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”.

Fátima Vieira, our Digital Lab leader, was one of the invitees of Sociedade Civil, a RTP 2 programme transmitted yesterday, January 28, 2025. During her intervention, Fátima Vieira talked of how utopian thinking and imagination can fertilize and influence social development, and presented our collaborative utopia-building game Horizon as a means to promote our creativity.

We've talked about the Great Utopians collection on this blog before. I've been working on it since my first couple of weeks at JRAAS, and since then I've created a database with all 77 entries, and written an article with Joana Pinela about it, which was published in the latest issue of Via Panoramica.

During 1st CETAPS meeting on Digital Humanities, we interviewed Prof. Carlos Ceia, the director of the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) in Lisbon about Digital Lab and Digital Humanities. The interview includes prime insights into Prof. Ceia's ideas about the future of Education and morover, introduces his works in Digital Humanities.