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Our team of researchers is engaged in 18 projects

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(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

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: On Science Fiction and Fantasy

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 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 Project

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

Women’s Literature: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-African-Brazilian Atlantic

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.

Accessibility in Portugal

A project on practices in public and private broadcasting channels and in industry, on the reception of accessibility and on training

(Re)Imagining Shared Pasts, Bridging Ecological Temporalities

American Studies Over_Seas: (Re)Imagining Shared Pasts, Bridging Ecological Temporalities is the new designation / continuation of the project (Re)Imagining Shared Pasts Over the Sea and Across Borders (2018-2023) launched in 2018 by the American Studies research group at ULICES (GI3).

ENRICH

The ENRICH project puts high priority on the promotion of teacher competences which are necessary for responding to and building upon the diversity found in today’s multilingual classrooms across Europe.

Eco-Africa: Aesthetics of Extinction

Using and expanding the critical framework of ecocriticism, which is still largely centred in Europe and the US, The ECO-Africa Project proposes to reconfigure the ways of reading and critically analysing African Literatures in Portuguese.

SHARE – Health and Humanities Acting Together

Positioned within the emerging movement of Medical Humanities (MH), SHARE built on the Project in Narrative & Medicine, launched in 2009, and pursued by the FCT-funded project “N&M – Narrative & Medicine: (con)texts and practices across disciplines” (2013-15).

Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century

Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century // Shakespeare, Activismo y Arte en el Siglo XXI (SHAKE-ART21, PID2022-137873NA-I00) is an international collaborative project with colleagues from the United States, Nigeria, Portugal and Spain funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science on political uses of Shakespeare in a contemporary and interartistic context.