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. 

Our presentation, entitled “As Humanidades Digitais no Cruzamento entre Ficção, Ciência e Religião”, focused on the development of the project’s database, which aims to list all fictional narratives published since 2000 that somehow establish a connection between literature and science in the anglophone world. Besides introducing the project, we also analyzed the database’s results regarding the concept of religion, exploring how the database enables researchers to examine the relationship between fictional narratives that engage with scientific thought and religiosity, specifically in contemporary dystopian literature.