Projects

PROJECTS

Our team of researchers is engaged in 13 projects

Explore our projects  and learn more about each one.

(Re)Imagining Shared Pasts Over the Sea and Across Borders: Dialogue, Reception and Projections between the USA, the Americas and Europe

(Re)imagining Shared Pasts Over the Sea and Across Borders

Dialogue, reception and projections between the USA, the Americas and Europe with a special focus on the imagery associated with the Ocean(s).
PHM - Project in Medical Humanities

PHM – Project in Medical Humanities

The Project in Medical Humanities (PMH) aims to promote this emerging interdisciplinary field by using the knowledge and methods of the arts and humanities in the general area of health sciences and in close collaboration with health care professionals.
Messengers from the Stars

Messengers from the Stars

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy.
RHOME – Representations of Home

RHOME – Representations of Home

RHOME – Representations of Home studies textual and visual representations of home and belonging in literatures and cultures marked by dislocation, colonisation and migration.

The Street and the City

The Street and The City project  aims to promote the study of the city and the life that has evolved around it throughout more than three hundred years, and thus to promote the interdisciplinary debate within the English studies.

Voices from the Ancient and Medieval World

The project Voices from the Ancient and Medieval World, developed with The Centre for Classical Studies, focuses on the study of ancient and medieval languages, on the historical, social, political, and artistic contexts of their circulation and on the reception of these two foundational sources of European thought in contemporaneity in several media, from an interdisciplinary, intercultural, intermedial, and interarts perspective.

Traveling Memories

O projecto Memórias Viajantes desenvolve-se a partir da porosidade entre a cidade, o rio e o mar. Viajando no tempo e no espaço, visa o estudo de várias materializações adormecidas, visuais e narrativas.

GTC – Trends and Culture Management Lab

A space for critical, divergent and creative thinking. We interpret representations, practices and myths.

Ford Maddox Ford at the Dawn of an Era – Conference

Ford Madox Ford International Symposium seeks to give due recognition to Ford Madox Ford’s works and his role as a writer and cultural/social and literary critic during the late Victorian age and the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Historical Linguistic Exchanges Between EN and PT

UPCOMING

Women’s Lives in Time: Bodies, Homes and Voices: Ageing Women Research Project

Remembering the Past Learning for the Future

The FCT-funded project's researchers have used digital tools and an innovative pedagogy to develop open-access educational materials on the Holocaust.

DECONSTRUCT

This international project, funded by the EU via the CERV-Equal programme, aims to create open-access educational resources to combat Holocaust distortion and anti-Semitism. (Website under construction.)

Intercultural Literature in Portugal (1930-2000): A Critical Bibliography

The joint CECC/ULICES research project aims to produce reliable data on translated literature published in Portugal from 1930 to 2000. Data (33,538 records) relating to the period 1930-1997 is now available online as open-access.