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Tori Holmes

@toririo.bsky.social
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Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea. go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes Also at bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.soc…

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Nexo Jornal @nexojornal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#AcessoLivre | [especial] Guia do ‘Nexo’ compila os termos e jargões que ajudam a compreender o assunto, de ‘abstenção’ a ‘zona eleitoral’
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A a Z da política brasileira - Nexo Jornal
Informação clara e bem explicada você encontra aqui. Nexo, leitura obrigatória para quem quer entender o contexto das principais notícias do Brasil e do mundo.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Celebrating the Centenary of the Musgrave Chair in Spanish at Queen’s (1926-2026)", Guest blog by Dr Fiona Clark (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Queen’s University Belfast) Special Collections Blog at Queen's University Belfast blogs.qub.ac.uk/specialcolle...
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Celebrating the Centenary of the Musgrave Chair in Spanish at Queen’s (1926-2026)
Guest blog by Dr Fiona Clark. Dr Clark is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. The histories, languages, and cultures of Spain, Latin America, and the island of …
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Queen's marks 100 years of Spanish language and culture www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...
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Queen’s marked 100 years of Spanish language and culture with a programme of events celebrating the centenary of the Musgrave Chair of Spanish, one of the earliest endowed university Chairs of Spanish...
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Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now's your chance to stand on the famous red dot! There's still time to apply to become a speaker at this year's TEDxQueen's University Belfast. Applications are open from: 🔴 Staff 🔴 Students 🔴 Alumni If you've got a big idea you'd like to share, let us know before 29 Sep: ow.ly/eCr950ZRmj8
Image shows a TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast sign with a carpet shaped as a red dot in front of it.
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QUBstaff @qubstaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"My research is all about how we judge others based on how they speak, write or sign, and the TEDx talk felt like a good opportunity to encourage the audience to reflect on this."—Dr Emma Humphries @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. 👉 Our latest staff blog: ow.ly/qX0k50ZPHqR #LoveQUBstaff #TEDxQUB
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heading to the UK for the centenary celebrations of Spanish at Queen’s University, Belfast, where I will present my talk “Reframing the Humanities through the Right to Culture” in dialogue with Sarah Bowskill, an amazing fellow Mexicanist. I am very honored to be part of the distinguished group:
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Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @drgsespinosa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Celebrating 100 years of #Spanish at Queen’s University, Belfast: 2026 marks the centenary of the establishment of the #Spanish Chair at Queen's University Belfast in 1926, one of the first Chairs of Spanish in Great Britain and Ireland www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/...
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17.09.26 Spanish Centenary Celebrations | School of Arts, English and Languages | Queen's University Belfast
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Programme and Sign Up (it's free) here: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/...
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17.09.26 Spanish Centenary Celebrations | School of Arts, English and Languages | Queen's University Belfast
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Celebrating 100 years of Spanish at @QUBelfast To celebrate 100 years of teaching, research and international influence, we are hosting a major public programme featuring leading writers, poets and scholars from Spain, Argentina, the UK and the USA. Come along!
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 05/09/2026
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‘The Irish are the Brazilians of Europe’: Inside Dublin’s growing community from Brazil
An estimated 60,000 Brazilians live in Ireland, their influence in Dublin plain to see and savour in vibrant cafes, shops and restaurants. Who are they and why do they come – and stay – here?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🗣️"sonifications can offer a highly effective, complementary pathway to uncover latent patterns in increasingly complex scientific datasets" #DataViz #Sonifications #Bibliometrics
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What does scientific progress sound like? - LSE Impact
Is science becoming less innovative and disruptive? Listening to the data could provide more nuanced answers.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'How should I be saying it? “Ah-sigh-ee”.'
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are you a researcher looking to fund projects that engage the public with the humanities and social sciences? Apply for the SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027-28 programme. Find out more: bit.ly/43JR4oA
SHAPE Involve and Engage
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For many academics in the UK, there are increasingly narrow career pathways - teaching only contracts or conducting 'strategic' research. In our latest dispatch, Eva Nanopoulos interrogates how the university's two-tier system reinforces precarity 
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The Two-Tier University
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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is inviting applications for its Advocacy & Engagement Fellowship 2026 - 27. £4,000 fellowship + £1,000 project fund Deadline: 17 August 2026 Open to applicants in UK or Ireland digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2... #DigitalHumanities #OpenResearch
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2026/7 Advocacy and Engagement Fellowship | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're hiring! We are recruiting a new Public Engagement Officer to join the @sas-news.bsky.social Public Engagement team on a fixed term contract. Find out more here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #Hiring #HiringNow #Jobs #PublicEngagement
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internethistories.bsky.social @internethistories.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Out Now: Article: Mending the past, (...) early internet in Brazilian media, 1994–1996 German Alfonso Nunez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving
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Mending the past, dreaming the future: representations of the early internet in Brazilian media, 1994–1996
This article analyses how Brazil’s early Internet was represented in two distinct sectors of its cultural field: television drama and print journalism. Focusing on Glória Perez’s Explode Coração (R...
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Film In Dublin @filmindublin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A new festival arrives to Dublin this September as the Brazilian Film Festival in Ireland takes place. See fine features from across Brazil Sep 21, 24-27: filmindublin.ie/2026/08/04/t...
An indiginous Yanomami woman looks up at the sky, still from film The Falling Sky.
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In "Threadbare Politics: Feminist T-Shirts as Queer Media," Catherine A. Evans argues that T-shirts are, indeed, media, centering activist Kipp Dawson’s collection of over 250 political shirts. @caevans.bsky.social Read for free now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Including an article on "REF Impact and the Discipline of Modern Languages" that is worth a read.
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Dr Frances Kane @drfranceskane.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are looking for someone to help with recruitment for a small PEACEPLUS project we are running this summer in the Mournes. Please share! www.kitabna.org/jobs.html
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Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
42.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! A special issue on "Arts and Culture of Resistance in Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence", edited by Lurdes Macedo, Tom Stennett, and Elísio Macamo. ToC: www.mhra.org.uk/publications... @themhra.bsky.social
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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our next free online training session Working with Press and Media is on Wednesday 22 July. Connect your research to wider audiences, learn how to pitch to press and media, create press releases, and more! Book here: bit.ly/4vPovCD
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Colleagues at the University of Exeter need your support! ✍️ Sign the petition: c.org/yKcx6Zr29H The University of Exeter is to cut about 150 staff. The proposed reduction is almost exclusively focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, among them Modern Languages and English.
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This campaign needs you now
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A quick overview of why we are taking industrial action, the current status of our fight, and how you can support those taking action. #UoN #UniversityOfNottingham #UCU #UoNUCU #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Georg Fischer @gfisch2000.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Fantastic 5-year postdoc opportunity at the University of Cologne in Debora Gerstenberger’s ERC project on the history of computing in Latin America. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader Edited by Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray "Explores how digitalization has transformed global media entertainment and the making of popular cultures" nyupress.org/978147983516...
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Planet Digital
Explores how digitalization has transformed global media entertainment and the making of popular culturesIn the three decades since the rise of the global in...
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🗺️ New interactive language map from our @LIFELANGS Living Observatory! Ever wondered what languages are spoken in your area? Our interactive map, based on census data (2021 NISRA & 2022 CSO) shows languages other than English or Irish by county. antoinrodgers.shinyapps.io/lifelangs/
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REBRAC - Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural @rebracweb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
JOB: Research Associate in Latin American Studies, Bristol. Women Walkers in Latin America project, focus on Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico. Need PhD, fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese, archival and/or fieldwork experience in Latin America. Apply by 7 June 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO186/r...
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Research Associate in Latin American Studies at University of Bristol
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate in Latin American Studies. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Three Lectureships (full time, fixed term for 24 months) in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester Apply by 3 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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THREE LECTURERS IN DIGITAL MEDIA AND CULTURE (TEACHING & SCHOLARSHIP):Oxford Road
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"Textualidades en tránsito" Blog post about "Literaturas latinoamericanas en transición 1980-2018", published by Editorial Universitaria Villa María (Eduvim) in Argentina and edited by Mónica Szurmuk & Debra Castillo, in which I have a chapter about Brazilian memes www.eduvim.com.ar/literaturas-...
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Literaturas latinoamericanas en transición (1980–2018)
Análisis de las literaturas latinoamericanas entre 1980 y 2018 y sus nuevas formas culturales.
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REBRAC - Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural @rebracweb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
EVENT: 11th Amazon Film Festival 27-31 May 2026 in London www.cinebrazil.org/amazonfilmfe...
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Amazon Film Festival — Cine Brazil
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Exhibition about the “Cartas Indígenas ao Brasil” (Indigenous Letters to Brazil) project opens at the museum of the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Coming soon from EDUVIM (Argentina): "Literaturas latinoamericanas en transición (1980-2018)", Spanish version of the final volume of "Latin American Literature in Transition", ed. by Mónica Szurmuk & the late Debra Castillo. Includes my chapter on memes in Brazil. www.eduvim.com.ar/producto/lit...
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PREVENTA: Literaturas latinoamericanas en transición (1980-2018) - Eduvim
LIBRO EN PREVENTA EXCLUSIVA DESDE EL 07/04/2026 AL 21/04/2026. SE ENTREGA A PARTIR DEL 05/05/2026.¿Cómo abordar lo literario hoy? ¿Qué […]
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A thought-provoking read. "Literary Studies Inside Out: Notes Toward Critical University Press Studies", by Rebecca Colesworthy (open access) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 26/03/2026
More people are watching podcasts and more thought is going into visual elements of this audio format than ever.
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More people are watching podcasts – how The Harry Hill Show could signal the backward-looking future of the medium
More people are watching podcasts and more thought is going into visual elements of this audio format than ever.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
CFP, XXXII Visible Evidence conference "Democracy, audiovisual culture and obsolete media: building archive networks", December 8–11 2026, São Paulo, Brazil Deadline for submissions: March 31 2026 necs.org/news/calls-f...
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NECS
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Talks under way on direct flights between Ireland and Brazil" www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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Talks on direct flights between Ireland and Brazil
Talks are under way on paving the way for direct flights between Ireland and Brazil.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I love the New Books Network podcasts, and many thanks to Miranda Melcher for interviewing me about my new one: _The Inattention Economy: How women of color build the internet_ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Lisa Nakamura,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Science, Technology, and Society · March 18 · 44m
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Call for papers: International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) conference, UFF, Niterói, Brazil, 6-10 July 2026 ("Where the zueira never ends.") Submission deadline: March 27, 2026 "Niterói will be the epicenter of humor studies for a week." ishs2026.org
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ISHS 2026
Official website of the 2026 Annual Conference of ISHS.
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Short-term savings, long-term national loss? When university “financial sustainability and future success” harms UK economic growth and diplomacy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Leicester to cut film and modern languages courses
A union claims up to 300 students will see offers withdrawn as a result of the decision.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
And now: another Brazilian film coming to the Queen's Film Theatre in April (this really doesn't usually happen that often!) O último azul/The Blue Trail directed by Gabriel Mascaro Showing: 17 April 2026 until 23 April 2026 queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/The...
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The Blue Trail showing at Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast.
Set in near-future Brazil, Gabriel Mascaro’s wondrous adventure of a defiant elder fleeing an ageist society is a life affirming boat-movie that manages laughs and warmth in the face of calamity.
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SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
REMINDER: SLAS Research Development Award 2026: Up to £10,000 for significant research projects in Latin American Studies. Support for fieldwork, archive visits and workshops. 📅 Deadline: 20 March 26 ✅ SLAS members 4+ years post-PhD APPLY HERE: www.slasuk.org/research-dev...
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SLAS Research Development Award | SLAS
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Interesting PhD studentship in the Netherlands, part of a project on 'Women Building Cities' focused on Latin America and using a participatory approach, including audiovisual participatory methods. Requires Spanish + prior experience of Latin American cities. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQV739/p...
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PhD Position in Women Building Cities at Radboud University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#RPVBooks I loved Christina M. Jimenez’s “Making an Urban Public” because not only is it a social history of Morelia, but also it shows us a different way of looking at the role of the public in shaping public policies at the city level through petitions. Fantastic book.
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Um dia antes do Oscar, o Vitória, time de coração do ator Wagner Moura, decidiu homenageá-lo na escalação, uniformes e até na bandeira de escanteio. O clube escalou titulares e reservas com nomes de personagens da carreira do baiano" www.uol.com.br/esporte/fute...
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Capitão Nascimento e Pablo Escobar: Vitória celebra Wagner Moura no Oscar
Um dia antes do Oscar, o Vitória, time de coração do ator Wagner Moura, decidiu homenageá-lo na escalação, uniformes e até na bandeira de escanteio.O clube escalou titulares e reservas com nomes de pe...
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Interesting-sounding exhibition in São Paulo, on popular visual culture in Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries www.sescsp.org.br/editorial/le...
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Letras & Filetes: Memória Afetiva e Latinidades
Com abertura ao público no dia 9 de outubro de 2025, às 19h, e período de visitação de 10 outubro de 2025 até 05 de abril de 2026, a exposição Letras & Filetes: Memória Afetiva e Latinidades
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
An interesting conference being organised by colleagues in the Centre for Documentary Research here at Queen's University Belfast in June 2026. Home Frames: Documentary and the Domestic Space www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
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Home Frames Conference: Call For Papers | Centre for Documentary Research | Queen's University Belfast
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