Tori Holmes
@toririo.bsky.social
Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes
Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes
Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
Oh to be in Lisbon.
Exposição "complexo brasil", 14 nov 2025-17 fev 2026, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
"propõe uma viagem pela cultura brasileira, procurando problematizar as relações seculares entre o Brasil e Portugal e promovendo o diálogo entre os dois países"
gulbenkian.pt/agenda/compl...
"propõe uma viagem pela cultura brasileira, procurando problematizar as relações seculares entre o Brasil e Portugal e promovendo o diálogo entre os dois países"
gulbenkian.pt/agenda/compl...
Complexo Brasil
Reunindo obras de arte, vídeos, peças musicais e documentos, «complexo brasil» procura problematizar as relações entre o Brasil e Portugal.
gulbenkian.pt
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh to be in Lisbon.
20 February can't come soon enough!
www.instagram.com/p/DSZwDuuDVl3/
www.instagram.com/p/DSZwDuuDVl3/
MUBI UK & Ireland on Instagram: "New artwork for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mischievous political thriller THE SECRET AGENT.
Nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards – including Best Actor (Drama) for...
155 likes, 2 comments - mubiuk on December 18, 2025: "New artwork for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mischievous political thriller THE SECRET AGENT.
Nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards – including B...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
20 February can't come soon enough!
www.instagram.com/p/DSZwDuuDVl3/
www.instagram.com/p/DSZwDuuDVl3/
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Global South Cinephilias: What, Where, and When is Cinephilia? modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
Global South Cinephilias | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Though the term cinephilia simply means “love of cinema,” historically it has been used to mark a love of cinema with a difference.
modernismmodernity.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Global South Cinephilias: What, Where, and When is Cinephilia? modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
The project will investigate the experiences of people earning incomes within the platform economy in the Irish context.
Desirable section criteria include fluency in Portuguese.
Desirable section criteria include fluency in Portuguese.
📣📲🛵 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿- 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙨: 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢.
ℹ️ UCD School of Information & Communication Studies 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 #𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 12:00pm 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
➡️𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 & 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆:
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
#UCD
ℹ️ UCD School of Information & Communication Studies 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 #𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 12:00pm 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
➡️𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 & 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆:
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
#UCD
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The project will investigate the experiences of people earning incomes within the platform economy in the Irish context.
Desirable section criteria include fluency in Portuguese.
Desirable section criteria include fluency in Portuguese.
Reposted by Tori Holmes
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...
Looking forward to this, tomorrow!
Dr Victoria Adams (University of Leeds) will give the QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture 2025 on 'Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990'. Wednesday 3 December at 4.30pm.
Dr Victoria Adams (University of Leeds) will give the QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture 2025 on 'Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990'. Wednesday 3 December at 4.30pm.
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Looking forward to this, tomorrow!
Dr Victoria Adams (University of Leeds) will give the QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture 2025 on 'Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990'. Wednesday 3 December at 4.30pm.
Dr Victoria Adams (University of Leeds) will give the QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture 2025 on 'Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990'. Wednesday 3 December at 4.30pm.
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Job: Research Associate, Wellcome Trust-funded project “Participatory Analytics for Climate-Health Adaptation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Brazil", University of Glasgow. Closes 5 January 2026. "Professional language proficiency in Portuguese [..] a plus."
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in Participatory Urban Analytics
Job PurposeThe Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow invites applications for a Research Associate to make a leading contribution to the Wellcome Trust-funded project “Participa...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Job: Research Associate, Wellcome Trust-funded project “Participatory Analytics for Climate-Health Adaptation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Brazil", University of Glasgow. Closes 5 January 2026. "Professional language proficiency in Portuguese [..] a plus."
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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"At COP30, Brazilian outlets teamed up to elevate community voices and climate justice"
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latamjournalismreview.org/articles/at-...
At COP30, Brazilian outlets teamed up to elevate community voices and climate justice
At COP30, Brazilian outlets teamed up to elevate community voices and climate justice Collaboration. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"At COP30, Brazilian outlets teamed up to elevate community voices and climate justice"
latamjournalismreview.org/articles/at-...
latamjournalismreview.org/articles/at-...
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In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Isabel Torres examines the challenging presence of lyric in Miguel de Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ and considers how the root of ancient poetry, ‘poiesis’, reshapes reality from within the prose. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/4rphBSQ
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Isabel Torres examines the challenging presence of lyric in Miguel de Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ and considers how the root of ancient poetry, ‘poiesis’, reshapes reality from within the prose. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/4rphBSQ
A reminder of this event taking place tomorrow at QUB!
Talk coming up at QUB next Friday 28 November at 1pm:
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A reminder of this event taking place tomorrow at QUB!
Reposted by Tori Holmes
'Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ continues to shape how we think about idealism and the blurred line between illusion and reality. In this talk, Isabel Torres FBA explores how ‘poiesis' in this novel helps us to understand lyric as a provocative presence in early modern Spain. https://youtu.be/VPBkaO5zYe4
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
'Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ continues to shape how we think about idealism and the blurred line between illusion and reality. In this talk, Isabel Torres FBA explores how ‘poiesis' in this novel helps us to understand lyric as a provocative presence in early modern Spain. https://youtu.be/VPBkaO5zYe4
JOB: Lecturer in Journalism and Media (Global Media Studies), University of Galway.
Strategic priorities include Media, culture & society; Media & the Global South; Media & sustainability; Media, democracy & governance.
Apply by 5pm Irish time, 5 January 2026.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN476/l...
Strategic priorities include Media, culture & society; Media & the Global South; Media & sustainability; Media, democracy & governance.
Apply by 5pm Irish time, 5 January 2026.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN476/l...
Lecturer in Journalism and Media (Global Media Studies), Permanent, 1FTE, Contract Type B at University of Galway
Discover Lecturer in Journalism and Media (Global Media Studies), Permanent, 1FTE, Contract Type B jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
JOB: Lecturer in Journalism and Media (Global Media Studies), University of Galway.
Strategic priorities include Media, culture & society; Media & the Global South; Media & sustainability; Media, democracy & governance.
Apply by 5pm Irish time, 5 January 2026.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN476/l...
Strategic priorities include Media, culture & society; Media & the Global South; Media & sustainability; Media, democracy & governance.
Apply by 5pm Irish time, 5 January 2026.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN476/l...
Thread 🧵
AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
Talk coming up at QUB next Friday 28 November at 1pm:
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Talk coming up at QUB next Friday 28 November at 1pm:
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
"Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future", by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri, Universidade Federal da Bahia/King's College London
Supported by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh
"From Brazil to Belfast - pupils hold their own COP30 event"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From Brazil to Belfast - pupils hold their own COP30 event
The COP30 climate simulation negotiation brought pupils from 28 schools to Belfast Castle.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"From Brazil to Belfast - pupils hold their own COP30 event"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"A COP do cocar"
"Os povos indígenas querem ter suas terras demarcadas e participar das decisões na Conferência do Clima"
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/a-cop-do-coc...
"Os povos indígenas querem ter suas terras demarcadas e participar das decisões na Conferência do Clima"
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/a-cop-do-coc...
A COP do cocar - revista piauí
No dia 7 de novembro, os participantes credenciados da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas, a COP30, que começaria dali a três dias, receberam um e-mail da organização informando q...
piaui.folha.uol.com.br
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"A COP do cocar"
"Os povos indígenas querem ter suas terras demarcadas e participar das decisões na Conferência do Clima"
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/a-cop-do-coc...
"Os povos indígenas querem ter suas terras demarcadas e participar das decisões na Conferência do Clima"
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/a-cop-do-coc...
This looks rather wonderful!
Invitation to Contribute, "The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories".
Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series. Full details in link. Initial deadline January 15 2026.
bit.ly/3LAq6Ku
Invitation to Contribute, "The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories".
Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series. Full details in link. Initial deadline January 15 2026.
bit.ly/3LAq6Ku
Call for Papers: The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories
Turning Points in Media Studies is an anthology series examining critical moments that shaped the development of media in various parts of the world, the circumstances and histories leading to these m...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This looks rather wonderful!
Invitation to Contribute, "The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories".
Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series. Full details in link. Initial deadline January 15 2026.
bit.ly/3LAq6Ku
Invitation to Contribute, "The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories".
Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series. Full details in link. Initial deadline January 15 2026.
bit.ly/3LAq6Ku
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You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Reposted by Tori Holmes
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti!
I’d love your help to find examples!
I’d love your help to find examples!
Your Wrong
yourwrong.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti!
I’d love your help to find examples!
I’d love your help to find examples!
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The University of Nottingham is suspending all Modern Languages degrees. A short-sighted and terrifying decision from a 'global' university.
Please sign the petition started by its wonderful students.
Please sign the petition started by its wonderful students.
Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The University of Nottingham is suspending all Modern Languages degrees. A short-sighted and terrifying decision from a 'global' university.
Please sign the petition started by its wonderful students.
Please sign the petition started by its wonderful students.
Job: Project Curator, Latin American Collections, British Library (apply by 23 November)
Fixed term, full time. Need demonstrable interest in Latin American Studies, experience of working w/collections in a library/ museum/cultural institution, fluent Spanish
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Fixed term, full time. Need demonstrable interest in Latin American Studies, experience of working w/collections in a library/ museum/cultural institution, fluent Spanish
ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Job: Project Curator, Latin American Collections, British Library (apply by 23 November)
Fixed term, full time. Need demonstrable interest in Latin American Studies, experience of working w/collections in a library/ museum/cultural institution, fluent Spanish
ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
Fixed term, full time. Need demonstrable interest in Latin American Studies, experience of working w/collections in a library/ museum/cultural institution, fluent Spanish
ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
"News creators and influencers play a much bigger role in Brazil overall than most other countries in this study, even as large brands like Globo are also widely accessed via social platforms." (useful for my module on Brazilian digital culture!)
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
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Brazil
News creators and influencers play a much bigger role in Brazil overall than most other countries in this study.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"News creators and influencers play a much bigger role in Brazil overall than most other countries in this study, even as large brands like Globo are also widely accessed via social platforms." (useful for my module on Brazilian digital culture!)
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
Very saddened to hear the news of Debra Castillo's death.
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Debra Castillo, scholar and champion of Latinx students, dies at 72 | Cornell Chronicle
Professor Debra Castillo, a Stephen H. Weiss presidential fellow and Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Oct. 5 in Ithaca. She was 72.
news.cornell.edu
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Very saddened to hear the news of Debra Castillo's death.
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...