Late twentieth-century social and linguistic theory tells us that the view from the tall building transforms us into analysts and historians, disembodied readers of the civic ‘text’. This paper argues that the proposition would have been familiar to seventeenth-century City-dwellers, and does so by pursuing the experience of the elevated obs…[Read more]

Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s 1983 Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science is used here as a vehicle for exploring the behavior of disciplinary boundaries in the context of crisis both historically and theoretically. Responding to his contemporaneous architectural crisis of the 1970s instigated by the rise of positivism, Pérez-Gómez uses Ale…[Read more]

Aris Konstantinidis’s Weekend House in Anavyssos (1962–1964) holds an emblematic place within his oeuvre. This article uncovers the architect’s own role in building the global reception of this project through a tripartite account of its global published life from the printed page to the digital website over the last five decades (1962…[Read more]

O convento do Carmo de Évora foi fundado em 1531 com o apoio do Bispo de Évora, o Cardeal Infante D. Afonso de Portugal. A casa carmelita prosperou até 1663 quando as forças militares castelhanas puseram cerco a Évora, destruindo o convento nesse processo. Mais tarde foi oferecido aos frades carmelitas o antigo palácio dos Duques de Braga…[Read more]

The abstract of my doctoral dissertation, which I defended on December 2018 at the University of Washington, with distinction.

Digital images with metadata contain unique potential for research into the history of the art market. The embedding of digital images in a database allows for the possibility of an association with their historical context due to the presence of metadata, which includes economic data, such as the provenance chain, as well as information about…[Read more]

On the Crisis of Creation is a short comic about the comic artists’ equivalent of a writer’s block.

Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

Creative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.

Call for papers for the II Historical Soundscapes Meeting – Évora 2019, that will take place at the University of Évora, October 16th-18th, 2019. The meeting is organized by the FCT research project PASEV – Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape (1540-1910) (ref ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-028584 • LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-028584). Further information and…[Read more]

Livro de resumos das comunicações apresentadas no âmbito do 4º Flautué – Festival de Flauta Transversal, que decorreu no Colégio Mateus d’Aranda – Universidade de Évora, nos dias 1, 2 e 3 de Abril de 2019.
Contribuições de István Matuz, Ana Sofia Vila Franca, André Cameira, Ana Lucas, Gabrielle Silva, Rita Faleiro, Luís Henriques e Rodrigo Teo…[Read more]

On counterfactual conditional clauses in Turkish

On morphological features in Turkish dialects of Northeast Turkey developed by analogy.

On an Ottoman grammar book from 1730 written by a French Jesuit. The article focuses on the question whether the Ottoman language material given in Latin script reveals information on the state of the ongoing morphophonological changes from early Ottoman to modern Turkish.

Article on Turkish orthography and its acquisiton

This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

Architecture Space and Society Research Centre, Birkbeck (University of London) Friday 1st March 2019
Keynes Library, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-and-construction-tickets-55022443610

Referindo-se a 1647, Manuel Luís Maldonado intitulou o capítulo dedicado a esse ano na sua Fenix Angrence como “da fome e dos terramotos”. A partir deste relato percebe-se que este foi um ano difícil para as gentes da ilha açoriana da Terceira e, em particular, da cidade de Angra. Foram realizadas muitas procissões pelos frades franciscanos para…[Read more]