuse to go to Zendal, began a collection of signatures through the change.org platform to request an end to forced transfers. In less than five days he gathered more than 95,000 supporters, which he presented on Thursday at the Ministry of Health. This Friday at the last minute it exceeded 100,000.
"It is a totally irregular penalty," criticizes Pardo, who recalls that limitations can only be applied if you are called from the centers in whose work lists you are listed, and that in any case they are temporary. Go to the end of the list, if there are no merits, or lose them for a year, but never be banned from working in the public system.
The nurse hopes she will not be retaliated, now that she has stood up. "I am not supported by any union or political party. I trust, even if it is rare, that this is a democratic country and I can express my opinion and say that my rights as a worker are being violated," she says, but warns: "If this means that I am not going to find work in the public system of Madrid, I would go to court. It would be much more serious than now, which is already serious, "advances this utility, which understands that the criteria of private business cannot operate here, then" It is not a company that can say that its image is damaged; we are talking about the public system ".
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The "Omen" trilogy becomes a quartet--but heads for TV: "Omen IV: The Awakening" begins production in December, with Mace Neufeld exec producing and Harvey Bernhard producing. (They teamed for the previous three.) Dominique Othenin-Girard ("Halloween 5") will direct in Vancouver.
Still being cast, it's being developed by Fox Broadcasting as a "Fox Night at the Movies" entry, possibly for spring airing. A theatrical release is planned internationally.
The central character of "IV" is a woman named Delia. Could she be the daughter of Damien, the Antichrist in "III," who was romantically involved with a TV newscaster?
"Could be," says Neufeld cryptically.


Klang, an innovative rhythm platformer from Norwegian developer Tinimations, just had its trailer released. I'm a huge fan of both rhythm and platformers, and this game looks to raise the bar on both. Featuring detailed artwork and tight controls, Klang has already recieved praise for its gameplay. Perhaps the most exciting part of the game is the soundtrack by none other than GameChops remixer and music producer bLiNd.


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Dispatch: Getting Uncomfortable In The Offseason — And Liking It
Holly Bennett finds that getting back into fitness during the winter does not happen overnight
January 30, 2014 Holly Bennett
Photo: Holly Bennett
January. That seemingly innocuous first month, when we're meant to feel freshly motivated for all things — especially exercise. Well I don't know about you, but to me this January has felt more like a black hole of fitness, one in which I fear I've irretrievably lost my athletic self.
Like most people, I packed on a bit of holiday pudge in December. I hoped that by the end of January I'd be back in some semblance of shape. Not so. Granted, this is the first month in 12 that I haven't done any sort of race, after knocking out my Baker's Dozen, race-a-month project in 2013, so I suppose I earned a big break. Still, I'm finding it tougher than ever to find my fitness mojo anew.
I've had a few small victories, however. For example, mid-month I moved apartments — from one third floor walk-up to another. The muscles-by-the-hour movers that I hired to help alternated between ire at me and amazement at my enthusiasm. I ran circles around them, up and down and up and down, over and over again, lugging along whatever I could haul on my own. "You're so full of energy!" the guys remarked, amid belabored breaths. My aim had simply been to streamline the moving process, but by the end of the weekend — and after ascending at least 5,000 stairs, arms laden with loot — I felt a certain satisfying firmness in my glutes.
And on Monday morning, I felt as if my entire body had been bludgeoned, which was far worse than I've felt following my toughest triathlons. But I gained a valuable perspective. Even an out of shape triathlete has a leg up, fitness-wise, on a lot of people.
Last week I finally made my way back to masters swimming — a workout I normally try to attend with regularity. But I'd been absent from the group for the better part of two months, so I prepared to suck up big gulps of humility along with the pool water. On day 1, I swam a mile without major discomfort or drowning. That seemed enough of an accomplishment, so I excused myself early. The second pool session, I stuck it out for a full 3,000 meters before my arms fell off.
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The fact is, transitioning from lazy and soft to lean and strong sort of hurts. But it's not that too-much-too-fast pain that I'm talking about (and that is best avoided). It's that just-pushing-the-envelope pain, which is really more of a dull roar of soreness, when you know you've made some movement forward. It's the same thing Meredith Kessler described in a recent column in which she shared tips for getting out of the post-holiday slump. (Yes, I had an ulterior motive for seeking her advice — I needed it myself!) She stressed the importance of "GCBU" (Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable). You have to push past the comfort zone at times because progress is otherwise impossible. As Kessler says, "It is in those raw, gentle, subtle moments of discomfort where the magic happens, where progress is made and where we become better athletes."
I have a ways to go until I actually feel fit, but I know I'm headed in the right direction. I know it because of the handful of nights I've laid in bed, just about to doze off to sleep, and felt a twinge in my stair-busting booty or a welcome soreness in my shoulders. I know it because at those moments I've thought to myself: I got uncomfortable today.
And I liked it.
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WEBN Run Like Hell 5K Race
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Welcome to 3.1 miles of people-watching delight. Join in on the most unique 5K of the year.
The gun goes off at 7:30. The start (and finish) line is at 3617 Woodburn Ave. You'll run from Dana Ave. to Victory Parkway into the cemetery and back!
Free food and drinks, reasonably priced craft beer and live music. It's like being a kid again – dressed up and gathering treats.
In its 24 years, Run Like Hell has raised over $1.5 million to go towards the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This year, while rounding up your friends and picking out your costume, we challenge you to form a team and start one hell of a fundraiser.
Can't run? Come to the WEBN Run Like Hell 5k race anyway. You can buy a Party Pass for $10!
Proceeds from the event benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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APEAA
APEAA – 43rd Meeting
Culture(s) of the Self
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1-3 de Junho de 2023
[CFP coming soon]
Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Ribeiro da Fonseca Calixto Machado de Sousa, MBE
(11.11.1932 – 16.09.2021)
Nota de pesar e homenagem
Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, Professora Catedrática Jubilada da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, foi Secretária-Geral da APEAA entre 1979 e 1983 e sua Presidente entre 1987 e 1989 e entre 1999 e 2001. Deixa um legado de dedicação inesgotável ao amplo campo académico que define os interesses da Associação e de grata memória a todos os que a conheceram, construída sobre a enorme e permanente disponibilidade para Colegas e Amigos, e para gerações sucessivas de estudantes, investigadores e docentes.
Os cargos que exerceu no âmbito da APEAA foram apenas alguns de entre os muitos que, com grande sentido de responsabilidade e mérito, a Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa desempenhou ao longo de décadas. Entre eles, cabe mencionar a direcção da Biblioteca Nacional, cargo para o qual foi nomeada em 1990, e a presidência do Instituto Nacional da Biblioteca e do Livro entre 1992 e 1996.
No que respeita à sua carreira académica, pode ser recordado que a Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa se licenciou em Filologia Germânica pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, ingressando depois no corpo docente da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde concluiu o seu doutoramento em Ciências Literárias em 1977. Passou a Professora Catedrática da mesma Universidade em 1979. Veio mais tarde a ser Vice-Reitora da Universidade Aberta, nomeada em 1988.
Membro de diversas associações académicas nacionais e estrangeiras, a Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa tornou-se académica correspondente da Academia Portuguesa da História em 1986, sendo eleita Académica de Número em 1996 e tornando-se mais tarde Académica de Mérito (por elevação).
À Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, como investigadora com vastíssima obra publicada, devem-se ainda estudos de vulto sobre Francisco Solano Constâncio, a literatura gótica em Portugal nos séculos XVIII e XIX, Inês de Castro e D. Sebastião na literatura interacional, e outros temas, em muitos casos respeitantes às relações culturais entre Portugal e o Reino Unido. Esta especialização conduziu à fundação do Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses em 1981 e à criação em 1990 da Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, com publicação ininterrupta há três décadas, e implicou a efectiva capacidade de "fazer escola", lançando as fundações para o trabalho de um número muito elevado de investigadores que têm prosseguido esses interesses investigativos.
A Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa foi agraciada pela Rainha Isabel II com a Ordem do Império Britânico, distinção que lhe foi entregue em inícios do presente ano, por impedimentos anteriores decorrentes da situação pandémica.
A Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos exprime o seu pesar pelo falecimento de uma sua associada distintíssima, enviando condolências aos familiares da Professora Doutora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa.
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OP. CIT. 2018 ISSUE:
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies 2020
The Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro is very pleased to announce the 41st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place between 26 and 28 March 2020.
Proposals for papers, panels and roundtables are welcome on a wide range of topics that fall within the field of English Studies (literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology).
Although the conference programme will take into consideration a plethora of themes and issues anchored in the domain of English Studies, the conference invites proposals imbued with the spirit of the 1920s and the 2020s – inaugural decades launching a series of social, economic, cultural, scientific, artistic and literary changes shaping the world.
'The Lost Generation': Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The (Post)Suffragette Struggle for Women's Rights
The modernist novel and modernist poetry: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Henry James, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound
New Woman Fiction
The Bloomsbury Group
Eugenics and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
The Immigration Acts of 1917-1924 in the USA
Prohibition: The Progressive Era
The Influence of Psychoanalysis
Social Darwinism
Brexit and Ireland: Could the Troubles return?
The Post-Brexit Imagination
Post-Brexit Literature
The Era of "Make America Great Again"
Keynote speakers to be confirmed
APEAA members are also invited to present their own recently published academic books and/or translations (2018-2020).
Find all the Important Dates in Submissions and Registration (http://apeaameetingaveiro2020.web.ua.pt/index.php/submissions-and-registration/).
A host of tongues…: Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period
NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would become a century later, and bi- or multilingualism was still rife. Through the influence of print capitalism, the dialects that occupied the informal space were starting to organise into broad fields of communication and exchange (Anderson 2006: 37-46), though the boundaries between them were not yet clearly defined nor the links to territory fully established. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before (Burke 2004: 111-140), influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. New lingua francas emerged to serve particular purposes in different geographic regions or were imposed through conquest and settlement (Ostler 2005: 323-516). And translation proliferated at the seams of such cultural encounters, undertaken for different reasons by a diverse demographic that included missionaries, scientists, traders, aristocrats, emigrés, refugees and renegades (Burke 2007: 11-16).
This fascinating linguistic maelstrom has understandably attracted the attention of scholars from a variety of different backgrounds. Cultural historians have studied the relationship between language, empire and mission, processes of cultural transmission and the influence of social, political and economic factors on human communications. Historical linguists have investigated language contact, codification and language change (Zwartjes 2011). Translation studies specialists are interested in how translation was conceptualized and practised during the period (Kittel et al. 2007), and literary scholars have looked at how multilingualism is represented in plays and poems of the period (Delabastita and Hoenselaars 2015). There have also been postcolonial engagements with the subject, given the often devastating effects of Western European language ideologies on precolonial plurilingual practices (e.g. Canagarajah and Liyanage 2005), as well as gendered perspectives, centring on women's language in different cultural spaces.
This conference hopes to attract specialists from all of these areas and beyond in an attempt to generate a truly interdisciplinary debate about linguistic behaviour in the Early Modern period. Proposals are invited for 15-20 minute papers on any language-related topic dealing with the period 1400 to 1800. Thematic panel proposals are also welcome (2-hour sessions involving 3-4 speakers). Subjects may include:
Multi- or translingual practices in particular parts of the world
Translational activities, including interpreting, cultural translation, self-translation, intersemiotic translation and paratranslational processes
Lingua francas in particular regions and domains
The historical development of national languages and subnational varieties
Language contact and its (cultural, political, ideological, linguistic) consequences
The linguistic practices of specific social groups (e.g. traders, missionaries, scientists, women)
Hybridity and code-switching in public and private spaces
Literary heteroglossia and macaronics
Processes of cultural transmission (science, philosophy, religion, art, culture of everyday life etc)
The linguistic effects of conquest, settlement, diaspora and migration
Language and education
The effects of technology
The economy of linguistic exchange
Language ecologies
Language and empire
Keynote speakers (confirmed)
Peter Burke (Cambridge University)
Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon)
Antje Flüchter (University of Bielefeld
Theo Hermans (University College, London)
Joan-Pau Rubiés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Otto Zwartjes (University Paris-Diderot VII)
An abstract of up to 250 words (for individual papers) or 1000 words (for panels) should be submitted on line (https://ahostoftongues.wordpress.com/) accompanied by a brief biosketch (up to 50 words) by 30th June. You will be notified 31st July of your paper's acceptance.
Organizing Committee:
Karen Bennett (FCSH/CETAPS)
Angelo Cattaneo (FCSH/CHAM)
Gonçalo Fernandes (UTAD/CEL)
Rogério Puga (FCSH/CETAPS/CHAM)
Anderson, Benedict. 2006. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. London and New York: Verso.
Burke, Peter. 2004. Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
— 2007. 'Cultures of translation in early modern Europe'. In P. Burke and R. Po-chia Hsia (eds). Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 7-38.
Canagarajah, A. Suresh, and Liyanage, Indika. 2012. 'Lessons from Pre-Colonial Multilingualism.' In The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism, M. Martin-Jones, A. Blackledge and A. Creese (eds), London and New York: Routledge. 49-65.
Classen, Albrecht, ed. 2016. Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Communication and Miscommunication in the Premodern World. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
Delabastita, Dirk, and A. J. Hoenselaars, eds. 2015. Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Kittel, Harald, Armin Paul Frank, Norbert Greiner, Theo Hermans, Werner Koller, José Lambert and Fritz Paul (eds) with Juliane House, and Brigitte Schultze. 2007. 'Translation with and between cultures: The European Renaissance'. Übersetzung, Translation, Traduction. Vol. II. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter. 1375-1459.
Ostler, Nicholas. 2005. Empires of the World: A Language History of the World. London: HarperCollins.
Zwartjes, Otto. 2011. Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
CALL FOR PAPERS – OPEN
2nd Series, Nº 7: 2018
Op.cit: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies (the Journal of APEAA – Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies) is now calling for papers for its next issue, 2nd Series, Volume 7, which will be published in 2018.
In this final year of the public and academic commemoration of the Centenary of the First World War, the 2018 issue will continue to devote attention to the study and research of the diversity of the war experience in its aesthetic and social representations and interpretations.
Proposals along the journal's usual fields, disciplines and areas of research will also be accepted.
We welcome:
1. POSITION PAPERS
(10,000 to 20,000 characters, without spaces, including notes and bibliographic references);
2. FULL PAPERS
(30,000 to 40,000 characters, without spaces, including abstract, notes and bibliographic references).
All articles should include an abstract (900 characters, without spaces) in English (and in Portuguese if the text is in Portuguese), and a number of keywords (up to 6). The article and the abstract(s) should be in a single document
3. REVIEWS of recent books or essays, as well as NOTES and NOTICES about Journals are also welcome.
4. We also welcome brief ABSTRACTS of MA and PhD dissertations that have been submitted to public discussion in Portugal from 2014 to the present. Abstracts in English and Portuguese should be c.1,600 to 2,000 characters, without spaces, in each language. Please don't forget to include complete name, complete title (if the dissertation is in Portuguese, you can add a translation of the title), degree, university and date (you can add the name/s of the supervisor/s).
Being a peer-reviewed journal all contributions are sent out anonymously to experts for evaluation; it is therefore required that the author's name, affiliation, and address should appear only on the cover sheet of the manuscript.
The email "subject" should read "Op.Cit.-2017-Proposal-Author's surname".
The following address of the Outgoing Editor-in-chief (Luísa Flora)
luisa.flora@gmail.com
should be used for mail exchange between the authors and the Journal.
Deadline for the submission of proposals: 28 February 2018.
The 2017 issue of Op. Cit. is now online:
https://sites.google.com/site/opcitapeaa/issues/2017—2nd-series-no6
http://www.apeaa.uevora.pt/
39th APEAA MEETING
Venue: Department of Linguistics and Literatures
University of Évora
The University of Évora, through its Department of Linguistics and Literatures (DLL), is pleased to announce the 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place in Évora, between 26 and 28 April 2018. It is now opening a call for papers and panels in a range of subjects in Anglo-American studies.
We look forward to receiving paper and panel proposals in the academic areas which are currently part of Anglo-American Studies, including (but not restricted to): Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Performance, Film and Theatre studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language teaching and methodology, Multilingualism. Proposals for panels, put together around a common theme or research domain, are particularly welcome. We also welcome papers and panels on other Anglophone studies, such as Canadian, Irish, Scottish, etc.
If you are interested in any of the following thematic panels, we invite you to send your proposals mentioning the panel you would like to be included in:
· The Contemporary Short Story in English: Exploring new boundaries (coord. Ana Raquel Fernandes, U. Europeia, and Teresa Casal, FLUL)
· Dark Side Stories in American Arts, Literature and Culture (coord Maria Antónia Lima, UÉ, Margarida Vale de Gato, FLUL, and Teresa Botelho, UNova)
· Pain, Loss and Trauma in Literature and Arts (coord. Carla Castro, UÉ)
· Life Writing: Discourse, Identity, Representation (coord. Ana Clara Birrento and Olga Gonçalves, UÉ)
· English in the 21st century: current approaches to English as an international lingua franca (coord. Luís Guerra, UÉ, Lili Cavalheiro, FLUL, Ricardo Pereira, IPLeiria)
· Politics, sex, violence and other ordinary stuff in Contemporary British and American Drama (coord. Rui Pina Coelho, FLUL, Christine Zurbach, UÉ, and José Alberto Ferreira, UÉ)
· Airplanes take off against the wind: study routes in Visual Arts in confluence with other knowledge areas (coord. Sandra Leandro, UÉ; Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello, UA)
· Make sense of living together: new perspectives in Anglo-American Philosophy (coord. Olivier Feron and Teresa Santos, UÉ)
· Dialects in fiction: representations of non-standard English in (translated) literature and film (coord. Rita Queiroz de Barros, FLUL / CEAUL, and Alexandra Assis Rosa, FLUL / CEAUL)
· From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter (coord. Isabel Caldeira ,UC, and Maria José Canelo, CES)
· Frankenstein and Northanger Abbey: setting the rules of the (post)modern Gothic? (coord. Ana Daniela Coelho and José Duarte, CEAUL, FLUL)
· The Horror of the Human Mind: Perverseness and Power Structures (coord. Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies, UP)
· What is the Meaning of this?!: Dismantling Traditional Discourse (coord. Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies, UP)
· Peoples in Diaspora: from Realism to Self-Examination ( coord. Zuzanna Sanches, CEAUL / UL)
· Jazz Stories in Music, Literature and other Arts (coord. Eduardo Lopes, UÉ, and Paulo Gaspar, ESML-IPL)
A selection of papers will be published.
Some anniversaries celebrated in 2018 may provide the foundations for panels and individual papers:
The 200th birth anniversaries of Emily Brontë and Frederick Douglass; the 100th birth anniversary of Nelson Mandela; the 100thanniversaries of the end of World War I; the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. An important literary anniversary occurs in 2018: the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).
Book Presentations: APEAA members are also invited to present their own recently published academic books and/or translations (2016-2018). Please contact the organizing committee.
Maria Antónia Lima
Ana Clara Birrento
Luís Guerra
Carla Ferreira de Castro
Olga Gonçalves
Ana Alexandra Silva
Teresa Botelho
Conferência sobre Jane Austen em Dezembro: chamada de artigos até 23 de Julho
(https://ceccucp.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/conferencia-sobre-jane-austen-em-dezembro-chamada-de-artigos-ate-23-de-julho)
Jane Austen Superstar.
Readership, Translation & Criticism in the 21st century
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon)
2017 marks two centuries since the death of Jane Austen in July 18, 1817. Two hundred years after her premature death, the English writer has never been more famous: from movies to tote bags, from mugs to rewritings of various sorts (sequels, guides to dating, adaptations to modern-day circumstances, biographies and fictional biographies, and, of course, translations), her work has invaded and pervaded contemporary imagination.
As Virginia Woolf famously put it, '[h]ere was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching' (Woolf, 2008: 88). This apparently unassuming woman penned six powerful novels that have changed the world. Seen by some as an unwitting precursor to the women's rights movements, read by others as a conservative author, Austen never ceases to baffle the contemporary reader, writer and critic alike: is she a 'secret radical', as Helena Kelly suggests (2006), or is she apolitical and / or a middle-of-the-road author? Is she an author who writes about trifles or does she, as Woolf surmised in 1925, stimulate 'us to supply what is not there'? Woolf further adds that '[w]hat she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial.'
The conference would like to celebrate Jane Austen's life and work by discussing (a) how her books form part of the contemporary experience of love, gender, family, social and pecuniary relations and (b) how her writing style, her silences as well as her favourite topics, and her language have shaped modern-day literature, both in the UK and abroad.
In a nutshell, the conference aims to discuss both the author's rootedness in the late 18th and early 19thcenturies, her authorial longevity and acumen, and her to some extent intriguing pop star fame in the last 20 years, proving indeed that '[h]er legacy is not a piece of reportage from the society of a particular past, but a wise and compelling exploration of human nature' (Shields, 2001: 170).
Papers on the following topics are welcome:
Authorship and (in)visibility
Austen and feminism
Jane goes to Hollywood
Austen and TV adaptations
Austen as a popular icon (fashion, books, visual icon, and other memorabilia)
Austen's critical fortune
Austen and (the absence) of history
Austen and / in the great tradition
Masculinities & the economics of power
Jane and mothers
Austen and the social value of gossip
Flattery in Jane Austen
Jane in translation / Translating Austen
Places in Austen
Austen and politics
'Janeitism': from fandom to commodification
Invited keynote speakers [to be confirmed]:
Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Helena Kelly (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Álvaro Pina (University of Lisbon)
Organising Committee:
Alexandra Lopes
Rita Bueno Maia
Maria Sequeira Mendes
Scientific Committee:
Adriana Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Alexandra Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
João Ferreira Duarte (University of Lisbon)
Jorge Vaz de Carvalho (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Maria Sequeira Mendes (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema)
Rita Bueno Maia (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Rogério Miguel Puga (New University of Lisbon)
Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon)
The conference languages are English and Portuguese. Speakers should prepare for a 20-minute presentation followed by questions. Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to austensuperstar@gmail.com by July 23, 2017.
Proposals should list the paper title, name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection will take place by September 4, 2017.
Invisible Republic: Music, Lettrism, Avant-Gardes
International Conference on Music, Avant-Gardes and Counterculture
(https://invisiblerepublic.info/)
Venue: University of Lisbon/School of Arts and Humanities and Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)
Conference organized by: Anabela Duarte (ULisboa) and Andrew Hussey (ULondon)
Organizing Entities: University of Lisbon, ULICES and University of London, SAS, CPS
Keynote Speakers: Frédéric Acquaviva, experimental composer and curator (FR), Kaira Cabañas, Associate Professor in Global Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Florida (US), Clinton Heylin, Music and Pop Culture Historian (GB), Bronac Ferran, writer and curator at the University of London (GB), Kevin Repp, Professor and Curator at the Beinecke Library, Yale University (US), Andrew Hussey, Professor of Cultural History at the University of London
In Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997), Greil Marcus charts a countercultural sound map, a kind of laboratory where a new language is being forged. This is where, Marcus argues, we can locate the true voice of the century, a new consciousness, the alchemy of an undiscovered country. From this starting-point, we propose a journey into the tangled relationship between music, the avant-gardes and counterculture.
In 1942, Isidore Isou, a Jew from Romania, created in Bucharest an artistic and cultural trend that claimed for a "new republic" of letters. He brought it to Paris in 1945, and this became "Lettrism", one of the most inventive but also one of the most unknown movements of the post-war avant-gardes. In 1947, he published a manifesto, an introduction to a new poetry and a new music that set forth Lettrism as a general movement of creation, a poetry liberated from words and syntax, and a number of propositions that constitute a fundamental historical link between the modern and the contemporary.
Lettrism, it has been argued, was the progenitor of future upheavals and revolts, such as May '68, Punk, Situationism, Fluxus, among others. Music and sound, in this context, are powerful instruments of destruction and/or reconfiguration of language and the Arts. The connection between writing and auditory experience becomes the experience itself – back to Dylan: the lab of the basement tapes.
In diagrammatic opposition – literally on the other side of the ocean – in the 1960s, another counterculture was getting under way. From Bucharest to Paris, London to New York, Paris to Brasil, Cuba or Chile, to name just a few, the same urge for the unknown, for destruction and anti-art poetics emerged almost simultaneously in every field.
The present conference aims at exploring and bringing to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the suppressed, the unconformity of artistic and political undercurrents. Above all, it asks how these separate geographical territories speak to each other, and how this might reshape our historical understanding of European and American modernity.
We encourage contributions from scholars and artists of different fields, interdisciplinary work, and welcome suggestions for papers, panels, and multimedia proposals.
Abstracts of 300 words for individual papers of twenty-minute duration. Please include the full title of your paper, name, institutional affiliation, AV requirements, contact information (postal address and e-mail address) and a bionote (max. 100 words).
Panels of three speakers plus a chairperson. Please include a brief description of the panel (300 words) and a 300-word abstract and a bionote for each speaker (max. 100 words each).
Working Languages: Portuguese and English
The Conference is hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL), Portugal, in collaboration with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
FOCUS THEMES
Decentering the Avant-Gardes
The possible significance of the fact that Tristan Tzara and other Dadaists, leading Surrealists and Isidore Isou were from Eastern Europe. What can this tell us about "Western" modernity, cultural dissonances and the Post-Colonial world.
Music/Sound/Soundscape and Literature
Bob Dylan and the Subterranean America, Sound-Art, Sound Poetry, Physical Poetry, The Aesthetics of Noise.
Politics and Aesthetics of Invisibility
Representations of the withdrawn, haunting absences, masks and camouflaging, minorisation, détournement, dissolution, discrepancy, interruption, the invisible, the repressed.
Transatlantic Avant-Gardes and Counterculture
New York Dada, Black Mountain College, Beat Generation, Language Poets, Concretism, Latin-American Authors, Modern Hurufiyya, Youth Underground, Diggers' legacy.
Avant-Gardes Revisited
Dadaism, Surrealism, Ultra-Lettrism, Schematism, Situationism, Punk, Fluxus, Russian Ego-Futurism, Constructivism, Italian Futurism, Portuguese Avant-Gardes.
Politics and Poetics of Difference
Erotic Studies, Pedagogics of Art, Insurrectional Romanticism, Anti-psychiatry, Antonin Artaud.
New Poetic Languages, Cinema and Technology
Bio Art, Bio Poetry, Remediation, Postmodern Multimedia Avant-Garde Creativity, Lettrist Cinema, American Experimental Film.
Adress abstracts and inquiries by email to:
Dr. Anabela Duarte
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)
Alameda da Universidade
Faculdade de Letras
E-mail: invisiblerepubliconference@gmail.com
Tel: (00351) 21 792 00 92
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submission of abstracts:
1st CFP: April 30, 2017.
2nd CFP: May 25, 2017.
Pre-notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts: May 30, 2017.
Full paper for the Conference International Book Publication
(only for the full papers accepted)
Deadline for the submission: April, 2018.
Pre-notification of acceptance or rejection of full papers: May, 2018.
Publication: November, 2018
Representations of Home Symposium 2017
(https://representationsofhome.wordpress.com/)
REPRESENTATIONS OF HOME 2
Conflict and/or (Be)longing: Thinking with Stories and Images
Venue: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 16-17 November 2017
People not only think about stories; far more consequentially, people think with stories.
Arthur W. Frank, Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology, 2010: 47.
The idea of home was something they lived so completely that they would have been at a loss to
define it. But they would have known to be inadequate phrases such as: 'It's where you're from,'
'It's the place you live,' 'It's where your family are.'
Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness, 1996: 75.
In a world deeply marked by conflicts, persecutions, and scarce and/or poorly distributed resources, where some are driven out of their homes by war and poverty, while others feel that their (national) homes and ways of living are under threat, it is important to reflect about the notions of home that underpin personal and communal behaviour.
This conference focuses on representations of home in literature and the visual arts as the site where dynamics of conflict and/or (be)longing are played out. Home, particularly the imagined home, is a quintessential space of refuge from an external, unknown and
potentially threatening, but also enticing, world. In Classical as in religious texts, home is
both a place of departure and of quest and arrival, and throughout history the longing for home has persisted in the midst of the recurring challenges of belonging. Conflict has
also elicited concerted efforts to find viable frameworks for coexistence, as epitomized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), in the wake of the Second World
War, or the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2016), in response to current concerns
about our collective home.
If homes are often sites of tension and conflict, to what extent does the imagined home
shape, and to what extent is it shaped by, our experience of homes?
We invite contributions that reflect on representations in literature and the visual arts of
the experience of home, the longing for home and the challenges of belonging. Topics addressed may include but are not limited to:
• Home as a space of conflict and/or reconciliation;
• The challenges of (non)belonging;
• Home, community and the representation of gender identity;
• Longing for home and utopia;
• Home and exile;
• Home as refuge / seeking refuge from home;
• Home as prison / home at war;
• Home and trauma;
• Home and family;
• Home and nation;
• Home and language;
• Home and cosmopolitanism;
• Glocal homes / identities;
• Home and nature;
• Home and memory;
• Home and spirituality;
• Home and creativity;
• Home, objects and affect;
• Home and myth;
• Home in folktales and fairy tales.
Rhian Atkin (Cardiff University, UK)
Simone Lazaroo (Murdoch University, Australia) (tbc)
Lee Maracle (University of Toronto, Canada)
José Pedro Serra (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
The conference language is English. Speakers should prepare for a 15-minute
presentation followed by questions. Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief
biographical note (100 words) to rephome@letras.ulisboa.pt by the 15th May 2017.
Proposals should list the paper title, name, institutional affiliation, and contact details.
You will receive notification of abstract acceptance or rejection by the 30th June.
Fees: € 100
Early bird (by 8 September) — € 80
Students (ID required) — € 40
Attendants without presentation who wish to avail of conference documentation — € 15
The registration fee includes coffee breaks and conference documentation.
Details about payment will be provided in due course.
Teresa Casal
Ana Cristina Mendes
Ana Raquel Fernandes
Jean Page
Margarida Pereira Martins
Maria Luísa Falcão
Mariana Pires
Marjike Boucherie
Mary Fowke
Sara Paiva Henriques
Zuzanna Sanches
Isabel Alves
José Pedro Serra
Maria de Jesus C. Relvas
10th Colloquium on Translation Studies in Portugal 20-21 July 2017
"Translating Fear"
Moving texts: mediations and transculturations
Complexo Pedagógico – Universidade de Aveiro
we are pleased to announce that we have decided to extend the deadline for submission of Abstracts for the International Conference Moving texts: mediations and transculturations until 31 March 2017. We would be grateful if you could circulate this new deadline among your academic contacts.
Deadline for Proposal Submission: 31 March 2017
Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2017
Deadline for Payment: 21 April 2017
Alfonso de Toro (Leipzig University – Germany)
Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University – Netherlands)
Juliane House (Hamburg University – Germany)
Lars Jensen (Roskilde University – Denmark)
Please go to http://cllc.web.ua.pt/pm/?q=en/node/116 for further information.
For further questions, please contact us by the e-mail dlc-movingtexts@ua.pt
A selection of papers chosen by the Scientific Committee will be published.
With best wishes, the Organizing Committee
38th APEAA Conference (Universidade do Minho)
http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/apeaa
The University of Minho, through its Department of English and North-American Studies (DEINA), is pleased to announce the 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies,
which will take place in Braga, between 27 and 29 April 2017. Following
the format that was introduced in 2016, it is now opening its call for
papers and panels in a range of subjects in Anglo-American studies.
We look forward to receiving paper and panel proposals in the
academic areas which are currently part of Anglo-American Studies,
including (but not restricted to): Literary Studies, Cultural Studies,
Post-colonial Studies, Performance, Film and Theatre studies, Gender and
Sexuality studies, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Discourse
Analysis, Language teaching and methodology, Multilingualism. Proposals
for panels, put together around a common theme or research domain, are
particularly welcome. We also welcome papers and panels on other
Anglophone studies, such as Canadian, Irish, Scottish, etc.
If you are interested in any of the following thematic panels, we
invite you to send your proposals mentioning the panel you would like to
be included in:
"Outcasting in a digital world: Cultural and linguistic
constructions of exclusion in Internet discourse" (coord. Isabel
Ermida, UMinho, and Iolanda Ramos, UNova)
"Romanticism, 200 Years Later": Debating the Romantics in the 21st Century (coord. Paula Guimarães)
"A labour of some kind of love": The dynamics of
translation in and between cultures (coord. Fernando F. Alves, Filomena
Louro and Amélia Carvalho, UMinho)
Adapting the Classics: Film, TV and other screen adaptations (coord. Margarida Esteves Pereira)
Getting away with the unsaid: The pragmatics of
allusion and implicature in newspaper and advertising discourse (coord.
Isabel Ermida, UMinho, and Elsa Simões, UFP)
Henry D. Thoreau and Ecocriticism in 19th and 20th centuries (coord. Jaime Costa, UMinho and Carlos Azevedo, FLUP)
Hidden Irish Histories: Alternative or marginalized
histories of women, protestants, gay and lesbian, tinkers, migrants.
Celebration, denigration and erasure (coord. Filomena Louro, UMinho e
Adriana Bebiano, FLUC)
Philanthropy in the Long Nineteenth Century (coord. Joanne Paisana, UMinho)
Queer crossings: transgressing boundaries of sexuality,
gender and ethnicity (coord. Francesca Rayner, UMinho, and Ana
Carvalho, UMinho)
Transnational Feminism, Gender and the Arts (coord. Ana Gabriela Macedo, UMinho)
Abstracts of 250 words in English or in Portuguese should include
name of the speaker institutional affiliation and position, full title
of paper, format and a short biographical note and contact details
should be sent to the conference email: apeaa2017@ilch.uminho.pt
37th APEAA Conference, 21-23 March 2016 (FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
– MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM (Author, Yale University)
– CARLOS CEIA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
– HUGH STEVENS (University College London)
– ROB CORBER ( Trinity College, Connecticut)
– RUI CARVALHO HOMEM (Universidade do Porto)
– SANTANU DAS (Kings College, London)
– TERESA PINTO COELHO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
CFP: International Conference 'In Rememberance of the Great War: Re-working Myths'
13-14 Oct. 2016
Please see here
Call For Papers OP.CIT. 2016
37th APEAA CONFERENCE
21, 22, 23 March, 2016
Universidade NOVA, Lisbon
The 37th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies inaugurates a new format in 2016, moving away from the themed paradigm to highlight the range and diversity of British and American studies current research. Papers and panel proposals are welcomed on any subject that falls under the remit of the two academic areas, and a variety of presentation styles, from the traditional panel sessions to roundtables and workshops and posters are encouraged. Proposals for panels, put together around a common theme or research domain are particularly welcome.
Please view the CFP at the conference website, here.
"On the Periphery of the Great War"
1-2 Oct 2015
University of Aveiro
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 July, 2015
ESSE-13
Galway-2016
Deadline for seminar proposals: 15 May 2015.
Check the conference website.
EAAS-2016
Deadline for seminar proposals: 15 July 2015.
RECENT EVENTS:
TRANSCULTURAL AMNESIA:
Mapping Displaced Memories
16-18 April, 2015
CEHUM – University of Minho
Detailed info here.
NATURALLY EMERSON:
Creative Reading, Self-Reliance and Cultural Agency
CEAUL – University of Lisbon
(Re)Shaping the Humanities: New Forms of Representation, New Ways of Reading
26-27-28 March, 2015
UTAD, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
The 36th Meeting of the APEAA took place at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), in Vila Real, on 26-28 March, 2015. The APEAA congratulates the Organizing Committee on a fantastic conference. Thank you for all your hospitality and hard work!
Please visit the conference website for a glimpse of the programme and look up the conference photos here.
VICTORIANS LIKE US.
The Victorian Household: Power, Policies, Practices.
2nd International Conference
26-29 Nov, 2014
Detailed information here.
HOME RULE, GREAT WAR: Fulfilment and Disaster in the Irish Imagination
An international symposium
University of Porto
Please look up the programme here.
WORLDS MADE OF HEROES
On the 60th anniversary of the publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
6-7 Nov, 2014
Please look up more info on the conference website, here.
ESSE – 2014
Aug 29 – Sep 2
The biennial meeting of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) took place in Kosice, Slovakia, on 29 Aug – 2 Sep, 2014.
Youth in/and Literature and Society
9-11 July, 2014
New University of Lisbon
INTERNET LANGUAGE:
COMMUNICATING IN A GLOBAL WORLD
University of Minho, Braga
Interventions: Private Voices and Public Spaces –
2nd International Graduate Conference in English and American Studies
University of Coimbra
More info is available here.
Diversities? Inequalities? Challenges in the Construction of an Inclusive Society
University of the Algarve
The 35th meeting of the APEAA took place at the University of the Algarve, in Faro, on 10-11 April, 2014. On behalf of the APEAA, we would like to thank the Organizing Committee for their hard work in preparing a very exciting programme. The c
hallenges of m
ulticultural and intercultural relationships
were the general topic which prompted lively discussions. The keynote speakers were
James A. Banks (Univ. Washington – Seattle, USA), Barbara Bagilhole (Loughborough University, UK), Mário Jorge Torres (University of Lisbon), and John Naysmith (University of Portsmouth, UK).
CROSS-LANGUAGE SPEECH PERCEPTION – International Workshop
30-31 Jan, 2014
University of Minho
More info: please visit the workshop's website.
Screening English Classics: Methods and Strategies in Film Adaptation
Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
More information can be found at the conference website.
VERSION, SUBVERSION:
Translation, the canon and its discontents – an international conference on literary translation
12-14 Dec, 2013 – CETAPS, University of Porto
Theo Hermans (University College London)
David Johnston (Queen's University Belfast)
"Arab Spring or Autumn: The Evolution of the Arab Awakening"
A lecture by Prof. George Joffé
(University of Cambridge, UK)
10 Dec, 2013 – University of Minho, Braga
DARK FUTURES IN PROJECTION
On the 60th Anniversary of the Publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451″
14-15 Nov. 2013 – University of Porto
SUMMER SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS 2013
"Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing"
9-12 Sep, 2013 – University of Minho
Neither Here nor There, Yet Both: International Conference on the Luso-American Experience
11-13 July 2013 – FLUL & NOVA, Lisbon
ET1 – ULICES Conference on Translation Studies
10-11 July 2013, Faculty of Letters – Lisbon
34th APEAA MEETING – 2013
"Academy as Community:
English and American Studies in Portugal and Europe"
The 34th meeting of the APEAA took place at FLUL – Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon – on 9-10 May, 2013. On behalf of the APEAA, we would like to congratulate the Organizing Committee on an excellent conference, which approached a key topic to the present-day concerns of our association, "Academy as Community".
"Seems like the funky days, they're back again" – 1960's fashion and subcontinental politics in the 21st century
9 April 2013, University of Minho – Braga
A talk by John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths College, London University), guest speaker at the 12th "Jornadas de Inglês – The 60's: Breaking the Rules", at the University of Minho, on 9-10 April 2013.
Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference II
27-30 Nov, 2012 – University of Lisbon
After the success of the first Conference "Messengers from the Stars", organized in 2010, we announce a second conference dedicated to this subject. The several fields through which this genre has spread – literature, cinema and other art forms – raise unique theoretical, aesthetical, ethical, ideological and social issues, which justify this second event.
More info at: http://mensageirosdasestrelas.jimdo.com/
TEFL – 4th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language
23-24 November, 2012 – New University of Lisbon
The full programme with abstracts and details can be found here.
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
"Discourses that matter: Contemporary Approaches to English and American Studies"
22-23 Nov, 2012 – University of Coimbra
In a time of crisis such as our own, marked by anxieties over war, terrorism, and the economy, we are however forced to ask: how do English and American Studies matter in our particular context? As critical discourses, what power do they own? In what ways can our scholarly discourses cope with the present culture, marked as it is by financial deprivation, professional uncertainty, and political instability? In other words, as young scholars, how do we understand and position our study and research?
"Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen"
7-9 Nov, 2012 – University of Lisbon
The American Studies research group at ULICES (University of Lisbon, Center for English Studies) will offer an interdisciplinary space of discussion for researchers, teachers, students, independent scholars and professionals associated with the cinema industry.
More info at: http://changingtimesconference.wordpress.com/
Panel "Language and Identity: Production, Manipulation, Interpretation"
8 Nov, 2012 – University of Minho
Within the upcoming "14th Autumn Colloquium" (8-10 Nov 2012), organized by the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho, the panel seeks to reappraise the linguistic strategies and the ideological implications of today's media, educational and cultural discourses in the English-speaking world. More info at: http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/xiv_coloquio_de_outono.php
BRITISH CULTURE COLLOQUIUM
"Ficcionalizações da Ciência na Grã-Bretanha II (sécs. XIX e XX)"
9 Nov, 10AM – New University of Lisbon
The full programme can be read here.
"Conversion and Mixed Categories"
2-3 Nov, 2012 – University of Porto
The Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto hosted a workshop to discuss the process of changing a word's syntactic category with or without any change to form (as in, respectively, English perform / performance, and arrestV and arrestN), as well as the existence of the same word in different contexts, with mixed properties (John's performing the sonata versus John's performing of the sonata). These different phenomena pose interesting problems to the architecture of grammar and, in particular, to the interface between Lexicon, Morphology and Syntax.
A talk by Mário Avelar
Venue: Biblioteca-Museu República e Resistência, Cidade Universitária.
"Connections between Cinema and Literature"
Lecture by James Ragan
19 Oct, 2012 – University of Minho
Acclaimed poet, playwright and screentwriter James Ragan visited the Department of English and North-American Studies to deliver a talk on his experience as a poet in Hollywood.
APEAA mentioned in an interview with Simon During
The renowned scholar, one of the guest speakers at the 33rd meeting of the APEAA at the Catholic University, spoke to the daily newspaper "I", in an interview to be read here and here.
APEAA ELECTIONS – 2012/2015
The elections regarding the APEAA upcoming 3-year executive term took place at the General Assembly meeting, on 20 Sep 2012, at 6:30 PM. The lists for the three boards – executive committee, advisory committee and general assembly – were voted unanimously. The names of the members of each of these teams are on display to the left of these lines, on the side-bar.
33rd APEAA MEETING
"Authority versus Alterity: The Return of Hegemony?"
The 33rd annual meeting of APEAA took place in Lisbon, on 20-21 September 2012, at the Catholic University. On behalf of the APEAA, we would like to thank the Organizing Committee for their warm hospitality and for all their efforts in putting together a wonderful program. Congratulations on a most stimulating conference!
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In fashion, there is such a thing as overexplaining. It's understandable when a designer creates a conceptual collection that befits a thoughtful, slightly esoteric narrative or if their point of reference needs some sort of bigger context when tied to the clothing. There is always a starting point, of course, some spark of an idea or inspiration that catalyzes a new season. But, that being said, it's quite another thing when a brand, especially one within the contemporary sphere, tries to get deep when discussing a straightforward silhouette like a slip dress or a pair of jeans. Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson have never been those guys. The founders of Frame have remained steadfast in their pursuit of simplicity and their dedication to making clothes for customers who want to live their lives in chic, effortlessly cool garments. No history lesson, styling tricks, or fantastical whims necessary.
The women who stock their wardrobes with Frame staples will undoubtedly adore the new, recycled cashmere knits for fall, as well as the sleeveless silk navy dress with a cowl neck and the tan suede pencil skirt and matching button-down top. If Grede and Torstensson ever did a proper show, which they deemed unnecessary long ago, their cozy camel bell-sleeve coat, as well as a faux python trench (a new favorite of stylish women like Paloma Elsesser and Kaia Gerber) and their double-breasted denim boilersuit would be real runway hits. But even hanging on a neat rack in their New York showroom, out of the spotlight, so to speak, these pieces were still wildly covetable—so was their new line of minimal, color-pop bags in large, medium, and mini sizes.
Grede and Torstensson did admit to looking back at Beatnik style and Francoise Hardy this season, but in fact, they always keep those visuals close when crafting each collection. For them, it's about incrementally perfecting and tweaking their own formula and their own inspirations. It's been working well, and this season, that much was plain to see. End of story.


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package org.apache.cassandra.locator;

import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * This interface helps determine location of node in the data center relative to another node.
 * Give a node A and another node B it can tell if A and B are on the same rack or in the same
 * data center.
 *
 * Not all methods will be germate to all implementations.  Throw UnsupportedOperation as necessary.
 */

public interface IEndPointSnitch
{
    /**
     * returns a new List<InetAddress> sorted by proximity to the given endpoint
     */
    public List<InetAddress> getSortedListByProximity(InetAddress address, Collection<InetAddress> unsortedAddress);

    /**
     * This method will sort the List<InetAddress> according to the proximity of the given address.
     */
    public List<InetAddress> sortByProximity(InetAddress address, List<InetAddress> addresses);
}

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The Clara LED inset electric fire features LED technology designed to significantly improve the flame picture and running performance. LED technology not only provides a deeper, richer flame picture with enhanced flame movement but is also a fraction of the cost to run when compared to a conventional incandescent bulb. It will last a lot longer too.
The inset electric fire features a 2.0kW heat output, flame effect only setting – no heat, thermostatic control, timer control, full remote control or buttons on the front of the fire below the canopy. A helpful LED display is located in the top left hand corner of the window which displays, flame brightness, timer, thermostatic control and a moulded plastic coal effect fuel bed. A discrete fan heater provides forward directional heat and is of good quality to reduce operating noise. The Clara fits a standard fireplace opening, typically 16" wide x 22" high (please refer to specification).
For added convenience two spacer frames are provided (supplied fitted) to allow the Clara to be taken out of the box, placed flush against a flat wall and plugged in for instant heat - no chimney or flue depth required. For installation into a fireplace opening, one or both spacer frames can be removed (depending on the available fireplace depth). This provides the following options: fully inset (0 spacers - requires a 114mm fireplace depth), semi-inset (1 spacer fitted - requires a 54mm fireplace depth) or flush-fit (2 spacers - 0mm fireplace depth).


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class AddDemicalOptionsToSymmetry < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
  def change
    change_column :matrices, :pattern_symmetry, :decimal, precision: 4, scale: 3
    change_column :matrices, :numeric_symmetry, :decimal, precision: 4, scale: 3
  end
end


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Google-owned Waze partners with Inrix to boost 'where to park' feature w/ more parking lot data
Stephen Hall
- Sep. 19th 2016 11:57 am PT
@hallstephenj
Google-owned Waze has inked a deal with Kirkland, Washington-based Inrix to bring additional parking lot data to the navigation app. This will, according to a press release, further help Wazers to "find and navigate to lots near destinations."'
This news comes as Waze recently introduced its "where to park" feature, which suggests parking lots near your destination and lets you navigate there directly. The feature also lets you choose a lot to park in when approaching your destination in the case that you forget to — or simply chose not to — pick a parking lot in the first place.
"Driving around looking for spots impacts arrival times and adds unneeded frustration and stress to the entire driving experience," Flavia Sasaki Siqueira, head of Waze business development, said. "As the co-pilot for driver navigation, Waze has begun to rollout the first of its parking suite features to solve this issue for drivers. Combining INRIX parking information with our own parking database expands reach and accuracy of the 'where to park' feature."
A study done by Frost & Sullivan last year entitled "Strategic Analysis of Smart Parking Market in Europe and North America" says that drivers wasted an average of 55 hours looking for parking last year. So if Google can use this data to make getting from point A to point B even easier — and save money and greenhouse gas release along the way — I'm all for it.
INRIX Selected by Waze to Supply Global Parking Data
– North American and European parking lot information added to current Waze insights, further helping Wazers find and navigate to lots near destinations.
– INRIX parking information to be incorporated globally within the coming months.
KIRKLAND, Wash. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Drivers wasted an average of 55 hours last year searching for parking, representing nearly $600M in lost time and fuel1. To make each trip as efficient as possible, INRIX parking lot information is now incorporated into Waze, the free, real time traffic and navigation app powered by drivers. The collaboration between the two companies extends smart driver services from INRIX to more drivers through the Waze app to further improve urban mobility.
Available as a feature on Android and iOS, Waze recently introduced its first "where to park" feature, which suggests parking lots closest to a destination and allows users to navigate there directly. Additionally, if a user doesn't select a parking lot prior to arrival, Waze will give the option to select and navigate to one when approaching a final destination. INRIX parking data adds to the Waze database, comprised of parking lots sourced by the Waze community and other company partners.
"Driving from point A to B is only part of the journey," said Alex Israel, vice president and general manager of parking at INRIX. "The addition of INRIX Parking enhances Wazers' end-to-end driving experience."
"Driving around looking for spots impacts arrival times and adds unneeded frustration and stress to the entire driving experience," said Flavia Sasaki Siqueira, Head of Business Development for Waze. "As the co-pilot for driver navigation, Waze has begun to rollout the first of its parking suite features to solve this issue for drivers. Combining INRIX parking information with our own parking database expands reach and accuracy of the 'where to park' feature."
INRIX launched the industry's first dynamic off-street parking service in 2013, followed by the first integrated on-street parking solution in June 2015. In August 2015, INRIX acquired ParkMe, a leader in parking location, availability and reservations worldwide. INRIX is the preferred provider of parking information and services to leading automakers, including Audi, BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Toyota and Volkswagen.
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The emerging crisis in emerging markets
Troubles in Argentina and Turkey are the next stage in the fallout from the crash of 2008
by Paul Wallace	/ September 6, 2018 / Leave a comment
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Turkish Presidential Palace/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images
One reason why the financial crisis that came to a head a decade ago, with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, blindsided Wall Street and the City was that crises were not supposed to happen in advanced economies with sophisticated financial systems. Instead their preferred habitat was emerging markets, notably in Latin America in the early 1980s and Asia in the late 1990s.
Now another crisis is taking hold in that more familiar domain. The emerging markets most afflicted up to now—Argentina and Turkey—are particularly vulnerable because of deep flaws, past and present, in their economies and politics. But the main cause of the distress lies elsewhere, in the United States, as the Fed tightens monetary policy, sucking in funds from around the world and strengthening the dollar.
That is why countries as diverse as Indonesia and South Africa are also under pressure as their currencies lurch down in value. The Indonesian rupiah is trading at its lowest against the dollar since the Asian crisis two decades ago. The South African rand has fallen by a fifth against the dollar this year, a further headache as the economy slides into its first recession for almost a decade.
For much of August Turkey was in the firing line as the lira tumbled, falling one day by 14 per cent against the dollar and now over 40 per cent down from the start of the year. In common with all currency crises, there were domestic as well as wider international reasons. As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has steadily strengthened his political grip on the country, he has forfeited the confidence of international investors anxious about Turkey's ability to finance its big current-account deficit, which was 5.5 per cent of GDP last year. That left Turkey vulnerable to an escalating dispute with America over its detention of Andrew Brunson, an American evangelical preacher, which prompted President Trump to double tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium last month.
"As the Fed tightens monetary policy, it is sucking in funds from around the world"
Erdogan's bizarre characterisation of interest rates as the "mother and father of all evil" is a black mark for a country that urgently needs to raise them. Another worrying sign is the appointment of his son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, as finance minister in July.…
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Prog Rock is Back! THEO Runs Crowdfunding Campaign
By Niko Savić on October 29, 2014@ProgSphere
"Inspired by classic bands like Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Genesis, THEO brings epic songwriting and sweeping narratives back to the forefront with contemporary sensibilities and production," says that mainmain behind the THEO project Jim Alfredson.
In order to fund the release of the project, Alfredson asks progressive rock fans to donate in the Pledge Music campaign in exchange for dozens of great perks. The campaign has still 6 days to go, and so far it's been raised 91% of the goal. You can donate HERE. THEO was a part of our recently released Progstravaganza Special – The New Generation of Prog 2014, and you can hear a song called Idle Worship below.
Jim Alfredson is best known for his work with acclaimed jazz trio organissimo and is considered among the best Hammond organists working today. As Downbeat magazine wrote, "Alfredson is a remarkable organist who seamlessly synthesizes several generations of keyboard influences…" Keyboard magazine, in reviewing organissimo's album Alive & Kickin', wrote that Alfredson "successfully walk[s] the line between complex and accessible…"
In THEO, Alfredson is joined by bassist Gary Davenport (805 Band, Janiva Magness), drummer Kevin Depree (Sound Is Red, Greg Nagy Band) and guitarist Jake Reichbart. The eponymous debut album features six tracks including an epic 30 minute opening suite.
With THEO, Alfredson brings his considerable musicianship to bear on his first love, progressive rock. As Alfredson explains: "I grew up listening to Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Gentle Giant… all the classic prog bands. I even made my own prog 'album' when I was 16 that I passed out to friends and family. But then I was bitten by the jazz bug and dedicated the next 17 years of my life to figuring out that music. Surprisingly, that education paved the road back to progressive music, back to my love of synthesizers and exploring different musical forms. I feel like my musical journey has brought me full circle."
Jim Alfredson
THEO also represents a return to the concept of the keyboardist as a vital and irreplaceable part of the group, rather than a mere sideman. "Most prog these days is metal-based," says Alfredson, "and there's nothing wrong with that. But I feel like it's past time keyboardists get our due again. My primary influence is Tony Banks; his melodicism, his understatedness, his lyricism, and his use of timbre. There's a time and a place for flashiness and there's a time and place for subtlety. THEO is a manifestation of that belief. It should be about the song first, putting that song within a certain atmosphere, and then exploring."
THEO's intrepid and dynamic music is paired with auspicious lyrical themes of corporatization, consumerism, loss of innocence, exile, and the obsession with celebrity. Lead vocals are handled by Alfredson himself. Usually relegated to background duties, Alfredson's surprisingly flexible baritone voice shifts from soaring muscularity to intimate falsetto and everything between. "I think that may be the most notable aspect of this project for my long time fans," says Alfredson. "Those that know me only as an instrumentalist and background singer will hopefully be pleasantly surprised."
THEO is scheduled for a November 17th, 2014 release on Jim Alfredson's Big O Records. Pre-order ANY exclusive item and you automatically get the download plus that item weeks before the official release.
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