❗️Last call! The deadline for prospective applicants who wish to have the IHC as host institution for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships is 23 June.
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I'm invited to be jury of a #PhD thesis in #Porto 🇵🇹 which defence could be attended either in person or remotely. I find a decent route by #train from #Marseille 🇫🇷 , via #Madrid 🇪🇸 for a total of 4 trains to reach the destination and about 2 days in the train / stations, both ways for 2 days in Porto.
Regardless of the cost,, and considering the potentiel benefit in terms of exemplarity, would you attend in person ?
En route to #Geneva to attend a #PhD jury at the Geneva #observatory, which is located near the French border outside Geneva.
Instead of renting a #car, as I used to do in the past, this time I’m renting… a bike to go from the station to my #hotel (about 16km away) and the diary to the observatory.
Currently keeping me aural company while I work (I woke up, couldn't go back to sleep and decided to dive back into the blasted article), Noveller's Fantastic Planet (2015)
Last week, I had the privilege of joining the @TUMAppliedSE doctoral seminar in the Dolomites, where I delved into the topics of Design Science and Empirical Evaluation Methods. It was a joy to reconnect with the research group and spend time with my mentees, discussing their research proposals.
🆕 Great news to end the week: Rui Lopes has been awarded a Remarque Visiting Fellowship at New York University’s Remarque Institute, where he will work on the relationship between the Cold War, spy cinema, and comic books. 👏👏👏
🚨We continue to receive proposals for the Call for the Award of Studentships for Doctoral Research in all Scientific Domains promoted by the FCT, both in the General Line and in a Non-Academic Environment.
👨🎓 We wish Paulo Alexandre Alves the best of luck as he defends his doctoral thesis on the episcopate in the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy tomorrow, 13 March.
This is your periodic reminder that social media is a very narrow view of life.
What spawned this reminder: while I continue to do and talk about cool and very photogenic things (I work with animals after all, see photo...), this academic year has been a wild ride in my personal life. I’ve had to switch from 6th gear to 3rd to make sure I’m doing the things I’m doing well, rather than trying everything but not finishing anything. 1/3
🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊
I rejoined Codex Writer's Group and didn't realise how much I'd missed about being a Codexian
I can't get over the offer to contribute to a potential special issue at one of my top 5 bucket list journals. I feel a bit weird saying this because I know it might all just fall flat; I've been disappointed before. But I'm hoping for the best. It was a good reminder of why I'm in academia, so I will be content with that.
The work is never actually done. It is just time to stop.
I wish you time to unplug and unwind, to spend time with whatever people, animals or activities are important to you, and to celebrate whatever your flavour of holiday is (including none).
I'll be spending time with family and hope to snap more photos of unsuspecting sheep.
✨ The Board of Directors and the Science Management Team of the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of Évora wish you Happy Holidays and a year 2024 full of History. ✨
Here are the other posters (and the original poster) for the Memory Studies in Literature and the Humanities II: Memory, Space, and Mobilities webinar.
The webinar will feature a keynote from Professor Emma Bond who will be talking points from her second monograph "Writing Migration Through The Body" which was really helpful for me in working through the knotty subject of mobility in relation to memory. Apart from that, this webinar is very much postgraduate oriented and will feature 7 supervisees of mine, and papers from me and an academic collaborator/friend (Dr. Sanghamitra Dalal). We'll likely be closing registrations by Monday as we already have 129 registrations so if you were interested and thinking about it, do sign up as soon as possible.
Today's music: some classical (Debussy) but mostly I woke up with St. Vincent in my head so I listened to her 2015 album on the commute and later while working. Then segued into Father John Misty. Good times.
Visited new-to-me pokestops and a good gym battle after my afternoon trip to the pharmacy!
Started prep on the #hauntology paper I swore I wasn't going to present on Tuesday and am now quite academically pleased with myself.