Welcome to the Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies Platform

The Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies Platform (JRAAS) was created to keep students informed about and involved in the events and activities of the Centre for English.

Reading Club

Americanah

Americanah

A Vegetariana

A Vegetariana

LIBERA (Mente)

LIBERA (Mente)

The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale e Custer on the Slipstream

The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale e Custer on the Slipstream

The Call of the Cthulhu de H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of the Cthulhu de H. P. Lovecraft

Latest conferences

Winter Doctoral Symposium

Winter Doctoral Symposium

50 anos de THE DISPOSSESSED

50 anos de THE DISPOSSESSED

Mesa Redonda com Maria do Rosário Monteiro, Teresa Botelho e Luís Filipe Silva.
Dissecting the Human Body

Dissecting the Human Body

(Brave) New Worlds

(Brave) New Worlds

International Symposium
“Only in Silence the Word”: O legado fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin

“Only in Silence the Word”: O legado fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin

Conversa com Luís Filipe Silva, Maria do Rosário Monteiro, Teresa Botelho Cartaz Alternativo:

Latest seminars

Habitando a Terra de Ninguém: Tradução (d)e Poesia”

Habitando a Terra de Ninguém: Tradução (d)e Poesia”

Capítulo VIII - Ana Luísa Amaral
Expressão Obscura / Clareza da Obscuridade: Edgar Allan Poe em Português

Expressão Obscura / Clareza da Obscuridade: Edgar Allan Poe em Português

Capítulo XIII - Margarida Vale de Gato
Imagined Cities in Utopia and Social Sciences

Imagined Cities in Utopia and Social Sciences

Capítulo XII - Elton Dias Xavier
Louis MacNeice and the Politics of Museum Culture: Making Sense of the Earth

Louis MacNeice and the Politics of Museum Culture: Making Sense of the Earth

Capítulo XI - Rui Carvalho Homem
Restless Excitement and a Wealth of Paradoxes: An exegesis of a 1964 special issue of Life magazine about Japan

Restless Excitement and a Wealth of Paradoxes: An exegesis of a 1964 special issue of Life magazine about Japan

Capítulo X - David Pinho Barros

Latest cinema sessions

“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” at Instituto Pernambuco – Porto

“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” at Instituto Pernambuco – Porto

The final film in the JRAAS Cinema Cycle 'Thalassologia: The Blue Humanities in Film' was Peter Weir's “Master and ...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at Galeria da Biodiversidade

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at Galeria da Biodiversidade

The JRAAS team and the CETAPS Digital Lab - a research centre at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto ...
The Abyss at Planetário

The Abyss at Planetário

The JRAAS team and the CETAPS Digital Lab - a research centre at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto ...
“Thalassologia” Cinema Cycle – “Nyad” (2023)

“Thalassologia” Cinema Cycle – “Nyad” (2023)

As the title suggests, the thematic line of this cycle was linked to the Blue Humanities, the field of Humanities ...
North by Northwest

North by Northwest

On Friday, June 21, 2024, Cineclube da Maia  hosted once again a session of the JRAAS Non-Places in Hitchcock ...