ESC - ENGLISH STUDIES COURSE | Academic Writing Skills Course: English for Academic Purposes (EAP) This 50-hour on site and online course aims to help teachers, researchers, and post-graduate students to develop their writing competencies in academic English. The pedagogical approach is based on a workshop model, with a series of writing exercises that will […]

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 […]

American Studies Over_Seas: Active Ties, Tides, and Times University of Lisbon Center for English Studies (ULICES) is developing a project centered on coastal areas and intertidal zones, and on how they might be addressed through more hydro- and eco-centered perspectives on languages, arts, and literatures. We would like to contribute to the storytelling and the […]

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 […]

Nobody can deny the power of the city to change and reorder all of life. Inglis, 2000 For many years leaving the countryside to move to urban areas was in itself a challenge.  The unknown that the city unveiled and the mystery in all the hidden corners was, as it is today, a free ride […]

CFP: Representations of old age and ageing in literary and cultural narra4ves. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities Editors Joaquim Pinheiro (Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades da Universidade da Madeira; CECH-UC) Zuzanna Zarebska (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa; CEAUL) The present volume invites articles that explore the themes related to ageing and old age. […]