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- 1º Encontro de Línguas Ibéricas (ELI)Publication . Vázquez Diéguez, Ignacio1º Encontro de Línguas ibéricas da Universidade da Beira Interior organizado pelo Departamento de Letras da Faculdade de Artes e Letras da Universidade da Beira Interior.
- Blinded by the Light (2019), de Gurinder ChadhaPublication . Mancelos, João deEste texto constitui uma recensão à comédia musical Blinded by the Light/O poder da música (2019), da realizadora de origem indiana Gurinder Chadha. O enredo foi inspirado na autobiografia Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion, Rock’n’Roll (2010), do jornalista Sarfraz Manzoor. O filme ilustra o desenvolvimento identitário de Javed Khan, um adolescente de origem paquistanesa, a viver na cidade inglesa de Luton, na década de oitenta. Aspirante a escritor, Khan encontrou na obra musical de Bruce Springsteen uma inspiração e um sentido de vida. Foco aspetos como a crise socioeconómica durante o Thatcherismo, a discriminação étnica na sociedade britânica e as dificuldades na comunicação intercultural.
- East Timor’s vote for independencePublication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaReview of a book presenting eyewitness reports and backgrounds to diverse aspects of the vote in East Timor for its indepedence from Indonesia (1999) and the violence occurring in this period. Guns and ballot boxes deals with the dramatic episode in East Timor's history surrounding the referendum to determine the future status of that territory. Quite unexpectedly, in January. 1999 the Indonesian president Habibie announced his willingness to grant the option of independence to the East Timorese, whose territory Indonesia had annexed some 23 years earlier. A popular consultation was prepared in talks between Indonesia, the United Nations and the former colonial ruler Portugal. It was agreed that the United Nations would provide an assistance mission (UNAMET) to counsel the population and to supervise the ballot, while Indonesia would be in charge of guaranteeing security. […]
- A fé de um escritor: vida, técnica, arte, de Joyce Carol OatesPublication . Mancelos, João deRecensão à obra ensaística “A Fé de um Escritor: Vida, Técnica, Arte, de Joyce Carol Oates, sobre escrita criativa, enfatizando o recurso a técnicas e a exemplos.
- Fui quase todas as mulheres de Modigliani, de Graça PiresPublication . Mancelos, João deRecensão à obra Fui quase todas as mulheres de Modigliani, de Graça Pires, na perspetiva da intertextualidade exoliterária (a poesia e a obra do célebre pintor).
- Gender and the sexes in the Indonesian ArchipelagoPublication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaReview of book discussing gender in various regions of the Southeast Asian culture area
- Gender and the sexes in the Indonesian ArchipelagoPublication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaReview of collection of studies regarding gender in several regions of Southeast Asia. The articles in this volume, first presented as papers at a conference of the Association for South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom, add to the literature on gender in Southeast Asia. Although that literature may seem extensive by now, this publication is certainly not repetitive or redundant. On the contrary, besides presenting awealth of data, it attests to how useful and refreshing an approach which focuses on gender and gender relations can be, even when examining seemingly well-known facts.
- Gendered missions: Women and men in missionary discourse and practicePublication . Schouten, Maria Johanna ChristinaReview of a book focusing women active in Christian religious missionary work in Africa, Asia and Oceania in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This theme is discussed with a view to the changing gender ideologies of middle-class Europeans at the time, the major sponsors of the missions.
- Human Flow, de Ai WeiweiPublication . Mancelos, João deRecensão ao documentário "Human Flow", do realizador chinês Ai Weiwei, acerca dos refugiados. Rodado em 23 países, dá livre voz a refugiados, membros de organizações humanitárias, governantes, militares, ativistas, etc. Uma reflexão impressionante sobre o maior drama atual da humanidade.
- Isabel Cristina Pires, o lugar do génioPublication . Mancelos, João deRecensão ao livro de poema Deserto Pintado, de Isabel Cristina Pires, focando especialmente o uso do espaço e da metáfora.