The Associação Internacional de Pesquisadores de Culturas (InterCult) invites the academic community to participate in the 11th International Congress on Cultures, to be held in November 2025 at the University of Porto. This Open Call is open until 15 July. The results will be announced on 6 August. I'm honoured to serve as Coordinator alongside Messias Guimarães Bandeira (UFBA) on the panel/work group 3 - Culture, development, networks, and artificial intelligence.

🌍 FUTURE LAB – Imagine the Future of Energy! Take part in a Social Psychology research project exploring citizens' visions for the energy transition. 🔗 Fill out this form to be contacted and join: https://forms.gle/8ZtPUy7bXY1xqvVe6

The call for applications for the Joint International PhD in Social Representations, Culture and Communication, coordinated by Sapienza University in Italy, is open until June 19, 2025.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of five high fantasy books written by American author George R. R. Martin. The series chronicles the affairs of a plethora of characters in the continent of Westeros and its eastern neighbor of Essos. Since 1996, the year in which the first book, A Game of Thrones, was published, characters like Jon, Daenerys and Tyrion have navigated the narrative dynamics of prophecy, politics, love and hate, and have become immensely popular especially through the HBO TV adaptation of the saga.

This project began with a simple idea: to map Diane di Prima’s life across the spaces she inhabited.

On March 11, 2025, Jéssica Bispo and I, Teresa Pereira, presented the project Bridges between Fictional Narratives and Science in the 21st Century (BFS21) at the symposium Ficcionalizações da Ciência no Mundo Anglófono VII, held at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and organized by CETAPS’s Research Strand Culture, Science and the Media, in articulation with CEEC.

We are excited to announce an open call for contributions to the upcoming Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Utopian Studies. This self-paced, free course will be hosted on the NAU platform, developed and managed by the FCCN Unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and coordinated by CETAPS.

In the latest issue of News from Everywhere, the JRAAS Newsletter, we explored the vital role of cultural sustainability in our work. Beyond mere preservation, cultural sustainability seeks to keep culture relevant and impactful in contemporary society. This edition features an exclusive interview with Dr. Catherine Grant, a leading expert in the field.

On 22nd January, the JRAAS team facilitated a workshop within the context of the 2nd FLUP Research Meeting, called “Mapping Utopias: Introduction to Map-making in R”.