Join two educators from the University of Žilina, Slovakia, in this interactive workshop designed to help advanced learners improve their academic writing skills. Drawing on their extensive experience teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), the instructors will guide participants through practical strategies for crafting clear, well-structured, and academically sound texts.  With hands-on exercises and personalized […]

Date: 4 November, 15h30 Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa / School of Arts and Humanities, Room A201-Anfiteatro III Organisation:  ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Research Group 4 – Other English-speaking Literatures and Cultures Sponsor: Embassy of Ireland in Portugal Guest speaker: Mary O’Donnell Bionote: Mary O’Donnell’s work includes eight poetry […]

This lecture will address the way different contexts, historical and contemporary, shape how we interpret the rabbit/duck perspective of Henry V. More specifically, this will be done with two particular angles in mind. The lecture will begin by focusing on the difference between following the “Crispin’s Day” scene with the Le Fer/Pistol scene, which is […]

This open seminar will address both the challenges and new research methods involved in creating what is known collectively as the MIT Global Shakespeare Project (https://shakespeareproject.mit.edu/). Since 1992, MIT’s Literature faculty have been developing and maintaining digital environments for teaching and research involving Shakespeare, with a particular emphasis on enlarging access and understanding of diverse […]

On Tuesday 12th November please feel free to join us for the “Looking at Canada from Portugal “Symposium.  The symposium will count with literary scholar, Eva Darias-Beautell, political scientist, Guy Laforest, historian of science, Dan Malleck aa well as established and emerging national scholars. Time & Place 12.30-14.00 Amphitheater II 14.20-19.00 Amphitheater III The session […]