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”.

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.

JRAAS is organizing a workshop to be held on 22 January from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at FLUP in room 202. The aim is to provide participants with a practical introduction to mapmaking using R.