From September 2026 on, I will offer a new course, Introduction to the Digital Humanities, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Come and experiment with new methods to tackle new subjects of inquiry.

The seas are decisive for our collective future. For some years now, I have been researching our common sense of the seas and, for the first time, I looked into the literary landscape in search of new paths at the crossroads of digital humanities, speculative fiction and social representations.

Last week, I presented a recent work in a symposium organized by Lilian Negura at the International Conference on Social Representations. This year the biannual conference that gathers the social representations community was in Brest, North of France.

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.