The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences announce the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2024. This program is a three-year collaboration that sponsors a one-semester a year, open-rank, Visiting Professor of Portuguese Studies at UMass […]
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Job Opportunity: Visiting Professor of Portuguese Studies – UMass Lowell, MA
Posted on 06 March 2023.
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Book | Historical Dictionary of Portugal | by Douglas L. Wheeler – Editor’s Note
Posted on 24 February 2023.
Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent’s oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country’s unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when […]
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Douglas Wheeler: Portuguese History and Culture Scholar died age 85 – Durham (NH)
Posted on 24 February 2023.
Douglas L. Wheeler, an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, who specialized in the history of Portugal and its former empire, has died age 85, his family has disclosed. A celebration of his life will be held on March 25, 2023, at 2:00PM at the Community Church of Durham, (NH). A […]
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Science: First baby conceived with semen from deceased father – Portugal
Posted on 23 February 2023.
For the first time in Portugal, a baby was conceived with semen from a man who has already died, placing Portugal among of the few countries in the world to allow post-mortem insemination. The mother, Angela Ferreira, took the lead in the fight for the legalization of cryopreserved semen insemination in Portugal, becoming pregnant with […]
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Opinion | Deluge of scandals has rocked the Catholic Church – By Len Port
Posted on 21 February 2023.
As the shockwaves of last week’s revelations about child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Portugal subside somewhat, it is worth remembering that Catholicism has been at the forefront of atrocious behavior towards children for centuries. The Catholic Church has certainly not been the only religious or political entity involved in inhumane activity, and […]
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Report: Portuguese Catholic Church clergy sexually abused thousands of children – Portugal
Posted on 16 February 2023.
An official report published this week has revealed that members of the Portuguese Catholic Church, mostly priests, have sexually abused at least 4,815 children over the past 70 years. An investigative commission, headed by child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, has reported that most perpetrators (77%) were priests, and 57% of the victims were male. The report […]
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