By Millicent Borges Accardi After traveling throughout the world, expatriate writer Tricia Pimental has settled in Central Portugal to live the good life. Her travels include most of Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, and parts of the Middle East. Her writing has been featured on Eye on Travel – WTTC European Leaders Forum on CBS, […]
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Tricia Pimental: Living the Good Life in Central Portugal – Interview
Posted on 24 January 2020.
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World Learning: Seeks Academic Director to Study Abroad Portugal – STI
Posted on 23 January 2020.
World Learning is seeking an Academic Director to manage the Study Abroad program located in Lisbon, Portugal. The theme of this program is Sustainability and Environmental Justice. This program follows the School for International Training (SIT) model, focusing on experiential learning to complement classroom instruction. SIT Study Abroad Academic Directors (AD) manage SIT’s undergraduate study […]
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Book: ‘History of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 23 January 2020.
Sponsored by the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth released Final Report: a History of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project coordinated by James Martin McGlinchey. The project was created to encourage Portuguese-Americans to participate more fully in civic affairs and gain a stronger voice in their own governance. The Final Report documents the Project’s […]
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Book: “Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 19 January 2020.
This riveting book describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals these refugees experienced, Marion Kaplan also highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories, […]
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Comment: Peace and prosperity in former Portuguese Macau – By Len Port
Posted on 12 January 2020.
By Len Port (*) In contrast to the months of violence and economic upheaval in the former British colony of Hong Kong, the recent anniversary celebrations in the former Portuguese colony of Macau were a timely reminder of the peace and prosperity that exist there. Located just 64 kilometers apart on the opposite sides of […]
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Book: ‘The Poems of Renata Ferreira’ by Frank X. Gaspar – Editor’s Note
Posted on 11 January 2020.
Renata Ferreira’s poems were composed in the final years of Portugal’s fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government’s draconian edicts against women’s rights, sexual freedoms, political dissent, and progressive thought. While she worked in the resistance as a clandestine writer, passing hand-typed bulletins and banned literature throughout Lisbon, her poetry is unmistakably ardent, tender, fraught, […]
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