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2025-11-26 - 2025-11-26
Workshop
Workshop: Getting Funded
ELACH Auditorium
Trainers: Geoffrey Williams & Emmanuelle Pensec
Target audience: CEHUM researchers
Organization: CEHUM Board
The event will take place in person.
Prior registration is requested by 23 November 2025:
https://forms.gle/aVuxnbXHKtht1mCR9
Workshop Description:
Funding is never individual. Funds may be allocated to a project, but that project is seen as emanating from an institution. This means that valorising is not simply individual research, but a contribution to the research unit and the institution as a whole. You are part of a system and you are contributing to a system in the same way that the system gives you the means to carry out research. The two workshops should be seen as a whole as communication strategies are as essential to obtaining funding as the quality of the proposal and its management.
Session 1: Building a relevant communication strategy
This is not about fitting in, it is about how your project does fit in to an overall picture of research output. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be seen as top down, but the aim of this workshop is to show how they can be used bottom up to valorise the research output of a project and the entire unit. This communication strategy thereby valorises both the project and the unit in terms of the institution, financing agencies and the wider public.
Session 2: Building a successful research project proposal
In order to get funded, a project must show that it fulfils the requirements of the funder, not only in completing the relevant sections, but in understanding the entire funding framework into which a project must fit. This increasingly means taking intoaccount societal impact and, consequently, SDGs. This workshop is designed to help you present clear objectives in a structured project.Both workshops will have a hands-on element and require active participation. The workshops will be in English, but the hands-on part will allow to speak freely in Portuguese.
Both workshops will have a hands-on element and require active participation.
The workshops will be in English, but the hands-on part will allow to speak freely in Portuguese.
Biographical Notes of the Trainers
GEOFFREY WILLIAMS
Professor Geoffrey Williams co-founded and was President of the EvalHum Initiative, a European association seeking to promote the Social Sciences and Humanities through improved evaluation procedures and impact studies. He has a particular interest in rankings and their application to the Social Sciences and Humanities. A linguist and lexicographer, he is a former president of the European Association for Lexicography - EURALEX.
EMMANUELLE PENSEC
Emmanuelle does research in CSR (Corporate Social Responsability) strategy and communication. Her research is based on digital humanities applied to CSR accountability and sustainable leadership. Emmanuelle has published a number of studies on corporate discourse and is an expert on Sustainable Development Goals.
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2025-11-25 - 2025-11-25
Open Lecture
Nothing like a nice pear: toothless aristocrats and encyclopaedic dictionaries
ELACH Auditorium
Guest Speaker: Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Williams
Time: 11:00 – 13:00
Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Williams
Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities and Lexicography at the Universities of Grenoble-Alpes and Bretagne Sud. Principal Investigator of the BaSNum Project, whose main goal is the digitization of the 1701 edition of Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel, and Honorary President of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH).
Organization:
Digital Humanities Research Group (GHD) & European Master in Lexicography – Erasmus Mundus Programme (EMLEX – EMJMD)
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2025-11-07 - 2025-11-07
Workshop
Analytic Philosophy Workshop – OFA’14
CEHUM – Universidade do Minho (Braga)
The fourteenth edition of the Oficina de Filosofia Analítica (OFA) will take place in Braga, on November 7th 2025, at the University of Minho, hosted by the Center for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), a research unit of the School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences (ELACH).
OFA is a graduate workshop in analytic philosophy (broadly construed), aimed at providing a stimulating environment for graduate students and young researchers (i.e., having obtained their PhD in the last 3 years) in the Portuguese philosophical community (i.e., either Portuguese or based in Portugal). The workshop is an initiative of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (SPFA), also supported by the Portuguese Society of Philosophy (SPF), with its first edition taking place in 2006.
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail oficinadefilosofiaanalitica@gmail.com.
Organizing Committee: Camila Lobo (UNL/IFILNOVA), Gabriel Malagutti (UL/CFUL), Diana Neiva (UM/CEHUM), Tiago Sousa (UM/CEHUM) e José Xarez (UP/IF).
Scientific Committee: Alexandra Abranches (UM/CEHUM), Pedro Abreu (UNL/IFILNOVA), Laura Delgado (UL/CFUL), Teresa Marques (UB/LOGOS), Sofia Miguens (UP/IF), Vítor Moura (UM/CEHUM), Mattia Riccardi (UP/IF), Ricardo Santos (UL/CFUL), Célia Teixeira (UFRJ/CFUL) e Nuno Venturinha (UNL/IFILNOVA).
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2025-08-11 - 2025-08-15
Course
Mirandese Language and Culture Course
Miranda do Douro, na Casa do Povo de Picote
From 11 to 15 August, a Course on Mirandese Language and Culture was held in Miranda do Douro, at the Casa do Povo de Picote. The event was organized by Frauga, Terra Mater, the Centre for Studies in Letters (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro), and the Centre for Humanistic Studies (University of Minho), with the collaboration of the Parish Council of Picote and the Municipality of Miranda do Douro.
Open to the entire community and held in the evenings (9:30–11:30 p.m.), the course drew a full house, with dozens of participants — both Mirandese speakers and learners — of all ages and professions. The sessions were taught by Anabela Leal de Barros (School of Arts and Humanities / CEHUM – University of Minho), António Bárbolo Alves (Centre for Studies in Letters – University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro), and Emílio Martins, author of Mirandês for Kids and teacher at the Miranda do Douro School Group.
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2020-12-16 - 2020-12-16
Scientific get together
Tea Seminars 2020-21 - 2nd Session
CEHUM’s Conference Room and Zoom (online), 15pm
"A Neurociência da Linguagem e os Potenciais Cerebrais relacionados ao Processamento da Linguagem" by Juliana Novo Gomes (CEHUM, Grupo Linguística Teórica e Experimental).
"Figurações da Heroína: releituras da cultura clássica em Hélia Correia" by Sandra Sousa (CEHUM, Grupo 2i).
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2020-11-17 - 2020-11-17
Scientific get together
Tea Seminars 2020-21 - 1st Session
CEHUM’s Conference Room and Zoom (online), 15pm
"‘Cher’, between the myth of celebrity and the empowerment of minorities. Transmutations of the ‘unruly woman’" by Orquídea Cadilhe (CEHUM, GAPS).
"Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Contemporary British Women Writers" by Elena Guerreira Labrador (Literatura Inglesa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela| GAPS).
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2020-03-12 - 2020-03-12
2i Interfaces
'From text to texts' (creative writing workshop)
ILCH Auditorium, 11am
POSTPONEMENT due to COVID-19 outbreak, new date to be announced / ADIADO devido às medidas de contenção do surto de COVID-19, nova data a definir oportunamente
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2020-02-17 - 2020-02-17
Scientific get together
Tea Seminars #4
CEHUM’s Conference Room, 15pm–17pm
"The Family Album: Contemporary Representations of Queer Kinship", by Ana Sofia Bessa Carvalho (Doctorate’s degree in Comparative Modernities, GAPS). "Imagens presidenciais nos discursos de tomada de posse nos cem anos da República Portuguesa", by Micaela Aguiar (Doctorate’s degree in Language Sciences, Pradic).
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2020-01-20 - 2020-01-20
Scientific get together
Tea Seminars #3
CEHUM’s Conference Room, 15pm
Renata Flaiban (Doctorate’s degree in Comparative Modernities, GAPS): "Para além das ditaduras: resistência e resiliência na literatura infantojuvenil de Lygia Bojunga e Alice Vieira". Bernardo Sacanene (Doctorate’s degree in Language Sciences, Galabra group - UMinho): "Angolanismos e suas polaridades: subsídios para o processamento da linguagem natural".
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2019-11-19 - 2019-11-19
Scientific get together
Tea Seminars
CEHUM's Conference Room, 15pm
Regular meetings of PhD researchers, grantees and post-doc researchers from CEHUM projects, aiming at sharing academic experiences and exchanging ideas on ongoing research. Open to all interested researchers and students. Contacts: Sandra Sousa sandra@ilch.uminho.pt / Orquídea Cadilhe ocadilhe@ilch.uminho.pt (non-doctoral members of CEHUM committee) and CEHUM’s board of management dircehum@ilch.uminho.pt
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2019-07-08 - 2019-07-13
Summer School
Les Études littéraires aujourd’hui ? Enjeux et atouts d’une indiscipline
Golden Tulip Hotel and Spa, Braga
Call for enrolments until January 15. Organization: APEF/ LÉA ! / CEHUM
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2019-04-04 - 2019-04-04
Open Classes: Visiting Professors
Correspondências: Murilo Mendes, Haroldo de Campos and Affonso Ávila
Room 209 – building 1, 11am
By Júlio Castañon Guimarães. Conference under the research project “Correspondências” [Correspondences] by PLP (Portuguese Language Poetics group).
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2019-02-15 - 2019-02-15
Workshop
Writing Workshop
ILCH Auditorium, 16pm
By Deborah Shechter (Tel Aviv University). Writing has become a major component in CEFR aligned English courses. Graded writing tasks are now an integral and a significant part of the curriculum. Writing skills involve not only a good knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, but also the ability to write clearly and concisely. This workshop will cover, among others: the elements of a well-written paragraph; the implications of information in the subordinate clause vs. in the main clause; the characteristics of clear and concise sentences; the components of a successful motivation letter. We will first analyze sample independent paragraphs. Then, we will compare paragraph pairs conveying the same information in different types of clauses. We will learn how to revise heavy sentences: eliminate wordiness, minimize nominalizations and passive verbs, avoid buried verbs and put familiar information first. We will also read an inadequate motivation letter, discuss its weaknesses and suggest solutions. Finally, we will examine the revised version of the letter and point out the improvements. This is a worthy skill to acquire, as students may need to write motivation letters when they apply for graduate studies at foreign universities, for scholarships or positions as teaching assistants etc. We will also look at useful Web resources for improving writing skills. This workshop will raise the students’ awareness and encourage them to develop their writing skills independently.
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2019-02-12 - 2019-02-12
Seminar
Designing multiple choice questions and Moodle tests: principles and implementations
University of Minho, ILCH Auditorium, 18pm
By Deborah Azaryad Shechter (Tel-Aviv University)
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2018-12-14 - 2018-12-14
Speed Statistics Course
Brief training course on statistics applied to Humanities
Universidade do Minho, Braga
Trainer: Firmino Machado (Doctor and Master in Medicine, Master in Applied Statistics with a postgraduate degree in Data analysis).
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