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Posted on 09 August 2012. Tags: Alessandra Silveira, Comission, European, Jean Monnet's Chair, law, Minho, Portugal, Portuguese, professor, Univerity, Universidade
Professor Alessandra Silveira, Director of the Centre of Studies in European Union Law (CEDU) of the University of Minho, Portugal, is the holder of the Jean Monnet’s Chair in European Union Law. The title, assigned by the European Commission, through the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, recognizes Silveira’s project “Citizenship of rights: European citizenship as […]
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Posted in Awards, Education, Featured, People, Portugal, Spotlight
Posted on 08 August 2012. Tags: athlets, atletle, Bronze, cannoning, Emanuel Silva, Fernando Pimenta, London, Meaghan Benfeito, Olympic Silver Medal, Portugal, Portuguese, Silver, UK, winners, won
Fernando Pimenta, 22, and Emanuel Silva, 26, of Portugal, won the Olympic Silver Medal for cannoning at the men’s double 1,000-meter K-2. Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kokeny of Hungary took the gold. Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle of Germany took the bronze. This was the first time Portugal won a medal in canoe sprint. Last week, […]
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Posted in Awards, Featured, People, Portugal, Sports, Spotlight, World
Posted on 07 August 2012. Tags: Azorean, Azores, Elizabeth, Fall River, Festival, Grandes Festas, Holy Ghost, New England, Parade, Portuguese, Queen, Siant
The Portuguese American community of Fall River (MA) is celebrating the 26th Holy Ghost Festival of New England, starting Thursday August 23, through Monday August 26. The event opens Saturday morning with the traditional “bodo de leite” event. The Holy Ghost parade will take place on Sunday, on South Main Street, with the participation of […]
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Posted in Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World
Posted on 06 August 2012. Tags: America, André Delvaux, austerity measures, Beat Generation, Coloquio Letras, crisis, Dali, Disquiet, e. e. cummings, Eliot, English, Europe, Ezra Pound, Fernado Pessoa, Herberto Hélder, Instituto Camões, John Ashberry, Jorge de Sena, Lisbon, Magritte, Millicent Borges Accardi, Nuno Júdice, Portugal, Portuguese, Richard Zenith, Robert Lowell, Ruy Belo, Sophia de Mello Breyner, translation
By Millicent Borges Accardi The work of Portuguese writer Nuno Júdice is like a spell. A reverie. A dark dream with quiet overtones and hidden meanings. Last summer in Lisbon, as part of the DISQUIET International Literary Program, it seemed as if the whole world had been swallowed up and silenced when Júdice softly delivered […]
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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal, TopSpotlight, World
Posted on 06 August 2012. Tags: Azores, gay, lesbian, LGBTS, Madeira, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Portuguese, rights, Sao Miguel, Terry Costa
The first Pride Azores Festival is scheduled for August 28 to September 2, 2012, in the city of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, in the Azores. According to Terry Costa, president of the Association LGBT Pride Azores and organizer of the event, the festival will include a march for human rights, a conference on LGBT […]
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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Miguel, Spotlight, World
Posted on 03 August 2012. Tags: Alfred Lewis, António Lobo Antunes, Canadian, Centro Nacional de Cultura, Disquiet, Dzanc Books, Fernando Pessoa, FLAD, Frank Sousa, Frank X. Gaspar, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Instituto Camões, international, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Jeff Parker, José Luís Peixoto, Katherine Vaz, Lisbon, Literary, Luis Gonçalves, Luso, meeting, North American, Oona Patrick, Patrícia Reis, Philip Graham, Portugal, Presença, Presence, Richard Zenith, Rui Zink., Workshop, writers
By Oona Patrick, Contributor (*) The Dzanc Books/CNC DISQUIET International Literary Program, a summer program that began in 2011, finished its second two-week adventure in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 13. The program brings 60 North American and international writers to the city for workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The program and its local sponsors […]
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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Scholarships, Spotlight, World