Welcome to summer semester (SoSe, 2026)!

Goals

My husband died suddenly. One final task remained: to publish the book he’d spent 25 years of his life working on James Joyce, A Political Life, by my late husband, Frank Callanan, took two-and-a-half decades to research and write and three-and-a-half years to edit.

What happens to a life’s work when the author is gone? Bridget Hourican tells @independent.ie the moving story of publishing her husband's book, James Joyce: A Political History, after his death:

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project.

Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after.

Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Nina Simone - Who Knows Where The Time Goes YouTube video by peggyka

"And I am not alone
While my love is near me
I know it will be so
'Til it's time to go"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Pc...

8 de março 💪💪🏽💪🏿

THE SECRET AGENT - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters November 26 YouTube video by NEON

Beautiful celebration of Brazilian and Recife culture. Impressed also by Armando, who is trying to find meaning and love in a hostile world. A reminder of the dark times in our history, and of the period we are now, from which almost no one can escape its brutality.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ufr...

@timmeijers.bsky.social

Got to see the movie The Secret Agent last night, slightly belated UK release. Superb, and wonderfully evocative of the period, though some aspects of the plot left me slightly baffled (probably deliberately).

for instance, the famous hairy leg?!

In addition for every other valid reason not to get ChatGPT to do your journal peer reviews for you I heard today the argument that once you load an article into the programme it will become part of the training data set and you are thereby complicit in violating the author’s copyright.

The culture of Latin America will continue its global rise Soundtracks, screens and bookshelves will feature a Latin American flavour in 2026, thanks to artists like Bad Bunny and Mexican productions on Netflix

From Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma topping charts to Netflix pouring billions into Mexican productions, Latin America’s artists are winning audiences. They will find even more success in 2026

Carminho - Memória no Em Casa D'Amália (RTP1-12.12.25) YouTube video by Mais e Melhor Música

"Ainda te lembras de mim?
Ainda sabes de onde eu vim?
Quem sou esta que aqui estou?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG7f...

This is just so horrible!!!

Vai Brasil!!

a little bit of Brazil!

I honestly don’t understand the drama with the DFG and AI: do you really think Gutachter didn’t have ways to be bad Gutachter before? And wouldn‘t be absurd to have the DFG simply ban AI when so many of us use it daily, if only for DeepL? I think it’s much better to have guidelines than a ban

QUE DISCURSO DO WAGNER MOURA CHUPA SEQUESTRADOS UNIDOS

Everyone here in Brazil is so pleased!

Enjoy reading! 🙂💚
You can find the online version of our Humboldt Kosmos magazine here: www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/m...

@humboldt-foundation.de just got my copy!

Muito obrigada, Jan! :)

Itacoatiara, Brazil, 2025.

Vitória do 24/12: descobrir que o bacalhau que ficou de molho por 3 dias, não está nem salgado.
Nem sem sal.

This is a Siproeta stelenes butterfly!

(Tá, mas vai até calor quanto? Só pra eu já ir me cobrindo de azeite e me oferecendo de petisco aos deuses)

Memória YouTube video by ROSALÍA - Topic

Que música (fado) mais linda e preciosa!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FJ...

Always amused by this too! in Portuguese is Cocoricó! Wondering how it is in German.

Words Without Borders National Book Award Interviews: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Robin Myers on We Are Green and Trembling Winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Image: Two circular photos of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Robin Myers, and book cover for WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING.

Congratulations to Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and longtime WWB contributor Robin Myers on winning the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature! If you’re curious about their translation process, you can read the full interview here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

My favorite quote from the National Book awards tonight: “I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.” —Gabriela Cabezón-Camára