In this first issue of AD ASTRA journal, the thematic dossier focuses on the theme: ‘The Europe we are in’, that offers various perspectives, focussing on political, cultural, social and historical contexts... on our transitive present. Alongside this multiple approach, the essays of Varia section reveal different journeys, from new educational trainings to literary voices, and itineraries of former diasporas. The reviews and testimonies sections invite the reader to get acquainted with subjects regarding literature and music as well as the memory we carry along with us.

 

Contents: 

PREVIOUS WORDS

REITORA DA UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA -  CARLA PADREL DE OLIVEIRA 

EDITORIAL- A EUROPA EM QUE ESTAMOS ANA PAULA AVELAR

DOSSIER TEMÁTICO

JOÃO VIEIRA BORGES

Europe: Challenges, Threats and Future

LUÍSA LEAL DE FARIA

Cultural lags: ageism, sexism, localism: A Cultural Agenda for Europe in the Twenty First Century

ANDRÉ MATOS E LUÍS MARTINS

A Derridean Interpretation of Identity Interaction Dynamics between the European Union and Turkey within the Framework of the Enlargement Process

JOÃO RELVÃO CAETANO

Memory and Democracy: Reflection on Contemporary politics

JORGE TRIGO

Between Memory and Reality: The Founding Myth of the Holocaust and the European Union in the 21st Century

MARGARIDA MARTINS

Decolonisation: language, power and historical consciousness

FERNANDO COSTA E JORGE BUESCU

Mathematics in the European Society and the European Mathematical Society

FÁTIMA ALVES E DIOGO GUEDES VIDAL

Interdependencies between societies and nature in democratic innovations for the ecological transition in the context of the New Green Deal - the case of the H2020 Phoenix Project

VARIA

MARIA DE JESUS PEREIRA

Portuguese emigration to Brasil through the daily press on the the fifth and sixth decades of the 19th century

ANDREIA GONÇALVES; ELIZABETE FERNANDES; SÓNIA RODRIGUES; TÂNIA CAIANO

Freedom and Rebellion Through the Maria Teresa Horta’s

ISABEL HUET, DIOGO CASANOVA, GLÓRIA BASTOS

The Role of Micro-Credentials in the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers: an analysis of the CRED4TEACH project

RECENSÕES

STEFFEN DIX

Uwe Wittstock (2024), Marseille 1940: Die grosse Flucht der Literatur, München: C.H.Beck

PEDRO PESTANA

The Future Soundscape: How Pierre Schaeffer’s Radical Ideas Still Need to Shape Music 

TESTEMUNHO(S)

FERNANDO COSTA

Reminiscências sobre Rafael Sasportes (1960-2024)